Tracking - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Apr 2015
News

Warrior Spirit

traditional career path in a culture where becoming a doctor, lawyer, engineer, or banker represents the accepted pathway to success, he explains; but Sityodtong’s track record, passion, and Harvard degree have helped break the ice with... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services

29 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas

tracks startup funding, with each Kickstarter entrepreneur. Of the 314 entrepreneurs studied, some 76 percent missed their initial deadline. Peterson and Wu followed up, interviewing 11 entrepreneurs in-depth to find out why each product... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

11 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Why South Korea's Samsung Built the Only Outdoor Skating Rink in Texas

Gurun used a database that tracks litigation against 1,000 top firms in the US stock market, looking at all lawsuits between 1995 and 2013. They cross-referenced that with a database of advertising spending by the same companies in more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

04 Jul 2005
What Do You Think?

How Can Business Schools Be Made More Relevant?

what to do about it? Jeffrey Garten has put forth some suggestions as he departs his job. Among them are such things as "some real-world experience" as a requirement for faculty promotion, a "two-track faculty" with the second View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jun 2020
Blog Post

How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee

from your team for what they need to be most productive/engaged Set clear expectations and definitions of success along with systems to track progress to ensure employees can independently and collaborative work towards goals. Utilize... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

Eisenmann interviewed recommend that entrepreneurs step back and ask if their ventures are still on track to fulfill their original goals. If the answer is “No,” if they are out of moves, or simply lack the resolve to carry on, founders... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

by the same person. "It's like having a convenience store that's not manned, and everyone who comes in can either steal or pay, but there's a video camera that nobody knows about, and it's tracking everyone's every move," Larkin says.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

HBS - The year in Review

surged Learning Tracks Launched HBS Online saw a surge of interest in online learning as a result of the pandemic. In May 2021, the group launched Learning Tracks to enable professionals to specialize in a... View Details

18 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Looking in the Mirror: Questions Every Leader Must Ask

and priorities--they're working 80-hour weeks! In his book, Kaplan discusses techniques for matching available hours with key priorities, so executives can learn to do much more effective work and better manage their time. He recommends that executives View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

How Partisan Politics Play Out in American Boardrooms

data, combined with the voter registration records of 3,786 top executives working at 941 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2008 and 2020. They pulled documents from states that share records and track voter party affiliation,... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

12 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb

and 334,906 reviews in New York City, one of Airbnb’s major markets. Using reviews as a proxy for bookings, the researchers tracked reviews for the year before and the year after the pandemic began. They turned to NamePrism, a publicly... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Technology; Travel

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

routines calls for relaunches to help leaders and team members understand how each member has been affected, figure out how to address concerns, and ultimately get everyone back on the same track to achieve team goals. Team leaders should... View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

Portrait Project

Milly Wang

tracking near-Earth asteroids. I always thought that I wanted to be remembered for discovering a habitable planet outside our solar system or furthering the understanding of dark energy. But as years passed, I’ve come down to earth. I... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

tracked the number of MIPS or CPU cycles on the network from 1990 to 2002. Even using a log scale on the vertical axis would be barely enough to tilt a vertical straight line enough to create something resembling the curves of the other... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

a recent BusinessWeek cover story tracked the impact that Indian managers have had on American management. Q: You have said there is no such thing as a universal global manager. Rather, you say, there are three types of specialists who... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

percent of books generate enough income for an author to live on. The pay structure matters Zhu and Wu tracked the popularity of e-novels based on reader clicks and purchases, and measured a writer’s productivity based on how frequently... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Web

Entrepreneurial Support - Business & Environment

in the expert type field. Experts schedule office hours once a month between September and April. iLab Resources - Advising Resources Whether you’re looking discuss your idea or venture, discover tools and techniques to fast track your... View Details

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

in less than 30 seconds. "In one case, $35 million was raised in less than 30 seconds" The most highly developed of the digital currencies is Bitcoin, the product of an ingenious and secretive tech programmer who developed a complex algorithm for “mining” the... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

01 Nov 2022
What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

past two decades. As a result, the proportion of the US population that is foreign-born—to the extent we can count—has nearly tripled over the past 50 years to levels we last saw around 1900. There is one business “community” that has View Details