Group Effectiveness - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

PTCA going up against an established and effective procedure known as coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG), but also against the surgeons and other interests in hospitals invested in the older procedure. The authors found that "in... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

01 Oct 2000
News

Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney

In January 2000, Thomas J. Tierney (MBA 1980) announced that he would step aside as worldwide managing director of Bain & Company, a position he had held since 1992, and become chairman of The Bridge Group, a new Bain affiliate. Tierney's brainchild, The Bridge View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

10 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 10

entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. February 2015 GfK Marketing Intelligence Review Beyond... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2017
News

Safe, Secure, and Prosperous

Maria Fernandez (AMP 187, 2014) is the deputy secretary of the Intelligence and Capability Group for the Australia Department of Immigration and Border Protection. In this interview, she describes how her department’s intelligence... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Trust Me

can erode trust. As the pair write in “The Effects of Contracts on Interpersonal Trust,” forthcoming in the Administrative Science Quarterly, those who engage in nonnegotiable contracts often attribute their counterpart’s cooperative... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

hyperopic. As a result, they have wistful regrets of missing out on life's pleasures when they look back at how they spent their time." Permission To Indulge Keinan proposes a possible way to change that unfortunate outcome. In "Remedying Hyperopia: The View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

01 Mar 2011
News

Faculty Books

how we act unethically without meaning to. They demonstrate how ethical standards shift, how we neglect to notice and act on the unethical behavior of others, and how compliance initiatives can actually promote unethical behavior. Suggesting innovative individual and... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

16 Aug 2013
News

Women's Business Leader

growing segment of new businesses in our economy and the trend is growing. Under Carla's leadership, the NWBC will be an effective advocate for women-owned small businesses, ensuring they have access and opportunity and make a strong... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government

13 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia

received nothing. To uncover the effect of disagreements between spouses about the number of children to have—women generally want fewer than men—half of the women chosen to receive vouchers got them without their husbands present, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Bri... New Venture Competition Announces Social Enterprise Track Semifinalists Margot Dushin 23 Mar 2017 On March 20, the Social Enterprise Initiative announced the sixteen semifinalists for the Social ... Faculty Insights: Performance Measurement for View Details

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2014 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Aída Hurtado , University of California-Santa Barbara The Continuing Significance of Race for Feminist Praxis: Relating to Privilege 25 Years Later Jennifer A. Richeson , Northwestern University Coalition or Derogation? The Effect of... View Details

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

not have been completely ready in 1994 to be a highly effective NFL head coach (he did appear to suffer from a second-half tenure penalty), he may have also been in a near-impossible position. But this group... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out that students taking her course also develop a business philosophy and a set of values that... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

how seismic events in industry—such as the founding, merger, and dissolution of companies—have a ripple effect on the opportunities available to individuals. What Higgins has done recently, though, is to get at what she calls a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

01 Dec 2020
News

HBS Fund Chairs Reflect on the Past Five Years

have responded so swiftly and effectively without the HBS Fund. JONES: Some alumni wonder why the School needs their HBS Fund gifts each year. We spend a lot of our volunteer time educating alumni about the endowment. While HBS has been... View Details

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

economists predict the effects of changes in immigration of specific ethnic groups. “This notion that if you opened up the immigration spigot then entrepreneurship would happen everywhere is probably not true,” he says. “But if you were... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

01 Mar 2004
News

The New Global Business Manager

There is no such thing as a universal global manager, concluded HBS professor Christopher A. Bartlett in a 1992 article for Harvard Business Review. Rather, multinational corporations require three kinds of specialists: country managers, business managers, and... View Details

Keywords: Management

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Frequently Asked Questions - Alumni

is important for building relationships and effective group dynamics. Shared commitment will give members the time and space needed to bond and become comfortable discussing a broad range of topics. Anyone... View Details

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/kuziemko%20norton%20saez%20stantcheva_45dd17c7-a8fa-4b91-9ba2-51d5e7349750.pdf December 2014 Organization Science Team Scaffolds: How Mesolevel Structures Support Role-based Coordination in Temporary View Details