Scientists - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

Entrepreneurial Leader: Peer Assessment.” Both are being prepared for launch in summer 2016. The team included Applegate; Janet Kraus, entrepreneur-in-residence; and Tim Butler, Senior Fellow and Senior Advisor to Career and Professional Development at HBS and Chief... View Details

Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge

07 Mar 2023
HBS Case

ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?

particular area. Her findings, which she presented at a prominent investor conference, captured the imaginations of industry titans and academics. Computer scientists long assumed that AI systems would become more accurate and objective... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Technology

20 Aug 2020
Book

From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives

Spar: Yes, if this moment demonstrates anything, it’s that science matters and that we need to invest more of our talent and resources to scientific inquiry. Now that doesn’t mean that scientists always get everything right. But the long... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 May 2005
Research & Ideas

What Could Bring Globalization Down?

am not sure waves are the right natural-world image here. I would prefer to think of events such as forest fires or earthquakes—sudden crises arising from the advent of what scientists call "criticality." Q: What other... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Sep 2023
Research & Ideas

What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space

use is the cheapest in India partly because of the system’s technological underpinnings. We still are a very poor country. It’s encouraging nonetheless that several scientists across several domains have been able to compete and... View Details

Keywords: by Clea Simon, Harvard Gazette; Aerospace

23 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do

New research from Harvard Business School reveals a stark gap in the professional ambitions of men and women. Having surveyed a diverse sample of more than 4,000 men and women, a team of social scientists reports a list of potentially... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Profits and Economic Development

Keywords: by Dan Schwab & Eric Werker

Research Summary

Current Research

By: Leslie K. John

Professor John is a behavioral scientist who uses both laboratory and field experiments to investigate questions that are at the intersection of marketing, organizational behavior, and public policy.

Professor John’s work has been published in leading... View Details

03 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Value of Advice: Evidence from Mobile Phone-Based Agricultural Extension

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole; Agriculture & Agribusiness

19 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

What Makes Employees Trust (vs. Second-Guess) AI?

LISH senior research scientist Michael Menietti; Katherine C. Kellogg, a professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Luca Vendraminelli, who is affiliated with LISH and a post-doctoral fellow at the Politecnico di Milano.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Racial Bias Might Be Infecting Patient Portals. Can AI Help?

Innovation Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women Harnessing AI: What Businesses Need to Know in ChatGPT’s Second Years Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Health

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

plays out in companies and industries from the 2019 Michelin Movin’ On transportation conference. It was held in Montreal, and business and government leaders and researchers and scientists who work on transportation came together to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

decisions, to get flu shots, to lose weight, to be wiser about personal financial planning. Behavioral scientists are becoming the new HR superstars in some organizations. Research through the years at Harvard Business School has explored... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

they don't have much choice but to cozy near the competition, especially when they need to plug into unique knowledge that exists in certain areas. Biotech companies, for instance, often operate close to top-notch universities to interact with View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

performance of identical twins on a battery of ten creativity tests could be attributed to genetics. 6 In contrast, roughly 80 percent to 85 percent of the twins' performance on general intelligence (IQ) tests could be attributed to genetics. 7 So general intelligence... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

Research Summary

Reforming Social Science

By: Max H. Bazerman

Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

The work of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell offers a high-profile example, Opie notes. Gebru, who’s Black, and Mitchell, who’s white, explored fairness in machine learning as computer scientists at Google. They raised controversial... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

president for research when she launched what proved to be the company's most successful "emerging business opportunity," the Life Sciences venture. She disrupted IBM's staid model by hiring genetic scientists and other specialists, and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

15 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Looking For a Job? Some LinkedIn Connections Matter More Than Others

billion new ties and created 600,000 new jobs over a five-year period. Are acquaintances more helpful during a job search? For decades, social scientists have debated whether casual acquaintances—or arms-length relationships—are more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

November 2023 (Revised March 2024)
Case

Infarm: Betting the (Indoor) Farm on Food Security

By: Elie Ofek

In the summer of 2023, the co-founders of Infarm, a controlled environment agriculture (CEA) company, were contemplating a major pivot going forward. While Infarm had successfully shown it could grow over 75 products—mainly herbs, leafy greens and mushrooms—in modular... View Details