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- 28 Jul 2015
- Blog Post
Recruiting in the U.S. for International Students: 101
institutionalized and structured. I guess you do need a solid professional network to be able to land that interview in the company you want, but we just have to be creative in finding those networking opportunities: family’s connections,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
wearing gym clothes rather than an elegant outfit or wearing red sneakers in a professional setting. Nonconforming behaviors, as costly and visible signals, can act as a particular form of conspicuous consumption and lead to positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 2, 2009
experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
concept of modularity -- the building of complex products from smaller subsystems that can be designed independently yet function together as a whole. It was modularity, the authors assert, that freed designers to experiment with different approaches while working... View Details
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
property rights by showing that both of the predicted linkages (from marginal returns to investment and from investment to revenue) exist in a single empirical setting. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/13-007.pdf Why Do We Redistribute so Much but... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
Abstract—To create social ties to support their professional or personal goals, people actively engage in instrumental networking. Drawing from moral psychology research, we posit that this intentional behavior has unintended consequences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
that researchers can potentially invoke to supplement other resources available to them. We propose a framework of antecedents for the use of professional social networks by academics. The framework captures researchers’ relevant personal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
directors, auditors, regulators, financial analysts, and professional investors and money managers. We thought we had a pretty good system, one the rest of the world looked to as a capital market that effectively allocated resources in... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
visual and econometric evidence now backs it up. But it moves the question from how to develop your isolated internal R&D function to how to manage a collection of transient professionals who are constantly communicating and moving.... View Details
- Web
2017 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
2017 Gender and Work Symposium. Ben’s mission is to use fashion to design a better world by celebrating diversity, disrupting gender norms and empowering differences. Hair Penalties and Other Organizational Sins: Racism Disguised as View Details
- 25 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 25, 2006
plans, we find collaborative engagement of the functions to be a consistent process feature and operational norm encouraged and maintained by integrators. In particular, the information processing nature of the sales and operations... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
and the International Economy Unit. Elisabeth Kempf: Political views shape economic outlook Political views influence the perception of economic reality among finance professionals. In a study linking credit rating analysts to party affiliations from voter records, we... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Where Main Street Meets Wall Street
years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
offers weekly Zoom meetings with guest speakers, game-based messaging, positive social norming exercises, and the promotion of “protective factors” such as staying connected to others, being physically active, and taking breaks from... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
When Johnson was born, social norms and her government-issued birth certificate said she was Negro, nullifying her mother’s white blood in her identity. Later, as a Harvard-educated business executive feeling too far from her black roots,... View Details
- Web
Crafting Your Life: The First 10 Years Post MBA (LIFE) - Course Catalog
broader community of students and alumni invested in learning with and supporting each other in the pursuit of a life well-lived. Throughout the course, we will build shared language, skills, and norms about what it means to craft your... View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
more just, and greener society, and this entails reforming our economic system and the way businesses operate. Even though these changes that diverge from deeply rooted norms are challenging to implement, now is the time to push for them.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman