Business Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO

The real danger from stereotyping In my classes at Harvard Business School (HBS) many executives express concerns about experiencing these biases in their workplaces. However, we have learned through our... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

summaries of the working papers published by Harvard Business School faculty—along with links to the full text of those papers. Here are the five most downloaded working papers of 2016: The Great Training... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

13 May 2014
Op-Ed

The Alibaba Effect

it comes to innovation and entrepreneurship, Alibaba is far from alone in China. It is merely at the head of a parade. Stay tuned. Warren McFarlan and Bill Kirby are professors at Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Bill Kirby & Warren McFarlan; Retail

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

categorize the world, emphasizing some values or activities over others. In other words, languages shape the way people think. After hearing about one such theory from visiting doctoral student Hao Liang from Tilburg University, Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

17 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

to research by Harvard Business School Professor Raffaella Sadun. “A CEO transition is a major organizational event, and communication inside the company is such an important aspect of that transition.”... View Details

Keywords: by Ami Albernaz

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

The key to managing innovation starts, and probably ends, with incentives. In his new book, The Architecture of Innovation: The Economics of Creative Organizations, Harvard Business School Professor Josh... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

As many entrepreneurs and business leaders can testify, a great conversation or brainstorm can turn an inkling of an idea into a gamechanger. A research paper goes inside those conversations and the people having them to learn the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

scrapping the public exchanges would be unfair and unproductive to public health. John A. Quelch is the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He also holds a... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

Credit: iStock If you think looking for a job in your profession is difficult, try being an accounting PhD looking for work in academia. Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Rouen advises job... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

15 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.

required to accomplish such a planned massive expansion, from yet-to-be hit rural areas to overwhelmed urban health systems. As leaders consider how to tackle the task, they might look at the Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Ziff-Davis and is now the ninth largest network on the Internet. The tales of these two firms (along with that of Donna Dubinsky, a member of the HBS Class of 1981 and CEO of Handspring, the maker of Visor personal organizers) are the subject of Masters of Judo... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

06 Nov 2000
What Do You Think?

Succession at GE: What’s Next?

important qualities and capabilities to be sought in a successor to Welch is moot. But as in any good Harvard Business School case discussion, hindsight provides neither a guide to the future nor necessarily... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together

company, the less likely it is that the company will succeed. "Much of the homophily literature in business research talks about the positive benefits of working with people who are similar to you—ease of communication, comfort level, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

up here. Prof. Greg Greenough of the Harvard School of Public Health is directing researchers interested in everything from the pH of the Ganga to the quality and quantity of toilets to the structure of the medical response teams in... View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

developing their double nature: male-female. Only the third group of people are 'good' leaders with complex thinking, agility and sensitivity." It prompts the question: How important is leadership gender in influencing the way we work? What do you think? Original... View Details