Historical Result - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Professor of Business Administration. Tip: Use COVID-19 as a time to reflect Make time for introspection. The coronavirus represents a historic inflection point that is likely to forever change us, as did the assassination of President... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

are broader. When Grushka-Cockayne refers to averaging the forecasts, she is not necessarily referring to a mathematical average but any number of ways to combine them. Various methods can include weighting certain ones or trimming View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

18 Dec 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

together, our results highlight how revealing failures encountered on the way to success can be a counterintuitive yet effective interpersonal emotion regulation strategy. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

accommodating an appropriate level of economic activity. Businesses have historically overcome this type of challenge through the introduction of risk-mitigating technologies, which in this pandemic include technologies, business... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

firms are able to avoid defensiveness and resulting blindness. HCHP firms institutionalize what I call Learning and Governance Systems, a means for having honest, collective, and public conversations with key people at lower levels about... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2019
Book

Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence

results and interact with shareholders,” says Desai, who is also a Harvard Law School professor. “The problem is that people perceive finance to be this difficult building block. I want executives to have more comfort with it and to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

03 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

The Box Office Power of Stars

buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

25 Mar 2020
Blog Post

Black New Venture Competition and Black Tech Master Series Recap

advancing the discussion of diversity in tech and entrepreneurship as well as connecting talent to opportunity in these sectors. We’ve heard countless stories of attendees and founders securing funding, building partnerships, and fostering fruitful business... View Details

13 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Unlikely Upside of Mergers: More Diverse Management Teams

leadership structure to payroll systems. “The disruption allows these patterns to be changed for the better,” he says. "How firms approach diversity issues during these critical moments could affect their inequality for many future years." Zhang notes that just a... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Web

Rare Disease Day – Small Numbers, Big Challenges… and Big Opportunities - Blog: Health Supplement

Blog Blog Health Care and Life Science at HBS Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Blavatnik Fellow Author Blavatnik Fellowship Team Author Executive Education Author HBS Partners Author HBS Staff Author... View Details

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

understood by the theory of rational addiction—“a theory that fails to explain why addicts often regret their behavior or regard it as a mistake,” she says. But she found the framework, which has historically been applied only to harmful... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

sexual experiences by 59%. We conduct a “placebo test” and show that for non-sensitive placebo items, the veiled methodology produces effects that are small in magnitude and not significantly different from zero in seven out of eight items. Taken together the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

it is urgent. What does it mean to make capitalism a subject of historical inquiry? What is its potential across multiple disciplines, alongside different methodologies, and in a range of geographic and chronological settings? And how... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

management should understand about IT is its associated economics. Driven by Moore's Law, those evolving economics have enabled every industry's transaction costs to decrease continually, resulting in new economics for the firm and... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

editorial section of the HBP website features motivational lessons and practical insights on a range of topics. Revenue from Corporate Learning declined 7 percent from the prior year. As a result of COVID-19, many corporate clients... View Details

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding

German Soccer League over a season. Our research results show that leaders can reinvigorate a failing business using team members already in charge, and without large-scale change of direction. We observed that Small C retooling can... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Sascha L. Schmidt, and Sebastian Flegr; Sports

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

in Baker Library’s Historical Collections reveals a case study of Boston-area residential finance in the 1920s and 30s. In the early 1920s, Somerville entrepreneur Edmond M. Cremen moved into real estate finance from auto sales, another... View Details

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

behavior of observably similar public and private firms using a new data source on private U.S. firms, assuming for identification that closely held private firms are subject to fewer short-termist pressures. Our results show that... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

where diaspora connections serve to navigate uncertain environments. We further show that diaspora-based contracts mainly serve to lower costs for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These... View Details