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HBS Working Knowledge January 2, 2012	Most Popular Articles of 2011 Our most-read articles of 2011 focused on how leaders can become better -- and what can lead to their downfalls.
HBS Working Knowledge August 5, 2015 Carmen Nobel	How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat There's a key link between our hormone levels and unethical behavior, according to new research by Francesca Gino, and colleagues. The good news: businesses can do something about it.
HBS Working Knowledge February 13, 2013 Carmen Nobel	5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists Business scholars increasingly hinge their hypotheses on sociological and psychological studies with a general goal to help organizations run better, but the research often leads to findings that are useful to our everyday lives including weight loss.
HBS Working Knowledge May 4, 2011 Michael Blanding	Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers? If you think that banning web surfing at work will improve your employees' productivity, think again.
HBS Working Knowledge November 8, 2004 Sean Silverthorne	The Hidden Cost of Buying Information We all need good information to make decisions--that is why consulting is an industry that never goes out of style. But paying for information can carry a hidden cost: We may give it more weight in our decision making than it deserves.
T.H.E. Journal September 2001 Kyle Forinash & Raymond Wisman	The Viability of Distance Education Science Laboratories The history of science from Galilei on has primarily been the reconciliation of theory with imperfect experimental data. Providing a similarly compelling laboratory experience for a student, especially to one not physically present, is problematic...
HBS Working Knowledge October 12, 2011 Carmen Nobel	Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch Advertisers should include a surprise at the beginning of an online commercial.
HBS Working Knowledge September 17, 2012 Carmen Nobel	Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity New studies show that workers are more productive on rainy days than on sunny ones. Does your office take advantage?
HBS Working Knowledge October 31, 2011 Carmen Nobel	The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator The most powerful workplace motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance of others.
HBS Working Knowledge February 28, 2011 Carmen Nobel	The Importance of 'Don't' in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior There are two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among its employees: either the promotion of good actions and outcomes or the prevention of bad ones.
HBS Working Knowledge May 5, 2014 Carmen Nobel	Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance New research by Francesca Gino, Gary Pisano, and colleagues shows that taking time to reflect on our work improves job performance in the long run.
Scientific American March 2006 Marina Krakovsky	Experiments at Work What's the best way to boost sales or handle competing resellers? By lab-testing business ideas, experimental economist Kay-Yut Chen gets rid of some of the guesswork.
HBS Working Knowledge June 1, 2015 Michael Blanding	The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing In a social media culture that encourages sharing of embarrassing information, revealing too much can benefit individuals but hurt businesses.
HBS Working Knowledge December 7, 2011 Carmen Nobel	Are Creative People More Dishonest? In a series of studies, Francesca Gino and Dan Ariely found that inherently creative people tend to cheat more than noncreative people. It's a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions out-of-the-box thinking.
HBS Working Knowledge October 28, 2009 Roger Thompson	HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance Professor Peter Tufano talks about the course and his determination to make consumer finance a broadly accepted academic pursuit.
Chemistry World October 23, 2015 Matthias Gross	Experiments beyond the laboratory Real world 'experiments' should be carefully planned and democratically supported.
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HBS Working Knowledge February 22, 2011 Sean Silverthorne	The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century Harvard faculty look backward and forward at the most important business trends of the young twenty-first century.
HBS Working Knowledge July 6, 2009 Jim Heskett	Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World? It is becoming clear that human behavior is much less rational than we assumed. What does this mean for conventional wisdom in areas such as management?
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Erin Peterson	Making Bigger Better University of Texas at Austin Freshman Research Initiative student Holli Duhon describes her research.
HBS Working Knowledge February 25, 2015 Julia Hanna	Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative, led by professors Marco Iansiti and Karim Lakhani, brings an interdisciplinary approach to studying how digital technology has transformed business and innovation.
