Individual Differences - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

focuses on the economics and strategy of digital: how organizations need to adapt and change in this new environment, and the individual skills required to succeed in a digital economy. "You know that a significant change has taken... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

behavioral finance: How rational are individual investors? It touches on the quality of advice that investors get, and the relationships between investors and their financial advisers. As we potentially shift our Social Security system... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

very different means. Where the NEA has a nearly 50-year history of art market-making, with vetted mechanisms for ensuring artistic quality and value, Kickstarter offers almost the opposite—it makes funding more into a matter of marketing... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

26 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Two sides, same coin: How I left the Bay Area as an operator and returned as an investor

could yield outsized returns for a professional investor. The countless examples of talented individuals ebbing and flowing into either role at different times (operator one day, investor the next)... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Dean Clark Reflects on the School’s Key Initiatives

As we begin the new academic year, I welcome the opportunity to share the exciting initiatives and activities under way at Harvard Business School. All our efforts are designed to pursue with excellence the School’s mission: to educate leaders who make a View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

industry. The forum began with a discussion about the marketing power of social media, but quickly evolved into a conversation about race issues in the sports entertainment industry. 'unbelievable Platform' All acknowledged that Twitter has played a huge role in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

make progress on this topic. I think this initiative, diversity across all forms, is absolutely essential if we are to educate leaders who can make a difference in the world, because it is about trying to allow every View Details

19 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 19

basis of its offering-professional service firms. One element of competitive success is the extent to which a professional service firm can harness and increase the knowledge of its professionals, making knowledge of individuals an asset... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

industry consider peer-to-peer services as marketing tools rather than the enemy? Should online pricing be different from in-store pricing? What happens when broadband makes it as easy to illegally download an entire CD as an View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

30 Apr 2021
News

Revealing the Rules

affect some people? We can look at the numbers: A study by the Ascend Foundation found that in Silicon Valley, Asians are the racial group most likely to be hired but the least likely to be promoted from individual contributor to manager.... View Details

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

who need them, especially among vulnerable populations. Racial inequities, laid bare by the pandemic, and social unrest provoked by recent police killings have escalated tensions. In the course of writing Problem Solving: HBS Alumni Making a View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees’ Career Development

what the employee can do to grow their skills and what extra opportunities they can take on,” said Fitzpatrick. Then, as extra projects will often be within different teams, communication between managers is also critical. Having everyone... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

14 Sep 2021
Blog Post

How to Support Your Employees' Career Development

what the employee can do to grow their skills and what extra opportunities they can take on,” said Fitzpatrick. Then, as extra projects will often be within different teams, communication between managers is also critical. Having everyone... View Details

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

field experiment on Airbnb, we find that requests from guests with distinctively African-American names are roughly 16% less likely to be accepted than identical guests with distinctively White names. The difference persists whether the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2017
Blog Post

A Summer Internship with the International Rescue Committee

emotional journeys as well as their physical ones. After we had met with dozens of individuals across the country, hailing from Bhutan, Syria, Congo, Iraq and beyond, we began our synthesis phase, deconstructing all of our conversations... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

05 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost

overestimated the market price of the repair. Women were quoted a higher price than men when either explained that they were uninformed about repair prices. Gender differences disappeared when callers mentioned an expected price—even an... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Auto; Service

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

forthcoming Boston: Harvard Business Review Press The Three Box Solution: A Strategy for Leading Innovation By: Govindarajan, Vijay Abstract—How to Innovate and Execute. Leaders already know that innovation calls for a different set of... View Details

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

deploy a manager to one of several possible contexts is endogenous to unobservable factors, and selection makes it challenging to disentangle the effect of workplace context on individual career advancement. We work around this problem by... View Details