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Statistical Physics of Human Cooperation

By: Matjaž Perc, Jillian J. Jordan, David G. Rand, Zhen Wang, Stefano Boccaletti and Attila Szolnoki
Extensive cooperation among unrelated individuals is unique to humans, who often sacrifice personal benefits for the common good and work together to achieve what they are unable to execute alone. The evolutionary success of our species is indeed due, to a large... View Details
Keywords: Human Cooperation; Evolutionary Game Theory; Public Goods; Reward; Punishment; Tolerance; Self-organization; Pattern Formation; Cooperation; Behavior; Game Theory
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  • 2012
  • Chapter

The Confederacy of Heterogeneous Software Organizations and Heterogeneous Developers: Field Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Worker Effort

By: Kevin J. Boudreau and Karim R. Lakhani
Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.) utilizing varied work approaches. Here we speculate on one possible explanation for this... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Applications and Software; Product Development; Organizations; Employees; Behavior; Competition; Cooperation; Creativity; Information Technology Industry
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  • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
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Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind
Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career
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  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

business’s success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54913 in press Management Science Communicating Warmth in Distributive Negotiations is Surprisingly Counter-productive By: Jeong, M., J. Minson, M.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Nov 2016
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November 22, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50794 September 2016 Administrative Science Quarterly Whitened Résumés: Race and Self-Presentation in the Labor Market By: Kang, Sonia K., K.A. DeCelles, András Tilcsik, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Harvard Environmental Centers - Business & Environment

public awareness of the health impacts of climate change and use science to make it personal, actionable, and urgent. Harvard Radcliffe Institute Climate Change Initiative An effort to explore the impacts of the climate crisis through an... View Details
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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

: Elected as a Member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2024. Amy C. Edmondson : Winner of the 2024 Society for Advancing Business Editing and Writing (SABEW) Award in the Management and Leadership category for Right Kind of... View Details
  • 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

  PublicationsFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-interested Charitable Behavior Authors:L. Anik, L. B. Aknin, M. I. Norton, and E. W. Dunn Publication:In The Science of Giving: Experimental Approaches to the Study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2019 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

TXU (A): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History

By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Non-Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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Financial Aid - Alumni

honors his parents commitment to education. Mark Nunnelly (MBA 1984) and Denise Dupré Keen to bridge the worlds of business and engineering and catalyze HBS-SEAS collaborations, the couple endowed a fellowship for students in the MS/MBA: Engineering View Details
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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

in R&D labs to their development for commercial use. This is for students who want to pursue entrepreneurship in science and technology, anticipate leading market launch teams in incumbent organizations, or are interested in becoming... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2014
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First Look: August 26

Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business

Sake Of Science To find out whether it was possible to assuage grief by performing seemingly meaningless rituals designed by someone else, Norton and Gino conducted a laboratory study in which they induced grief-inducing loss and assigned... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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About Us - Research Computing Services

RCS staff include experts in advanced statistical methods, along with data science methodologies that can support faculty research, including text digitization, fuzzy matching, and natural language processing. RCS team member bios provide... View Details
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Training - Research Computing Services

materials to get users acquainted with HBS’ compute cluster (“the HBSGrid”) Other Training Resources IQSS Data Science group Center for Geographic Analysis Training Harvard Library Research Data Instruction Harvard Digital Scholarship... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • Blog

Recent Insights from HBS Podcasts

interviews Martha Jeong, HBS alumna and negotiations professor at the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. She explores the challenge of keeping your direct reports happy and working at their best. Laying out the approaches for... View Details
  • Profile

Mollie Breen

After demonstrating exceptional math and computer science talent at Duke University, and more than three years of service as an applied research mathematician in the Department of Defense, Mollie Breen took the next, not-so-obvious step:... View Details
Keywords: Tech; Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 23 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

much information. Netflix is one of his favorite examples of selective data use. The company’s data suggested that the science fiction series Stranger Things, a drama set in the 1980s with teen protagonists, might not resonate with its... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
  • 21 Jun 2017
  • News

Meet the Oddball Entrepreneurs Who Invented Green Businesses