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21 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

notes the folly of that strategy, quoting marine historian Martin Stopford, author of Maritime Economics, a leading treatise on shipping: "If so many owners had not had the same idea, this would have been a successful strategy." The heavy... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Influences on Megachurch Pastors is an early-stage paper that looks at how leaders maintain the values of their institutions even as their industries rapidly change around them. Using the example of pastors who oversee enormous churches, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

reports. The paper, authored by Julia Adler-Milstein, an HBS doctoral candidate in the Health Policy Management program; Sara J. Singer, assistant professor at the Harvard School of Public Health and Harvard Medical School; and HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

corporations, the CEO is selected by a higher authority (the board of directors) acting on behalf of the shareholders, which gives him strong positional power to shape the company's direction, strategically and organizationally. The PSF... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance to society. The authors are the 24 psychological scientists who are most frequently cited in the four major textbooks on creativity, and they can thus be... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 4

Festival-Beyond the Festival Template Jaipur Literature Festival (JLF), dubbed "the greatest literary show on earth" was an annual event held in late January at the Diggi Palace in Jaipur. JLF provided a platform for international View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

recent company funding? It had “no effect” compared with a search that didn’t include the badge, the authors write. “The same startup receives significantly more interest from potential employees when it is represented with the top... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

increased the odds of a crisis to 40 percent." “Previous authors had shown that there was some ability to predict financial crises,” says Hanson, a professor of business administration in the HBS Finance Unit. “But we were surprised by... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

$76-billion increase in consumption among American homeowners. That’s laudable. When the authors dug deeper, however, they found that while QE freed up funds for those households that were able to take advantage of dramatically lower... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jun 2004
What Do You Think?

How Important are Big Ideas?

dissemination of these ideas bodes well for companies able to execute them anywhere in the world. Tom Davenport, one of the authors of the study in question, commented, "... while most gurus come from the U.S., idea practitioners can... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

endeavors remain "unnatural acts": Far too many large businesses are better at stifling innovation than at capitalizing on it, better at optimizing local operations than at integrating them for the good of the enterprise and its customers. To make both... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

of the NFL coaching carousel over the last few decades? Why did coaches succeed or fail in a league that some scholars have referred to as a natural laboratory for studying performance? When and why did previously successful coaches lose their powers? One of the View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

mitigations. Businesses will have to persuasively communicate the actions they are taking. As the saying goes, what gets measured gets done. And every one of us will want to know exactly what is being done. About the Authors Joseph Allen... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

of us to navigate the coronavirus crisis by conveying to employees, colleagues, friends, and family that “I’m here for you.” About the Authors Howard Stevenson is Sarofim-Rock Professor Emeritus of Harvard Business School. Eugene B. Kogan... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

New Space sector: namely, to use it as a means of launching classroom discussion and research on the subtleties and challenges of the relationship between the public and private sectors. An associate professor of business administration at Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

footballs should be.” “I don’t think this is about football at all. I think this is about human nature and organizations and performance” As Iansiti watched the AFC title game in January 2015, and the ensuing uproar, he was hooked. As an View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

instead of in Sweden, it's in Portugal. And there, the middle manager doesn't decide anything and is completely dependent on the authority of the CEO. "In our research," she continues, "we argue that different levels of... View Details