Admissions - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

it in capsule form, and added tamper-evident packaging even though those steps could have been used against J&J as an admission of guilt in a lawsuit. When Intel first became dominant in its product market, top management instituted... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

15 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation: A Generalized Theory Calibrated to Survey Evidence on Normative Preferences Explains Puzzling Features of Policy

Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl

September 2021
Case

Posse Foundation: Developing Strong Leaders from Diverse Backgrounds

By: John J-H Kim, Robin Mendelson and Julia Kelley

Founded in 1989, Posse Foundation was a nonprofit organization with a mission of developing future leaders who reflected the U.S.’s rich diversity. The organization ran a selective, localized admissions process in 10 U.S. cities to identify outstanding students with... View Details

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31 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Diseconomies of Queue Pooling: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker & Karen L. Murrell; Health

18 Mar 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: LEGO

Although it isn't part of the admissions criteria, experience playing with LEGOs can come in handy at Harvard Business School. When Stefan H. Thomke teaches his new case about the iconic toy company, he gives students eight-studded LEGO... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation

27 Nov 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures of US Firms

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln

05 May 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Firms and the Economics of Skilled Immigration

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr & William F. Lincoln; Technology

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

openly discriminatory practices, contemporary legal arguments for colorblindness have become increasingly geared toward combating race-conscious policies," they write. "If racial minority status confers an advantage in hiring and school View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

a team of agile, imaginative and analytical individuals.” Ovia’s CEO, Paris Wallace, grew up on government assistance in California’s Marin County, one of the wealthiest areas in the United States. Raised by a mother who was single and disabled, he managed to gain... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

what the managing partner had been waiting and hoping for. What many command-and-control leaders fail to grasp is that admissions of fallibility, uncertainty, and doubt are actually signs of strength. These View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

01 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

withhold information-from a job application, a dating profile, or a Facebook page-starting with the fact that they don't think it's anyone else's business. In this case, it helps for observers to be aware that hiding information isn't necessarily an View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

Specialized Knowledge As A Public Good; Renunciation Of Profit Maximization To be able to set and enforce standards of admission to a profession, determine how professional work is to be done, engage in self-regulation rather than be... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

It’s a question people often ask Harvard Business School Professor Max Bazerman: Can you meet with my relative or friend who is applying to Harvard? Perhaps they ask with the hope that it might help them in the admissions process.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

How The 2016 Presidential Candidates Misled Us With Truthful Statements

federal lawsuit—were sued. We settled the suit with zero—no admission of guilt. It was very easy to do. But they sued many people.” The facts: While it’s true that the Trumps did not admit guilt in the consent decree, a New York Times... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Jun 2005
What Do You Think?

Is a “Level Playing Field” a Good Thing?

college admissions to world trade. Its most current form has arisen in connection with moves by the United States to take actions to stem the influx of Chinese-produced goods. Some would claim the influx is the result of an absence of a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

Do MBAs Need More Street Smarts?

outstanding service organizations, we have found that they invariably hire for attitude and train for skills. Are street smarts attitudes or skills? If street smarts are attitudes, should MBA program admissions offices look for them in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Starbucks’ Lessons for Premium Brands

Starbucks' announcement that it will close 600 stores in the United States is a long-overdue admission that there are limits to growth. In February 2007, a leaked internal memo written by founder Howard Schultz showed that he recognized... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

and clear that knowledge is something to be shared throughout the firm, not hoarded. In the long run, Garvin observes, a learning organization doesn't rely on old answers to new problems but stimulates each generation of employees to collect and examine new data and... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

15 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 15

damaging to the academic enterprise. We surveyed over 2,000 psychologists about their involvement in questionable research practices, using an anonymous elicitation format supplemented by incentives for honest reporting. The impact of incentives on View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

even while we find that the effects of workload vary at different time points during a patient's stay: LOS increases as inpatient workload on the day of admission increases, while inpatient workload at the end of the stay has a U-shaped... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

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