by Harvard Management Update - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

of direct oversight of management by owners—an important element of owners' capitalism—through the vehicle of private equity ownership is the answer. Adrian Grigoriu maintains that "A private ownership... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

21 Mar 2021
News

Trump plans to set up social media platform 'within two to three months'

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

business leaders, moderated by HBS professor Myra Hart, at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. Robin Chase said that being a woman did not hinder her ability to start Zipcar, a service... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

in a recession; they adapt them. Join the discussion on Harvard Business Online. This post is based on an article by John Quelch that appeared in The Financial Times of London on February 19, 2008.... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

panic selling caused an unprecedented early shutdown of the Tokyo Stock Exchange. Horie, who denies wrongdoing, was arrested on January 23. What went wrong at Livedoor, and what are we to learn from its undoing? Robin Greenwood, an assistant professor in the Finance... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

kill the business—but they are of an entirely different nature. In a corporation, managers are usually making the same sorts of decisions every day and are surrounded by other people making similar choices.... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

Social networking sites such as MySpace.com are some of the most trafficked on the Web—MySpace had 46 million unique users in June and features nearly 100 million personal profiles posted by users, many of whom are in their teens and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

21 Oct 2011
News

Business School Students Agog over Gaga

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

undercapitalized, incompetent insurance entrants will be reduced by competition and regulation by state regulatory bodies. Q: In your new article in Harvard Business Review,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2022
News

Untethering the Remote Workforce with 5G

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

consider evolving into a chronic disease management company? Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 317-094 Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

rewards of partnering with cities. These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems Using business to create social change has been at the center of many entrepreneurial efforts by View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

08 Sep 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing

to work in your favor for that next job. And privacy disclosure notices on websites, rather than convincing consumers that their private data is well protected, can make them less likely to make a purchase. Here is recent research on the topic of transparency from... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

matter. Now the most important aspect of reviews are the quality of the reviews, how many stars you’re getting. And then we start to come into some trouble. How does a hotel manage the quality of a person’s review? There’s a study that... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Motion Pictures & Video; Entertainment & Recreation; Banking

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Stuart Gilson

Harvard Business School professor Stuart Gilson fielded some questions regarding his new book in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean SilverthorneSilverthorne: When should a company consider a major restructuring? Are... View Details