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- 2022
- Book
Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China
By: William C. Kirby
The modern university was born in Germany. In the twentieth century, the United States leapfrogged Germany to become the global leader in higher education. Will China challenge its position in the twenty-first?
Today American institutions dominate nearly every... View Details
Today American institutions dominate nearly every... View Details
Kirby, William C. Empires of Ideas: Creating the Modern University from Germany to America to China. Cambridge, MA: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2022.
- Article
Ein Booster für die Pharmabranche [A Booster for the Pharmaceutical Industry]
By: Ariel Dora Stern, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price, II and Christoph Grimpe
mRNA technology has just helped to develop vaccines against COVID-19. Now, like Apple's iOS, it could provide the basis for new innovation platforms.
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Stern, Ariel Dora, Timo Minssen, W. Nicholson Price, II, and Christoph Grimpe. "Ein Booster für die Pharmabranche [A Booster for the Pharmaceutical Industry]." Harvard Business Manager (July 2022).
- July 2022
- Article
Private Equity and COVID-19
By: Paul A. Gompers, Steven N. Kaplan and Vladimir Mukharlyamov
We survey more than 200 private equity (PE) managers from firms with $1.9 trillion of assets under management (AUM) about their portfolio performance, decisionmaking and activities during the Covid-19 pandemic. Given that PE managers have significant incentives to...
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Keywords:
COVID-19 Pandemic;
Health Pandemics;
Private Equity;
Management;
Investment Portfolio;
Performance;
Decision Making;
Value Creation
Gompers, Paul A., Steven N. Kaplan, and Vladimir Mukharlyamov. "Private Equity and COVID-19." Journal of Financial Intermediation 51 (July 2022).
- Article
The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
By: Raffaella Sadun, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen and PJ Neal
Landing a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy. What companies are really seeking are leaders with strong social skills. That’s what the authors discovered after analyzing nearly 7,000 job descriptions for C-suite roles....
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Keywords:
C-Suite;
Skills;
Skills Development;
Social Skills;
Management Skills;
Interpersonal Communication;
Talent and Talent Management
Sadun, Raffaella, Joseph B. Fuller, Stephen Hansen, and PJ Neal. "The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 42–50.
- July 2022
- Article
The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality
By: Antonya Marie Gonzalez, Lucia Macchia and Ashley V. Whillans
Attributions, or lay explanations for inequality, have been linked to inequality-relevant behavior. In adults and children, attributing inequality to an individual rather than contextual or structural causes is linked to greater support for economic inequality and less...
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Keywords:
Social Cognition;
Inequality;
Prosocial Behavior;
Parent-child Transmission;
Equality and Inequality;
Cognition and Thinking;
Attitudes;
Behavior
Gonzalez, Antonya Marie, Lucia Macchia, and Ashley V. Whillans. "The Developmental Origins and Behavioral Consequences of Attributions for Inequality." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101 (July 2022).
- July 2022
- Article
The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao and Edison Yu
Using new employer-employee matched data, this paper investigates the impact of uncertainty, as measured by idiosyncratic stock market volatility, on individual outcomes. We find that firms provide at best partial insurance to their workers. An increase in firm-level...
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Keywords:
Employment Risk;
Consumption;
Employment;
Risk and Uncertainty;
System Shocks;
Insurance;
Household;
Spending
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, Rodney Ramcharan, Vincent Yao, and Edison Yu. "The Pass-Through of Uncertainty Shocks to Households." Journal of Financial Economics 145, no. 1 (July 2022): 85–104.
- July 2022
- Article
The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others
By: Ke Wang, Erica R. Bailey and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Employees are increasingly exhorted to “pursue their passion” at work. Inherent in this call is the belief that passion will produce higher performance because it promotes intrapersonal processes that propel employees forward. Here, we suggest that the pervasiveness of...
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Keywords:
Passion;
Self-fufilling Prophecy;
Lay Beliefs;
Interpersonal Processes;
Employees;
Performance;
Attitudes;
Organizational Culture;
Social Psychology
Wang, Ke, Erica R. Bailey, and Jon M. Jachimowicz. "The Passionate Pygmalion Effect: Passionate Employees Attain Better Outcomes in Part Because of More Preferential Treatment by Others." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 101 (July 2022).
- July 2022
- Article
What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition
By: Jeff Steiner and Teresa M. Amabile
Retirement means relinquishing the daily structure that work provides and the career-dependent meanings that it offers life narratives. The retirement transition can therefore involve contemplating both how to spend newly-freed daily time and the implications of...
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Keywords:
Retirement Transition;
Life Narrative;
Construal Level Theory;
Global Construal;
Quotidian Construal;
Meanings Of Work And Retirement;
Retirement;
Transition;
Perspective
Steiner, Jeff, and Teresa M. Amabile. "What Do I Make of the Rest of My Life? Global and Quotidian Life Construal across the Retirement Transition." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 171 (July 2022).
