Span Of Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

FatCamera In an interview with Harvard Business School Professor Teresa Amabile for a study on retirement, one man on the cusp of exiting his career spoke openly about how the transition was making him question his identity. “After I... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

from them, potentially putting them out of business. You might regard that as bordering on the insane. The matter has caught the attention of no less an observer than Henry... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

hesitation, she opted for the higher-paying position in a new city, figuring it would be an adventure with her partner of eight years and lead to more exciting work opportunities down the road. It’s a choice many people face at key times... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

surveys spanning HBS MBA indicate that 30% of alumni currently work in a firm that they founded, 46% have launched at least one company in their careers, and 31% intend to start a firm in the future. Among... View Details

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Systems Integration - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

successful examples of regional expansion of care, the most common elements were an IPU structure that spans the sites, a common EHR, unified scheduling, standardized... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

impressive model for multilingual collections.” We encourage use of the CEM interviews to support a diverse array of research projects and questions. For academic works, we ask that you credit CEM using the... View Details

21 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Harvard Square's Hidden History

environs. I played impromptu tour guide and pointed out four of my favorite historic sites around the Square – many of which HBS students pass by each day: Anderson Memorial Bridge Hundreds View Details

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Curriculum - Business & Environment

MBA Experience Curriculum 2ms Required Curriculum (1st Year) Cases Environmental opportunities and challenges are embedded in most Required Curriculum courses so that all students understand the importance of the natural environment to... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

spanning the academic year. During this time, groups of students complete a strategic consulting project (4 hours per month per student) for their partner organization under the mentorship View Details

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The Caring Company

care crisis. The economics of care are misaligned in most companies. Employees don’t get the support they need for their caregiving responsibilities and employers pay the hidden costs, including turnover, rehiring, presenteeism, and... View Details

08 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Joint Degrees

have a career that spans the public, private, and nonprofit sectors. Through the joint degree program, I am building skills that will allow me to leverage the strengths of each sector to drive economic and... View Details

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

you're figuring things out." As SpinBrush continued to gain market share, Osher's little company began to attract the attention of big players in the market: P&G, Colgate, Johnson & Johnson, to... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

11 Jul 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Deconstructing 'Customer Experience'

Legendary Harvard Business School marketing professor Theodore Levitt warned his students and industry executives against “marketing myopia”—that is, adopting an insular marketing approach where the business puts its own needs ahead of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Service

25 May 2021
Research & Ideas

White Airbnb Hosts Earn More. Can AI Shrink the Racial Gap?

fluctuations. Zhang and her coauthors were curious whether the algorithm might help reduce racial inequalities by optimizing nightly rates for both white and Black hosts, so everyone could benefit financially. Narrowing Airbnb’s racial income gap Zhang’s team analyzed... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology; Accommodations

28 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

What's a Boss Worth?

quite a lot. “If you have a better boss on a team, you get more out of each individual worker” Academics and practitioners alike are interested in how to construct the best teams to get the most productivity out View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Service

30 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

How Technology Adoption Affects Global Economies

technology adoption activity as far back as AD 1500. Comin, William Easterly, and Erick Gong explain these findings in their paper Was the Wealth of Nations Determined in 1000 BC? To prepare the paper, the team compiled a series View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

spanned 16 countries in 2013, promotes the benefits of handwashing to rural communities. So far, Unilever has changed the behaviors of 130 million people. Businesses have the... View Details

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

defining what is a fair distribution of attention in a ranking, and then developing an algorithm that achieves this distribution,” says Sühr. The research team found that fair-ranking algorithms are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

the next budget cycle. With a delay strategy, attention can be diverted to some legitimate, pressing issue, the sort of which always exists. There is the sudden budget shortfall, the unexpected competitor... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

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