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- 12 May 2020
- News
Coronavirus and the future of the workplace: 8 trends to watch
- Nov 13 2019
- Testimonial
Preparing for the Future of Real Estate
- April 2018 (Revised November 2019)
- Case
JD: Envisioning the Future of Retail (A)
By: Feng Zhu and Shirley Sun
JD, China’s second largest e-commerce company by gross merchandise volume (GMV) after Alibaba, had expanded rapidly from 2012 to 2016. When the company celebrated its 13th birthday in 2017, Richard Liu, its founder, deliberated on the company’s growth strategies. The... View Details
Zhu, Feng, and Shirley Sun. "JD: Envisioning the Future of Retail (A)." Harvard Business School Case 618-051, April 2018. (Revised November 2019.)
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
global organizations, with PetroChina currently leading the list with a market value of more than $1 trillion. The impact of this phenomenon on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Is the Auction House of the Future Online?
“Balloon Dog (Blue), 2005” by Jeff Koons sold for an undisclosed amount as part of a May Paddle8 auction. (Photo courtesy of Paddle8) When the hip-hop collective Wu-Tang Clan... View Details
- November 2012
- Article
Does Management Really Work?
By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In... View Details
Keywords: Best Practices; Consulting Firms; Corporations; Cost Control; Employee Training; Executive Ability (Management); Executives—training Of; Hospitals—administration; Industrial Management—research; Productivity Incentives; School Management Teams; Work Environment; Management; Research
Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen. "Does Management Really Work?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 11 (November 2012).
- 2017
- Working Paper
Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History
By: Gareth Austin, Carlos Dávila and Geoffrey Jones
This working paper suggests that the business history of emerging markets should be seen as an alternative business history rather than merely adding new settings to explore established core debates. The discipline of business history evolved around the corporate... View Details
Austin, Gareth, Carlos Dávila, and Geoffrey Jones. "Emerging Markets and the Future of Business History." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 18-012, August 2017.
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
and team creativity, entrepreneurship, organizations, and society. To develop a research agenda that identifies new questions and approaches relevant to both academics and practitioners. The underlying assumption View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
reported a greater sense of meaning at work and lower turnover intentions. These effects were most pronounced among employees reporting high levels of burnout. By encouraging... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- May 2016
- Case
The Priceline Group: Booking a Place for the Future
By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Anish Pathipati
The Chairman of the Priceline Group is considering the actions he must take to confront an evolving external environment, new direct competition, disintermediation and substitute offerings. Does his response require an increased coordination of each historically... View Details
Keywords: Operations Strategy; Service Management; Competitive Advantage; Competitive Strategy; Operations; Service Operations; Travel Industry
Schlesinger, Leonard A., and Anish Pathipati. "The Priceline Group: Booking a Place for the Future." Harvard Business School Case 316-177, May 2016.
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
rationalizations for the failures. Specifically, managers attributed large failures to uncontrollable events outside the organization (e.g., the... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
attacks. Garry Emmons: The focus of your work is on how to manage integration within a highly differentiated organization. Post-9/11, how's View Details
- 2022
- Article
How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies
By: Thomaz Teodorovicz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun and Orit Shaer
We assess how the sudden and widespread shift to working from home during the pandemic impacted how managers allocate time throughout their working day. We analyze the results from an online time-use survey with data on 1,192 knowledge workers (out of which 973 are... View Details
Keywords: Time-use; Working-from-home; COVID; Managers; Knowledge Workers; Health Pandemics; Time Management
Teodorovicz, Thomaz, Raffaella Sadun, Andrew L. Kun, and Orit Shaer. "How Does Working from Home during COVID-19 Affect What Managers Do? Evidence from Time-Use Studies." Human-Computer Interaction 37, no. 6 (2022): 532–557.
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
the initial results of the study in a new working paper, Management Practices across Firms and Countries,—also... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- Research Summary
The Origins, Current State, and Future of Capitalism
Starting with the dawn of market capitalism in Renaissance Italy, Professor Reinert works at the intersection of economic ideas, policies, and practices in history, particularly as seen through the lens of national strategies in international competition. He seeks to... View Details
- August 2014
- Article
The New Empirical Economics of Management
By: Nicholas Bloom, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur and John Van Reenen
Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review... View Details
Bloom, Nicholas, Renata Lemos, Raffaella Sadun, Daniela Scur, and John Van Reenen. "The New Empirical Economics of Management." Journal of the European Economic Association 12, no. 4 (August 2014): 835–876.
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Digitalization: The Key to the Future of HBS
KarimLakhani Digital Task Force Chair Professor Karim Lakhani and a task force of 36 faculty and staff from across HBS, charged with envisioning a new digital future for the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 21 Apr 2022
- News
Will Women Leaders Change the Future of Management?
- 2014
- Article
Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct
By: Amy C. Edmondson and Zhike Lei
Psychological safety describes people's perceptions of the consequences of taking interpersonal risks in a particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting... View Details
Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei. "Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct." Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior 1 (2014): 23–43.
- 26 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Office of Strategy Management
though more than 90 percent had detailed strategic plans with much higher targets. Our own work with clients supports the existence of a persistent gap between View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace