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- 24 Oct 2016
- News
Apple Has Designs on Stifling Innovation
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
A Former Buyer Turns Designer
“You go to the contemporary floors, and there’s great stuff to buy, but everything is skewed very young. You could go to the designer area, but you may not want to pay $2,000 for a dress.” So she has View Details
- March 2023
- Supplement
Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design
By: Thomas Graeber, Joshua Schwartzstein and Amram Migdal
In this case, set in June 2019 in Bangalore, Karnataka, India, Deepa Bachu of Pensaar Design and her team work with client ITC Ltd. to use design thinking and behavioral experiments to improve workplace safety and strive toward the company’s zero-accident goal. The...
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Buildings and Facilities;
Design;
Training;
Working Conditions;
Business or Company Management;
Production;
Business Processes;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Outcome or Result;
Performance Improvement;
Programs;
Business and Stakeholder Relations;
Groups and Teams;
Labor and Management Relations;
Rank and Position;
Safety;
Attitudes;
Behavior;
Motivation and Incentives;
Trust;
Well-being;
Consulting Industry;
Pulp and Paper Industry;
Manufacturing Industry;
India
Graeber, Thomas, Joshua Schwartzstein, and Amram Migdal. "Deepa Bachu (B): Insights and Experiments at Pensaar Design." Harvard Business School Supplement 923-034, March 2023.
- March 2010
- Article
Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances
By: Josh Lerner and Ulrike Malmendier
Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 11292.
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Lerner, Josh, and Ulrike Malmendier. "Contractibility and Contract Design in Strategic Alliances." American Economic Review 100, no. 1 (March 2010): 44.
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
organization consistently builds and reinforces such a culture, it creates a competitive edge that is hard to replicate. Excerpted with the permission of Harvard Business Press from The Ownership Quotient: Putting the Service Profit Chain to View Details
- Research Summary
Helping at Work
This research focuses on collaboration and helping in creative project teams. Colin Fisher (UCL), Julianna Pillemer (NYU Stern School), and I developed a multi-year research program examining help received and given, including successful and unsuccessful helping... View Details
- August 1979 (Revised November 1996)
- Background Note
Framework for Analyzing Work Groups
Presents a model for understanding the behavior and evolution of primary, stable work groups over time. Model describes contextual factors, design factors and emergent culture as determinants of group behavior and performance. In addition, describes emergent behavior,...
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McCaskey, Michael B. "Framework for Analyzing Work Groups." Harvard Business School Background Note 480-009, August 1979. (Revised November 1996.)
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers...
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- October 1996
- Article
Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity
By: T. M. Amabile, R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby and M. Herron
We describe the development and validation of a new instrument, KEYS: Assessing the Climate for Creativity, designed to assess perceived stimulants and obstacles to creativity in organizational work environments. The KEYS scales have acceptable factor structures,...
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Keywords:
Creativity;
Motivation and Incentives;
Organizational Culture;
Innovation and Invention;
Groups and Teams;
Performance;
Research;
Theory
Amabile, T. M., R. Conti, H. Coon, J. Lazenby, and M. Herron. "Assessing the Work Environment for Creativity." Academy of Management Journal 39, no. 5 (October 1996): 1154–1184.
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
Harris, of Playing2Win Technology can also be used to bridge the asset gap and drive down the cost of programs designed to help low-income families, said HBS professor Peter Tufano (HBS MBA '84), who teaches financial management. Tufano...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
“In times of crisis, when tensions are running high and discrimination is spiking in the world around us, you're going to be more susceptible to it if you're a platform that has decided to have a design that enables it,” says Luca, who...
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- 04 Mar 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do People Want to Work Anymore?
represented himself as a successful entrepreneur. The gist of the letter was that there was one thing wrong with what we wrote. It was that: “People don’t want to work any more. So I’ve designed my jobs...
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by James Heskett
Working Conditions in Supply Chains microsite
This microsite is a new resource for managers of global supply chains, including brands who want to source products from suppliers that avoid problematic working conditions, auditors who assess factory working conditions, and NGOs focused on this area. The site... View Details
- 11 Oct 2017
- Blog Post
Designing Internship Projects for Greater Impact
managing the recruiting process, and larger institutions may lack the structures needed to accommodate the more entrepreneurial candidate. In either case, large company or small, interns and employers must work together to View Details
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Entrepreneurship
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Streeters, although comparable productivity measurements among financial service firms are hard to come up with. Good work design doesn't rely on overtime. In fact, it is just the reverse. Best places to...
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- 2023
- Working Paper
An Experimental Design for Anytime-Valid Causal Inference on Multi-Armed Bandits
By: Biyonka Liang and Iavor I. Bojinov
Typically, multi-armed bandit (MAB) experiments are analyzed at the end of the study and thus require the analyst to specify a fixed sample size in advance. However, in many online learning applications, it is advantageous to continuously produce inference on the...
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Liang, Biyonka, and Iavor I. Bojinov. "An Experimental Design for Anytime-Valid Causal Inference on Multi-Armed Bandits." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-057, March 2024.
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
answered include: How do I get past a feeling of being stuck in life or work? Can I resist the temptations of success? Am I working too hard? Is there room for spirituality at the office? 10 Reasons to View Details
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by Staff
- 01 Jun 2004
- News
Working the Street
Stripped to the waist in a clinic examining room, Mike, a burly white guy in his late 30s, is an illustrated man. His arms, chest, and neck are a tattooed maze of letters, numbers, and designs signaling his allegiance to the Aryan Nation...
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- 25 Feb 2015
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey Schnapp, Harvard Graduate School of Design
- 2008
- Other Teaching and Training Material
A Problem-Solving Approach to Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Improve Performance
By: Stacey Childress and Geoff Marietta
This note helps teams work through a problem-solving process that facilitates the design and implementation of a strategy for continuous improvement.
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Childress, Stacey, and Geoff Marietta. "A Problem-Solving Approach to Designing and Implementing a Strategy to Improve Performance." Harvard Business School Publishing, 2008.