- July 2022
- Article
When Alterations Are Violations: Moral Outrage and Punishment in Response to (Even Minor) Alterations to Rituals
By: Daniel H. Stein, Juliana Schroeder, Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino and Michael I. Norton
From Catholics performing the sign of the cross since the 4th century to Americans reciting the Pledge of Allegiance since the 1890s, group rituals (i.e., predefined sequences of symbolic actions) have strikingly consistent features over time. Seven studies (N = 4,213)...
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Keywords:
Ritual;
Morality;
Groups;
Norms;
Commitment;
Groups and Teams;
Values and Beliefs;
Change;
Moral Sensibility;
Behavior
Stein, Daniel H., Juliana Schroeder, Nicholas M. Hobson, Francesca Gino, and Michael I. Norton. "When Alterations Are Violations: Moral Outrage and Punishment in Response to (Even Minor) Alterations to Rituals." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 123, no. 1 (July 2022): 123–153.
- 2021
- Working Paper
Currency Hedging: Managing Cash Flow Exposure
By: Laura Alfaro, Maurici Mauricio and Liliana Varela
Foreign currency use can be a source of risk associated with currency mismatches, which firms can hedge using FX derivatives. This paper uncovers five novel facts about firms’ use of foreign currency (FX) derivatives employing a unique dataset covering the universe of...
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Alfaro, Laura, Maurici Mauricio, and Liliana Varela. "Currency Hedging: Managing Cash Flow Exposure." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28910, June 2021. (Revised July 2022.)
- June 30, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: Don’t Surround Yourself with Admirers
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: Don’t Surround Yourself with Admirers." The Atlantic (June 30, 2022).
- 2022
- Working Paper
Moral Deteriorations Sever Firm Identity
By: Julian De Freitas, Zarema Khon, Pechthida Kim and Samuel G.B. Johnson
Firms change over time. Which changes are so damaging that consumers believe the firm’s very
identity ceases to exist? We explored this question using Twitter data and eight experiments
involving nearly 3,000 subjects. Consumers judged that moral deteriorations were...
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Keywords:
Corporate Identity;
Morality;
Brand Activism;
Social Media;
Business Ethics;
Firm Stereotypes
De Freitas, Julian, Zarema Khon, Pechthida Kim, and Samuel G.B. Johnson. "Moral Deteriorations Sever Firm Identity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-077, June 2022.
- 2022
- Working Paper
On the Origins of Our Discontent
By: Rawi Abdelal and Thomas J. DeLong
Signs of discontent with global capitalism and national capitalisms abound. Unless we find ways to create better jobs and then improve those jobs further with empathic management and thoughtful mentoring, then we will be unable to create a more stable, purposeful...
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Abdelal, Rawi, and Thomas J. DeLong. "On the Origins of Our Discontent." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-078, June 2022.
- 2022
- Working Paper
The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions on COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs
By: Susan Athey, Kristen Grabarz, Michael Luca and Nils Wernerfelt
During the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, a common strategy for public health organizations around the world has been to launch interventions via advertising campaigns on social media. Despite this ubiquity, little has been known about their average effectiveness. We...
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Athey, Susan, Kristen Grabarz, Michael Luca, and Nils Wernerfelt. "The Effectiveness of Digital Interventions on COVID-19 Attitudes and Beliefs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 22-082, June 2022.
- 2022
- Case
Why MBA Students Do Not Pursue Entrepreneurship through Acquisition: Twelve Reasons MBA Students Opt Out of ETA – and Our Perspectives
By: A.J. Wasserstein, Mark Anderegg, Carlos Gila and Jason Pananos
Wasserstein, A.J., Mark Anderegg, Carlos Gila, and Jason Pananos. "Why MBA Students Do Not Pursue Entrepreneurship through Acquisition: Twelve Reasons MBA Students Opt Out of ETA – and Our Perspectives." Yale School of Management Case, 2022.
- Article
Mastering Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs
By: Christopher B. Bingham and Rory M. McDonald
Leaders must answer eight key questions to address the hidden tensions underlying innovation strategies.
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Bingham, Christopher B., and Rory M. McDonald. "Mastering Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs." MIT Sloan Management Review 63, no. 4 (Summer 2022): 66–72.
- June 2022
- Supplement
Ocean Carriers (Abridged) Courseware
By: Erik Stafford
Stafford, Erik. "Ocean Carriers (Abridged) Courseware." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-725, June 2022.
- June 23, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Stop Dating People Who Are Wrong for You
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Stop Dating People Who Are Wrong for You." The Atlantic (June 23, 2022).