by Robert Simons - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

subtle way that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff," says Harvard Business School Professor Robert S. Huckman, who recently cowrote The Impact of Electronic Health Record Use on Physician Productivity with... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?

donations to organizations such as World Wildlife Fund and Save the Children fit in. Those contributing money are driven first and foremost by an affinity with the idea, rather than by any individual reward... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

29 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

Do you have that one friend who seems to snag the coolest, most fashionable shoes, jewelry, or clothes? Now new research shows that when luxury goods companies cater to these trendy consumers by controlling how rare certain items... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

been published in a new book: Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business. The coauthors are Bruce L. Hay, Harvard Law School; Robert N. Stavins, John F. Kennedy School... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

02 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

10 Trends to Watch in 2024

The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

During a 2017 Amgen earnings call, CEO Robert Bradway began answering an analyst’s question, then turned to colleague Sean Harper and said, “Sean, I'll let you talk about the specifics.” Bradway’s simple act of calling on Harper to add... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

systemically risky institutions, it would jeopardize its political independence. And that would be a big mistake. Excerpt: the New Structure Of U.s. Financial Regulation by Robert Pozen, from Too Big To Save... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

the organization to support One Report in terms of measurement methodologies, processes, policies, structure, compensation, internal reporting, and external reporting. Excerpt From One Report: Integrated Reporting For A Sustainable Strategy View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

in the August 2015 issue of the Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, the paper was co-authored by a team of behavioral economists and psychologists: Jooa Julia Lee, a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University; Francesca Gino, a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

Below are the views that faculty shared with the HBS community on Earth Day. 1. Robert G. Eccles Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and author of One Report: Integrated Reporting for a Sustainable Strategy (This article, titled,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Giving to Others Makes Us Happy

Aknin of Simon Fraser University and Elizabeth Dunn of the University of British Columbia on a research paper that finds so-called “prosocial spending”—spending money on other people— can increase happiness. “It is important to begin to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Nov 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Marie Curie: A Case Study in Breaking Barriers

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

Research Summary

Overview

By: Robert Simons

Professor Simons is currently studying how executives make their businesses more competitive using innovative structural designs and performance measurement systems. He has a number of ongoing research projects on this topic, and teaches MBA and executive education... View Details

Keywords: Strategy Execution; Organization Design; Management Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Competitiveness

06 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

between Vietnamese women and US servicemen, writing that they were largely “jobless, homeless, uneducated, unwanted, barely able to speak English” when they arrived to America. Spurred in part by outrage sparked View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

21 Sep 2015
Book

What It Takes to Learn to Be a Leader

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

treated fairly within their larger organizations. “These surveys should be broken down by demographic categories, including race and gender, to identify certain populations that have a lower engagement or sense of commitment to the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11

It is hard to imagine a more difficult and tragic trial by fire for a new leader. On September 4, 2001, Robert Mueller started his new job as the sixth director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. A mere... View Details