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- February 2024
- Article
Are Many Sex/Gender Differences Really Power Differences?
By: Adam D. Galinsky, Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah Riley Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin and Joe C Magee
This research addresses the long-standing debate about the determinants of sex/gender differences. Evolutionary theorists trace many sex/gender differences back to natural selection and sex-specific adaptations. Sociocultural and biosocial theorists, in contrast,... View Details
Galinsky, Adam D., Aurora Turek, Grusha Agarwal, Eric M. Anicich, Derek D. Rucker, Hannah Riley Bowles, Nira Liberman, Chloe Levin, and Joe C Magee. "Are Many Sex/Gender Differences Really Power Differences?" PNAS Nexus 3, no. 2 (February 2024).
- 2022
- Working Paper
Beliefs about Gender Differences in Social Preferences
By: Christine L Exley, Oliver P. Hauser, Molly Moore and John-Henry Pezzuto
While there is a vast (and mixed) literature on gender differences in social preferences, little is known about believed gender differences in social preferences. This paper documents robust evidence for believed gender differences in social preferences. Across a wide... View Details
Exley, Christine L., Oliver P. Hauser, Molly Moore, and John-Henry Pezzuto. "Beliefs about Gender Differences in Social Preferences." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-079, June 2022.
- 29 Mar 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Do CEO Activists Make a Difference? Evidence from a Field Experiment
- August 2021 (Revised April 2023)
- Case
Dandelion: Making Geothermal Heat Pumps a Real Option
By: Jurgen Weiss
Keywords: Electricity Distribution; Decarbonization; Geothermal Electricity; Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Weiss, Jurgen. "Dandelion: Making Geothermal Heat Pumps a Real Option." Harvard Business School Case 722-010, August 2021. (Revised April 2023.)
- November 2019
- Teaching Plan
Ernesto Tornquist: Making a Fortune on the Pampas
By: Geoffrey Jones and Emilie Takayama
Teaching Note for HBS No. 807-155. View Details
- June 2004
- Teaching Note
GE's Talent Machine: The Making of a CEO
Teaching Note to (9-304-049) and (9-304-804). View Details
- March–April 1998
- Article
Even Swaps: A Rational Method for Making Trade-Offs
By: John S. Hammond, Ralph L. Keeney and Howard Raiffa
Hammond, John S., Ralph L. Keeney, and Howard Raiffa. "Even Swaps: A Rational Method for Making Trade-Offs." Harvard Business Review 76, no. 2 (March–April 1998): 137–+.
- October 2008
- Article
It's Time to Make Management a True Profession
By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana
In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation
Nohria, Nitin, and Rakesh Khurana. "It's Time to Make Management a True Profession." Harvard Business Review 86, no. 10 (October 2008).
- 2023
- Working Paper
Trusting Talent: Cross-Country Differences in Hiring
By: Letian Zhang and Shinan Wang
This article argues that a society’s social trust influences employers’ hiring strategies. In selecting workers, employers could either focus on applicants’ potential and select on foundational skills (e.g., social skills, math skills) or focus on their readiness and... View Details
Keywords: Selection and Staffing; Trust; Competency and Skills; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; European Union
Zhang, Letian, and Shinan Wang. "Trusting Talent: Cross-Country Differences in Hiring." Working Paper, October 2023.
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
reorganization. Camp could have imposed her solution unilaterally, but she knew that if she did, she'd undermine the senior team's commitment, which was critical to making this complex global structure work. She needed to find View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 1 Oct 2006
- Keynote Speech
Shifting Paradigms in Diversity Research: From Difference to a Relational Framing
By: R. Ely
- Research Summary
Intra-Household Decision Making
Professor Ashraf's research in intra-household decision making examines how households make financial and health decisions, particularly in the presence of asymmetric information or benefits.
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- Fall 2016
- Book Review
Review of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood
By: Kristin Fabbe
Fabbe, Kristin. "Review of Religious Difference in a Secular Age: A Minority Report, by Saba Mahmood." Journal of Church and State 58, no. 4 (Fall 2016): 753–755.
- January 2024
- Background Note
Making Strategic Choices
By: Jan W. Rivkin
This note lays out a process that students and business leaders can follow to make well-integrated sets of strategic choices. View Details
Rivkin, Jan W. "Making Strategic Choices." Harvard Business School Background Note 724-447, January 2024.
- 2015
- Working Paper
Making a Difference: Leader Evaluation, Selection, and Impact
By: Gautam Mukunda
The relationship between leader selection and impact is important to both researchers and practitioners. This paper introduces Leader Filtration Theory (LFT)—a theory from political science—to managerial audiences, applies it to organizations, and uses it to improve... View Details
Mukunda, Gautam. "Making a Difference: Leader Evaluation, Selection, and Impact." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-074, May 2015.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Allie (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
On a business trip, Allie's boss demands that she and a colleague skip planned company meetings and "meet him at the beach in their bikinis." View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Allie (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-037, November 2007.
- November 2007
- Case
Differences at Work: Jason (A)
By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon
Jason is a member of his firm's recruiting team, which has a mandate to create a more diverse workforce. When the group decides to interview a candidate based on the candidate's race, Jason wonders whether they made the right decision and how, in general, diversity... View Details
Sucher, Sandra J., and Rachel Gordon. "Differences at Work: Jason (A)." Harvard Business School Case 408-016, November 2007.
- September 2006 (Revised November 2007)
- Exercise
Market Making Exercise
By: Malcolm P. Baker
Students make a market in a new security, posting bid and offer prices and quantities for a new derivative security. View Details
Baker, Malcolm P. "Market Making Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 207-033, September 2006. (Revised November 2007.)
- 24 Aug 2013
- Panel Discussion
Leadership for a New Era: Getting Serious about Sustainability
By: Lynn S. Paine