Grounded Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Jul 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Meeting Management Challenges in India

As Harvard Business School increasingly researches management issues around the world, India has proven a fertile ground for study. In this edition of Sharpening Your Skills, we revisit four articles where... View Details

Keywords: Re: Tarun Khanna & Rohit Deshpande

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

India's economic growth is an exciting new playing field for the retail industry and for entrepreneurs looking to get in on the ground level, a panel of that country's businessmen agreed. Rising incomes, increased advertising, and a jump... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

cosmopolitan business class is bringing these different worlds closer together. Despite national differences, these transnational road warriors frequently have a common grounding in education, professional background, and global popular... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

the potential for building new products out of their existing inventions." Take Xerox, for example. Its research center, Xerox PARC, famously had invented the graphical user interface, mouse, laser printing, and other technologies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

Established in 1997, the program provides health insurance to uninsured children in moderate-income families. To research the link between SCHIP and entrepreneurship, Olds studied 1992-2011 data from the United States Census Bureau's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

interview, Ely discusses the origins of the research, her experiences aboard an oil platform, and how this research can improve safety at other job sites. Sarah Jane Gilbert: How do you define masculine identity and what led you to study... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

18 Nov 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

One skill every new employee must master is getting a fast start. Here are stories from the archives on what Harvard Business School faculty have advised about hitting the ground running. A Fast Start On Your New Job Your first 90 days in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Can Our Parenting Struggles Make Us Better Leaders?

let go. Finding a happy medium is far from easy. Diana Baumrind, a pioneering research psychologist, observed that parents often behave in ways that are either authoritarian, permissive, or negligent, with a tendency to bounce among the... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Air Transportation

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

School Case 207-084 Following a successful model in Europe, JP Morgan has introduced a set of five U.S. retail mutual funds with an investment philosophy and marketing strategy grounded in behavioral finance. The asset management group... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

inventors, including knowledge spillovers and agglomeration and the concentration of spinoffs. This work investigates a possible antecedent of inventor mobility: regional variation in the enforcement of postemployment non-compete covenants. While previous View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

focus on professional identity—the BE component—we turned to the literature on adolescent and adult identity development. Our work was grounded in the constructive-developmental theory of Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan (The Evolving... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

personality, Trump does not use Twitter to listen and seek feedback, generate leads and research the messages he should use in the traditional air and ground wars. Unlike Clinton, Trump seems to reject using... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

education into some of the most outstanding modern universities of the last century. And finally, the state has recently encouraged entrepreneurship with massive investments in research and development. "If you look at those three things,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

"Interesting to make analogies, but the basics of medical decision making are grounded in scientific fact whereas there is no unified body of knowledge based on science for the manager." As Todd Rhoad put it, " doctors are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Entering the Age of Alliances

been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin

24 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA

levity given the seriousness of the topic at hand. Some of the schools represented had already implemented major MBA program reforms. Others were considering them. But everyone had one thing in common: Each had assisted HBS professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin in... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson & HBS Bulletin; Education

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

competitive challenges facing software companies. Their market success depends largely on persuading the above-mentioned developers to write for their platforms. A new research paper suggests that the two sides can serve their own best... View Details