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- 29 Jul 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Firsthand Experience and the Subsequent Role of Reflected Knowledge in Cultivating Trust in Global Collaboration
Keywords: by Mark Mortensen & Tsedal Neeley
- 02 Jan 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do Boomerang CEOs Get a Bad Rap?
Carolina to support their claim. The Bingham study analyzed data for 6,429 CEOs of S&P 1,500 index firms from 1992 to 2017. Among these were 438 boomerang CEOs with more than a year out of office between stints as CEO; 193 of these... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Oct 2023
- Research & Ideas
In Empowering Black Voters, Did a Landmark Law Stir White Angst?
power to register qualified citizens to vote. Federal courts had to clear any new voting changes and procedures before they could take effect in states or counties covered by the law. To trace the law’s impact, researchers hand-gathered records from county View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Jan 2023
- In Practice
8 Trends to Watch in 2023
As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- April 2017
- Case
The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO
By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna and Sarah Mehta
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) is the federal government agency responsible for evaluating and granting patents and trademarks. In 2015, the USPTO employed approximately 8,000 patent examiners who granted nearly 300,000 patents to inventors. As of April... View Details
Keywords: Machine Learning; Telework; Collaborating With Unions; Human Resources; Recruitment; Retention; Intellectual Property; Copyright; Patents; Trademarks; Knowledge Sharing; Technology Adoption; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Productivity; Performance Improvement; District of Columbia
Choudhury, Prithwiraj, Tarun Khanna, and Sarah Mehta. "The Future of Patent Examination at the USPTO." Harvard Business School Case 617-027, April 2017.
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Abstract—General Motors was once regarded as one of the best managed and most successful firms in the world, but between 1980 and 2009 its share of the U.S. market fell from 62.6% to 19.8%, and in 2009 the firm went bankrupt. In this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2021
- HBS Case
How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves
enter new markets, bidding unprecedented sums to purchase competitors and buying up pricey technology. The spending spree sunk the company deep into debt, according to the research. When the dot-com bubble burst in the early 2000s, the stock market crashed—and so did... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
subsequently had their autos repossessed—management made provision to reimburse only those customers taking out auto loans in the last five of the twelve years, according to the Federal Office of the Comptroller of the Currency. Wells... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
Jordan brand and served as president of the Portland Trail Blazers NBA team? Probably not, says HBS Professor Francesca Gino, who coauthored the case with HBS Senior Lecturer Hise Gibson and HBS Professor Frances X. Frei, as well as Alicia Dadlani, director of the... View Details
- 24 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Rituals at Work: Teams That Play Together Stay Together
Love them or hate them, team-building rituals can fortify bonds among coworkers and create the shared sense that work is more meaningful, which may be especially critical now as managers look to reconnect colleagues re-adjusting to work... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
large information technology firm. We find significant interaction effects between being of the same sex and being in the same business unit or same office on dyadic communication rates, though not with same job function. In an extension,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
that physical design that highlights inequality can trigger antisocial behavior on airplanes. More broadly, these results point to the importance of considering the design of environments—from airplanes to office layouts to stadium... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
to innovate in the climate space, and shares his advice for those interested in careers in business and climate. Beyond Net Zero: How Seventh Generation Plans to Achieve Real Zero Carbon Ashley Orgain, chief impact View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 30 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Commuting Hurts Productivity and Your Best Talent Suffers Most
where they locate their offices and where their employees live, with an eye on keeping commutes as short as possible. “There should be serious consideration of: Should you plan around where your best people live?” he says. Some tech firms... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 12 May 2021
- Book
The Hard Truth About Being a CEO
subordinates, just by virtue of the hierarchy of organizations,” says Fubini, who led McKinsey’s Boston office for 10 years and also co-founded a global unit within the firm that aided mergers of some of the world’s top companies. To help... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
and managers alike face unprecedented obstacles every day. In March and early April, as COVID-19 spread worldwide, a study by Mind Share Partners in partnership with Qualtrics and SAP found that 42 percent of respondents said their mental... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
the Directorate of Intelligence, which established a Field Intelligence Group (FIG) and new security analysts at each of the FBI’s field offices. That didn’t sit well with some old-guard law enforcers, who didn’t take kindly to sharing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
sought out meaningful conversations with trusted others, relying on regular calls to their parents or turning to a colleague who, as one manager said, is “the kind of person you go see when you need to talk something through, so you go to their View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2019
- HBS Case
Walmart's Workforce of the Future
approach to the customer experience, with an emphasis on employee training and improved ecommerce and automation technology, both on the floor and in back office roles. One foundational move to beef up its technology was Walmart’s $3.3... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
they have decided to give up their weekend to come up with a better idea? Would they have agreed to break the routine of Mondays working remotely to share their response in the relative privacy of the office... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett