by Sara Grant - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

In the decades prior to the advent of radial tires," writes Donald Sull in Business History Review, "Firestone Tire & Rubber was viewed by some observers as the best managed U.S. tire company." But in the face of French... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

for managers who do not have intimate knowledge of the content of their work. This emphasis on demonstration of capabilities is even more critical in the open source community. One earns the respect of peers by demonstrating skills and... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

wait until you're desperate to contact mentors," said Sara Crutchfield Clarke (HBS MBA '97), vice president of corporate strategy at Showtime Networks. "Find ways to stay in touch, and have a clear means of articulating your... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

Motions: An Empirical Test of Management Involvement in Process Improvement," HBS professor Anita L. Tucker and Harvard School of Public Health professor Sara J. Singer show that communicating with frontline workers can backfire if... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American firms, he knew it was an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne: Testing Opportunity In 1994, Teradyne, a leading provider of machines that test the quality of microprocessors and other integrated circuits as they come off the assembly line, saw an opportunity to create a more compact and cost-efficient test system View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

key questions: In this particular market, which market institutions are working, and which institutions are missing? Which parts of our business model can be adversely affected by these institutional voids? How can we build competitive... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

The tech industry has thrived by capturing our best students—regardless of origin—and giving them exciting jobs, which helps make America one of the most innovative countries in the world. Restricting the free movement of talent does not... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

25 Oct 2006
Op-Ed

Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance

The latest corporate governance crisis is buried in the details of executive compensation contracts. Don't like the timing of the stock option grant you got or the strike price of the contract? No worries! It turns out that this is... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

stakeholders tend to impute the status of the latter onto the former, thus granting higher status to the young firm. I found that young agencies with high-status clients performed better and grew faster than agencies without high-status... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

compensation committee of a major corporation knows that the coming "proposals" for the preservation of option grants at the top (supported by compensation consultant recommendations) will be based... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

Discussions about the withdrawal of US troops from Afghanistan are frequent these days, with an emphasis on the importance of post-war security. But what's usually missing is an even more difficult consideration—that embattled country's economy. A recent conference at... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

19 May 2021
Op-Ed

Why America Needs a Better Bridge Between School and Career

change among training organizations, our research team at Harvard’s interdisciplinary Project on Workforce analyzed 316 applications to the Postsecondary Innovation for Equity initiative. The grant competition, launched View Details

Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller and Rachel Lipson

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

dug into the precarious topic in his presentation, Private Equity: Financial Capital, Real Consequences? In one study of 495 leveraged-buyout transactions, Lerner and colleagues looked into whether such transactions squelched innovation and ignored long-term grown.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

28 Aug 2010
News

Paul Allen's Company Files Broad Lawsuit Over Patents

Article

Why Schumpeter Was Right: Innovation, Market Power and Creative Destruction in 1920s America

By: Tom Nicholas

Are firms with strong market positions powerful engines of technological progress? Joseph Schumpeter thought so, but his hypothesis has proved difficult to verify empirically. This article highlights Schumpeterian market-power and creative-destruction effects in a... View Details