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Gender Disparities In Compensation Of Practicing Cardiothoracic Surgeons: Analyzing The Society Of Thoracic Surgeons Compensation Survey
Cherie Erkmen, Anastasiia Tompkins, Shanda Blackmon, Larry Kaiser, Susanna Gallani, Jennifer Romano, Thomas MacGillivray, Michael Mack
Article, 2025
BACKGROUND: Gender-based pay disparity in compensation is widespread.
Employee Stress Is A Business Risk—Not An HR Problem
Marion Chomse, Lydia Roos, Reeva Misra, Ashley Whillans
Editorial, 2025
Workplace stress, on the rise for decades, has been treated by many organizations as a personal issue instead of a business-critical risk that merits executive oversight.
Eliciting Advice Instead Of Feedback Improves Developmental Input
Hayley Blunden, Ariella Kristal, Ashley Whillans, Jaewon Yoon, Hannah Burd, Georgina Bremner, Michael Yeomans
Article, 2025
Most organizations encourage employees to provide feedback to one another to support learning, personal growth, and career advancement.
Why People Resist Embracing AI
Julian De Freitas
Article, 2025
The success of AI depends not only on its capabilities, which are becoming more advanced each day, but on people’s willingness to harness them.
Overcoming Barriers To Employee Ownership: Insights From Small And Medium-Sized Businesses
John Guzek, Ashley Whillans
Article, 2025
This research investigates the limited adoption of employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs) among small-to-medium sized businesses (SMBs) in the U.S.
Training Within Firms
Brayan Diaz, Andrea Neyra-Nazarrett, Julian Ramirez, Raffaella Sadun, Jorge Tamayo
HBS Working Paper, 2025
Training investments are essential for improving worker and firm productivity, yet their implementation is often hindered by low participation rates and insufficient worker engagement.
Novice Risk Work: How Juniors Coaching Seniors On Emerging Technologies Such As Generative AI Can Lead To Learning Failures
Katherine Kellogg, Hila Lifshitz-Assaf, Steven Randazzo, Ethan Mollick, Fabrizio Dell'Acqua, Edward McFowland III, François Candelon, Karim Lakhani
Article, 2025
The literature on communities of practice demonstrates that a proven way for senior professionals to upskill themselves in the use of new technologies that undermine existing expertise is to learn from junior professionals.
Greenlighting Innovative Projects: How Evaluation Format Shapes The Perceived Feasibility Of Early-Stage Ideas
Jacqueline Lane, Simon Friis, Tianxi Cai, Michael Menietti, Griffin Weber, Eva Guinan
HBS Working Paper, 2025
The evaluation of innovative early-stage projects is essential for allocating limited resources.
The Cybernetic Teammate: A Field Experiment On Generative AI Reshaping Teamwork And Expertise
Fabrizio Dell'Acqua,Charles Ayoubi,Hila Lifshitz-Assaf,Raffaella Sadun,Ethan Mollick,Lilach Mollick,Yi Han,Jeff Goldman,Hari Nair,Stewart Taub,Karim Lakhani
HBS Working Paper, 2025
We examine how artificial intelligence transforms the core pillars of collaboration— performance, expertise sharing, and social engagement—through a pre-registered field experiment with 776 professionals at Procter & Gamble, a global consumer packaged goods company.
Strategy In An Era Of Abundant Expertise: How To Thrive When AI Makes Knowledge And Know-How Cheaper And Easier To Access
Bobby Yerramilli-Rao, John Corwin, Yang Li, Karim R. Lakhani
Editorial, 2025
AI is changing the cost and availability of expertise, and this will fundamentally alter how businesses organize and compete.
The Role Of Top Managers In The Public Sector: Evidence From The English NHS
Katharina Janke, Carol Propper, Raffaella Sadun
2025
Governments have reformed public services by adopting private sector gover- nance models that grant top directors greater autonomy, responsibility for meeting key targets, and performance-based rewards.
Management And Firm Dynamism
Nicholas Bloom, Jonathan Hartley, Raffaella Sadun, Rachel Schuh, John Van Reenen
HBS Working Paper, 2025
We show better-managed firms are more dynamic in plant acquisitions, disposals, openings and closings in U.S.
The Human Side Of The Future Of Work: Understanding The Role People Play In Shaping A Changing World
Jochen Menges, Lauren Howe, Erika Hall, Jon Jachimowicz, Sharon Parker, Riki Takeuchi, Abhijeet Vadera, Ashley Whillans, Susan Cohen
Article, 2024
For as long as there has been work, there has been a “future of work,” through humans’ ingenuity and drive to get things done easier, faster, and better.
Why Workplace Well-Being Programs Don’t Achieve Better Outcomes
Jazz Croft, Acacia Parks, Ashley Whillans
Article, 2024
By 2026, global corporate spending on wellness programs is set to top $94.6 billion, yet anticipated improvements in well-being are not being realized, and, in fact, mental health needs are continuing to rise around the world.
Physicians Can Help Cut Costs. They Just Need The Right Incentives.
