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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
nudges and behavioral economics aren’t going to fix everything and need to be part of a broader approach to problem solving within organizations. About the Author Dina View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
performance, the researchers say. Founders are usually very busy people—they recruit key employees, raise funds, find a board, develop partnerships, set strategy, and design the organization, to name a few responsibilities. What often... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
administration and among the founders of the World Management Survey and the Executive Time Use Study. About the Author Dina Gerdeman is a senior... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Employers Favor Men
men perform better on average at certain tasks, according to the research paper When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender. The paper was written by Katherine B. Coffman and Christine L. Exley, both... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
programs can get started by first talking to employees, customers, and board members to discover issues they may feel passionate about, whether it's the environment, hunger relief, or the arts. Once the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2023
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2023
Arthur Brooks: Spirituality and philosophy This March, I returned from my fifth trip to Dharamshala, India, to work with His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama. We held a conference on how leadership and happiness... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
In a hugely ambitious project, the Unique Identification Authority of India has been charged with implementing a nationwide program to register and assign a one-of-a-kind ID number to every Indian resident—some 1.2 billion people—by 2020... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Oct 2016
- HBS Case
Business Solutions That Help Cut Food Waste
Massachusetts that works with growers, supermarkets, manufacturers, and other suppliers who donate or offer special buying opportunities for their excess food. The store then sells the food at significantly reduced prices from what is... View Details
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
write down is not what will happen," Kraus says. "But by writing it down, you start with the imagination of what you want it to be, and then you recast it. A plan provides meaning View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
is and also the fact that other people might have another mindset." Students also learn not to get snowed by certain tactics that are used by the other party. For... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
efficiency, remote troubleshooting, and customer personalization—has been delayed despite wide acceptance by many experts that the existing power system is falling far short of America's energy needs. In... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
providing firms with a wide variety of strategic solutions. The book was coedited by Feng Zhu, the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, along with Carmelo Cennamo of Copenhagen Business School... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
deliver this extra-added value service." Electronic Health Records Promoted In 2014, health care spending in the United States exceeded $3 trillion and was expected to reach $4.5 trillion by 2020. To... View Details
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
design, hit it out of the ballpark. The roast beef chain tweeted Williams a message during the live broadcast: By the next morning, the tweet garnered 75,000 retweets, more than 40,000 favorites, and... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
rituals are one underutilized tool for enhancing people's emotional experiences," Norton says. "And our research shows that when people do spend money on rituals, especially with their partners, they consider it both money and time... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jul 2024
- Book
Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead
culture, communication, connection, and confidence. Each one of these is a tool or building block for developing and deploying leadership capital. In the chapters that follow, I walk you through these one... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 16 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults
featured in Work, Employment and Society. Compared to women whose mothers stayed home full time, women raised by an employed mother are 1.21 times more likely to be employed; 1.29 times more likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman