Matching With Contracts - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers

professor at Harvard Business School who coleads the WMS with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and John Van Reenen of the London School of Economics. "If you really want to be convincing, it's important to have large-scale... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

"Talent and Time" program, which was designed to match employee interests and talents with community needs. And many other Cleveland-headquartered firms have a similar commitment to employee... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

cost transparency caveats for retailers. A firm may not want to share production costs if the cost structure provides a competitive advantage. In addition, contracts with suppliers may prevent making certain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

01 Jun 2009
News

Inside the Partnership

Committee, where he raised more money than any other member, Weinberg launched a long series of relationships with occupants of the White House that would continue for more than thirty-five years. Almost everybody on Wall Street voted... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

editor has made the choices. The consumer is left to see what someone else has seen fit to print. "In the new world, it starts with the consumer. What is he or she interested in? The challenge for publishers is to develop the model... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

decrease them during the downturn. Both results are in line with the behavior of inexperienced investors in experimental asset markets. The economic significance of young managers' actions is amplified by large inflows into their funds... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

while studying the manufacturing floor at a leading, technologically advanced global contract manufacturer's plant in Southern China, where tens of thousands of workers assembled mobile devices under close supervision. The plant for years... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

Summing Up Personal Predictive Analytics: Should We Be Careful What We Wish For? The world of continuous monitoring of numerous sensors for machines and humans, limitless information storage capacity, and big data combined with rapid... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2012
News

Pitfalls, Trade-Offs, Dreaming Big

What do you hope readers will take away from the book? Awareness of the road ahead, matched by an awareness of who they are as entrepreneurs. Knowing one’s strengths, weaknesses, and motivation is critical to making the right decisions.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Health, Social Assistance; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

It was there that she developed what became her new nonprofit, Principals Connect, which matches high school principals in Kansas City with retired professionals who serve as leadership and management... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jan 2004
News

Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964

in China would be supported by our government. We returned with signed contracts in hand. This was the most important thing I did as Commerce secretary." One of the first women to graduate from Harvard... View Details

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

empirical regularities, and we quantify our framework by matching Census Bureau operating data with patent data for U.S. firms. We observe that internal innovation scales moderately faster View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

plan for: The HBS survey found that 83 percent of alumnae expected to successfully combine their jobs and their personal lives, while only 47 percent said their expectations matched with the reality; 86... View Details

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

innovation portrayed in the census data differed from what she had read in the press. "It was clear that firms were actually doing far less of it than you would think if you read the newspaper." The e-business that was being done among survey participants View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

26 Oct 2017
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

Photos by Marc Romanelli Climate change rightfully scares a lot of people. The changes already occurring—from the die-off of coral reefs and shrinking polar ice to increasing global temperatures—are almost too much to take in. Conventional wisdom would tell us that any... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; Organic farming; Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

Freiberg. And Gamer Sensei, founded by William Collis and Rohan Gopaldas (both MBA 2011), is designed to train the next generation of esports professionals and the amateur gamers who make up the majority of the esports audience. The website View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

improve the care of patients with diabetes by contracting an app. They go through a rigorous evaluation of the FDA regulations, the existing market, and potential commercial competitors to try and identify a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

to dealers with whom they have the strongest ties, and more so during periods of market turmoil. Systemically important dealers exploit their connections at the expense of peripheral dealers as well as clients, charging higher markups... View Details