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May 27, 2022
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How 'Digital Nomad' Visas Can Boost Local Economies

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury

More and more companies are offering their employees the option to “work from anywhere,” whether in their home office, in another state, or even halfway around the globe. A growing group of remote professionals are taking the “anywhere” in work-from-anywhere to new... View Details

Keywords: Remote Work; COVID-19 Pandemic; Collaboration; Work-Life Balance; Human Resources; Collaborative Innovation and Invention

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July 2022
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What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition

By: Jeff Steiner and Teresa M. Amabile

Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of... View Details

Keywords: Retirement Transition; Life Narrative; Construal Level Theory; Global Construal; Quotidian Construal; Meanings Of Work And Retirement; Retirement; Transition; Perspective

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Extension Request Avoidance Predicts Greater Time Stress Among Women

By: Ashley V. Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Aurora Turek and Grant E. Donnelly

In nine studies using archival data, surveys, and experiments, we identify a factor that predicts gender differences in time stress and burnout. Across academic and professional settings, women are less likely to ask for more time when working under adjustable... View Details

Keywords: Burnout; Time Stress; Workplace Practices; Deadlines; Time Management; Gender; Well-being

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March 2022
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Carbon Footprinting and Pricing under Climate Concerns

By: Marco Bertini, Stefan Buehler, Daniel Halbheer and Don Lehmann

This article studies how organizations should design a product by choosing the carbon footprint and price in a market with climate concerns. The authors first show how the cost and demand effects of reducing the product carbon footprint determine the profit-maximizing... View Details

Keywords: Carbon Footprint; Carbon Offsetting; Climate Impact; Net-zero Emissions; Pricing; Climate Change; Product Design; Price; Environmental Sustainability; Marketing

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Feeling Authentic Serves as a Buffer Against Rejections

By: F. Gino and M. Kouchaki

Social exclusion is a painful yet common experience in many people’s personal and professional lives. This research demonstrates that feeling authentic serves as a buffer against social rejection, leading people to experience less social pain. Across five studies,... View Details

Keywords: Authenticity; Social Exclusion; Threat; Decision Making; Perception; Relationships

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This paper explores the long-standing empirical fact of increased trading volume around news releases through the lens of canonical models of gradual information diffusion and differences of opinion. I use a unique dataset of clicks on news by key finance... View Details

12 Dec 2023
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HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well

Fast and Fix Things. Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full PotentialWe tend to avoid failure at all costs. But our smarter missteps are worthwhile because they can force us to take a different path that points us toward personal and View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

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professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various backgrounds, industries, and countries across the globe Build relationships with a diverse group of peers who can provide... View Details

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30 Apr 2024
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When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

their way into business school classrooms or the ranks of professional management. Most people I spoke with back then thought that ethics was a matter of individual character; that character was fixed and unchanging over time; and that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2023
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The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023

for companies trying to instill an owner's mindset in employees. Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full PotentialWe tend to avoid failure at all costs. But our smarter missteps are worthwhile because they can force us to take a different path... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

22 Aug 2016
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Master the One-on-One Meeting

don’t do after work drinks—that suggests a less serious discussion. The agenda If a meeting is important enough to have, it should have an agenda. Topics in a 1:1 should be about professional growth, personal connection and for giving... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

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Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

opportunities for developing industry contacts and networking in the Boston area through a variety of programs. Professional Development The program has hosted over 100 seminars with key industry experts. Workshop topics are based on... View Details

August 2022
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Janet Ames (A), (B), (C), (D)

By: Brian Trelstad

Teaching Plan for HBS Case Nos. 320-076, 320-077, 320-078, and 322-051. The series of Janet Ames cases follow a fictional alumna of Harvard Business School into her consulting career in Boston. Over the series of cases, Ames is first offered the opportunity to join... View Details

Keywords: Philanthropy; Board; Non-profit Management; Career Changes And Transitions; Evaluation; Personal Development and Career; Opportunities; Decision Choices and Conditions; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Nonprofit Organizations; Management; United States

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Mistry Architects (C)

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Robert G. Eccles and Mona Sinha

This case is a follow-up to "Mistry Architects: Innovating for Sustainability (A)" (Case 609-044) and (B) (Case 609-064). In Case (A) Sharukh and Renu Mistry founded and run an architectural firm dedicated to being both client-oriented and environmentally responsible.... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Nonprofit Organizations; Environmental Sustainability

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Insights & Advice - Recruiting

Insights & Advice Insights & Advice WesTrek 2025: Exploring the Future of Tech in Silicon Valley Michelle Cao 04 MAR 2025 For decades, WesTrek has been the flagship professional trek at Harvard Business School, giving students direct... View Details

28 Jul 2023
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How I Landed My Manufacturing Internship at HBS

technical skills with the business skills I was acquiring at HBS. Towa Adegboyega (MBA 2024) Having learned about the Career and Professional Development Office (CPD) during the summer prior to the fall semester, I reached out Kristen... View Details

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Program FAQs - Summer Venture in Management

management degree can have on their professional and personal lives, and we want this experience to be used as a personal and career planning tool. If I am employed, how will taking time off to attend SVMP be regarded by my employer? It... View Details

August 2007
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Codelco Copper Mines

Codelco was a Chilean copper-mining company, widely considered to be one of the most professionally managed firms in South America in spite of the fact that it was 100% government-owned. A $10.5 billion company in 2005, Codelco faced the challenge of incorporating... View Details

Keywords: Mining; Geographic Location; Leading Change; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Mining Industry; Chile

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