Hospital To Home - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

With COVID-19 cases growing worldwide, business leaders are scrambling to deal with a wide variety of problems, from slumping sales and stalling supply chains to keeping employees healthy and making sure... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

Early on the morning of June 1, 1921, more than 5,000 white residents of Tulsa, Oklahoma, invaded the African-American neighborhood of Greenwood. They came armed with guns, sticks, and other weapons—some supplied by the city’s police department—and set fire View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Jan 2023
Blog Post

How I Spent My HBS 2+2 Deferral: Sam Perez Diarte

and repair in the factories to ensure the team could meet demand. I enjoyed this role because I was solving new, complex problems and learning every day. Did 2+2 change your path or alter your post-undergraduate plans? Definitely. View Details

Research Summary

Overview

Dr. Burch’s research focuses on capitalism, work, and gender in the twentieth-century United States. Her work reinterprets the history of direct selling by placing it at the center, rather than on the margins, of narratives about advanced capitalism. Examining the... View Details

Keywords: Business History; Political Economy; Labor History; Gender; Marketing; Sales Force Management; Direct Sales; United States

07 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

How Teams Work: Lessons from the Pandemic

When COVID-19 first sent office employees home last year, many managers filled their teams’ calendars with online check-ins, drop-ins, and updates to make up for the loss of spontaneous interactions—often... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

05 May 2011
What Do You Think?

How Ethical Can We Be?

are taking steps to deal with their ethical blind spots? What do you think? Original Article Umpires and referees favor the home team. That's the conclusion of research by Tobias J. Moskowitz and L. Jon... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 May 2023
Blog Post

Celebrating Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS (part 1)

privilege of growing up without feeling othered, had a home where they felt like they could express their true selves. It was this prerogative that made me want to be Co-President of the Asian Affinity... View Details

Portrait Project

Alan Xie

I revised my first resume at age nine. Red ballpoint pen in hand, I was my parents’ editor of last resort — delighted to mark up misplaced modifiers, oblivious to the quiet tragedy of fifteen years’ English... View Details

11 May 2022
Blog Post

MoMBAs: The Inspiring Student Mothers of HBS

not have to give up on any of my dreams. What is the hardest part about being a mom at HBS? Being expected to function the same as everyone else, with half the amount of sleep. How do you make it all work?... View Details

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

and organizations at New York University’s Stern School of Business. Challenging segregation at work and home The study comes at a time when cries for racial justice have grown in the United States, and Jachimowicz says it should be a... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

Web

Information Technology - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

(IT) is needed. There have been major efforts to accelerate the adoption of IT in health care over the last decades, which have made substantial headway. The adoption of electronic health records by View Details

01 Dec 2023
News

Drop Everything, Read This

The Bookshelf Rick Rubin is one of the greatest music producers of all time. His book, The Creative Act: A Way of Being, is about the creative process and is based on his experiences with era-defining musicians. He encourages the reader to be open to clues and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

09 Nov 2023
News

From the Brink

been named the board’s executive director. Jaresko offered Negrón-Reichard a job, so he left his analyst job in New York and moved home to San Juan. It wasn’t an easy decision. “Frankly, as a Puerto Rican, I... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

Web

Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

for the MBA classroom. While I originally enrolled in CORe to determine if I wanted to pursue an MBA, I ended up using the knowledge I gained from CORe to interview for and... View Details

12 May 2023
Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

heat and cool homes (serving as an alternative to furnaces and air conditioners). So, why exactly do heat pumps matter? Electric heat pumps have many benefits for both the homeowner and the climate. As... View Details

23 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Strategy-Focused Organization

occurred early in 1995 that revealed the commitment of the executive leadership team both to the new strategy and to the Balanced Scorecard. The winter (first quarter) of 1995 was unusually warm in North... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

21 Jan 2022
Blog Post

Tipping Point: Investing in the Women of Kenya’s Coffee Farms

middlemen in the industry. The company works directly with Kenyan coffee cooperatives to source coffee beans that Kahawa roasts in San Francisco. Kahawa originally sold its beans to Bay Area offices, but... View Details

Profile

Harshini Chengareddty

only child, but the time I got to spend running around exploring with my friends, making s’mores by the campfire, and staying up late telling stories was a highlight of my childhood. What is the best thing about your View Details

27 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Patent Wars on Firm Strategy: Evidence from the Global Smartphone Market

Keywords: by Yongwook Paik & Feng Zhu; Legal Services

Web

Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work

Anatomy of a Hospital System Merger: The Patient Did Not Respond Well to Treatment , Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming). With Sadun, Raffaella, Martin Gaynor, Adam Sacarny, Chad Syverson, and... View Details

Publications