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- 13 Feb 2025
- Blog Post
IFC India 2025: The Coal Dichotomy: Balancing Economic Growth and Decarbonization in India
to making no new investments in fossil fuel energy generation pouring resources into wind, solar, and other renewables instead — the reality is that large swaths of India still depend on coal for electricity. Following this engaging... View Details
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
science, and computing. The mounting evidence is clear: These tools can promote employee collaboration and knowledge sharing across silos. They can help employees make faster decisions, develop more... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
of power, power-devaluation theory, and organizational research on the antecedents of employee voice, we argue that a leader's experience of heightened power produces verbal dominance, which reduces perceptions of leader openness and team... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Lords of Strategy
“animal spirits,” entrepreneurial energies and imaginings that bring a business to life. They also miss out on the aspirations employees may harbor to think a bit on their own, experiment with new ways of doing the same old drill, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
All other obligations flow from these primary responsibilities. Sue Schooner (MBA 1983), executive director, Girls Group, Ann Arbor, Michigan Take a serious interest in the people who work for you. Mentor, support, encourage, and engage... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
Management and Davies through a unique recruitment process that raises questions of compensation and employee incentives, negotiation strategy, and human resources management. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
engage (or not engage) in our workplaces, homes, and communities. A Boyhood in Wartime Britain by Michael H. Coles (MBA 1961) CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform Collecting shrapnel from his front yard; identifying incoming... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
apps for frontline employees to contain the pandemic. The experience will like reshape the entire health care industry for years to come. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Health Care Initiative at Harvard Business School how... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when websites engage in operational transparency by signaling that they are exerting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Dec 2014
- News
Front-Row Seat
Bradley merged the Atlantic magazine’s Boston operations with those of the National Journal and Government Executive, just 3 of 55 employees elected to make the move to Washington, DC. Nearly 150 years after its founding, the Atlantic’s... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/shanson/Issuer_Quality_2013_RFS_Final.pdf The Cost of High-Powered Incentives: Employee Gaming in Enterprise Software Sales Authors:Larkin, Ian Publication:Journal of Labor Economics Abstract This paper... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
attention? Safety, first and foremost. Any fatality is a terrible thing, and there were too many throughout the group, particularly in South Africa, where 44 employees died in accidents the year before I took over. Two months after I... View Details
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
employees who struggle with mental health issues. To engage students in a role-play, the note includes a vignette featuring a struggling CEO. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
boundaries they need to manage more complex. Importantly it is not the reasons of cooperation or the way they engage in those arrangements that differ; it is the mechanisms behind those arrangements. In explaining these mechanisms, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. I wanted to ask a quick favor. We’re running a two-minute, ten-question listener survey to help us continue to bring you these great, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
from disparate backgrounds.” During his final year at HBS, he heard a talk by WWF president and CEO Carter Roberts (MBA ’88). “In Ghana,” says Murphy, “I had come to the conclusion that sustainable business development was key, and Carter’s talk focused on View Details
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
executives with whom he has successfully worked for decades? Or should he establish a new team with roughly equal representation from both airlines? Parker’s choice will send important signals to employees about the extent to which the... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
firms-triggered a global initiative that eventually spanned more than 900 BCG teams in 30 countries across five continents. These teams confronted their nonstop workweeks and changed the way they worked, becoming more efficient and effective. The result? View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
scale and influence in the technology industries that fall under the incidence of their assets. We also discuss some efficiency issues raised by the growing prominence of patent merchants. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-023.pdf View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete
the other, but that is not always true. The reasons are partly financial—meaning that by managing your operations well you may be able to eliminate wasteful activity, such as unnecessary hospitalizations. And partly I think that’s because well-managed organizations can... View Details