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Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Wesley W. Koo and Xina Li

Prior research has documented that during mortality-related crises workers face psychic costs and are motivated to make social contributions. In addition, management practices that encourage workers to make social contributions during a crisis create value for firms.... View Details

Keywords: Crisis; Social Contributions; Work From Home (WFH); Cannot Work From Home (CWFH); Social Distancing; Online Communities; Coronavirus; COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Employees; Working Conditions; Internet and the Web; Crisis Management

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30 Nov 2017
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Law, Management, and Strategy: Collapsing Boundaries and Managing the Interstices

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

apply in any given situation. By learning how these decision-making Minds differ, and the factors and environments that precipitate each one, marketers can better anticipate and serve their intended customers. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Faculty & Research

HBS Book Talk: The Science of Conversation and the Art of Being Ourselves By: Alison Wood Brooks We all struggle with difficult conversations, but we're often not very good at easy ones either. Though we do it all the time, View Details

2018
Race and Leadership Development

Why Are We Talking About Race at Work?

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

could lead to substantial bias in understanding the nature of productivity gains from multinational production. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42615 Internalizing Global Value Chains: A Firm-Level... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

Kenneth A. Froot spends more time thinking about natural disasters than the average business school professor. In addition to the rise and fall of the Dow and the long-term implications of the financial crisis in Greece, he has View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

01 Sep 2023
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Bless this Stress

narrative that stress is killing us. Yes, plenty of studies have documented the ways in which it can negatively affect our mental and physical health. But the truth isn’t necessarily so grim, she says. After all, stress is as natural and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

20 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation

nature of the innovation problem at hand, the motivation of the external developers, and the firm's platform business model. Depending on these factors, the outside innovation might be fed and managed either by creating collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

06 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

are more able to voice their concerns.” Is anyone listening to me? In an initial experiment to study whether people talking can tell whether the other person is listening, the researchers paired 200 strangers over Zoom to hold 25-minute View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Application Requirements - Doctoral

of the application. Institution Codes for PhD Programs GRE: 3451 GMAT: HRL-X8-30 A department code is not required for score submission. International Applications Adequate command of spoken and written English is required for admission. Applicants whose native View Details

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Actively Addressing Unconscious Bias in Recruiting - Recruiting

Job Descriptions Job descriptions have always been an important element of the hiring process. They serve as a marketing tool to attract candidates and the language used can unconsciously tell people or groups that they are not the right... View Details

Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire

The best teachers are leaders, and the best leaders are teachers. Teaching by Heart summarizes the author's key insights gained from more than 40 years of teaching and managing. It illustrates how teachers can both lift people up and let them down. It proposes... View Details

20 Apr 2023
Blog Post

Tackle the First 90 Days of Your Next Role: A 5 Step Process for Success on the Job

goals on day one. “As an employee feeling the pressure that accompanies a hard-won job, you will want to make a positive first impression,” Spielman says. “The natural reaction in many instances is to jump right in but as Jeff Olson said,... View Details

28 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

variation of online shopping. Rather than just study the problem, they also came up with a possible solution: Virtual Dates. The researchers began their work by talking to online-dating-site users about their experiences, supplementing these View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

09 Jan 2024
In Practice

Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Year

improve efficiency to using AI as a driver of strategic differentiation. Here are five shifts 2024 may bring: Broadening access to computing. Generative AI will become further integrated in the software we already use, allowing a broader set of managers and employees... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology

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Live from Klarman Hall - Alumni

Speakers: Juliette Kayyem , Belfer Senior Lecturer in International Security Adi Ignatius With war, a pandemic, cyberattacks, and natural disasters, the world can seem overwhelming. The Kennedy School and CNN’s Juliette Kayyem, in View Details

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Placement - Doctoral

Performance in Healthcare Delivery Advisors: Robert S. Huckman , Guy David , and Ariel D. Stern Close Management 2023 Laura Weimer Management, 2023 Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point (2024-) Dissertation: The dynamic View Details

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

Principles that Matter: Sustaining Software Innovation from the Client to the Web Author:Marco Iansiti Abstract Economic analysis often reviews the role of principles—such as respect for intellectual property rights—in driving innovation. Given the interdependent View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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