by John Macomber - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Aug 2011
News

When being good at your job isn't good enough

26 Jul 2017
Cold Call Podcast

The Revolution in Advertising: From Don Draper to Big Data

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton; Advertising

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked. First, the prodigious research that... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

them—potentially, at least—a strategic edge that private funds lack. These differences—good and bad—are illustrated by the case of Xerox Technology Ventures (XTV). The case, write Gompers and Lerner, "highlights the fact... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government, who moderated the discussion. He invited the panelists to discuss how they have the courage to maintain their openness or naiveté when so many people around them look to them to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

10 Nov 2020
News

Professors and Musicians Discuss the Intersections of Music and Happiness in HBS Webinar

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

claim to systematic scientific insight. This book describes the first generation of economic forecasters and the methods they created to predict the future of the economy. The forecasting field was initially developed by entrepreneurs... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

20 Apr 2018
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Professor Rebecca Henderson Elected to American Academy of Arts & Sciences

15 May 2018
News

Harvard researchers say fixing food safety inspectors’ schedules could end many violations

28 Sep 2021
News

When the Hospital Emergency Room Is Inundated with Knee-Deep Water

14 Mar 2011
News

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

27 Aug 2018
News

How to think like a gourmet

24 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Developing Your Next CEO for the Family Business

A good book on CEO succession is The CEO Within by my Harvard Business School colleague Joe Bower. Bower studied how companies perform after hiring a new CEO, noting whether the successor had been recruited from inside or outside the... View Details

Keywords: Retail; Auto

01 May 2015
News

Professor Rebecca Henderson on Climate Change

06 Mar 2011
News

Kasich, budget must address Harvard 'Competitiveness' study findings

28 Nov 2016
News

What’s good for employee health is good for the company

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

Much hope and plenty of money are riding on the idea that batterypowered electric cars will help slow global warming by reducing tailpipe emissions. But when it comes to reducing the greenhouse gases produced View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

15 Apr 2020
News

Staying Healthy Indoors, the past and Future of Power, and Shoe Libraries: Books in Brief

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

16 Dec 2015
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