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2025
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Retiring: Creating a Life That Works for You

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Lotte Bailyn, Marcy Crary, Douglas T. Hall and Kathy E. Kram

Retirement, as a major life transition, can be both thrilling and challenging in unexpected ways. Written by acclaimed authors in the fields of business leadership, careers, and work, this book goes beyond the typical financial and health-related advice on retirement,... View Details

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and (iv) it is negatively correlated with profitability and positively correlated with performance on political and social objectives. Exploiting two natural experiments, we further show that (v) rhetorically aligned firms View Details

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Learning in Environmental Policymaking and Implementation

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

This paper explores how "learning" occurs in the context of environmental policy formulation and implementation. Rather than viewing policy learning as a rational and technocratic process, the emphasis here is on the political and institutional contexts within which... View Details

Keywords: Learning; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Government and Politics; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Natural Environment; Power and Influence; South Africa; Brazil

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25 Apr 2012
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The Importance of Teaming

influential perspective, well-designed teams are those with clear goals, well-designed tasks that are conducive to teamwork, team members with the right skills and experiences for the task, adequate resources, and access to coaching and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Amy C. Edmondson

14 Nov 2023
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Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

based on such things as the nature of the gift and the relationship of the giver and receiver.) “Having worked with leaders of every stripe, it has always seemed to me that leaders of organizations emphasizing servant leadership have a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Nov 2015
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Using an MBA for a Career Change

file cabinets?? So I applied to business schools and was lucky enough to be admitted to HBS. I tried out things I never would have done had I stayed in auditing. HBS FIELD 2 at Dafiti.com in Sao PauloAcademic immersion View Details

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comfortable." An MBA seemed a natural step on the cycle. "I'm used to marketing and managing regional offices," Pam says. "Now I want to do upstream work at higher levels." HBS wasn't even on her original list of... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech

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admissions and outreach activities on the continent. Locations Africa Research Center: Johannesburg Johannesburg, South Africa Africa Research Center: Lagos Lagos, Nigeria Africa Research Center: Nairobi Nairobi, Kenya News & Highlights MAY 2025 View Details

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Organizational Behavior - Faculty & Research

factor, their research showed, because people experience more joy during their limited free time than while working or doing household chores. Interestingly, however, what people did with their extra time was more important than how many... View Details

05 May 2014
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Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance

perform better afterward." A field experiment The final study tested the hypotheses in the real-world setting of Wipro, a business-process outsourcing company based in Bangalore, India. The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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HBS - The year in Review

Entrepreneurial Management Associate Professor Associate Professor Mark L. Egan Finance FIELD Immersion Experience Returns After a two-year hiatus because of COVID-19, the first-year required View Details

07 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 7, 2015

Publications June 2015 Science Financing Experiments By: Nanda, Ramana, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49313 July-August 2015 Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government

16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2023
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When a Vacation Isn’t Enough, a Sabbatical Can Recharge Your Life—and Your Career

he needed to take a break—and not just a one-week vacation. He decided to take time off and explore neglected interests in the outdoors and in spirituality—by spending six weeks walking 900 miles as part of a Buddhist pilgrimage in Japan. The View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets - Faculty & Research

occurring in the same paper. I will use my knowledge of behavioral ethics and my experience as a co-author on a fraudulent paper to explore changes that are needed to improve research integrity. About the Unit The NOM Unit seeks to... View Details

21 Apr 2008
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The New Math of Customer Relationships

managers think of customers, and introduce the idea that not all customers contribute equal value. Concrete examples illustrate the self-reinforcing nature of the connections between employee loyalty and customer loyalty; and between... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

take no account of human nature and social motives, so long may we expect strikes and sabotage to be the ordinary accompaniment of industry. Elton Mayo, Professor of Industrial Management, Harvard Business School, 1920 Elton Mayo at... View Details

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and a field View Details