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  • 31 Mar 2023
  • News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we're going to highlight another one of the great podcasts here at HBS: Managing the Future of Work, hosted by professor and visiting fellow at the... View Details
Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services
  • 15 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Stan Chang: “A Guided Experience into the World of Entrepreneurship”

best program for me.” Stan had already gained an impressive amount of experience at Microsoft where he worked on operating systems and with online payments technology, responsibilities that “shaped my view on software development and how... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Entrepreneurship
  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

rating systems have emerged to reward good service and integrity. Plan Several Moves Ahead Bob Kraft owns the New England Patriots, one of the most successful franchises in professional sports. Notably, he didn't get the team by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

Case Study: Let’s Dance

the model from one that prioritizes the studios to a teacher-first approach. In 2021 Bopsidy launched a social platform that allows the hobbyist and professional dancer alike to create a personal profile showcasing their work. Imagine an... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 06 Dec 2021
  • News

3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)

was good at, what needed to change, and why they stayed. Because what makes somebody stay through two bankruptcies? There’s something to learn from that. One of my first hires was someone to lead the digital transformation. Without exaggeration, we actually rebuilt... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; publishing; digital transformation; change management; leadership; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 03 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 3

social cues from reputation stakeholders and from prominent third-party bureaucratic actors can serve as symbolic signals that can affect the decision making of regulatory agencies. Our findings suggest that while View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Fall, 2024
  • Article

Sixty Years of the Voting Rights Act: Progress and Pitfalls

By: Andrea Bernini, Giovanni Facchini, Marco Tabellini and Cecilia Testa
We review the literature on the effects of the 1965 Voting Rights Act (VRA), which removed formal restrictions to Black political participation. After a brief description of racial discrimination suffered by Black Americans since Reconstruction, we introduce the goals... View Details
Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Equality and Inequality; Race; Political Elections; Voting; Policy; Outcome or Result; Government Legislation
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  • 07 Oct 2015
  • What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

column. Anne, for example, pointed out that the German system assigns a certain number of immigrant families to specific villages, has them take German lessons, and gives job assignments with benefits conditioned upon taking a job if... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 17 Jul 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 06 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal

progressed in different parts of one country. We could keep many things constant—the conflict's ultimate goals, the personality of the leader, the tactics, the kind of a political system they already have—and focus on the role of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

CRM and voicemail systems Technology can scale human efficiency, but only up to a point." Ganesh Ramakrishnan added, "The technologies to communicate, collaborate and access infinite information have evolved and spread much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Reweaving Ourselves and the World: New Perspectives on Climate Change - Course Catalog

and a global move towards populist authoritarianism risk undermining economies and political systems across the planet. Meanwhile biodiversity is plummeting, potentially triggering the collapse of the ecosystems on which all of our lives... View Details
  • 2007
  • Working Paper

Interpersonal Authority in a Theory of the Firm

By: Eric J. Van den Steen
This paper develops a theory of the firm in which a firm's centralized asset ownership and low-powered incentives give a manager 'interpersonal authority' over employees (in a world with differing priors). The paper derives such interpersonal authority as... View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Motivation and Incentives; Boundaries; Theory
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  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

changes in incentives for achieving integration. Examining a systemic tradeoff consciously acknowledged by the organization, we further argue that alignment encouraged by this collaborative engagement can be more important than achieving... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Fast Answer

Historical Research - India

rule of the British government) and from 1857 to 1947. Topics covered in varying depth include social history, urban history, trade, wars, agriculture, travel and antiquities, and Indian and Imperial politics. Making of the Modern World,... View Details
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

and Society, is interested in analyzing and designing social computing systems to meet economic goals. With regard to the interaction of humans with machines, Chen asked: When thinking about View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • Research Event

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

long-work-hours culture was detrimental to both women and men, but women paid a higher price,” says the article, Explaining the Persistence of Gender Inequality: The Work-family Narrative as a Social Defense against the 24/7 Work Culture,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service
  • December 2019 (Revised December 2021)
  • Supplement

Negotiating for Equal Pay: The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team (B)

By: Christine Exley, John Beshears, Manuela Collis and Davis Heniford
Supplements the (A) case and describes the events following it View Details
Keywords: Equal Pay; Negotiation; Compensation and Benefits; Equality and Inequality; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Ethics; Negotiation Tactics; Corporate Governance; Lawsuits and Litigation; Sports; Sports Industry; United States
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  • Web

Mental Health | MBA

responsibilities, among other issues. There is no fee to meet with the SAS team. Counseling & Mental Health Services Harvard University Counseling & Mental Health Services (CAMHS ) provides a number of resources and support systems to the... View Details
  • 16 Feb 2021
  • Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

doing this.’ But then you can get really inefficient allocation of capital, and that means we solve the problem slower.” Rather than exclusionary policies and divestiture campaigns motivated by preference, Cohen and his colleagues recommend an incentive-based View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy