by John Macomber - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Aug 2017
News

U.S. Cities Increasingly Focused on Resilience, but Funding Challenges Persist

09 Apr 2021
News

The uneven rise of the healthy workplace

25 Sep 2016
News

This company raised minimum wage to $70,000 — and it helped business

02 Jun 2012
News

Free Exchange: Silicon Sally

19 Nov 2020
Video

Music, Medicine, and Happiness

29 Sep 2020
News

Amtrak needs another bailout to stay afloat

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

combined with more sophisticated methods of analyzing it, provide managers with powerful tools to help them isolate the effects of various marketing instruments. The framework developed by Gupta and Steenburgh helps managers think through... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

Confronting greater media scrutiny and an ever-increasing number of shareholder resolutions focusing on executive pay, Corporate America continues to support current pay practices as a product of "the market." Not too long ago, former Treasury Secretary View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

Research Summary

Consumer Decision Making and Behavioral Research

By: John T. Gourville

John Gourville’s research focuses on consumer behavior, especially in the areas of pricing and consumer decision making. In the area of pricing, for instance, he has looked at the role of time on how consumers interpret and react to product costs and prices.... View Details

01 Jan 2010
News

Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

past, the work of PSFs was a gentleman's game—and now it's blood sport." Adding to the problem is the fact that many current leaders are overwhelmed trying to balance their dual roles of producer and manager. What's needed, DeLong and coauthors HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

31 Mar 2017
News

How Can Business Schools and MBAs Contribute Toward Climate Action?

06 Feb 2018
News

Harvard makes climate pledge to end fossil fuel use

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Jim Austin, picked by Dean John McArthur to lead the new initiative, saw the potential for research, curriculum, and career development around the challenges of social enterprises, including both nonprofit... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

June 2013
Case

Hess Corporation

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kathleen Durante

On January 29, 2013, Elliott Management, a hedge fund run by Paul E. Singer, which owned 4.5% of Hess Corporation stock, put forward a slate of five independent directors it wanted elected to improve the company's performance. Elliott argued that Hess lacked focus and... View Details

Keywords: Takeover Attempt; Board; Hess; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Structure; Acquisition; Financial Services Industry; Energy Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

29 May 2018
News

Ask Better Questions

November 2012 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Perspectives on the Great Depression

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

The case assembles texts giving perspectives on the Great Depression by Franklin Delano Roosevelt, John Maynard Keynes, Milton Friedman, Anna Schwartz and Ben Bernanke. This should allow for a discussion of the role of fiscal and monetary policies in reaching and... View Details