Helping - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 May 2017
News

Helping MBA Students Scale Mount Everest

02 Nov 2017
News

Could a Hackathon Help Solve the Heroin Crisis?

December 2022
Article

'Just Letting You Know…': Underestimating Others' Desire for Constructive Feedback

By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Jennifer E. Abel, Juliana Schroeder and Francesca Gino

People often avoid giving feedback to others even when it would help fix a problem immediately. Indeed, in a pilot field study (N=155), only 2.6% of individuals provided feedback to survey administrators that the administrators had food or marker on their faces.... View Details

Keywords: Feedback; Helping; Prosocial Behavior; Misprediction; Relationships; Interpersonal Communication; Perspective

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12 Sep 2019
News

Crowd Sourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

24 Jan 2012
News

Helping Companies do the Right Thing

03 Feb 2009
News

How Business Can Help Untangle the Mess

11 Feb 2010
News

Winging it: An Online Helping Hand

07 Jan 2021
News

We the Possibility: It’s Helping Time

16 Jul 2021
Video

How Adidas Helped Monetize the Olympics

07 Jan 2021
Video

We the Possibility: It’s Helping Time

19 Nov 2014
News

Helping family businesses succeed and thrive

For more than 25 years, Philippe de Gaspé Beaubien (MBA 1954) and his family foundation have been enabling others learn how to manage successful family-run businesses. (Published November 2014) View Details

01 Mar 2010
News

A Helping Hand for Health Care

The HBS Buffalo Club continued its tradition of sponsoring community leaders for HBS Executive Education courses by sending senior management teams from two of the area’s health-care providers to the School’s new Managing Health- care Delivery program. The three-week... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Jan 2018
Blog Post

8 Tips to Help You Prepare for the Case Method

theory to life and makes it relevant. Throughout my time so far at HBS, I have fine-tuned my approach to make the most out of case study learning. Here are eight tips that I hope will be as helpful to you as they have been to me. ... View Details

01 Apr 2022
News

How Can Individual People Most Help Ukraine?

06 Dec 2020
Working Paper Summaries

'Repayment-by-Purchase' Helps Consumers to Reduce Credit Card Debt

Keywords: by Grant E. Donnelly, Cait Lamberton, Stephen Bush, Zoe Chance, and Michael I. Norton

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

Sometimes big ideas start with small experiments. That's been the experience of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf, whose experimental approach to research in developing countries has produced insights that have influenced government policies. Ashraf, an... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

05 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

Investors come in more shapes and sizes than hats and tacos: Angel, VC, limited, corporate, banks, institutional, friends and family—these are just some of the categorizations used to describe them. Now, a recent paper explores who might be the most important investor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

Reimaging Capitalism in a World on Fire, Public Affairs, April 2020

It’s the most successful economic system to have ever existed, but capitalism is in danger of destroying itself—and our world. Reimagining Capitalism gets to the heart of what’s wrong with modern capitalism and lays out a pragmatic roadmap... View Details