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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
  • 08 Sep 2022
  • Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

Engage with your frontline teams. Never waste a good crisis. Get ready for the long haul. Go on the offense to win now. Always follow your True North. Go to the front lines In surveying the shifting terrain of 21st century business, he... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

The Need for Speed: The Impact of Capital Constraints on Strategic Misconduct

By: F. Christopher Eaglin
Under what conditions do firms engage in strategic misconduct? Why do they undertake actions that increase profitability yet break laws or violate strong norms often with costly consequences for public welfare? The strategic management literature offers two external... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Capital Constraints; Organizations; Crime and Corruption; Behavior; Situation or Environment; Capital
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    Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

    How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

    Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

    • 13 Jun 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen

    capable and gregarious people,” says Collins. “I assumed that they would be seen as good listeners as well, because, in my mind, that's part of being sociable.” Friendlier but less attentive? The researchers conducted six studies involving nearly 2,500 subjects. In... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 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
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    • 2008
    • Book

    Moral Gray Zones: Side Productions, Identity, and Regulation in an Aeronautic Plant

    By: Michel Anteby
    Anyone who has been employed by an organization knows not every official workplace regulation must be followed. When management consistently overlooks such breaches, spaces emerge in which both workers and supervisors engage in officially prohibited, yet tolerated... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Governance Controls; Production; Organizational Culture; Practice; France
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      The Hidden Costs of Flexible Labor Models: How Working Multiple Jobs Affects Employees

      As operations increasingly rely upon flexible labor models — such as gig, part-time, and remote work — it has become commonplace for individuals to work multiple jobs. Across three studies, relying on a combination of... View Details

      • March 2012 (Revised September 2012)
      • Case

      INRIX

      By: Lynda M. Applegate and Ryan Johnson
      Since its founding in 2004, INRIX, a leading global provider of traffic information and driver services, had received four rounds of financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Exit or Shutdown; Business Startups; Organizational Structure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry; Washington (state, US)
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      • September 2009
      • Article

      The Technology Manager's Journey: An Extended Narrative Approach to Educating Technical Leaders

      By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
      Technology management poses particular challenges for educators because it requires a facility with different kinds of knowledge and wide-ranging learning abilities. We report on the development and delivery of an information technology (IT) management course designed... View Details
      Keywords: Information Technology; Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Business Education; Multinational Firms and Management; Entertainment; Communication; Curriculum and Courses; Framework; Design; Goals and Objectives; Learning; Information Technology Industry
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      • Research Summary

      Overview

      Pushing decision authority downward and increasing employee autonomy have become watchwords for the modern organization. Leaders of contemporary organizations view efforts to replace “command and control” systems with less-hierarchical approaches to organizing as... View Details
      Keywords: Formalization; Teams; Decentralization; Hierarchy; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Self-managing Organizations; Future Of Work; Flat Organization
      • 16 Apr 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      Breaking the Code of Change

      employee surveys and productivity data clearly showed that Champion had achieved the cultural transformation embodied in the Champion Way. Nevertheless, new CEO Richard Olson was faced with an uncomfortable reality. Though the company had... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
      • 28 Mar 2016
      • Research & Ideas

      What's a Boss Worth?

      clerk to ring up a customer; or a call center employee to troubleshoot a customer’s problem). To a lesser extent, they also looked at the amount of time employees actually spent with customers compared to other duties; and customer View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service
      • Web

      Health Care - Faculty & Research

      harm patients through increases in hospitalizations, physical restraints, and bedsores. Finally, we employ a randomized survey experiment of nursing home staff to confirm that bankruptcy filings increase voluntary departures and that... View Details
      • Web

      About the Center - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

      doctoral students to design and implement experiments and surveys to study negotiation and decision making, with an emphasis on how biases affect decisions. Tara earned her B.A. cum laude in Psychology (Psi Chi) from Boston University.... View Details
      • 06 Jul 2023
      • News

      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
      • 23 Oct 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      The Strategy-Focused Organization

      down. And the results from our employee-satisfaction survey were high. In all the areas we could control, we moved the needle in the right direction. We actually had a pretty good quarter. Keep up the good work. The audience was stunned.... View Details
      Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
      • 19 Dec 2017
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

      while turnout was roughly equal in the control group. A postelectoral survey reveals that immigrants initially had less political information, which could explain the heterogeneous impact. Although the effect decays over subsequent... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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      Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

      decisions Recognize trends, detect outliers, and summarize data sets Analyze relationships between variables Develop and test hypotheses Craft sound survey questions and draw conclusions from population samples Implement regression... View Details