University Level - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2014
What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

Wendy Zito believes that "when you feel you are being listened to then it helps you connect to the other person but it also helps you hear yourself." Gael raised the question to a more universal level with... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?

Developments in the Postwar Period,” in A. B. Smith (ed.), Competitive Distribution in a Free High Level Economy and Its Implications for the University (Pittsburgh: University... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

19 Mar 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Overcoming the Stress of ‘Englishnization’

experienced a status loss under the mandate, she found, regardless of their level of English fluency. "There's this universal experience of status diminution when people compare their native/formally... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

23 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Jialan Wang and Jeyul Yang of the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Benjamin Iverson of Brigham Young University. “The drop in business bankruptcies is particularly striking given reports of widespread permanent business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jan 2021
Op-Ed

How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics

be classified into five segments: innovators, early adopters, early majority, late majority, and laggards. Each of the five segments has its own behavioral and demographic characteristics, with varying levels of uncertainty about the... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

manager might be feeling. At a meta level I want the whole class—in some ways sharing the same breath—to actually feel different inside when they leave class. Part of that is from questions they’re asking about themselves and about the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

PublicationsStrength in Numbers: The Political Power of Weak Interests Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Harvard University Press, forthcoming Abstract This book investigates the sources of interest group influence has on public... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Wright, an economics professor at the National University of Singapore, set out to clearly define MSPs, contrast them with traditional resellers and input suppliers, and address the strategic consideration of where firms "choose to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Dec 2019
Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

this as a process of socialization, externalization, combination, and internalization (SECI) that takes place in progressive phases to generate innovations over time. Published in October by Oxford University Press, The Wise Company... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

08 Feb 2010
HBS Case

Looking Behind Google’s Stand in China

have been almost universal in their unwillingness to publicly support Google. Their view is that Google has needlessly upset the apple cart for everybody else. For many of these multinationals, China is or will soon be their second most... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

approaches to decision making and management. Finally, we argue that the rise of the Graduate School of Business at the University of Chicago from the 1960s onwards (and its closely related cousin at the View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

insight. "He had such great antennae. And he was brave. It takes courage to stick your chin out in the air and say this is what's coming. I always wanted to be prepared for his class. Not that I feared him; you just didn't want to be left out." A Hangman's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

Research Summary

Leadership and Leadership Development: An Ontological Approach

This summarizes my research program over the last twelve years (with my co-investigators Werner Erhard, Steve Zaffron, and more recently Kari Granger) in which the objective has been to rigorously distinguish leader and leadership and to create a technology for... View Details

07 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads

zap a commercial. We observe at the microsecond level what causes people to get 'ticked off,' stop watching, and press the button." The Eyes Have It Teixeira learned of eye-tracking technology as a Ph.D. student at the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that participants who wore a heavy backpack experienced higher View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Meeting China’s Need for Management Education

of those areas. However, our experience has been that by working at both the institutional level (with universities and ministries of education) and with individual faculty and their deans and leaders we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

19 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

"It's a gap that might make you less competitive compared with someone who is of the same ethnic culture." “To the extent that you could speak the language or demonstrate a certain level of understanding of culture, that might... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial," published in the June 2011 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine. TIP #3- Fill your backpack with rocks. A research team from Harvard and the University of Central Florida tested the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

their new working paper Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? Vallée and Yao Zeng, an assistant professor of finance at the University of Washington, address these issues from the perspective of what platforms can do to View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

03 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Business History around the World

While many history departments of American universities prefer to keep business as a separate discipline, HBS entrepreneurship professor Geoffrey Jones encourages the examination of history as a way to better understand contemporary... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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