Comparability - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Nov 2015
What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

mean that gender diversity necessarily accounts for much if any of the performance. On the other hand, a number of studies have compared the management styles of women and men. Even though there is a wide overlap on most dimensions among... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Sep 2013
Working Paper Summaries

U.S. High-Skilled Immigration, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship: Empirical Approaches and Evidence

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

07 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones

2022
Article

Becoming a Learning Organization While Enhancing Performance: The Case of LEGO

By: Thomas Borup Kristensen, Henrik Saabye and Amy Edmondson

Purpose - The purpose of this study is to empirically test how problem-solving lean practices, along with leaders as learning facilitators in an action learning approach, can be transferred from a production context to a knowledge work context for the purpose... View Details

Keywords: Performance Efficiency; Learning; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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01 Dec 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS FIELD Program?

personality traits and compare them to ones listed by several section-mates. It is incredibly eye-opening to learn what others can pick up from you after knowing you for just a few weeks, but also fascinating to learn what type of first... View Details

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

experienced a status loss under the mandate, she found, regardless of their level of English fluency. "There's this universal experience of status diminution when people compare their native/formally trained language to this new... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

How do my actions in areas of concern to my employees compare to the actions undertaken for specific business metrics that tie in to my own promotions and bonuses? Why is there a disparity? Why are people leaving my organization? How... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

09 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

lasting implications. According to the United Negro College Fund, “Only 57 percent of Black students have access to the full range of math and science courses necessary for college readiness, compared to 81 percent of Asian American... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg

28 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Why I Chose to Pursue an MD/MBA at Harvard

effectively managing teams, compared to medical school, where there is no formal training around these skills. I think this is really important and part of why MD/MBAs will be well poised to address many of the challenges facing American... View Details

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

of an airliner. Hundreds of hours may go into gathering and analyzing data to sort out exactly what happened and what can be learned. Compare this kind of analysis to what takes place in most organizations after a failure. As noted above,... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

merger and acquisition activity in the year following the interview. Also, the communication styles that emerged from jointly utilizing text and image data had more statistical power in explaining variability in the data, as compared to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

institutions gathered and disseminated knowledge about the country’s biodiversity, an effort that, with government support, led to the creation of national reserves and parks. As with Malaysia, Costa Rica’s relative political stability, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

21 Nov 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Caste and Entrepreneurship in India

Keywords: by Lakshmi Iyer, Tarun Khanna & Ashutosh Varshney

22 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Launching the Women in Tech Initiative at HBS

management positions in tech companies are held by people identifying as female (Source: Statista); 27% of female respondents to a PwC study considered a tech career, compared to 62% of males respondents (Source: PwC). In light of these... View Details

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

comparability and therefore no best practice, only "it all depends." Worse yet, we are often not conscious of these influences. Mauboussin maintains that we too often underestimate the importance of luck in the outcomes of our... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

in markets, they argue, some are not. Take accounting standards, for example. While it's essential from a standpoint of complete knowledge to have everyone calculating their financials in a comparable and consistent manner, there is no... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Organizational Behavior Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Mentoring. Lumumba B. Seegars : Awarded Best Paper Based on a Dissertation by the Gender and Diversity in Organizations (GDO) Division of the Academy of Management for “Sanctioned Radicals: Comparing Collective Organizing Around Race and... View Details

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

With the demise of Circuit City in 2009 one would have reckoned that Best Buy's best days were ahead. Instead, Best Buy is working fiercely to reinvent itself: its comparable store sales have barely kept up with inflation since 2008, and... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

25 Feb 2020
News

Task Force

Tom Eisenmann; in it, she compared mobile money use in African countries with Latin America’s much slower adoption and discovered that while 85 percent of Mexico’s population owned a smartphone, only 30 percent had a bank account and 10... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; gig economy; Retail Trade

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