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- 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
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Wesley W. Koo, and Xina Li. "Working (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers During the Coronavirus Shock." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-096, March 2020. (Revised April 2020.)
- Research Summary
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
- 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
- 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
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 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
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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
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
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
- 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
- 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
- 31 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Five Important Steps before Taking the Entrepreneurial Leap
that pioneered conversational commerce. At Hilma, Hilary leverages her personal passion for consumer products and integrative health with her Harvard MBA, and impressive professional history of launching new consumer brands, to build and... 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
- July 2013
- Case
Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain
By: Willy Shih and Sen Chai
As the world's largest producer of industrial enzymes, Novozymes had invested heavily for many years to bio-engineer enzymes that could break down cellulose into fermentable sugar. In 2010, the company had launched what it thought would become a breakthrough product... View Details
Keywords: System Complexity; Industrial Enzymes; Ethanol; Collulosic Ethanol; Fermentation; Genomics; Genetic Engineering; Value Chain; Assembling Value Chain; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Industry Growth; Production; Research; Research and Development; Science; Genetics; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercialization; Vertical Integration; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Biotechnology Industry; Energy Industry; Denmark; United States
Shih, Willy, and Sen Chai. "Novozymes: Establishing the Cellulosic Ethanol Value Chain." Harvard Business School Case 614-001, July 2013.
- 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
- 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
- Article
Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation
By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon
Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of innovation. In this review paper we consciously move beyond the Schumpeterian tradition of... View Details
Ahuja, Gautam, Curba Morris Lampert, and Vivek Tandon. "Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation." Academy of Management Annals 2 (2008): 1–98.
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Placement - Doctoral
Management, 2023 Placement: United States Military Academy at West Point (2024-) Dissertation: The dynamic nature of leader identity development Advisors: Joshua D. Margolis (Co-Chair), Ting Zhang (Co-Chair), Ethan S. Bernstein , and... View Details