Managing People - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

Coast operations and its West Coast computer people would severely affect the company. The focus for much of this division was PARC. In the 1970s, PARC was remarkably successful in developing ingenious products that would fundamentally... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985 to 2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975 to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

The Strategic Way to Go to Market

the selling process moves on. Several years and band-aids later, managers may realize that their channels serve neither their customers nor their channel partners well, but it is too late. Q: What are channel stewards and what role would... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

financial chicanery or unethical dealings. “Often what you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm, but that can make people so loyal that when they see something wrong they don’t bring it up” That dichotomy... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

Administration at Harvard Business School. “This is technology that's going to help us to abate these issues around energy and climate, and it's the best technology in that space.” The spectacular rise of sustainable investing Almost 33 percent of the $51.4 trillion in... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

the Academy of Management Journal. The paper was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2004 Academy of Management Conference and of the 2003 Babson-Kauffman Research Conference. Sarah Jane Gilbert:... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

competing on the basis of discounts, U.S. carmakers need to get to the point where people want to buy their cars. —Stefan Thomke Although the Big 3 (or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler's merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

seeing and learning from what other people are doing. Lagace: Why is this book relevant to business managers and leaders not in government? Weiss: A couple answers. If we are going to move toward... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

1998 as part of its management of an apparently ongoing crisis. The reaction of the international financial community—and some of my students—was severe. The capital controls were labeled "unorthodox" and "heretical,"... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

31 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017

which finds (a) a shift in the object of observation from organizational outcomes to the detailed individual activities within them; (b) a shift from people observing the technology to technology observing people; and (c) a split in the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

It's a funny image that touches the underlying anxiety some firm leaders express about managing and maximizing human resources. When their people get on the elevator at night, there's no guarantee they'll be... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

season. We first document relatively low levels of adoption of this new risk management technology: only 5%-10% of households purchase insurance, even though rainfall variability is overwhelmingly cited by households as the most important... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase and Sohel Karim (HBS DBA '88),... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

People who fly the friendly skies with any regularity have no doubt experienced the not-so-friendly feelings that come with missed connections, canceled flights, and general delays. Angry, powerless, they join the rebooking queue or camp... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor

perspective, the illegality of the practice and its misalignment with official organizational goals might be most salient. Thus, the topic of homer making puts the person disclosing it in a position of vulnerability, one in which hasty judgment is likely. The unusual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to share.” "I didn't understand why people were putting all this... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

seventh Gender and Work Symposium, which starts Thursday. The two-day event, themed “The Courage of Our Convictions,” will bring together scholars and activists from across North America to discuss evolving perspectives about gender in organizations. “It has been a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

06 Sep 2005
What Do You Think?

What are the Lessons of New Orleans?

Summing Up Management is a complex process. Good plans executed poorly may be worse than poor plans executed well. This is never truer than at times of disaster, in which plans made from afar have to be implemented by those on the scene... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

the face of a new competitive threat. HBR published comments from four management gurus on what DataClear should do. (See Close Up.) Now it's your turn. We have included an excerpt of the case and a summary of the consultants' advice. But... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

to the fact that anyone can access it from any computer as long as they have a browser, she said. Her company, Desktop.com, is building an integrated Internet desktop services platform and product in much the same spirit, to allow people... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

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