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Emily Hannenberg

socioeconomic backgrounds—who want to know more about me as a military person, as a queer person. That's been really rewarding." Emily has seized upon numerous "micro-opportunities to further leadership," serving, for example, as a View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit/Government/Education

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Mengjie "Magie" Cheng

this trend can be predicted in the sharing economy. As a result, she applied to a wide range of programs, including the quantitative marketing track at HBS, as well as programs in organizational behavior, information systems, and... View Details

01 Apr 2001
News

Khoo Teng Chye: Technology Turnaround in Singapore

market listing possibly as early as this year. “We have to look for new business beyond Singapore, but we can’t do that as a pure government agency,” Khoo explains. “We’ve had a tremendous change in the scope of our mission and in our View Details

Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Transportation

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

for nonprofit organizations and city planners, the researchers hope their study will provide a jumping-off point for broader discussion about the importance of location to organizational behavior. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2009
News

Professor Barnes Remembered

Professor emeritus Louis (“By”) Barnes (MBA ’52, DBA ’58), an expert in organizational behavior and a pioneer in the teaching and study of family-owned business issues, died in August. He was 81. For more... View Details

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Social Entrepreneurship and Systems Change (SESC) - Course Catalog

coherent systems strategy, collaborating with others, building power, and mobilizing change. Since the skills required to sustain effective engagement with social systems can differ subtly from the organizational management skills often... View Details

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Dec 2021
News

Vision: Sound Science

threads in Simons’s career. He grew up in a musical family, studied piano and trumpet, and chose a joint music and neuroscience major at Harvard College to investigate the physiologic basis of music therapy. “That turned out to be a space... View Details

Keywords: Deb Blagg

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

the world to help change the face of capitalism by making it more socially conscious. I study this kind of radical change in my research and teach my students about what it takes to succeed in implementing such change. The leaders of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

health care has led her to study nurses, who, as direct care providers, are at the center of the web of supply chains of equipment, supplies, medications, and even physicians. Singer received a grant from the Agency for Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

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What We Do | Research Associates

the power to change business practice and thought across sectors and industries. In this job you'll have the time and resources to dig deep into research, under the guidance of faculty who are thought leaders in fields ranging from entrepreneurship to finance to View Details

08 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 8

gravity the law of integrity just is, and if you violate the law of integrity as we define it, you get hurt just as if you try to violate the law of gravity with no safety device. The personal and organizational benefits of honoring one's... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Driving Profitable Growth - Course Catalog

enterprise growth is quite poorly understood. Careful empirical studies show that very few enterprises grow profitably over sustained periods of time. Indeed, many organizations’ pursuit of growth is the very cause of their demise. When... View Details

02 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 2

treating both its suppliers and its blue collar workforce as homogeneous, interchangeable entities as well as its view that expertise could be partitioned so that there was minimal overlap of knowledge amongst functions or levels in the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 4

Science 22, no. 4 (July-August 2011) Abstract This study examines the relationship between social position, both within the field and within the organization, and the likelihood of individual actors initiating View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2016
News

Bill (MBA 1966) and Penny George

important to support Harvard Business School on an ongoing basis.” After studying engineering at Georgia Tech, Bill George came to HBS because it was a school for business leaders. Upon earning his MBA, he and six classmates worked for... View Details

Chandler’s Legacies

had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

Curb Your Smartphone Habit

PERLOW: “With projects that require creativity, teamwork, and innovation, you come to a point where working more has diminishing returns.” A self-described former “quant jock,” Leslie Perlow majored in economics at Princeton. But after View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; smartphones; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Telecommunications; Information

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

field study requires a lot of ingenuity and trust from both the academics and the field participants. "Doing Empirical Research in, with, and through Companies" was the topic of a lively session last week at the annual Harvard Business... View Details