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- 28 Jun 2016
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June 28, 2016
support the proposed theoretical framework and bear important implications from both a theoretical and practical viewpoint. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47062 Entrepreneurs and the Co-Creation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change
group of people around a mutual desire for change. “Effective agitators are able to draw attention to a problem and convince others that it requires both some corrective action and collective work to bring... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2024
- Blog Post
The International Experience at HBS: Zoe Sun (MBA 2024)
Zoe Sun (MBA 2024) is a recent graduate from China. Prior to HBS, she worked at an Asia-focused private equity fund in Hong Kong. At HBS, she was Co-Chief Admissions Ambassador and Social Chair for Greater China Club. She is a recipient... View Details
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
well-meaning companies attempt to encourage collaboration by assembling groups of employees with shared traits rather than shared goals. "I've seen a lot of people try to form networks in companies: Let's get all the women together,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
inside The future of the restaurant industry is especially of concern to us. We collectively share 35 years of restaurant and food industry experience, navigating our way through as waitstaff and bartenders, as managers and senior leaders of restaurant View Details
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A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations
By: Kevin Boudreau, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg and Karim R. Lakhani
We present the results of a field experiment conducted at Harvard Medical School to understand the extent to which search costs affect matching among scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by... View Details
Keywords: Search Costs; Cost; Marketplace Matching; Groups and Teams; Science; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Boudreau, Kevin, Tom Brady, Ina Ganguli, Patrick Gaule, Eva C. Guinan, Anthony Hollenberg, and Karim R. Lakhani. "A Field Experiment on Search Costs and the Formation of Scientific Collaborations." Review of Economics and Statistics 99, no. 4 (October 2017): 565–576.
- 13 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets
unclear to what extent social media has exacerbated such divisions. “People's emotions toward their own group have stayed constant over the last 50 years, whereas people's negative emotions toward the other side have increased,”... View Details
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Working PapersSecuring Jobs or the New Protectionism? Taxing the Overseas Activities of Multinational Firms Author:Mihir A. Desai Publication:(Forthcoming in Tax Notes) Abstract Tax policy toward American multinational firms would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
On Pride and Community
community that I would genuinely connect with. The previous PRIDE club leadership team had created a WhatsApp group for us to communicate in, and we organized a pizza night during the first week of class for “WTGNC” (the women, trans, and... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
employees and supporters in academia, industry, and civil society groups signed a petition calling Gebru’s “termination” an “act of retaliation” that “heralds danger for people working for ethical and just... View Details
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research
even successful people fail to notice the absence of critical and readily available information in their environment due to the human tendency to focus on a limited set of information. This work is still in its formative stages, and I... View Details
- 16 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Insights and Inspiration: A Look Back at the Summer Venture in Management Program
experience, expand my knowledge of business and leadership education, and enhance my tangible skills that could be applied to my future work experiences. What surprised you the most about SVMP? I was most surprised by the authenticity of... View Details
- 05 May 2022
- HBS Case
College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need
corporate participants, including Merck, AT&T, Bank of America, IBM, Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, and Walmart. Harvard Business School partnered with the group to help with research and data collection for additional study. A... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- July–September 2024
- Article
Psychological Ownership for Overcoming Departmental Barriers to Innovation: A Study of Innovation Handoffs
By: Alf Steinar Sætre, Amy C. Edmondson, Oda Dregelid and Sofie Rud Zimmer
Effective collaboration across departments in an organization is critical to innovation success. Our purpose was to investigate factors contributing to successful innovation involving multiple organizational departments. We employed a multiple-case design with three... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Ownership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Management; Groups and Teams; Organizational Design
Sætre, Alf Steinar, Amy C. Edmondson, Oda Dregelid, and Sofie Rud Zimmer. "Psychological Ownership for Overcoming Departmental Barriers to Innovation: A Study of Innovation Handoffs." Journal of Engineering and Technology Management 73 (July–September 2024).
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
Working PapersOn Best-Response Bidding in GSP Auctions Authors:Matthew Cary, Aparna Das, Benjamin Edelman, Ioannis Giotis, Kurtis Heimerl, Anna R. Karlin, Claire Mathieu, and Michael Schwarz Abstract How should players bid in keyword... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization
By: Benjamin Marx, Vincent Pons and Tavneet Suri
We present the results from a field experiment on team diversity. Individuals working as door-to-door canvassers for a non-profit organization were randomly assigned a teammate, a supervisor, and a list of individuals to canvass. This created random variation within... View Details
Keywords: Ethnic Diversity; Organizational Behavior; Labor Management; Groups and Teams; Diversity; Performance
Marx, Benjamin, Vincent Pons, and Tavneet Suri. "Diversity and Team Performance in a Kenyan Organization." Art. 104332. Journal of Public Economics 197 (May 2021).
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
South Asia Institute and Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor at Harvard Business School, has been studying and writing about India’s space program for many years and is part of a space research working group led... View Details
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
that these are the most difficult times in memory for many, if not most people. Parents struggle to balance the demands of remote work and homeschooling. Employees who live alone strain to stay focused while isolated from loved ones and... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
that comes with envy and move people toward admiration instead,” she says. “One way to do that is to acknowledge your struggles or shortcomings.” Brooks co-wrote the February 2018 working paper, Mitigating Malicious Envy: Why Successful... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
reads like a tagline for a dramatic feature film. “He thought he was signing up to run a law enforcement agency,” Rivkin says. “He ended up with a job he didn’t sign up for. And God bless him, he pulled it off.” Mueller’s major challenge was also a major learning... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel