Short Time Work - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 26, 2010

support for ultimate target agreements. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsebenius/articles_scans/10_NegCampaignsNN.pdf Working PapersPayout Taxes and the Allocation of Investment Authors:Bo Becker, Marcus Jacob, and Martin... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

attended various schools of experience. Managers who have successfully worked their way up the ladder of a stable business unit—for example, a division that manufactures standard high-volume electric motors for the appliance industry—are... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

10 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 10

bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation risk premium, also varies over time. We argue that the time variation in real... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on discrete time periods: Imperial Germany 1871-1914; World War I... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

execution of that strategy. Considering the limited free time an athlete like Sharapova has in a year filled with training sessions and tournaments across the globe—less than 20 days remain for sponsorship commitments—I found it... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

was not. The Economist reported at the time that there were many warning flags of the EC's intent to scuttle the deal. For some time, the magazine pointed out, a philosophical gap had been widening between Europe and America over the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5-billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August, 1999, and appears to be worth less than $50 million today.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

companies must provide accurate, relevant data about the economics of corporations. Independent analysts would use these data to rate providers—similar to how private businesses such as Morningstar rate mutual funds. The SEC works well.... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

of purpose and is willing to seek collaboration is likely to solve problems. Q: What are you working on now? A: My colleagues and I are "bringing society in" to Harvard by continuing to develop the Harvard Advanced Leadership... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

leaders to make those hard decisions either." John argued that what is missing in MMT is that most economic theory works only within a limited range of economic conditions. “While the U.S. will benefit from MMT for perhaps a long... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

ago, this strategy worked quite well. "But at the same time that we were seeing substantial growth in the financial services business and a remarkable change in the landscape, the regulatory structure... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

is above average. And in a lot of companies the way the system works is most CEOs want to be at the 75th percentile of the distribution of compensation. Well, you can imagine what happens. You get a ratcheting up effect as that... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

02 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

themselves so far that day. Consistent with our previous research, we found that spending more on others was associated with greater happiness among this sample of approximately 1,000 New York Times readers, even though the respondents... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

competitors can help grow the market for your products and services, thereby boosting your sales at a time when, with the U.S. slowdown entering its third year, new revenue is exceedingly hard to find. Moreover, the presence of a... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

seemed odd to study the socialization processes of faculty while at the same time being a faculty member caught up in the socialization process. How did you separate or integrate the two experiences? A: Historically, many seminal research... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

mix. Organizational conversation, by the same token, calls upon employees to participate eagerly in the work of generating the content through which a company tells its story, both internally and externally. People in frontline and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

22 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 22

Eccles and Michael P. Krzus Publication:The Huffington Post, Blog, May 28, 2010 There is no abstract available at this time. Read the article: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-g-eccles/going-green-in-annual-rep_b_593957.html Working... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 30

Working PapersWellsprings of Creation: How Perturbation Sustains Exploration in Mature Organizations (revised) Authors:David James Brunner, Bradley R. Staats, Michael L. Tushman, and David M. Upton Abstract Organizations struggle to... View Details