Observability - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

wrestling with profound feelings of loss as they climbed the ranks. A scope for sanity Despite evidence of universal misery, none of the companies—largely professional services firms—that Ely has observed in her career have shifted the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

Jeff Surette and Mike Peters: A Winning Team at TB12

the company started in management consulting. After graduating from Harvard College in 2005, Surette joined Parthenon for three years before matriculating at HBS in the fall of 2008. Amid a global recession, his business school experience allowed him the opportunity to... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

23 Oct 2019
News

Understanding Business Firsthand in South Korea

through which . . . [to learn] about South Korea and its people,” says Nix Maasdorp (MBA 2020). “Our customer interviews enabled us to approach our objective from a much deeper and more thoughtful perspective.” The students also had to View Details

Keywords: Global Understanding; Internationalization; Educational Innovation

01 Dec 1998
News

New Releases

experts have developed over the past 25 years. Jensen and his contributing authors reconceptualize organizations as equilibrium systems that exist in a larger system of markets - such as financial, product, labor, and materials markets. View Details

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

certain qualities and practices not observed in firms that fall short. Multinational firms have understood for some time that certain activities, such as marketing, must remain local in concept and execution to be successful. At the same... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2005
News

Do You Speak Business?

do business the same way — with identical processes, functions, and operations — while approaching this elevated stage; but by the time they attain it, successful companies do share certain qualities and practices not observed in firms... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2002
News

Ads Improve Consumer Decisions

in 1995. Linking this with Nielsen viewer panel data on over fifteen hundred individuals, Anand and Shachar developed a model to determine how well TV viewers' choices of programming “matched” their likely viewing preferences (based upon their demographic profile and... View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA 1988)

20 May 2008
News

Endowment Tax Debate Puts Harvard on the Spot

billion mark), they would think twice before writing that check,” editorialized the Harvard Crimson on May 9. The study is expected to take months, and most observers figure the idea will quietly die. But that leaves plenty of time for... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

longer-term success. Q: What personal or professional experiences or observations led you to concentrate your research and thinking on this time period for executives? Why have you found this period to be so rarely studied? A: I started... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

a prop, or exhibited nudity, drinking, or drug use. As to the impact on observers of the posts, the temporary-sharers were characterized as having worse judgment than those who shared in permanent mediums. That belief was underscored... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

02 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Telecommuting: Dangerous to Health?

cases be greater than the benefits? Thomas Davenport and Laurence Prusak suggest in their book, Working Knowledge, that such costs may exist, particularly in organizations relying heavily on the transfer of tacit knowledge — knowledge that is "not teachable, not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

felt incredibly passionate about the work and strongly believed in its impact, I also began to observe the risks, limitations, and skewed incentives foreign aid creates within local governments. I began taking a longer-term view of the... View Details

12 Mar 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: Electric Mobility in India

established players transition from internal combustion engines (ICE) to electric vehicles, it will be intriguing to observe Ather Energy's progress and how they respond to evolving market dynamics. Tarun Mehta, CEO of Ather Energy Log9... View Details

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

kind of personal support is a big part of our mission.” Seven of the organization’s current employees have benefited as students, just like Lemon. They are now in a unique position, observes Kim, to provide not only financial support but... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

01 Oct 1997
News

A Message from Dean Clark

I know you will join me in congratulating the Class of 1972 as they observe this important milestone. This is an exhilarating time to be associated with HBS. The mission of the School - to educate leaders - has never been more important,... View Details

Student-Profile

Justine Murray

You could say that Justine Murray’s (she/her) first unofficial research subjects were her friends in the financial sector. Observing her colleagues at her first job after graduating from Wharton, she noticed many of them working hard to... View Details

01 Dec 2001
News

BOOK: Ruling the Waves

explicitly rejected." While acknowledging that the state or various societal groups also clamor for order, Spar declares that, in general, "rules get created because private firms want them." And she observes that what's true for many of... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

time. Optimal Deterrence When Judgment-Proof Agents Are Paid in Arrears—With an Application to Online Advertising Fraud Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Abstract I develop a screening model with delayed payments and probabilistic delayed View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

Shapiro and Kash Rangan bring us up to date on their pioneering research that helped ignite today's intense focus on the customer. The key? Know your order cycle management. Key concepts include: The order cycle provides a window through which to View Details

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