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- 19 Apr 2016
- Blog Post
First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation
company because they need new ideas and new blood, but then there is this tendency to shut off the new and basically transfer the corporate culture over to the new employee," says Francesca Gino, an associate professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Editor's Note
exhibitions, the first of which commemorates the groundbreaking Hawthorne Studies in the 1920s and 1930s. We capture the spirit of that exhibition in a two-page spread of photos and text — something we’ll do for all the Centennial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Bridging the Success Gap
nonviolent communication. Students study computers, science, English, business concepts, and even yoga. With a program completion rate of over 80 percent, Navarro has received funding to begin the next phase: replication. “My goal is to... View Details
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
little as $5 in our final study—may be sufficient to produce non-trivial gains in happiness on a given day." Norton and colleagues found these results to hold in three different studies: a nationally representative survey, a field View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
traditionally has held power. Another McKinsey study found that high levels of gender equality, measured on several societal dimensions across countries, are associated with such things as better female... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
masculine leadership position compared to Whites. Study 6 analyzed the NCAA Student-Athlete Ethnicity Report and found Blacks were more heavily represented in masculine versus feminine sports relative to Asians. These View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
however, a company's global stature indicates whether it excels on quality. We included measures for country-of-origin associations in our study as a basis for comparison and found that, while they are still... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
Working PapersInitiating Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency, or the contradiction between actors'... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Plunging Into the Net
every format imaginable. "This is a new world," says HBS associate professor Jeffrey F. Rayport of the Internet. "It has its own laws, dynamics, and economics." Together with several HBS colleagues, Rayport is working to get a grasp of... View Details
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Howard E. Cox Greylock Michael Danzi US Labs William Donaldson Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette Timothy C. Draper Draper Fisher Jurvetson (DFJ) William H. Draper, III Draper Richards, L.P. T. J. Dermot Dunphy Sealed Air Charles Ellis Greenwich View Details
- 23 Jan 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sports: Lessons for Managers
Sponsorship—Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors This field-based study of the Union of European Football Associations and its main... View Details
- Profile
Jacob Meiner
Jacob Meiner has always been attracted to the difficult. As an undergraduate at the University of Pennsylvania he initially studied Near East languages and civilizations. "It intrigued me from an interdisciplinary perspective, as a... View Details
- 24 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 24, 2007
Working Papers Using By-Product Synergy for Competitive Advantage Author: Deishin Lee Abstract We study how a manufacturer can leverage by-product synergy for competitive advantage. By focusing on the economic impact to the firm and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Ads Improve Consumer Decisions
Advertising can be good for you! Sounds fishy to the average consumer, but it's implied by conclusions from research by HBS associate professor Bharat Anand and his colleague, Ron Shachar, of Tel Aviv University. The pair began by View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)
- 20 May 2008
- News
Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot
Just in case you missed it, the Massachusetts legislature has voted to study the idea of taxing college endowments 2.5 percent annually on the amount that exceeds $1 billion. That puts Harvard, with a $34 billion endowment that includes... View Details
- 01 Jun 2021
- What Do You Think?
Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?
return of a pandemic. But what about potential opportunities associated with the recession of the coronavirus, opportunities associated with a “reshuffling of the deck” in the workforce caused by COVID-19... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
Kiddles founder and CEO Andrea Kimmel (MBA 2003) presents this case study query to HBS alumni and faculty: “The team has an aggressive growth timeline, but financing that growth is a challenge. (Center one, a ground-up build, cost a... View Details
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Bad Data, Bad Results: When AI Struggles to Create Staff Schedules | Working Knowledge
highlights the tangles caused by faulty input data. Research by Antonio Moreno , Ananth Raman , and Caleb Kwon . AI is poised to transform how we work, learn, and live, but a recent study shows that extracting its benefits still depends... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
The Spangler Effect
All Smiles: The campus center may bear his family name, but Dick Spangler derives more satisfaction from knowing that students have made it their own. Last year the Spangler Center hosted 829 events and meetings, booked 9,314 student View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Learning from the Past
specially commissioned maps, and 11 explanatory appendices as well as numerous footnotes and other study aids. Insights into contemporary human behavior and society, written more than 2,400 years ago. Insights into contemporary human... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner