Professor Paul Lawrence - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

are often shaped more by the political climate than by the actual climate. "The issue has become totally intertwined with political ideology," says Richard H.K. Vietor, the Paul Whiton Chertington Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

competitive strategy expert Michael E. Porter, of Harvard Business School. The competitive challenges now facing the UK have been made significantly worse by years of inaction. “Our worry is that the UK remains mired in wishful thinking about Brexit,” says Porter, the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

long term. Two Harvard University faculty members—Amy C. Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at Harvard Business School, and Dr. Howard K. Koh, the Harvey V. Fineberg Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Digital Designs on the Inner City

for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Oct 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

innovative solutions? Can Innovation And Creativity Be Managed? High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet Many managers in business experience difficulty dealing with their best creative thinkers. So how does violinist Paul Robertson,... View Details

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

privatization garners attention in industries whose importance, infrastructure, and enormous capital needs once put them under the comfortable control of their governments. Historically, observed HBS professor Richard Vietor in his... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Levitt's work. Here's a summary. The Globalization Of Markets: An Historical Perspective Theodore Levitt's "The Globalization of Markets": An Evaluation After Two Decades Professors Richard Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal acknowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

Duke’s Fuqua School of Business. Toffel is the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at HBS. “ some CEOs believe they can’t be silent when a proposed government policy might lead some of their employees to be subjected... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

environment. HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?In a recent field study seminar, Professor Forest L. Reinhardt discussed the case "Woolf Farming & Processing," which illustrates how access to water—a basic building block of... View Details

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

Held on the HBS campus in late February, the conference on "Gender and Work: Challenging Conventional Wisdom" brought together scholars and practitioners for a thoughtful, forward-looking discussion about gender in organizations. Chairing the conference were... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

08 Mar 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?

coverage and increase premiums. However, the new proposal actually looks far more similar to Obamacare than many anticipated--causing some conservative groups to speak out forcefully against it. Criticizing the plan, Republican Senator Rand View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch, Dr. Gordon Moore, and Emily Boudreau

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

17 Nov 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

"reality testers," not necessarily authority figures, advises University of Pennsylvania professor Martin Seligman, the father of positive psychology. For decades, scientists regarded optimism and pessimism as fixed traits we... View Details

23 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?

natural gas production thanks to hydraulic fracturing (fracking) applied to abundant supplies of shale. Harvard Business School Professor Richard H.K. Vietor, the School's Paul Whiton Cherington View Details

Keywords: Re: Richard H.K. Vietor; Energy; Utilities

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

historians can use for a number of purposes. I am also planning on writing a couple of journal articles related to the book. In addition, I am beginning a comparative examination of savings institutions in collaboration with Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

Lawrence (MBA '87), a marketing consultant and professor at Boston University, says, "Spirituality should not be confused with 'religion.' To me, spirituality is simply having a sense of inner calm and... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

forth their theses on how marketing thinking needs to evolve to keep pace with the market reality. This book is dedicated to Professor Jagdish N. Sheth and honours his sustained contribution as a management thinker, scholar, academician,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

Are coaches worth the multimillion-dollar salaries they are offered? Is the same true of managers in the business world? Just what is the value of a top manager to the organization and employees? Do baseball managers improve performance? In 1993, View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

©iStock.com/GuidoVrola The bundled payment idea is part of a larger reform proposal called Value-Based Health Care Delivery, based on research by Michael E. Porter, the Bishop William Lawrence University View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

02 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

fact, this redundant communication works to get projects completed quickly, according to new research by Harvard Business School professor Tsedal B. Neeley and Northwestern University's Paul M. Leonardi and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

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