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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.

A Tale of Two Stories: Sustainability and the Quarterly Earnings Call

Robert G. Eccles, George Serafeim

2013

Sustainability” has become part of the business lexicon.

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