Individual Connections - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2020
Book

A Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading

know we are invested in them and care deeply about them. I’ve seen it over the years. When I am teaching executives, among whom may be 60-year-olds, and I ask them, “Write down the name or names of individuals in your career who you knew... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

16 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 16

of integrated services. Executive Peter Barge is put in charge of a new team, called Corporate Solutions, whose mission was to draw connections between the service lines in order to foster integration. How should Barge structure Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2008
What Do You Think?

Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?

rises to the top levels are very productive and very diligent individuals who tend not to reflect and are extremely efficient at deploying other people's ideas," implying that this type of leader is not likely to understand,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Nov 2019
What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

solution is to restrict the use of noncompete clauses, not to ban them entirely.” An outright ban, he wrote, would “lead to significant unintended consequences, particularly at a time when the protection of trade secrets is at an all-time urgency.” Just how can damages... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

like exports that can also be driven up by policies that do not raise productivity or long-term prosperity. For policy makers, this suggests that each individual measure under consideration needs to be tested as to whether it improves... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

29 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How Organizations Create Social Value

A recent study on the factors that contribute to successful high-performance social enterprises finds a connection between enterprises that link economic value with social value. This was the focus of a study presented at the colloquium,... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

15 Jul 2019
Book

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

Book of the Year and connected finance with the humanities. The book sets out to demystify finance and instill both curiosity and confidence, helping readers answer fundamental questions like: What do financial ratios reveal about a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

asking questions such as: What is truly necessary? How are things done? At the individual and company levels, how is time spent, and where are there opportunities to make processes more efficient? When managed well, cross-functional teams... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

with staff and more meeting-based communication may be necessary now, particularly in the early days of adjusting to the remote work world. Research shows that informal conversation benefits remote employees, so she advises managers to devote time during meeting calls... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

connection that occurs through knowledge exchange on the local level or across wider cluster networks.” In that sense, she says, clusters become platforms for development, which has present-day implications for corporations, governments,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

13 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

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

1. Empower your team With Flick at the helm of Bayern Munich, one small lineup change made a big difference. Flick reduced the number of players rotated in and out of the game, trusting his smaller core to perform to their capabilities independent of View Details

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

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

corporations such as Microsoft or Coca-Cola, particularly in Europe. Many NGOs, by the very nature of the work they do and the dedication of their staff and volunteers, attract the respect and admiration of many individuals. Nonprofits are effective at creating... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

organization that operate under a corporate umbrella. For example, Google Search is a classic transaction platform that connects end users to advertisers, and the Android operating system is a classic innovation platform that enables... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

bored," wrote Robert Sullivan (HBS MBA '61). "Levitt made me a convert. He taught that marketing is the guts of any business, that it's critical to understanding the connection between sales, manufacturing, finance, human... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Moss and his colleagues propose that rather than looking at the effects of inequality mainly on the macro level, researchers should also look at the micro level, exploring how rising inequality might affect the individual decisions people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

How does an entrepreneur make the switch from inspiring a tiny group of followers in a metaphorical garage to leading what eventually becomes a multibillion-dollar business? The ability to translate individual creativity into sustained... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

working paper, "Modeling Passenger Travel and Delays in the National Air Transportation System," Fearing and coauthors Cynthia Barnhart and Vikrant Vaze of MIT apply statistical techniques to develop a representative sample of View Details

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

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

applications from standalone software products purchased at the store to something companies or individuals license annually over the Internet. More recently, companies have started selling “anything as a service” (XaaS, pronounced... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

past research, Exley looked at the extent to which people believe their charity will succeed in its goals. She found that when individuals doubt the charity’s impact, or when the charity shows lower performance metrics, they are naturally... View Details