Susanna Gallani, Derek Haas
Article, 2024
Health care organizations have long tried to enlist physicians in their effort to control or reduce costs.
America's Top Talent Incubators Are Organizations Where People Want To Stay
Sarah Abbott, Boris Groysberg
Article, 2024
Organizations like GE, IBM, and Procter & Gamble (P&G) have long been touted as the classic "academy companies." Academy companies produce first-rate executives who populate their own senior ranks and also go on to lead other companies.
Return To Office Decisions: A Culture Question?
Yo-Jud Cheng, Boris Groysberg
Article, 2024
Company culture is an important source of competitive advantage and differentiation.
Enhancing Treatment Effect Prediction On Privacy-Protected Data: An Honest Post-Processing Approach
Ta-Wei Huang, Eva Ascarza
HBS Working Paper, 2023
As firms increasingly rely on customer data for personalization, concerns over privacy and regulatory compliance have grown.
How The Best Chief Data Officers Create Value
Suraj Srinivasan, Robin Seibert
Article, 2023
Despite the rapidly increasing prominence of data and analytics functions, the majority of chief data officers (CDOs) fail to value and price the business outcomes created by their data and analytics capabilities.
Reskilling In The Age Of AI
Jorge Tamayo, Leila Doumi, Sagar Goel, Orsolya Kovács-Ondrejkovic, Raffaella Sadun
Article, 2023
In the coming decades, as the pace of technological change continues to increase, millions of workers may need to be not just upskilled but reskilled—a profoundly complex societal challenge that will sometimes require workers to both acquire new skills and change occupations entirely.
Managing Your Team’S Emotional Dynamic
Amit Goldenberg
Editorial, 2023
Collective emotion, when a group of people shares an emotion, is often stronger than a single individual feeling that same emotion alone.
Organizational Responses To Product Cycles
Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo, Nicolas Torres
HBS Working Paper, 2023
Product cycles entail the mass production of new—and often increasingly complex—products on a regular basis.
How To Seed Organic Marketing In A Video-First World
Ayelet Israeli, Leonard Schlesinger, Matt Higgins
Article, 2023
Early direct-to-consumer (DTC) companies relied on plentiful capital and low-cost digital marketing to power growth.
Firm-Induced Migration Paths And Strategic Human-Capital Outcomes
Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Victoria Sevcenko
Article, 2023
Firm-induced migration typically entails firms relocating workers to fill value-creating positions at destination locations.
Life After Death: A Field Experiment With Small Businesses On Information Frictions, Stigma, And Bankruptcy
Shai Bernstein, Emanuele Colonnelli, Mitchell Hoffman, Benjamin Iverson
Non-HBS Working Paper, 2023
In a randomized control trial (RCT) with U.S.
The Strategic Use Of Corporate Philanthropy: Evidence From Bank Donations*
Seungho Choi, Raphael Jonghyeon Park, Simon Xu
2023
This article examines the strategic nature of banks’ charitable giving by studying bank donations to local nonprofit organizations.
Is Agenda Theater Ruining Your Meetings?
Ashley Whillans, Dave Feldman, Damian Wisniewski
Editorial, 2022
Like triaging our inboxes, clearing our Slack messages, or managing our to-do lists, preparing an agenda can make us feel like we’ve accomplished something.
Identify Critical Roles To Improve Performance
Boris Groysberg, Eric Lin, Abhijit Naik, Sascha Schmidt
Article, 2022
Putting strategy into play requires knowing your organization’s crucial roles and making sure your best talent occupies them..
3 Workplace Biases That Derail Mid-Career Women
Colleen Ammerman, Boris Groysberg
Article, 2022
Mid-career women are often surprised by the levels of bias and discrimination they encounter in the workplace, especially if they’ve successfully avoided it earlier in their careers.
The Pricing And Ownership Of U.S. Green Bonds
Malcolm Baker, Daniel Bergstresser, George Serafeim, Jeffrey Wurgler
Article, 2022
We study green bonds, which are bonds whose proceeds are used for environmentally sensitive purposes.
Role Of Context In Knowledge Flows: Host Country Versus Headquarters As Sources Of MNC Subsidiary Knowledge Inheritance
Mike Teodorescu, Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna
Article, 2022
We respond to calls in the strategy and international business literature for elucidating how multinational subsidiaries develop contextual intelligence in host countries and how they use the local context as a source of valuable opportunities for learning.
Should Your Company Sell On Amazon?
Ayelet Israeli, Leonard Schlesinger, Matt Higgins, Sabir Semerkant
Article, 2022
Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs.
The C-Suite Skills That Matter Most
Raffaella Sadun, Joseph Fuller, Stephen Hansen, PJ Neal
Article, 2022
Landing a job as a CEO today is no longer all about industry expertise and financial savvy.
Attracting Long-Term Investors Through Integrated Thinking And Reporting: A Clinical Study Of A Biopharmaceutical Company
Andrew Knauer, George Serafeim
2014
Agrowing number of companies are engaging with sustainability issues, driven by a greater aware -ness of environmental and social problems and a changing set of institutions and social expec -tations about the role of business in society.