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- 11 May 2021
- Blog Post
Q+A on the Socioeconomic Inclusion Task Force with Holly Fetter (MBA 2020) and Alexxis Isaac (MBA 2020)
of mind. The quantitative team created a survey that touched on sentiments about socioeconomic inclusion as well as demographics. We found that the school doesn't have a great sense of people's socioeconomic background—there was data... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Simon-Thomas, Paul Piff, Sarah Fan, Jordi Quoidbach, Charles Gorintin, Pete Fleming, Arturo Bejar, and Dacher Keltner Abstract—Emotional expression in digital form has become increasingly ubiquitous via the proliferation of computers and handheld devices. Using online... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
innovations also present a panoply of challenges for communities and states. Surprisingly, federal laws are chief among those challenges despite the fact that online marketplaces facilitate transactions traditionally regulated at the local level. In this article, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
survey that allows us to precisely characterize European biologic drug procurement institutions over time. Using data from three classes of biosimilar drugs, we analyze how market features and public policies predict entry, market prices,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
coaching. Linda Powell described several important elements of an effort to support inclusion this way: “Organizations must have clear policies on harassment, (then) insist on leadership that models appropriate behavior, effective mechanisms for investigating charges,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
or completed, they saw thousands of pins representing jobs yet to be done. When surveyed on their views towards government, those participants' views were no more favorable than the participants shown the first case with no pins at all.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
and bribe others in order to receive special services in the future. Indeed, in a pair of follow-up survey studies, we find evidence that the link between tipping and bribery can be partly accounted for by prospective orientation. ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
and provided feedback to frontline workers on 24.5 percent. The researchers reviewed surveys taken before and after process improvement activities, supplementing them with in-person interviews with frontline staff, department managers,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
the customer has no need to look elsewhere. Therefore, ensuring high-quality service is fundamental. The consumer bank monitored the service levels ("request fulfillment time") for its HVCs, surveyed its customers every six... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
widespread; in a survey of fifty global manufacturing companies, 62 percent reported that they used primarily manual methods to share production schedules with their partners, with one respondent stating, "Our biggest coordination... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Up on the Green Roof
ROOFTOP GARDEN: HBS project manager Kevin Ruby surveys Shad Hall’s newly planted perennials. Photographs by Neal Hamberg When it came time to replace the leaky roof on Shad Hall — runners joked of dodging buckets placed on the indoor... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
to businesses about what can happen when a crisis hits and they're not ready. A crisis could be triggered by terrorism but also by an earthquake, a product recall, or anything that constitutes a serious risk to a company's reputation, brand, or financial performance.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Alumni News | Bookshelf
Use LinkedIn to network with an expert and ask her a question about a critical assumption. Run online surveys using SurveyMonkey.com. Tap into Amazon Mechanical Turk, which offers cost-effective ways to perform mundane tasks." The book... View Details
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
self-interest, is associated with greater self-interest only in the presence of a weak moral identity. Furthermore, we propose that the psychological experience of power is associated with less self-interest in the presence of a strong moral identity. Across a field... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2020
- News
Support System
In Africa, shea butter is sometimes known as “women’s gold.” Used for everything from skin care to stretch marks to diaper rash, it’s a go-to product in high demand. And it offers employment opportunities for women willing to survey... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence
(AI) technology but a recent McKinsey survey of senior executives shows that financial services, utilities and media firms are now testing the AI waters. On the R&D side, CB Insights research shows that there have been over 3000 VC deals... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
Citigroup appear to be. One survey of human resource directors of large corporations indicated that 60 percent lacked CEO succession planning. This situation is hardly optimal — not when global competition and technical change, in the... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Short Takes
do on its own. In addition, the research led to a survey of ten other alliances in his new book, The Collaboration Challenge. Austin found that most of the partnerships he studied went through three stages of development he terms "the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
project has surveyed HBS alumni and other business leaders to assess perceptions about which aspects of the country, such as the economy or education, they see as thriving and which as lacking. The survey... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette