Pay It Forward - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2020
What Do You Think?

Is Antitrust Just a Quaint Notion in the Digital Age?

to be as much as $12 billion, or 21 percent of Apple’s profits. The larger point is that Google pays Apple large heaps of money to help it preserve its 92 percent share of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail; Technology; Telecommunications; Communications; Consumer Products; Service

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

“This is the first new kind of computer in 75 years,” says John Levy (MBA 1979), CEO of the quantum computing startup SEEQC. “And we’re building it on a chip!” Strolling through his company’s design and testing facility in Elmsford, New York, Levy looks less like a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Business School, January 2022. With Manjari Raman. Hidden Workers: Untapped Talent , Report, Harvard Business School and Accenture, September 2021. With Manjari Raman, Eva Sage-Gavin, and Kristen Hines. The Future of Boston's Workforce: The path View Details

18 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

or female, when workers did choose to negotiate, they typically succeeded by convincing the firm to give them more than the suggested wage they would have received if they hadn’t negotiated. Based on that finding alone, it may seem... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

Runner-Up SaferTaxi takes a successful concept from the US/Europe to Latin America. The company provides a smartphone application that allows consumers to book, pay rate taxis with added convenience as well as transparency. SaferTaxi aims... View Details

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

into the fabric of normal, ongoing organization financial management (it) buys time to figure out what is happening and what it means to the organization.” Jacob Navon suggested, “Perhaps corporate thinking going View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Tata Hall | About

learning about the company’s diverse operations along the way. In 1991 he became the group’s fifth chairman, succeeding his uncle, J.R.D. Tata, who had headed the business since 1938. Described by Bloomberg View as representing “Indian capitalism at View Details

01 Sep 2021
Op-Ed

How Women Can Learn from Even Biased Feedback

LinkedIn. Follow Francesca Gino on LinkedIn to read more of her posts. About the Author Francesca Gino is the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. She's the author of Rebel Talent: Why It View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

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Yi-An Huang

internal consulting group. How is your current job related to your HBS experience? When I came to HBS, I had been working in global health and development issues. I had realized that healthcare is an exciting sector with powerful social impact, but that View Details

Keywords: Health Care

26 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

to retain the Yakult Ladies, paying them 80 percent of their typical pay. Once delivery of Yakult products resumed, it took just five months for sales to reach the same level as the previous year. “Our HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

changed how those loan officers perceived reality. The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator Money isn’t always the most powerful work motivator. In this field experiment participants were willing to pay money to be ranked higher. Why? How to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Adriann Dolphin

Why did you choose this path at this point in time?IT work. Sitting in on an HBS case class in 2019 showed me HBS... View Details

Portrait Project

Ankit Tandon

I was left a seat at the lunch table, a wordless message—“you are welcomed here.” Neighbors offered us warm meals and other genuine acts of kindness that helped as we laid down new roots. I will pay it View Details

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

examining the strategies for change employed. Instead of this halfhearted approach, managers are better off picking a pure model: a clear Theory E approach with its benefits and costs or a pure Theory O approach with View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

experimentation. Uncertainty in this sense refers not to scientific questions about the coronavirus, but to what effect the virus will have on the future. What new realities will it generate? What will recovery look like? How long will... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

Harvard Business School Professor and historian Nancy Koehn has studied Starbucks and its leader, Howard Schultz, for close to 20 years. For her, the company represents much more than a phenomenal success story. In a recently published... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

08 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association

willingness to help, whether that's through career advice, networking, or simply being a shoulder to lean on. It’s an ethos deeply ingrained in those who've served—to always have each other’s backs and lift each other up. I'm honored to be able to View Details

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Planned Giving - Alumni

provides secure, fixed payments for life to one or two people, and will ultimately support the HBS purpose you specify. To learn how to do this through your IRA, please contact us (see below). Charitable Remainder Trust With a CRT, Harvard View Details

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

value created for shareholders. Agency theory ascends It isn’t much of an exaggeration to say that the “Friedman Doctrine” triggered a half-century of dominance for “agency theory” in corporate governance. Adherence to the concept has led... View Details