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- 1979
- Book
Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and B. A. Stein
Keywords: Working Conditions
Kanter, Rosabeth M., and B. A. Stein. Life in Organizations: Workplaces as People Experience Them. New York: Basic Books, 1979.
- July 2024
- Article
How Artificial Intelligence Constrains Human Experience
By: A. Valenzuela, S. Puntoni, D. Hoffman, N. Castelo, J. De Freitas, B. Dietvorst, C. Hildebrand, Y.E. Huh, R. Meyer, M. Sweeney, S. Talaifar, G. Tomaino and K. Wertenbroch
Many consumption decisions and experiences are digitally mediated. As a consequence, consumer behavior is increasingly the joint product of human psychology and ubiquitous algorithms (Braun et al. 2024; cf. Melumad et al. 2020). The coming of age of Large Language... View Details
Keywords: Large Language Model; User Experience; AI and Machine Learning; Consumer Behavior; Technology Adoption; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits
Valenzuela, A., S. Puntoni, D. Hoffman, N. Castelo, J. De Freitas, B. Dietvorst, C. Hildebrand, Y.E. Huh, R. Meyer, M. Sweeney, S. Talaifar, G. Tomaino, and K. Wertenbroch. "How Artificial Intelligence Constrains Human Experience." Journal of the Association for Consumer Research 9, no. 3 (July 2024): 241–256.
- 30 Nov 2022
Life at HBS Chat: The Latinx Experience hosted by LASO
Hosted by the HBS Latino Student Organization (LASO) familia and designed for prospective MBA students, this event is a unique opportunity to hear current HBS Latinx students share their experience at HBS, their application process, and... View Details
- January 2024
- Article
Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment
By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham and Jorge Tamayo
Can investing in children who faced adverse events in early childhood help them catch up? We answer this question using two orthogonal sources of variation – resource availability at birth (local rainfall) and cash incentives for school enrollment – to identify the... View Details
Adhvaryu, Achyuta, Theresa Molina, Anant Nyshadham, and Jorge Tamayo. "Helping Children Catch Up: Early Life Shocks and the PROGRESA Experiment." Economic Journal 134, no. 657 (January 2024): 1–22.
- November 2021
- Article
The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?
By: Ayse Yemiscigil, Nattavudh Powdthavee and Ashley V. Whillans
Does retirement lead to an existential crisis or present an opportunity to experience a renewed sense of purpose in life? Prior research has documented a negative association between retirement and sense of purpose in life, suggesting that retirement could lead people... View Details
Yemiscigil, Ayse, Nattavudh Powdthavee, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Effects of Retirement on Sense of Purpose in Life: Crisis or Opportunity?" Psychological Science 32, no. 11 (November 2021): 1856–1864.
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Turning Point: Eternal Returns
Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Louisa Wong (MBA 1981) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) I was born in the middle of Typhoon Gloria in 1957 and spent my early childhood in Kowloon’s Walled City, which at the time was an extremely poor and densely... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Turning Point: Ready or Not
pandemic that the virus would find her; yet she had always taken life by the reins. My grandmother had said she wanted to pass in her own house. She did, and it also felt like part of her plan that she passed calmly, on a sultry Sunday... View Details
- 07 Dec 2020
- News
Lifting The Stigma
Sangu Delle (MBA/JD 2016) Sangu Delle (MBA/JD 2016) Early on, it was clear that Sangu Delle (MBA/JD 2016) was driven to excel. As a six-year-old living in Ghana Delle wrote to Harvard University President Neil Rudenstine to ask when he could enroll. Rudenstine wrote... View Details
- 05 Oct 2014
- News
Lessons and Highlights from a 50-Year Career
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
Summit in 2016 Subzero human liver biostasis experiment at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a Sylvatica-funded project. (Photo: Jeffrey Andree, Reinier de Vries and Korkut Uygun.) Giwa speaking at the White... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 2023
- Working Paper
Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy
By: Shai Benjamin Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman and Benjamin Iverson
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S. small businesses, we document that a large share of firms are not well-informed about bankruptcy. Many assume that bankruptcy necessarily entails the death of a business and do not know about Chapter 11 bankruptcy, where... View Details
Bernstein, Shai Benjamin, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, and Benjamin Iverson. "Life After Death: A Field Experiment with Small Businesses on Information Frictions, Stigma, and Bankruptcy." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30933, February 2023.
- December 2023
- Case
Food & Life Companies
By: Forest L. Reinhardt and Akiko Saito
Founded in 1984 in Japan, Food & Life Companies Ltd. (F&LC) operated Sushiro, the largest conveyor belt sushi restaurant chain in Japan, and other types of restaurants that offered sushi and fish cuisine. F&LC was committed to offering high-quality sushi at an... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Expansion; Food and Beverage Industry; Japan; Asia; United States
Reinhardt, Forest L., and Akiko Saito. "Food & Life Companies." Harvard Business School Case 724-015, December 2023.
- Web
MBA Experience - Global
MBA Experience 39% of our Class of 2025 MBA students are international, representing 66 countries. MBA 2024 Queretaro, Mexico Ernesto Sterling MBA 2025 New York, NY Julie Cruz MBA 2025 Guangzhou City, People's Republic of China Ken Zeng... View Details
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Life Lessons
talented and highly capable individual, invariably with a memorable personal story and important life lessons to share, as the following profiles attest. Photographed while enjoying favorite places or activities both on- and off-campus,... View Details
- 16 May 2024
- News
On the Job
of the world. Desiree Rogers: I feel that it’s so important to have multiple voices across races, socioeconomic, and also age at the table. Gerald Schwartz: Don’t do anything in your life that you don’t like doing or be with people you... View Details
Keywords: first job; leadership; life experience; career lessons; Finance; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Retail Trade
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Turning Point: Soul Cycle
recognizing that feeling as something to pay attention to. At Wellesley, I had a similar intuitive experience when I switched majors from neuropsych to economics. That change was scary because it was late in the game, but the decision led... View Details
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MBA Experience - Health Care
MBA Experience Academics As part of the MBA curriculum, students analyze many cases focused on health care, and can customize their second-year experience by choosing courses, projects, papers, and... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Turning Point: Dream Weaver
often knew more than they did about the history and culture of the faraway lands they had visited, thanks to what I’d read and watched while growing up. Understanding the universal, equalizing, connecting power of media was a turning point, even if I didn’t initially... View Details
- 2019
- Article
Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness
By: Cassie Mogilner and Michael I. Norton
Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where people feel happy looking back. Though researchers have measured and argued the merits of each, we inquired into which happiness people say they want.... View Details
Keywords: Well-being; Life Satisfaction; Experience; Retrospective; Time; Happiness; Satisfaction; Welfare; Perception
Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton. "Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness." Journal of Positive Psychology 14, no. 2 (2019): 244–251.