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  • 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
  • 19 Oct 2022
  • Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

Recently, I was listening to the Huberman Lab podcast where Dr. Andrew Huberman interviewed Dr. David Buss, a founding member in the field of evolutionary psychology and professor of psychology at the University of Texas at Austin, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 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
  • 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
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Mobilizing Culture for Public Action: Community Participation and Child Rights in Rural Uttar Pradesh

By: Akshay Mangla
Community-based initiatives that work to empower the poor and promote their participation have gained strong support among scholars and practitioners of development. Yet the questionable assumptions about culture and development that inform these initiatives render it... View Details
Keywords: India; Culture; Child Rights; Caste Relations; Child Education; Child Health; India
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    Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation’s Toughest Trade-Offs

    How leaders can recast innovation’s toughest trade-offs—efficiency vs. flexibility, consistency vs. change, product vs purpose—as productive tensions.

    Why is leading innovation in today’s dynamic business environment so distressingly... View Details

    • 31 May 2016
    • First Look

    May 31, 2016

    June 2016 Medical Care Vaccination Rates Are Associated with Functional Proximity but Not Base Proximity of Vaccination Clinics By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Gwendolyn I. Reynolds Abstract—Background: Routine annual... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • June 2016
    • Article

    Managing the High Intensity Workplace: An 'Always Available' Culture Breeds a Variety of Dysfunctional Behaviors

    By: Erin M. Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan
    People today are under intense pressure to be “ideal workers”—totally committed to their jobs and always on call. But after interviewing hundreds of professionals in many fields, the authors have concluded that selfless dedication to work is often unnecessary and... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Management; Working Conditions; Work-Life Balance; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Culture
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    • Summer 2014
    • Article

    Designed for Workarounds: A Qualitative Study of the Causes of Operational Failures in Hospitals

    By: Anita L. Tucker, W. Scott Heisler and Laura D. Janisse
    Frontline care providers in hospitals spend at least 10% of their time working around operational failures, which are situations where information, supplies, or equipment needed for patient care are insufficient. However, little is known about underlying causes of... View Details
    Keywords: Supply Chain; Health Care and Treatment; Failure; Business Processes; Health Industry
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    • Research Summary

    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
    • Article

    Integrating: A Managerial Practice that Enables Implementation in Fragmented Health Care Environments

    By: Michaela J. Kerrissey, Patricia Satterstrom, Nicholas Leydon, Gordon Schiff and Sara J. Singer
    How some organizations improve while others remain stagnant is a key question in health care research. This inductive qualitative study examines primary care clinics implementing improvement efforts in order to identify mechanisms that enable implementation despite... View Details
    Keywords: Organization And Management Theory; Quality Improvement; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Improvement; Integration; Cooperation
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    • 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
    • Web

    Course Overview - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    designed for newly appointed CEOs of public parent companies with annual revenues of $2 billion or more. Faculty & Participant Preparation The faculty interviews each participant before the Workshop to identify issues of particular... View Details
    • 26 Aug 2024
    • Blog Post

    HBS Lingo 101

    form of the recruiting process at HBS; whether it is interviewing on campus or posting jobs on our website. EC: EC stands for “Elective Curriculum” and refers to the flexible second year at HBS. Second year students are also referred to... 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
    • Research Summary

    Career Histories and the Biotechnology Industry

    Professor Higgins' other major project focuses on the consequences of individuals' career experiences for firms and industries. This second research stream centers on the careers of executives in the biotechnology industry.

    Professor Higgins has written... View Details

    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

    By: Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker and Karen L. Murrell
    We conduct an empirical investigation of the impact of queue management on patients' average wait time and length of stay (LOS). Using an Emergency Department's (ED) patient-level data from 2007 to 2010, we find that patients' average wait time and LOS are longer when... View Details
    Keywords: Pooling; Queue Management; Strategic Servers; Social Loafing; Empirical Operations; Health Care; Fairness; Management Practices and Processes; Service Delivery; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Communication (42) Investment Activism (12) Investment Banking (6) Investment Funds (12) Investment Portfolio (8) Investment Return (12) Investment (78) Job Cuts and Outsourcing (12) Job Design and Levels (7) Job Interviews (3) Job Offer... View Details
    • 24 Feb 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day

    Gino, a behavioral scientist, was working on a project about how time of day affects job interviews. (Note to job-hunters: Try to book a morning interview slot.) “As it turns out, the later one interviews in... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education
    • 12 Jan 2022
    • Blog Post

    How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Cecil Alfaro-Mora

    This spring we’re speaking with current MBA students who were admitted through 2+2 to learn what they did during their deferral years. Here’s an interview with Cecil Alfaro-Mora (MBA 2022): Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2... View Details