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- 15 Aug 2024
- Blog Post
Navigating the Future of Renewable Energy at Port Esbjerg
and a presentation by Total Energies, and a walkthrough of the port’s district heating plant. Port Esbjerg offered us a unique perspective on how a port can be a central hub in the transition to renewable... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
Class of 1942 Chair Honors Paul Lawrence, Promotes Leadership
journals and in elected positions at the Academy of Management. Before joining the HBS faculty in 1998, Tushman taught most recently at Columbia University's Graduate School of... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
process stalled in reverse. This study suggests opportunities for future empirical research. Future studies could analyze the evolution of once-comparable clusters such as the financial centers in Paris and London or shoemaking View Details
- 2021
- Working Paper
Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. States
By: Clare Halloran, Rebecca Jack, James C. Okun and Emily Oster
We estimate the impact of district-level schooling mode (in-person versus hybrid or distance learning) on test scores. We combine Spring 2021 state standardized test score data with comprehensive data on schooling in the 2020-21 school year across 12 states. We find... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; In-person Schooling; Distance Learning; Outcomes Measurement; Health Pandemics; Education; Performance Evaluation
Halloran, Clare, Rebecca Jack, James C. Okun, and Emily Oster. "Pandemic Schooling Mode and Student Test Scores: Evidence from U.S. States." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 29497, November 2021.
- 21 Jun 2023
Top Business Schools Discuss: The Value of an MBA
Join representatives from Harvard Business School, UCLA Anderson School of Management, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business, View Details
- April 2004 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Columbia's Final Mission
By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman and Erika Ferlins
Describes the 16-day final mission of the space shuttle Columbia in January 2003 in which seven astronauts died. Includes background on NASA and the creation of the human space flight program, including the 1970 Apollo 13 crisis and 1986 Challenger disaster. Examines... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Crisis Management; Management Skills; Organizational Culture; Groups and Teams; Behavior; Aerospace Industry
Bohmer, Richard M.J., Amy C. Edmondson, Michael Roberto, Laura Feldman, and Erika Ferlins. "Columbia's Final Mission." Harvard Business School Case 304-090, April 2004. (Revised May 2010.)
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
in the United States between 1970 and 2014. Forty-four states, including the District of Columbia, had a waiting period policy at some point during these 45 years. And these states saw a 17 percent reduction... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Aug 2014
- News
You Can’t Do Strategy Without Input from Sales
- 12 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager
before—coordinating all the top minds in the top office. "CEOs are spending more and more time with their direct reports, in larger and longer meetings," says Julie M. Wulf, an associate professor of strategy at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
Aurora Turek
Aurora Turek is a PhD candidate in the Organizational Behavior program at Harvard Business School. Her research focuses on the future of work. In particular, she studies how flexible work practices - like remote and hybrid work - emerge and the implications of these... View Details
- August 2015 (Revised February 2017)
- Case
Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (A): Developing a New Model
By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Daniel Fox
Bridj, a Boston startup that provides Big Data-powered, "pop-up" bus routes that respond to transportation demand, has been in operation for a little over a year and has recently launched service in Washington, D.C., its second market. Despite media acclaim and... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Startup Management; Big Data; Smart Transit; Stakeholder Engagement; Stakeholder Management; Urban Vehicle; Mobility; Mass Transit; Uber; Government Relations; Technological Innovation; Analytics and Data Science; Entrepreneurship; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Transportation; Business Startups; Management; Business and Government Relations; Transportation Industry; Boston; District of Columbia
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, and Daniel Fox. "Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (A): Developing a New Model." Harvard Business School Case 316-025, August 2015. (Revised February 2017.)
- July 2021
- Article
Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich
By: Oliver P. Hauser, Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak and Michael I. Norton
Four experiments examine how the lack of awareness of inequality affects behaviour towards the rich and poor. In Experiment 1, participants who became aware that wealthy individuals donated a smaller percentage of their income switched from rewarding the wealthy to... View Details
Keywords: Income Transparency; Income; Wealth; Equality and Inequality; Knowledge; Behavior; Outcome or Result; Society; Policy
Hauser, Oliver P., Gordon T. Kraft-Todd, David Rand, Martin A. Nowak, and Michael I. Norton. "Invisible Inequality Leads to Punishing the Poor and Rewarding the Rich." Behavioural Public Policy 5, no. 3 (July 2021): 333–353.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Who Closed the Schools?
By: Joshua D. Coval
This paper examines the differences in characteristics between U.S. public schools that opted for virtual instruction because of COVID-19, and schools that did not. Much of the variation can be explained by measures of the degree to which districts favored teachers... View Details
Keywords: Public Education; COVID-19; Virtual Learning; Education; Health Pandemics; Teaching; Internet and the Web; Policy; Outcome or Result; United States
Coval, Joshua D. "Who Closed the Schools?" Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-127, June 2021.
- 13 Jan 2022
Top Business Schools Discuss: Benefits of Deferred MBA Programs for Undergraduates
Join Columbia Business School, Chicago Booth School of Business, Harvard Business School, Kellogg School of Management, MIT Sloan School of... View Details
- 29 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Story of Why Humans Are So Careless With Their Phones
Silvia Bellezza is an assistant professor of marketing at Columbia Business School. Joshua M. Ackerman is an assistant professor of psychology at University View Details
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
beliefs that foam strikes incurred during the launch of the space shuttle Columbia posed no risk to its fuselage. This propensity to maintain silence, a flaw at once personal and organizational, is... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
Ria Sen
Ria is a JD/PhD student at Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. At HLS, she was a John M. Olin Fellow and the winner of the 2021 Victor Brudney Writing Prize. She previously studied Economics and Mathematics at Columbia University, where she was nominated... View Details
Kyle Schirmann
Kyle Schirmann is a doctoral student in the Strategy unit at Harvard Business School. His primary interests are science-based innovation in the Global South and the creative and cultural industries. Before joining HBS, Kyle worked as a software engineer at Bloomberg... View Details