Management Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

that German companies have been able to excel in highly engineered products in part because German consumers pay close attention to technical product qualities when they purchase. Q: Although consumers presumably benefit from being... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

existential questions for companies that pride themselves in serving clients at any hour. This is especially true for professional services firms in management consulting, law, and finance, the research says. At these companies, top... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

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

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

of us should pay serious attention to. I truly believe business contributes to the prosperity of humanity, and is more important to the continued prosperity of humanity than any other institution. Therefore, we must question what got us... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable investing Almost 33 percent of the $51.4 trillion in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

is for companies to frame goals in terms of promotion, and what we show here is that this might actually lead to cheating as a side effect.” The dichotomy raises an important question: If employees are generally focused on the benefits of getting things done, will they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

2017 Advances in Strategic Management Geography, Location, and Strategy By: Alcácer, Juan, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas, and Bernard Yin Yeung, eds. Abstract—Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry

strictly online. Who reads newspapers? Old guys. So this is an industry that is being dramatically transformed. “The reality for the advertising industry is that the old model is broken.” As broadband enables new forms of entertainment and new ways to consume and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

What are the greatest challenges facing leaders of nonprofits today? A: One of the greatest complexities in managing social-purpose organizations or social undertakings by for-profit companies is measuring success. It is much more... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

03 Jan 2018
What Do You Think?

In the Wake of #MeToo, Should Corporate Boards Hire Compliance Officers?

"Corporate boards should hire more women." Would more women in leadership help mitigate #MeToo concerns? What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN One of the most important global management stories in 2017 was the #MeToo movement, a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

bundle. Dominant firms otherwise sheltered from entry by standalone rivals may be vulnerable to an adjacent platform provider's envelopment attack. We analyze conditions under which envelopment strategies are likely to succeed. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

in their business model—defects that numerous outsiders noted from day one. It was a classic case of wishful thinking. Q: How can managers without executive authority spot the warning signs of denial and help reverse the process before... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

15 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons Not Learned About Innovation

observes Rosabeth Moss Kanter in a new Harvard Business Review article, "Innovation: The Classic Traps." Kanter, who holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

One-on-One Meeting The one-on-one meeting between supervisor and staff is an invaluable tool for managing, but requires much attention to detail. Julia B. Austin explains best practices for getting the most out of the 1:1. Why Brexit is a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

approaches to instruction will place heavier emphasis on values—individual, organizational, or both. Here, more attention will be paid to the careful development of, and adherence by managers to, what in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Are Crummy Products Your Next Growth Opportunity?

How's this for a mission statement: We make crummy products for non-consumers. But if you think that's the idea for an "F" paper in business school, you haven't been paying attention to success stories ranging from Henry Ford's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest:... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

Most managers today understand the strategic implications of the information-based, knowledge-driven, service-intensive economy. They know what the new game requires: speed, flexibility and continuous self-renewal. They even are... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

12 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

The Marketing of a President

positive and unruffled demeanor, and his compelling biography attracted the attention and empathy of voters. Second, Obama converted this empathy into tangible support. More citizens volunteered time and money to help the Obama campaign... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

innovation, and peer production—relate to theories of the firm, with particular attention on “sociality” in firms and markets. We first briefly review extant theories of the firm and then discuss three theoretical aspects of sociality... View Details