project work - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 May 2021
Book

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

do the job well, and people will offer you more responsibility. Commitment. Demonstrate that you are excited about your job, and people will invest in you. Compatibility. Prove that you can get along with your teammates and managers, and people will want to View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

and want to make a difference on some of the world's big problems. We're close to finishing the first year and getting ready for the second year of fellows. I'm also working on "Smarter Cities, Smarter Communities," a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

The panel was moderated by John Macomber, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School whose work ponders how public/private partnerships can fuel urban development for the better. As a business person, he spends most of his time with... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

Global Credit Project to analyze the impact of corporate debt in more than 100 advanced and emerging economies in the credit booms that typically precede financial crises. The data overlaps with 87 systemic financial crises, including:... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

them longtime employees, in his department. Those employees "own" the projects they work on, he says, because he assumes that they have the answers to most problems, if he will only listen.... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

18 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

5 Principles for Scaling Change from IBM’s High School Innovation

on local employers to provide admitted students with mentors and paid work experience starting in grade nine. Co-author of the recent book, Breaking Barriers: How P-TECH Schools Create a Pathway from High School to College to Career, with... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

project was born from that feeling, and the belief that the school could convene and analyze and understand in ways we had not taken full advantage of. As Jan and I started looking at the data, a whole set of indicators validated... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

challenges facing the education sector. The result was the now three-year-old Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), which works with nine urban public school districts representing over one million... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

media were the commercial actors that enhanced the dissemination of a widespread understanding of modern Indian art, while noncommercial actors such as academics laid the foundations of the new market. Q: What are you working on now? A: I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

Many Zambian girls face major challenges early in life. They drop out of eighth and ninth grade at three times the rate of their male counterparts and contract HIV twice as often. Many will die due to complications associated with childbirth. From her View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

hiring and productivity, says Jeffrey T. Polzer, the UPS Foundation Professor of Human Resource Management at Harvard Business School. His recent paper probes how organizational researchers should study people analytics practices, which could touch the View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

1870-1940,” which examines a seminal period when food manufacturers, dye makers, and regulators created the synthetic food coloring industry. She is working on a wide-ranging book on the color of foods. (Her book View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

Debora L. Spar's research in Africa has looked at the diamond industry, the AIDS crisis, and the democratization of South Africa since apartheid. Now she has turned her attention to Botswana, where an era of sustained growth has been under-researched. View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

were convinced that their classmates had no idea what it would be like to be in a small town in New England, and to no longer have a source of employment." “We want to change the way layoffs are done” Those emails have led to a multiyear study on the impact of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

on riskier projects and strategies. But risk management must overcome severe individual and organizational biases that prevent managers and employees from thinking deeply and analytically about their risk exposure. In this paper, we draw... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

projects you are working on? A: In addition to my ongoing international work, I am looking into how firms use investor relations to impact the visibility and understanding of their firms. For example, I have... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

28 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Building Histories of Emerging Economies One Interview at a Time

leaders who managed to navigate their organizations through unpredictable social, political, and regulatory environments. To help fill this gap, Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project is building a rich library of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career

What are you working on now? A: My colleagues and I have a few other projects ongoing. In one project, we focus on the biases people have when they change employers. In another project, we are trying to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Sports

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism

"When Values Backfire: Leadership, Attribution, and Disenchantment in a Values-Driven Organization." "Our research shows that values must be managed with care," Cha and Edmondson say. Below, they join forces for an e-mail Q&A with HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

respectively, for the NASA Tournament Lab, a new online project designed to tackle complex computational problems by setting up competitions among scientists to come up with solutions. But the findings from their study can be broadly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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