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Jon M. Jachimowicz
Jon M. Jachimowicz is an Assistant Professor of Business Administration in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches the Leadership and Organizational Behavior course (LEAD) in the Required Curriculum. He studies... View Details
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
dine-in locations, operators are identifying new staff positions, including “concierges” to manage entry and employees assigned to sanitize tables, chairs, and restrooms. Anecdotally, early experiences from states opening up show some... View Details
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping
By: Samuel Antill and Aymeric Bellon
Many non-Delaware firms strategically file for bankruptcy in Delaware. Should this "forum shopping" be allowed? This question has motivated six congressional bill proposals over decades of policy debate. Using a novel natural experiment and Census-Bureau microdata, we... View Details
Antill, Samuel, and Aymeric Bellon. "The Real Effects of Bankruptcy Forum Shopping." Working Paper, December 2024.
- 11 Dec 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Three Perspectives on Team Learning: Outcome Improvement, Task Mastery, and Group Process
- 26 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Want Most in a CEO: A Good Listener
range of experts to achieve corporate goals and solve increasingly difficult problems, the researchers say. Broad changes in the nature of work conducted globally require different managerial capabilities, especially at the top of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Career Coach
Nicole Ledoux
Nicole (HBS '08) is Co-founder/CEO of 88 Acres, a Consumer Products company in the Natural Food space. She has experience in brand building, business development, new product launch, fundraising &... View Details
- June 2021
- Case
Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency
By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
In this multimedia case, Bozoma Saint John recounts numerous defining moments from her childhood and work experiences. We learn what empowered and inspired her to be her authentic self, to be vulnerable and open to new experiences, to find commonality with others, to... View Details
Keywords: Biases; Personal Development and Career; Identity; Interests; Ethics; Values and Beliefs; Opportunities; Leadership Style; Diversity
Gino, Francesca, and Frances X. Frei. "Bozoma Saint John: Leading with Authenticity and Urgency." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 921-708, June 2021.
- 2017
- Article
Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths
By: Michael Luca, Deepak Malhotra and Christopher Poliquin
Handgun waiting periods are laws that impose a delay between the initiation of a purchase and final acquisition of a firearm. We show that waiting periods, which create a “cooling off” period among buyers, significantly reduce the incidence of gun violence. We estimate... View Details
Keywords: Gun Policy; Gun Violence; Waiting Period; Injury Prevention; Policy; Safety; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States
Luca, Michael, Deepak Malhotra, and Christopher Poliquin. "Handgun Waiting Periods Reduce Gun Deaths." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 114, no. 46 (November 14, 2017).
- Article
Where Do Resources Come from? The Role of Idiosyncratic Situations
By: Gautam Ahuja and Riitta Katila
In this paper, we examine the emergence of resources. Our analysis of technological capability acquisition by global U.S.-based chemical firms shows that the emergence of resources is inherently evolutionary. We find that path-creating search that generates resource... View Details
Ahuja, Gautam, and Riitta Katila. "Where Do Resources Come from? The Role of Idiosyncratic Situations." Special Issue on The Global Acquisition, Leverage, and Protection of Technological Competencies. Strategic Management Journal 25, nos. 8-9 (August–September 2004): 887–907.
- Article
Learning from Potentially Biased Statistics: Household Inflation Perceptions and Expectations in Argentina
By: Alberto Cavallo, Guillermo Cruces and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
When forming expectations, households may be influenced by perceived bias in the information they receive. In this paper, we study how individuals learn from potentially biased statistics using data from both a natural experiment and a survey experiment during a... View Details
Keywords: Inflation Expectations; Bayesian Estimation; Inflation and Deflation; Information; Household; Behavior; Argentina
Cavallo, Alberto, Guillermo Cruces, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "Learning from Potentially Biased Statistics: Household Inflation Perceptions and Expectations in Argentina." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2016): 59–108.
- 11 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh
6:30 AM: I wake up – grateful that I’m naturally a morning person and our classes start at 9:30. The morning is my favorite time of day, and I begin my daily routine by reading with my coffee (my current fantasy binge is the Red Rising... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
his important pieces came out of some experiments with unusual tools; he wasn't trying to do a piece of work, he was just trying out the unfamiliar tools, and something interesting happened. Another, a potter, showed me how he would... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- April 2021
- Case
Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy
By: Francesca Gino and Frances X. Frei
The link to this multimedia case should be provided to students in advance as preparation for classroom case discussion.
In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
In Zeynop Ton’s 2014 book The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Selection and Staffing; Compensation and Benefits; Operations; Performance Effectiveness
Gino, Francesca, and Frances X. Frei. "Zeynep Ton: The Good Jobs Strategy." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Case 921-703, April 2021.
- 12 PM – 1:30 PM EST, 29 Feb 2024
- Webinars: Career
Considering Retirement
"So you're actually thinking about retiring?!"
Retirement can inspire not only excitement for new possibilities, but also fear for the future. How can you keep the parts of work you love but enjoy more balance in your life? What work will you do? How will this... View Details
- May 2011
- Article
The Wise Leader
By: Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi
In an era of increasing discontinuity, wise leadership has nearly vanished. Many leaders find it difficult to reinvent their corporations rapidly enough to cope with new technologies, demographic shifts, and consumption trends. They can't develop truly global... View Details
Keywords: Communication Intention and Meaning; Interpersonal Communication; Experience and Expertise; Values and Beliefs; Knowledge Sharing; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leadership; Leadership Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Personal Characteristics; Power and Influence
Nonaka, Ikujiro, and Hirotaka Takeuchi. "The Wise Leader." Harvard Business Review 89, no. 5 (May 2011).
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
lowlights What are 1-2 highlights from your experience? This could be a memory of your first big product launch, closing a hard funding round or even just that night that all hell broke loose and you fixed a hairy bug at 2 a.m. What made these View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 12 Mar 2019
- HBS Seminar
Giorgos Zervas, Boston University
- 2010
- Working Paper
Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model
By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger
This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details
Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas
Erhard, Werner, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and Kari L. Granger. "Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-091, April 2010.
- January 2022
- Article
Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry
By: Young Hou and Dennis Yao
This paper exploits a natural experiment involving self-regulation in the ready-to-eat (RTE) breakfast cereal industry to evaluate the performance impact of product repositioning. It then examines how a product's brand equity value declines with repositioning distance... View Details
Keywords: Positioning; Resources; Brand Equity; Competitive Dynamics; Non-market Strategy; Regulation; Repositioning; Product Positioning; Performance Evaluation; Brands and Branding; Competitive Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
Hou, Young, and Dennis Yao. "Pushed into a Crowd: Repositioning Costs, Resources, and Competition in the RTE Cereal Industry." Strategic Management Journal 43, no. 1 (January 2022): 3–29.