Enhancing Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2015
HBS Case

Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records

predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency department visits and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health; Technology

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50304 October 2015 Health Affairs Exposure to Harmful Workplace Practices Could Account for Inequality in Life Spans Across Different Demographic Groups By: Goh, Joel, Jeffrey Pfeffer,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

firms. This indicates to me that firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives. Once a firm has become familiar to observers, it assumes a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

By: Mikes, Anette, Matthew Hall, and Yuval Millo Abstract—In theory, the risk management groups of two British banks-Saxon and Anglo-had the same influence in their organizations. But in practice, they did not: Saxon's was engaged in critical View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

22 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 22

Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social worker, "is really one of the most subversive pieces of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to change strategy. The operations literature has examined product liquidation, but retail store liquidation differs... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

are large potential employers in fields where jobs are accessible to currently underemployed citizens. Sound government policy can build on these by investing in job training on needed skills, streamlining regulations that will enhance... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How Does a Social Startup Decide to Commercialize? It May Depend on the Founder's Gender

donations or grants, hybrid organizations generate their own commercial revenues that sustain their pursuit of a social mission. While hybrid models can enhance financial sustainability, they also pose new challenges for entrepreneurs.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

thinking they are fine and find out they are too passive or too aggressive." Intense Emotions Can Work Students learn that it's important to keep their emotions in check in many cases, but at the same time, successful negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

pre-COVID financial markets were unstable and trade wars were intensifying. Public health in developing countries was improving thanks primarily to the work of NGOs. But in the US, men between 30 and 50 were dying fast enough to reduce... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

firing the worst offenders and beefing up formal channels for complaint. Will that be enough to create positive work environments? I’m also concerned about lingering micro-insults that arrive in a less overtly sexual guise, often shrugged... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

were active in providing courses and sometimes certification for suppliers, and they would often work with customers to help them run their businesses effectively, including giving them planning and project management tools. All three... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

Working PapersNo Harm, No Foul: The Outcome Bias in Ethical Judgments (revised) Authors:Francesca Gino, Don A. Moore, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We present six studies demonstrating that outcome information biases ethical judgments of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

much thinking on the importance of regions and the policies that should be designed towards them. But there is comparatively little work on what regional governments’ role should be in implementing these policies relative to that of other... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

Experienced negotiators are generally comfortable working out the terms of an economic contract: They bargain for the best price, haggle over equity splits, and iron out detailed exit clauses. But these same seasoned professionals often... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

"anything that substantially alters the way in which the work of management is carried out," including organizational forms. He distinguishes it from operational, product/service, or strategic innovation. Although he maintains... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from single-brand stores to big-box... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

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