Journals and Magazines - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

professors are evaluated in part on the number of papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals. Primarily written for and read by other academics, many of those journals tend to reward novelty over... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

11 May 2023
News

How FOMO Became a Fixture

days before my HBS reunion in 2014, a reporter from Boston Magazine hunted me down. He was writing an article on the history of FOMO and traced it back to me. We met for an interview while I was in Boston,... View Details

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Marketing Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

for “Demand Interactions in Sharing Economies: Evidence from a Natural Experiment Involving Airbnb and Uber/Lyft” ( Journal of Marketing Research , 2022) with Dokyun Lee, Param Vir Singh, View Details

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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work

digital talent platforms to access highly skilled freelancers. Read Employer Survey In 2019, Harvard Business School’s Project on Managing the Future of Work and Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute designed a survey to... View Details

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

mortgage assets on our balance sheet was a big problem, regardless of any quality or hedging arguments that might be made.” [16] Glen Le Lievre, "Too big to fail." The Wall Street Journal Cartoon Collection, Baker Library, Harvard... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

The problem with using crises to reduce complacency and create urgency is that the tactic is a potential diamond sitting on a rock surrounded by quicksand and very nasty beasts. Any naiveté about the... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

forthcoming edition of Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, “Pseudo-Set Framing” was co-written by Barasz; Leslie John, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor at HBS; Elizabeth Keenan, an assistant professor at HBS; View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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The Gift of Global Talent

Research Research The Gift of Global Talent: How Migration Shapes Business, Economy & Society By: William R. Kerr By: William R. Kerr The global race for talent is on, with countries and businesses competing for the best View Details

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Past Issues - Alumni

a few true believers—and a few big wins—to bring their vision to the masses. Front-Row Seat How David Bradley (MBA 1977) turned a floundering magazine into a flourishing multimedia empire Fashion's Retail Revolution The alumni... View Details

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Research - Private Capital Project

chapter is to understand the common practices of PE funds’ structure and funding. The chapter covers three topics. First, it gives an overview of the traditional private equity (PE) financing structure; then, it discusses other investment... View Details

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Overview

Over the last decade, technology companies like Amazon, Google, and Netflix have pioneered data-driven research and development processes centered on massive experimentation. However, as companies increase the breadth and scale of their experiments to millions of... View Details

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Industry Information - Alumni

In addition to providing industry insights, the magazine includes several rankings on topics ranging from "Top 25 Consultants," "Best Firms to Work For," “Small Jewels," and "Women in Consulting." Vault... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Technology & Operations Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (John Wiley & Sons, 2018) was listed as #14 on the Porchlight Business Best Seller list in 2019. Amy C. Edmondson : Named the Most... View Details

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Team - Case Method Project

Case Method Project. He received his A.B. in history from Williams College and his Ph.D. in history from Harvard University. He has served as Lecturer in History and Literature at Harvard, Professor of... View Details

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Faculty & Advisors - MBA

product and engineering leader in various roles at Alphabet, where he launched Play Books and Magazines at Android, built the Verily Life Science product teams View Details

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Impact Stories - Impact Stories

William Sahlman Play Health Minute: Can Hospitals Prioritize Value and Collaboration to Prevent Physician Burnout? Professor Susanna Gallani 01 Oct 2024 Cold Call Choosing Passion: A Founder’s Mission to Meet a Need for Obesity Care Re:... View Details

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Research & Teaching - Creating Emerging Markets

responsibility in more developed markets? In this video, Professors Tarun Khanna and Geoffrey Jones discuss a thematic paper using CEM data, published in the Strategic Management Journal in 2017: Overcoming... View Details

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dollarDEX (1998-2007)

Retired chief executive, non-executive chairman

One of world's top 30 in online finance (Institutional Investor, March 2003). Wealth management firm in Asia, and has... View Details

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. “But that $100 billion figure astounded us.” Amabile co-wrote a paper on the topic, The Downside of Downtime:The Prevalence and Work Pacing Consequences of Idle Time at Work,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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