Time Use - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

considered, including issuing tracking stock, doing a leveraged buyout, or repurchasing shares, would not have solved this underlying business problem. Chase Manhattan Bank and Chemical Bank used their merger as an opportunity to both... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

08 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019

Accordingly, this review provides a framework for optimizing efficiency in the cardiac cath lab. The authors outline a management method based on the Nadler-Tushman Congruence Model, a commonly used business tool by which a company can... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2016
Blog Post

4 Reasons College Students Apply to 2+2

critical to learning both inside and outside the classroom. While it may be true you can’t come to HBS straight out of college, you can apply to HBS while still in college. If you get accepted into our 2+2 Program, you’ll defer your place with View Details

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

reporting, and rewarding end and effect—economic growth—than the means and causes of economic growth? Is there too long a lag time between the two to interest managers (and in some cases even policymakers)? Is there too great a physical... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

"excessive" use of decision rights. Consistent with these implicit incentives, we find that employees in tightly monitored business units are less likely than their loosely monitored counterparts to 1) View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jan 2007
News

Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala, MBA 1987

back roads of destinations such as Tasmania, Baja Mexico, or South Africa on adventure motorcycles. "The novelist Milan Kundera said that when you're riding a motorcycle, there's no past or future, there's only the present," Zobel observes. "I agree. It's liberating to... View Details

07 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Cry in Front of Your Boss

did not provide any information about why they were distressed. For the second experiment, students at the Harvard Decision Science Lab were paired as storyteller and listener. Storytellers were asked to recount a recent time when they... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

12 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

Customers at the Back of the Line Are Anxious—Can You Keep Them from Leaving?

then you feel less pain from waiting,” Buell says, “plus you feel invested now and are less likely to give up.” Lastly, business owners can use social comparison to their advantage by posting average wait View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Service

31 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Ben Franklin’s ‘Way to Wealth’ Introduced American Capitalism to the World

economic crisis provoked fresh consideration of the relationship between business and society. “People aren’t occupying Wall Street any longer, but reflecting on where our ideas of capitalism come from and how they’ve evolved over time is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Feb 2017
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Anddria Varnado (Clack-Rogers)

Current Position: Vice President, Strategy & Business Development at Williams-Sonoma Location San Francisco, CA Tell us what you’re up to these days. I’m currently leading strategy for Williams-Sonoma, Inc., where I am responsible for... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products / Retail

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

How to Demotivate Your Best Employees

program was unfair; after all, they had been showing up to work on time before the attendance program, so they wondered why an award was necessary and why some employees who used to show up late were winning... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Service

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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

financial state and strategy of a business 8.5 hrs Module 7 Accounting for the Future Use financial forecasting to predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow and understand key concepts and metrics in valuation, including View Details

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Student Journey - Entrepreneurship

team for Startup Bootcamp , use the Rock Summer Fellowship to work on your own venture or work for an early stage startup, and join the Rock Venture Partners program. How do I find other people interested in entrepreneurship? Each class... View Details

14 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

minutes—during the pandemic’s early weeks. Employees also participated in more meetings, though for less time than they did before COVID-19 sent many workers home. “There is a general sense that we never stop being in front of Zoom or... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

need for substitutes.” Another outcome of a drop-off in consumption and employment is a need for products that become more valuable during such periods when consumers have more time on their hands. An astounding number of media companies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2022
Book

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

behind your book? Timothy Butler: Most of my research has been big data-driven, using psychometric assessments to identify the ways in which people find their way to the work roles and work environments that will be most rewarding. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

doctoral student Caleb Kwon analyzed timesheet records of more than 25 million employee shifts over four years at a large US grocery chain. Controlling for a host of variables, they find that a 1 percent increase in lateness and... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Acquisition (4) Knowledge Dissemination (5) Knowledge Management (40) Knowledge Sharing (14) Knowledge Use and Leverage (11) Knowledge (68) Labor and Management Relations (3) Labor (136) Law Enforcement (2) Lawfulness (1) Laws and... View Details

21 May 2020
Blog Post

Creating a World with Trusted Leaders: An Open Letter from MBA Students

that having a fever was no reason to miss work. The branch was allowing employees paid time off only if they tested positive for COVID-19. At that point in time, testing was extremely scarce, so it was practically impossible for those... View Details

30 May 2024
News

How to Have Effective Conversations

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Charles Duhigg (MBA 2003) is a Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist, a staff writer for The New Yorker, and author of the bestselling books The Power of... View Details

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