Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Sep 2023
Blog Post

HBS Latino Student Association Spotlight: Reyna Pacheco Rios (MBA 2025)

The Latino Student Organization (LASO) proudly promotes and supports Harvard Business School’s Latino students and works alongside the Latino Alumni Association (HBSLAA).... View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

In My Humble Opinion: Plugged In

In a career spent investing in innovative startups at Intel, leading National Grid’s innovation and investment operations, and founding a nonpro t dedicated to advancing women and minorities to positions of top corporate leadership, Lisa Lambert (MBA 1997) always has... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

people and have implications for the use of technological algorithms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52499 Global Portfolio... View Details

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Skydeck - Alumni

advantage of hindsight, this year’s recipients of the Alumni Achievement Award offer some words of wisdom and key takeaways from their HBS... View Details

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

of some $65 billion and their number and the amount invested are growing quickly (more than a fourfold increase in the past 3 years) 279 More funds View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It

says, "which we view as a triangle" representing cutting working capital, reducing transaction costs, and providing world-class customer service. Balancing these competing priorities View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

02 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

What makes for the ideal entrepreneurial opportunity? To learn about the frameworks firms use when evaluating potential venture opportunities, Mike Roberts, executive director of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship, View Details

Keywords: by Lauren Barley

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

to leave payment for their hosts' servants at the end of their stay as a way of compensating for the extra work their visit created. Today, most people in Western societies... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Apr 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Making the Move to General Manager

go; they want to do." How It Works New skills, while important, are only a small part of what new general managers must possess. GMP's greater goal is to challenge them with new perspectives View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

flexibility they need to work and be caregivers. Indeed, Healy and colleagues find that between 35 and 55 percent View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

solo founder. This is a highly subjective situation dependent on many factors; some of which I’ll discuss below. Do you need a cofounder? I’ve worked both for and with hundreds... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

With the demise of Circuit City in 2009 one would have reckoned that Best Buy's best days were ahead. Instead, Best Buy is working fiercely to reinvent itself: its comparable store sales have barely kept up... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

29 Sep 2015
First Look

September 29, 2015

powerful commercial engine it is today. This book describes how many of the key innovations that made this possible came from entrepreneurs and iconoclasts who were outside the mainstream—and how the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself

at work and why it matters. Gazette: Though everyone can find it hard to feel comfortable in their own skin, especially at work, you say the idea behind this course came out of... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

04 Dec 2019
Book

Creating the Experimentation Organization

to the people who work for you? That doesn’t mean leaders are superfluous, however. In order to reap the benefits of experimentation, Thomke says leaders must set out a roadmap... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

case study in 1994 when Fahey was CEO of Time Life, ironically facing many of the same challenges with earlier generations of media and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

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C. Roland Christensen - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning

Christensen's many qualities as a master teacher, pointing not only to his wisdom and experience but to his compassion and attention to every detail. Christensen also worked... View Details

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Working PapersTesting Limits to Policy Reversal: Evidence from Indian Privatizations Authors:Siddhartha G. Dastidar, Raymond Fisman, and Tarun Khanna Abstract We examine the effect View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jun 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Excellence Comes From Saying No

energetic people following their own instincts end up being part of the problem," says Frei. She finds the main obstacle most people face is trying to be good at everything, and therefore not being... View Details