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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
time in class discussing how to structure deals and leverage resources you don't actually have - both key issues when we started Stylus," he says. "My goal," Bhide explains, "is to help students make smarter... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
they might, they are not making progress on diversity. Instead, they have low retention rates for their diverse talent. In many cases, the “last in, first out” phenomenon may apply in times of crisis. The key to achieving both diversity... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
Being a Mom and a Founder at HBS
you go, know when to take advice, and when to follow your gut. Figuring out an internal confidence that doesn’t get shaken when you mess up or miss something can be isolating and lonely at times – both... View Details
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
violation. We decided to assess whether and how things have changed over time from 1996 to 2017 and let the data give us the answer. Lagace: What do the data show? Srinivasan:... View Details
- 21 Apr 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Why Do Firms Use Non-Linear Incentive Schemes? Experimental Evidence on Sorting and Overconfidence
Keywords: by Ian Larkin & Stephen Leider
- Article
Reclaim Your Commute: Getting To and From Work Doesn't Have to be Soul Crushing
By: Francesca Gino, Bradley Staats, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia J. Lee and Jochen I. Menges
Every day, millions of people around the world face long commutes to work. In the United States alone, approximately 25 million workers spend more than 90 minutes each day getting to and from their jobs. And yet few people enjoy their commutes. This distaste for... View Details
Gino, Francesca, Bradley Staats, Jon M. Jachimowicz, Julia J. Lee, and Jochen I. Menges. "Reclaim Your Commute: Getting To and From Work Doesn't Have to be Soul Crushing." Harvard Business Review 95, no. 3 (May–June 2017): 149–153.
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
career path she had spent years building was no longer suitable or sustainable. Both her family and professional life began to unravel. She sought out change (a new job, less travel, more time at home) but... View Details
- 14 Jun 2018
- News
Catalyzing Social and Economic Change in Rural Africa
those communities, because it's through building those relationships that you can build on that over time and really build the ecosystem. But you can't build ecosystems without having embedded under it a set... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
deployment raised the likelihood of floor worker autonomy. But communication technologies served to lower autonomy, meaning more decisions happened at the corporate level. "I was reassured and surprised at the same View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Article
The Collapse of First Executive Corporation: Junk Bonds, Adverse Publicity, and the Run on the Bank Phenomenon
By: S. C. Gilson, H. DeAngelo and L. DeAngelo
In April 1991, regulators seized the major subsidiaries of First Executive Corporation (FE), an insurer that invested heavily in junk bonds. During the junk bond market turmoil of 1989–1990, adverse publicity fueled a bank run at FE, forcing a $4 billion portfolio... View Details
Gilson, S. C., H. DeAngelo, and L. DeAngelo. "The Collapse of First Executive Corporation: Junk Bonds, Adverse Publicity, and the Run on the Bank Phenomenon." Journal of Financial Economics 36, no. 3 (December 1994): 287–336.
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
communications intensive and relationship dependent that they did not function well when operating units were separated by substantial time and distance barriers. In addition,... View Details
- 24 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors
at a time when many marginalized groups are calling for more equitable treatment in the workplace. “A lot of people from historically marginalized groups have experienced marginalization and discrimination,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 07 Jun 2009
- News
Cash in on the war between inflation and deflation
- Article
The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift
By: Emily Truelove and Katherine C. Kellogg
This 12-month ethnographic study of an early entrant into the U.S. car-sharing industry demonstrates that when an organization shifts its focus from developing radical new technology to incrementally improving this technology, the shift may spark an internal power... View Details
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Perception; Behavior; Collaborative Innovation and Invention
Truelove, Emily, and Katherine C. Kellogg. "The Radical Flank Effect and Cross-occupational Collaboration for Technology Development during a Power Shift." Administrative Science Quarterly 61, no. 4 (December 2016): 662–701.
- 02 Jan 2020
- Op-Ed
Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care?
enrollees—delivers real efficiencies. Medicare spends as much as seven times less than private insurers on administrative costs. The program also pays hospitals 40 percent less and providers 2-3.5 View Details
- 11 Oct 2024
- Blog Post
Committing to Work and Family: Allison Boxer (MBA 2012)
generation of impact leaders. Along the way, my husband and I had a son. Three months after becoming a mom, I went back to work, and I knew right away I wanted more time at... View Details
The Rate and Direction of Inventive Activity Revisited (National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report)
While the importance of innovation to economic development is widely understood, the conditions conducive to it remain the focus of much attention. This volume offers new theoretical and empirical contributions to fundamental questions relating to the economics of... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Cash Out Josh Lerner and James Mason “In November 2020, the co-founders of DigiPlex study the future growth trajectory of their Nordic data center venture. A critical question was on the agenda: was now finally the right View Details
- January–February 2024
- Article
The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion
By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
Bredehorst, Joy, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion." Organization Science 35, no. 1 (January–February 2024): 364–386.