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  • 17 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Input Constraints and the Efficiency of Entry: Lessons from Cardiac Surgery

Keywords: by David M. Cutler, Robert S. Huckman & Jonathan T. Kolstad; Health

    Dorothy A. Leonard

    Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

    Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry
    • 25 Feb 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence

    Women make up more than half of the labor force in the United States and earn almost 60 percent of advanced degrees, yet they bring home less pay and fill fewer seats in the C-suite than men, particularly in male-dominated professions... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • August 2000
    • Case

    Developing Nurse Practitioners at the College of St. Catherine

    By: Clayton M. Christensen and Sarah S. Khetani
    Margaret McLaughlin has just begun her new appointment as the Dean of Health Professions at the College of St. Catherine in Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota. As an education leader, her charge is to develop Minnesota's health care workforce for the future. She is... View Details
    Keywords: Trends; Debates; Decision Choices and Conditions; Higher Education; Teaching; Growth and Development; Technological Innovation; Leading Change; Goals and Objectives; Value Creation; Health Industry
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    • July–August 2013
    • Article

    Relaxing the Taboo on Telling Our Own Stories: Upholding Professional Distance and Personal Involvement

    By: Michel Anteby
    Scholars studying organizations are typically discouraged from telling, in print, their own stories. The expression "telling our own stories" is used as a proxy for field research projects that, in their written form, explicitly rely on a scholar's personal involvement... View Details
    Keywords: Fieldwork; Research Practiced; Distance; Involvement; Taboo; Practice; Ethics; Education Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    I am an ethnographer and field researcher studying how people experience and interpret their work and cultural contexts, as well as how this shapes inequality and organizational outcomes like normative control. I specialize in utilizing in-depth, inductive field... View Details
    • 13 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The ‘IKEA Effect’: When Labor Leads to Love

    Keywords: by Michael I. Norton, Daniel Mochon & Dan Ariely; Consumer Products
    • Research Summary

    Divergent change in organizations

    By: Julie Battilana

    The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details

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    Value-Based Health Care - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    the Profession II, given after students have taken their clinical clerkships. Read More on Their Website Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law and Policy, Harvard Law School The Petrie-Flom Center for Health Law Policy, Biotechnology, and... View Details
    • February 2009 (Revised March 2013)
    • Case

    Shanghai Diligence Law Firm (A)

    By: Robert G. Eccles and Catherine Zhang
    Shanghai Diligence Law Firm, started in January 2006, is a rapidly growing law firm in China's burgeoning legal services market. In addition to the usual challenges facing all professional service firms (picking and retaining talent and building a desired client... View Details
    Keywords: Business Startups; Compensation and Benefits; Retention; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Operations; Motivation and Incentives; Legal Services Industry; China
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    • Research Summary

    Building Capabilities in Professional Service Firms

    One of the most distinctive aspects of professional service firms is that the vast majority of the people who work in them are directly involved in serving clients.  Long-term success in a professional service firm requires obtaining and developing the right... View Details

    • 26 Apr 2024
    • HBS Case

    Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

    black socks in the training room may be the same person who costs you the game.” Companies can set similar expectations of employees. “Every profession has the equivalent of a uniform,” Sanders says. “Every workplace has rules.” 4. Send... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports
    • 26 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

    higher. The risks of shortcuts in a time crunch More men hold jobs in STEM—short for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics— professions at this level than women. With the tiered calling system, recruiters were more likely to... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne
    • January 2010 (Revised August 2010)
    • Background Note

    Advanced Leadership Note: An Institutional Perspective and Framework for Managing and Leading

    By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Rakesh Khurana
    Large-scale societal issues increasingly appear on the agenda of business leaders, including poverty, health, education, business-government relations, and the degradation of the environment. These problems are not entirely new, but the forces of globalization and the... View Details
    Keywords: Change Management; Framework; Global Range; Leadership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Complexity
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    • 15 Feb 2022
    • Book

    When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

    career well in advance. Brooks recalls not knowing exactly when his French horn skills started going downhill, but musicians, similar to athletes, rely on precise fine motor muscles that often deteriorate with age, use, and injury. People in knowledge-based View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • Profile

    Rafaella Mazza

    plans. I try my best to explore that richness instead of looking for reinforcements of the things I already knew or believed in before coming here. As a kid, what did you want to be when you grew up? A veterinarian. But I realized I don’t have the stomach for it that... View Details
    • 17 Feb 2020
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

    discovery work to validate the problem or their target customers. While gut feel or personal experience with a problem can be a strong signal there is a problem to solve, without proper product discovery work you won’t truly know if you have a winning solution. For... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Austin
    • 20 Jun 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Creating a Positive Professional Image

    their profession and less loyal to their employing organizations. All of these stereotypes pose obstacles for creating a positive professional image. Members of negatively stereotyped identity groups may experience an additional form of... View Details
    Keywords: by Mallory Stark
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    other journalists. Analyzing the responses and drawing upon decades of academic research on institutional dynamics and careers, they detail how journalists have reconciled the moral calling of their profession with the collapse and... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
    • 17 Nov 2023
    • Blog Post

    HBS Veteran Spotlight: Rex Willis (MBA 2024)

    of veterans. This post was prepared in collaboration with the Armed Forces Alumni Association (AFAA). Growing up, like many other children, I aspired to pursue careers in professions such as medicine, law, and engineering. However, when I... View Details