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Business History - Faculty & Research

Emerging Markets By: Geoffrey Jones June 2024 | Article | Investigaciones de historia económica This article describes the motivation, structure and use of the Creating Emerging Markets (CEM) oral history-based project at the Harvard Business School. The project... View Details
  • 19 Dec 2023
  • Blog Post

Answering Your Questions About the HBS MBA Application

read every application submitted, and it’s important to note that your application will be read holistically – we consider all elements of the application together to get to know you better. Approximately one month after the application deadline, we will extend... View Details
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Human Relations and Harvard Business School – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Letter from Elton Mayo to Wallace B. Donham, November 8, 1939. Wallace B. Donham Office Files, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect"... View Details
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

What Makes a Good Leader

as one observer puts it — while leaders are the charismatic, big-picture visionaries, the ones who change the whole ant farm. But such a construction, those interviewed for this article agree, erroneously leads to a bimodal way of looking... View Details
Keywords: Management
  • January 2025
  • Teaching Plan

Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

By: Willy Shih
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 625-003. New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Spiritual Philanthropy in Emerging Markets

By: Valeria Giacomin and G. Jones
This working paper discusses the ethics and drivers of philanthropic foundations in emerging markets. A foundation organizes assets to invest in philanthropic initiatives. Previous scholarship has largely focused on developed countries, especially the United States,... View Details
Keywords: Foundations; Philanthropy; Business Leaders; Spirituality; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Emerging Markets; Ethics; Values and Beliefs
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Employee Welfare – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

Assembly Test Room Enter Elton Mayo Human Relations and Harvard Business School Women in the Relay Assembly Test Room The Interview Process Spreading the Word The "Hawthorne Effect" Research Links Baker Library | Historical Collections |... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

collected. The students were charged with conducting semi-structured phone interviews with company managers, asking each a series of 18 questions divided into three categories. The first dealt with the monitoring of their production... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

humans as key ideators, conceptualized through the LLM ideation roles of Designer and Writer and of Interviewer and Actor. While LLMs excel in generating incremental improvements, their potential for groundbreaking innovation could be... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Top 5 Myths About HBS

your question, is an HBS interview hard to prepare for? I would say yes in the sense that you can't go to the internet and download the 10 questions that HBS is going to ask you. If you googled "HBS View Details
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Moving Forward from COVID-19: Organizational Dimensions of Effective Hospital Emergency Management

By: Mariam Krikorian Atkinson, Nicholas Cagliuso, John Hick, Sara Singer, Elizabeth Bambury, Tuna Cem Hayirli, Masha Kuznetsova and Paul Biddinger
Federal investment in emergency preparedness has increased notably since the 9/11 attacks, yet it is unclear if and how U.S. hospital readiness has changed in the 20 years since then. In particular, understanding effective aspects of hospital emergency management... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19; Hospital Preparedness/response; Urban/rural Hospitals; Emergency Management; National Strategy; Health Pandemics; Crisis Management; Performance Effectiveness; Governance; Policy; United States
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  • July 2024 (Revised October 2024)
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Knowledge Transfer: Toyota, NUMMI, and GM

By: Willy Shih
New United Motors Manufacturing, Inc. (NUMMI) was a joint venture between Toyota and General Motors. It was an opportunity for GM to learn about the Toyota Production System, which was quite different from the mass production processes American automakers used at the... View Details
Keywords: Culture Change; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Factories, Labs, and Plants; Joint Ventures; Transformation; Selection and Staffing; Knowledge Acquisition; Knowledge Sharing; Labor Unions; Management Systems; Performance Improvement; Production; Labor and Management Relations; Auto Industry; Japan; United States
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About the Project - Creating Emerging Markets

Geoffrey Jones which involved Dr. Andrea Lluch undertaking a set of audio interviews in Argentina and China during 2007 and 2008. The project was relaunched in 2012 with a broader geographical remit and video interviews. Since 2016 it has... View Details
  • 07 Feb 2024
  • News

The Sound of Success

deaf, became the first person to receive gene therapy for congenital deafness during a clinical trial at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia. “There’s no sound I don’t like,” he said through interpreters during an interview in... View Details
  • 20 Sep 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

surge of power and sense of well-being when it's needed: for example, during a job interview or for a key presentation to a group of skeptical customers. "Our research has broad implications for people who suffer from feelings of... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 23 Jan 2023
  • Research & Ideas

After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?

analysts put their initial opinions through additional levels of scrutiny, in which they evaluate more qualitative information from sources such as interviews with management, suppliers, and partners, and an in-depth review of underlying... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

testimonies in court documents, sources that were not yet available for earlier books on Enron. In addition, he interviewed former Enron executives and acquired internal Enron documents, which extended and deepened his research.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
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Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

psychologically analogous to the dual pathways of persistence and flexibility in human ideation. Further, we distinguish between the utility of LLMs as key ideators versus humans as key ideators, conceptualized through the LLM ideation roles of Designer and Writer and... View Details
  • 29 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Time Pressure and Creativity: Why Time is Not on Your Side

and will publish an overview of the work in the August issue of Harvard Business Review. In this email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne, Amabile talks about her research—one of the most complex research... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Fine Arts
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Dissertation: Speaking Up on Boards

My dissertation examines individual and group behavior in corporate boards of directors. I focus on individual traits and group traits that can foster or inhibit the act of speaking up when an individuals views go against the general consensus in the room. Research and... View Details