Scientists - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Location, Location, Location: The Strategy of Place

they don't have much choice but to cozy near the competition, especially when they need to plug into unique knowledge that exists in certain areas. Biotech companies, for instance, often operate close to top-notch universities to interact with View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Accidental Innovator

artists seem to rely on accidents to generate interesting and creative outcomes. How often accidents are involved in important innovations is also difficult to say. How do you define the time boundaries of an accident? What does "often" mean? Ernst Mach, a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

07 Jul 2021
Book

Good News for Disgraced Companies: You Can Regain Trust

plays out in companies and industries from the 2019 Michelin Movin’ On transportation conference. It was held in Montreal, and business and government leaders and researchers and scientists who work on transportation came together to... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and LISH research scientist Michael Menietti; as well as George Washington University’s Zoe Szajnfarber and Jason Crusan. “Given that these types of decisions can... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

decisions, to get flu shots, to lose weight, to be wiser about personal financial planning. Behavioral scientists are becoming the new HR superstars in some organizations. Research through the years at Harvard Business School has explored... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

The work of Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell offers a high-profile example, Opie notes. Gebru, who’s Black, and Mitchell, who’s white, explored fairness in machine learning as computer scientists at Google. They raised controversial... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

president for research when she launched what proved to be the company's most successful "emerging business opportunity," the Life Sciences venture. She disrupted IBM's staid model by hiring genetic scientists and other specialists, and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

performance of identical twins on a battery of ten creativity tests could be attributed to genetics. 6 In contrast, roughly 80 percent to 85 percent of the twins' performance on general intelligence (IQ) tests could be attributed to genetics. 7 So general intelligence... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

22 Feb 2018
Book

The New History of American Capitalism

types developed by various social scientists during the past two centuries. One of the prime foci of social history, for example, was the history of labor. The history of capitalism picks up that interest but moves beyond wage labor in an... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

essential that managers from the highest levels of the company be involved in the decision-making process from the start. Senior scientists met with high-level managers and entered into a long series of discussions. Their first decision:... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

for that occupation as a whole. If 30 percent of data scientists are women, then a recruiter searching for data scientists would see 30 percent female candidates in search results. Think like a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

both employers and job candidates can build on it.” You Might Also Like: Career Advice for Minorities and Women: Sharing Your Identity Can Open Doors Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders Lack of Female View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

often fail. Why are consumers so blind? And why can’t scientists and public policy makers help them more effectively? A new study suggests that researchers are not diving deeply enough into root causes, consequently creating solutions, or... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

10 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Lessons: Social Media Can Nudge More People to Get Vaccinated

data scientist at Amazon; and Nils Wernerfelt, an economist at Meta, Facebook’s parent company. In one of the largest studies of its kind, Luca and his coauthors analyzed more than 800 public health advertising campaigns that reached 2.1... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Health; Technology

19 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

systematically analyzed their effectiveness in terms of impact per dollar spent. Beshears is part of an informal group of behavioral scientists who, a few years ago, discussed doing just that. Spearheaded by UCLA’s Shlomo Benartzi, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Steps to Help You Get Out of Your Own Way

money and career. Ashley Whillans shows how to restore the proper balance. Sidetracked: Why Can’t We Stick to the Plan?Behavioral scientist and professor Francesca Gino explores the unexpected forces that often keep people from following... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

lot of people are feeling apprehension,” says Yu, who’s now a scientist at Humu, a Palo Alto company that develops productivity tools for workplaces. “Maybe they want to go back to work but there's a lot of social anxiety because they're... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

13 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk

it before that. So it was known to the scientists before, but generally speaking, we've done a bad job in being prepared from the disease surveillance, to having the kind of protective equipment that we need to have. To having the kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Pharmaceutical

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

of business development. Choices made early on can dramatically affect the options available later. A firm that permits a scientist to present a paper describing an invention to an international audience before filing a patent application... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

money-driven society to a time-smart one—would be higher productivity and lower health care spending. Shifting the rhetoric could be contagious in a way that social scientists are discovering is quite powerful. We look to others to see... View Details