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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
Ethan Rouen: I wrote this paper for two reasons. First, one of my advisers (former HBS professor) Fabrizio Ferri made me promise I’d write about my experience for future job seekers, and I couldn’t say no to him because he had spent so... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
comprehensive field-based study and analysis of the Nobel Prize from a brand and reputation perspective. "In a real sense, everybody knows what the Nobel Prize is and what it does, but practically nobody knows how it does it," write Mats... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
possibly going to change their attitudes about what they think their lives can be." Yet Harris doesn't wait for residents to come to him. Instead, he has reached out to inner city business owners, helping them write competitive... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
including presenting at practitioner conferences, writing for practitioners in traditional crossover journals and in shorter pieces like op-eds and blogs, and attracting the interest of those who write... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
their work. Joining the discussion was Professor Debora Spar, a political scientist who recently traced the historical development of several pioneering technologies. Leading Research: Let's begin by talking about what led to the writing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Abstract—The most important of Lenin’s writings was, arguably, Imperialism: the Highest Stage of Capitalism. That work shifted the focus from workers’ struggles within one country to the dynamics of capitalism as a global system. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
programs? What management practices work best? Catching Affiliate Fraud Edelman and Brandi, admitted computer geeks, developed software that allowed them to observe management structures within companies using affiliate branding. Edelman, who earned his way through... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
triggered by them making inefficient decisions or even mistakes that they would otherwise avoid," the researchers write in The Cost of Friendship. They attribute this inefficiency to "groupthink," the psychological phenomenon in which... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
increasing wisdom," the authors write in the introduction to Harder Than I Thought. In this excerpt from chapter one, our hero encounters trouble before he even begins his first day on the job. Monday, October 26, 8:01 A.m. From Harder... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
leader—"Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal humility and professional will"—except for the fact that he has been plagued with bad decisions regarding his choices for senior management positions and a reluctance to repair them... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
colleague of Christensen's at this time, once observed that this tendency "led to much closer study of company situations. The strong appeal of [his] cases and of his writing about them is embodied and reflected in his own... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
law to federal deposit insurance. "If you look across these policies, one thing that becomes quite clear is that anytime you shift a risk around, you have to be concerned about the potential for moral hazard," said Moss. "Anytime you View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
who need them, especially among vulnerable populations. Racial inequities, laid bare by the pandemic, and social unrest provoked by recent police killings have escalated tensions. In the course of writing Problem Solving: HBS Alumni... View Details
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
control over brands is explicitly ceded to the public for marketing purposes. As I write this, the Binghamton, New York minor league professional baseball team is thought to be on its way to being named the Stud Muffins in a poll of fans.... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
each ran whatever happened in their area—all the activities, all the housing, all the building, most of the food, a lot of the sanitation. As a result, there was an interesting public-private coordination to look at. Q: How will HBS students benefit from your trip and... View Details
- 11 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation
constantly learning and are transformed by their experiences and interactions. Through their leadership, "they create a context in which other people can be enterprising in their own right," she said. Hill is now writing a book... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale
most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or... View Details
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
of the Case Research and Writing Group. “No one believed that you could create a brand in tomatoes—a commodity!” The case details how, during an economic downturn, a small business in its fourth generation of family ownership became one... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
fixing easy-to-solve problems had greater improvement in safety climate than those focused on identifying a bunch of hard-to-solve ones. "To our knowledge, this tradeoff between analysis and action in process improvement programs has not been empirically examined,"... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
independent oversight it is tough to write credible standards and subject them to internal monitoring and enforcement. A third competitive method, known as the Porter Hypothesis, after Harvard Business School professor and strategy expert... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace