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- 30 Oct 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
The Nobel Prize: A ‘Heritage-based’ Brand-oriented Network
Keywords: by Mats Urde & Stephen A. Greyser
- Summer 2014
- Article
Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals
By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse
Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details
Tucker, Anita L., W. Scott Heisler, and Laura D. Janisse. "Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals." Permanente Journal 18, no. 3 (Summer 2014): 33–41.
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
coupled with collaboration between companies is value enhancing. However, collaboration between companies is notoriously difficult and fragile requiring commitment mechanisms. I suggest that a small set of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
computer systems to recognize text and image. While at Stanford, Gebru collaborated with AI researcher Fei-Fei Li, who had hired people to tag the contents of 15 million images, noting if they included a cat or a cello. This dataset would... View Details
- Profile
Yaoxin Ding
manager for a self-driving car Fiat was developing in collaboration with Waymo, Alphabet’s auto subsidiary. “But I felt that as the industry matures,” Yaoxin says, “the next steps involve bigger business challenges: building public... View Details
- Web
Economic Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Strategy Economic Strategy Economic Strategy Nations, regions, states, and cities all require clear economic strategies that engage all stakeholders, boost innovation and ultimately improve productivity. A collaborative strategy—which is... View Details
- 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company, Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz, sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Nutritional Information; Obesity; Weight Loss; App Development; Business Startups; Nutrition; Health; Information; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprise; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry
Kanter, Rosabeth M., Juliane Calingo Schwetz, and Patricia Bissett Higgins. "Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App." Harvard Business Publishing Case 314-028, 2013.
- 1997
- Book
Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices
By: Leslie Perlow
Why do Americans work so hard? Are the long hours spent at work really necessary to increase organizational productivity? Perlow documents the work life of employees who assume that for their own success and the success of their organization they must put in extended... View Details
Perlow, Leslie. Finding Time: How Corporations, Individuals, and Families Can Benefit from New Work Practices. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 1997.
- 2010
- Chapter
Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation
By: Linda A. Hill, Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau and Emily Stecker
There is a widespread consensus that innovation is fast becoming the principal source of differentiation and competitive advantage in today's knowledge-intensive economy. But until we reframe our understanding of what innovation and leadership are all about, we fear... View Details
Hill, Linda A., Maurizio Travaglini, Greg Brandeau, and Emily Stecker. "Unlocking the Slices of Genius in Your Organization: Leading for Innovation." Chap. 21 in Handbook of Leadership Theory and Practice, edited by Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana. Harvard Business Press, 2010.
- 14 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Ethnic Innovation and US Multinational Firm Activity
Keywords: by C. Fritz Foley & William R. Kerr
- Working Paper
Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment
By: Daniel Freund, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt and Wentao Weng
Ensuring that refugees and asylum seekers thrive (e.g., find employment) in their host countries is a profound humanitarian goal, and a primary driver of employment is the geographic
location within a host country to which the refugee or asylum seeker is... View Details
Freund, Daniel, Thodoris Lykouris, Elisabeth Paulson, Bradley Sturt, and Wentao Weng. "Group Fairness in Dynamic Refugee Assignment." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 23-047, February 2023.
- August 2021
- Article
The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall
For decades, training in management research has emphasized objectivity, typically viewed as an arm’s length distance between the topic of the research and the interests of the researcher. This emphasis has led most scholars to avoid research topics of deep personal... View Details
Keywords: Qualitative Research Methods; Case Research Methods; Organizational Behavior; Careers; Career Changes And Transitions; Self-relevant Research; Research; Personal Development and Career; Transition; Identity; Retirement
Amabile, Teresa M., and Douglas T. (Tim) Hall. "The Undervalued Power of Self-relevant Research: The Case of Researching Retirement While Retiring." Academy of Management Perspectives 35, no. 3 (August 2021): 347–366.
- September 2013
- Case
Advanced Leadership Pathways: Laurent Adamowicz and Bon'App
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Juliane Calingo Schwetz and Patricia Bissett Higgins
After a successful career as Chairman and CEO of Paris-based luxury food company Fauchon, Laurent Adamowicz sought to reduce obesity and improve health outcomes. Adamowicz created a mobile application to provide consumers with more accessible and interpretable... View Details
Keywords: Management; Startup; Leadership; Leadership Style; Leadership Skills; Nutrition Database; Nutritionist In Your Pocket; Nutritional Educational Platform; Shazam Of Food; Weight Loss; Iphone; Android; Applications; App Development; Nutrition Labeling; Nutritional Information; Obesity; Epidemic; Applications and Software; Nutrition; Business Startups; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology Industry; Health Industry; Boston; Massachusetts
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
president of engineering and research at Google and the founding managing director of the Google Center in Israel, explains how Google uses AI and machine learning to tackle some of the biggest challenges for climate mitigation and adaptation. He describes how Google... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss
final experiment asked participants to choose a partner for a collaborative project that could earn them a financial bonus. They read three descriptions: the narrator hiding distress in front of colleagues; the narrator showing distress... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
exhaust themselves attending to a special needs child or ailing parent. Everyone frets over their physical and financial well-being. Who among us isn't anxious, stressed out, and off our game right now? From bolstering remote View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
Allen S. Grossman
Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He... View Details
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
how teams facilitate collaboration will reveal opportunities to build stronger teams through active inclusion. Unlike passive inclusion, which is basically just being polite, active inclusion calls for using specific actions, like... View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
between your life and your work, it's almost inevitable that we see these blurring lines,” she says. The research team detailed their findings in the working paper Collaborating During Coronavirus: The Impact of COVID-19 on the Nature of... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 2025
- Working Paper
Generative AI and the Nature of Work
By: Manuel Hoffmann, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng and Kevin Xu
Recent advances in artificial intelligence (AI) technology demonstrate a considerable potential
to complement human capital intensive activities. While an emerging literature documents wide-ranging
productivity effects of AI, relatively little attention has been paid... View Details
Keywords: Generative Ai; Digital Work; Open Source Software; Knowledge Economy; AI and Machine Learning; Open Source Distribution; Organizational Structure; Performance Productivity; Labor
Hoffmann, Manuel, Sam Boysel, Frank Nagle, Sida Peng, and Kevin Xu. "Generative AI and the Nature of Work." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 25-021, October 2024. (Revised April 2025.)