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2017
Article

Natural Environmental Responsibility in Indian Corporations: A Mixed Method Study

By: Shashank Shah

The world is going through unprecedented environmental crisis. The type of destruction and dissolution of natural resources and elements by individuals and institutions that has been witnessed in the last century is much more than that witnessed in the previous... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Natural Environment; Management Practices and Processes; Research; Framework; India

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18 Nov 2014
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integration, and corporate governance. This article surveys this recent research with the goal of highlighting the main themes it explores, the key results it establishes, and the leading open questions it raises. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

and customers. At the same time, the new approach provides more accurate cost-driver rates by allowing unit times to be estimated even for complex, specialized transactions. Estimating the cost per time unit of capacity. Instead of View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson

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Health Care - Faculty & Research

approaches in developing nations can impact global health. Recent Publications The Rise of Remote Work: Evidence on Productivity and Preferences from Firm and Worker Surveys By: Alexander Bartik, Zoë Cullen , Edward L. Glaeser, Michael... View Details

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Online Finance & Accounting Courses | HBS Online

a 2023 survey of participants across all HBS Online programs, conducted by City Square Associates). Better overall experience (From a 2023 survey of prospective learners, conducted by City Square... View Details

2021
Working Paper

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

By: Nicole Abi-Esber, Jennifer 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; Relationships; Social Psychology; Theory; Perception

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Work Group Rituals Enhance the Meaning of Work

By: Tami Kim, Ovul Sezer, Juliana Schroeder, Jane L. Risen, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton

The many benefits of finding meaning in work suggest the importance of identifying activities that increase job meaningfulness. The current paper identifies one such activity: engaging in rituals with workgroups. Five studies (N = 1,099) provide evidence that... View Details

Keywords: Groups; Meaningfulness; Task Meaning; Ritual; Teams; Organizational Citizenship; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Familiarity

27 Sep 2016
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September 27, 2016

Abstract—We survey 885 institutional venture capitalists (VCs) at 681 firms to learn how they make decisions across eight areas: deal sourcing, investment selection, valuation, deal structure, post-investment value-added, exits, internal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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HBS Health Care Initiative - Blog: Health Supplement

in the United States, at least 50 million women are entering menopause, and a recent survey has shown a majority of them face a lack of care, treatment, and support from their existing providers, and a sense of isolation. What can... View Details

01 Nov 2020
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Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

specific situations their workforces face by surveying home workers.” What they’ve found is that being single and working under quarantine alone carries a very different set of stresses than being a member of a working family with young... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson

06 Jul 2023
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Lessons from Major League Baseball's Game-Changing Innovations

really over the last 10 years is that we've migrated to this world where there's a lot more presence of the, what we call the three true outcomes, which is home runs, strikeouts, and walks. And what fans tell you when you survey fans... View Details

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

in organizations, such as the World Management Survey, the Executive Time Use Study, and the first large scale management survey in hospitals, MOPS-H, conducted in partnership with the US Census Bureau. Her work has helped uncover the... View Details

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Building From the Bottom Up - Managing the Future of Work

these workers. However, a survey of more than 1,000 U.S. low-wage workers and a matching survey of 1,150 U.S. business leaders shows that implementation is poor. Workers don’t get the support they need in... View Details

24 Oct 2023
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When Tech Platforms Identify Black-Owned Businesses, White Customers Buy

white, Democratic-leaning districts of the seven metropolitan areas of the US they examined: San Francisco, Los Angeles, New York, Minneapolis, Atlanta, Chicago, and Houston. Using geographic variations in implicit bias surveys from... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Food & Beverage

2018
Book

Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg

The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Research

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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