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09 May 2016
Blog Post

What Is the Difference between RC and EC Year?

three key differences: who you meet, what you talk about, and what you do in your free time. Who You Meet RC year is when the section experience is at its strongest, and you find yourself spending most of your time with your 90-person... View Details

13 Mar 2023
Op-Ed

How Leaders Should Leave

chain, in which case that manager will likely be happy to consider language that you might propose regarding your contributions. Avoid a statement that you are leaving to pursue other interests or spend more time with family; these are... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

20 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think

Philippine farmers who saved their money by putting it in a "lockbox" that they could not access were able to save more money than those who did not, even factoring in the small cost of the lockbox. By eliminating the farmers' ability to View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Is the MBA Worth It? Hear What Recent HBS Grads Have to Say

world-class. It’s easy to feel torn and pulled in many different directions while deciding how to spend your time. Coming in with clarity will help you focus in the midst of so many options and keep you on the path to your goals. Martin... View Details

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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

students as you learn how to launch a new venture. Spend time in one of the Harvard Innovation Labs for opportunities to meet student entrepreneurs across Harvard. Explore HBS Initiatives — A great way to connect with potential... View Details

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

Schwartz Abstract—Brands spend billions of dollars a year on lavish efforts to establish and maintain a social media presence. But do those campaigns actually increase revenue? New research provides an answer to this question, which has... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Zoe Bhargava

curriculum itself, I realized that pursuing an MBA still aligned with my future career aspirations of building and growing companies. What job(s) did you work during your deferral? After gaining admission in June 2019, I had planned on View Details

07 Nov 2023
News

Love and Money

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Which is the best dating app? Can money actually buy love? When do you talk about money in a new relationship and how do you broach the topic? How can well-meaning parents actually help their... View Details

27 Jul 2020
Book

Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity

whether to change career paths. At one point, he put his decision in a larger context: Life is surfing a wave. It carries you forward. You spend most of your time adjusting and trying to stay on the wave and riding it. It may not be the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

needed to take decisive steps to succeed against the major opposition to his leadership from both inside and outside the company. Twitter employees circulated an open letter protesting expected layoffs, advertising agencies advised their clients to pause View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

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Drivers of Competitiveness - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

capacity of firms in terms of skills, capabilities and management practices. Fiscal Policy: Effective public spending aligned with revenues over time Monetary Policy: Low levels of inflation Economic Stabilization: Avoiding structural... View Details

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Situation or Environment (9) Small Business (22) Social Enterprise (137) Social Entrepreneurship (24) Social Issues (75) Social Marketing (34) Social Psychology (589) Social and Collaborative Networks (38) Society (281) Software (21) Sovereign Finance (6) View Details

21 May 2024
Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

dissatisfaction. In Italy, it’s a matter of scarce resources. In Brazil, it is the perception of or actual corruption. How do both create openings for far-right movements? Rettl: In the Italian case, there is a perception that you can't increase the amount of public... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

another, in what they believe to be the best interest of personal productivity. Those who always follow a recommended schedule don’t have to spend time deciding when or how to stray from it. “Searching through your queue and deciding... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

06 Mar 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Big BRICs, Weak Foundations: The Beginning of Public Elementary Education in Brazil, Russia, India, and China

Keywords: by Latika Chaudhary, Aldo Musacchio, Steven Nafziger & Se Yan; Education

2025
Working Paper

The Impact of Input Inaccuracy on Leveraging AI Tools: Evidence from Algorithmic Labor Scheduling

By: Caleb Kwon, Antonio Moreno and Ananth Raman

Problem Definition: Considerable academic and practitioner attention is placed on the value of ex-post interactions (i.e., overrides) in the human-AI interface. In contrast, relatively little attention has been paid to ex-ante human-AI interactions (e.g., the... View Details

Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Employees; Performance Effectiveness

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October 2022
Article

It’s Not Just the Prices: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing for Initiation of Veno-Venous Extracorporeal Membrane Oxygenation at Three International Sites—A Case Review

By: Michael Nurok, Vin Pellegrino, Marc Pineton de Chambrun, Jonathan Warsh, Meredith Young, Erik Dong, Neil Parrish, Syed Shehab, Alain Combes and Robert S. Kaplan

The United States spends more for intensive care units (ICUs) than do other high-income countries. We used time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) to analyze ICU costs for initiation of extracorporeal membrane oxygenation (ECMO) for respiratory failure to estimate... View Details

Keywords: Healthcare; Cost; Time-Driven ABC; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Health Industry

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11 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 11

Publications 2006 Journal of International Business Studies Firm Rivalry, Knowledge Accumulation, and MNE Location Choices By: Alcácer, Juan, Cristian Deszo, and Minyuan Zhao Abstract—The international business (IB) literature has mostly emphasized the impact of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

May 2018
Article

The Downside of Downtime: The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work

By: Andrew Brodsky and Teresa M. Amabile

Although both media commentary and academic research have focused much attention on the dilemma of employees being too busy, this paper presents evidence of the opposite phenomenon, in which employees do not have enough work to fill their time and are left with hours... View Details

Keywords: Employees; Working Conditions; Performance Consistency; Performance Productivity

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