HBS Working Knowledge October 18, 2006 Roger Thompson	New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light Harvard Business School Dean Jay Light discusses the opportunities brought by globalism, challenges in recruiting and developing faculty, and program innovation needed to meet the needs of 21st-century business leaders.
T.H.E. Journal February 2004	A Closer Look at Scientifically Based Research -- What the Words Mean To appreciate the true impact of scientifically based research on education, it may be useful first to understand the meaning of the various terms that the law employs as part of its definition of SBR.
HBS Working Knowledge July 13, 2011 Roger Thompson	Experimental Researcher Helps Improve Health Care in Zambia In seven years of field work in Zambia, Africa, professor Nava Ashraf's work is helping get low-cost health care products and services to the people who need them most.
Salon.com November 21, 2002 D. Yap	Lying faces Abused kids are quick to detect anger -- even where there is none. Psychology professor Seth Pollak believes changing that reflex is crucial to healing.
HBS Working Knowledge May 30, 2007 Sean Silverthorne	Health Care Under a Research Microscope The $2 trillion American health care system has grown bloated and overly expensive, and it delivers poor service to many patients. Harvard Business School faculty are looking at the system through a business management perspective to recommend changes.
Technology Research News January 28, 2004 Kimberly Patch	Robot automates science Scientists would seem to hold one of the last occupations threatened by automation, given the brainpower and education involved. But equipping a laboratory robot with artificial intelligence software makes for a fair approximation of a scientist. Faster gene and drug discovery could result.
HBS Working Knowledge March 6, 2013 Carmen Nobel	HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School Professor Boris Groysberg discusses his new case, "Women MBAs at Harvard Business School: 1962-2012," which delves into the experiences of the School's alumnae over the past 50 years.
T.H.E. Journal April 2004	Model ChemLab v2.3 Model ChemLab v2.3 combines the interactive experience and notebook workspace of performing chemistry experiments into one application.
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2011 Katharine Gammon	Room to Grow -- and Learn For undergraduates who have the opportunity to do high-level research, the experience can be unforgettable.
HBS Working Knowledge February 9, 2015 Carmen Nobel	Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty Francesca Gino and colleagues find that people avoid professional networking -- even though it's good for their careers -- because it makes them feel morally dirty.
T.H.E. Journal October 2003 Davies et al.	Implementing a Mobile Lab in a Faculty of Education University of Alberta makes technology more accessible through advancing integration with an experimental wireless access point and a wireless mobile computer lab.
Geotimes December 2006 Kathryn Hansen	Lab Experiment Reveals Earthquake Ruptures Not all earthquakes are created equal, according to new research that has brought earthquakes into the lab. For the first time, researchers physically observed two types of earthquake growth patterns, which until now, were limited to the realm of theory.
HBS Working Knowledge July 11, 2005	Readers Respond: How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant? Don't you think that part of the problem is in how business schools are selecting their students?... I was shocked recently to discover what appears to be a rampant disconnect among key professors... etc.
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HBS Working Knowledge November 24, 2008	Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA Critics claim MBA programs put too much emphasis on theory and not enough on leadership in a global environment.
Inc. June 1, 2002 Kate O'Sullivan	High Concept: Fields of Genes As pharmaceutical companies pour hundreds of millions of dollars into the development of new drugs, the newly christened bioinformatics software sector is attracting attention from investors and research labs alike...
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HBS Working Knowledge January 3, 2011	Most Popular Articles of 2010 Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and management.
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HHMI Bulletin Spring 2013 Robert Gutnikoff	Lab on the Move When the high school classroom setting is lacking, enter the mobile lab from the University of Texas -- Pan American, in Edinburg, funded with HHMI grants in 2004 and 2008.
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Wired May 2003 Brendan I. Koerner	The Lab that Fell to Earth Once the center of the technology research universe, the storied MIT Media Lab is now teetering on the brink of breakup -- or, even worse, irrelevance
Reason June 2000	Looking Back in Anger The Plutonium Files: America's Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War, by Eileen Welsome
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