Professor Paul Lawrence - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

players, and actors—can teach us a number of strategies for distinguishing lies from truth. 1. Listen With All Your Senses University of California Medical School, San Francisco, professor Paul Ekman has... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

For many investors planning for retirement, asset allocation is a crucial issue. How much should I put into stocks, bonds, and cash? But Harvard Business School professor Daniel Bergstresser says that households with substantial assets in... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

26 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

research with Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp and Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp of Turkey’s Bilkent University; L. A. Paul of Yale University; Joshua Tenenbaum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Tomer D. Ullman, an assistant View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

16 Apr 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

'71, PhDBE '73), now the Bishop William Lawrence University Professor at Harvard and an internationally renowned authority on competitive strategy, has vivid memories of his days as a student in... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

several suggested that the next era of capitalism, an answer to both managers' and owners' capitalism, may be something we may call entrepreneurial capitalism. Paul Hudnut, who suggested the term, offered a prediction: "Just as many... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

the turnaround of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston. Paul Levy, who became CEO in early 2002, managed to bring the failing hospital back from the brink of ruin. We had ringside seats during the first six months of the... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

up until the point (and even after) the company tumbled off a cliff. Indeed, HBS professor Mark Bradshaw and collaborators Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan found that pre-year 2000 forecasts and recommendations done by Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

26 Sep 2024
HBS Seminar

Garrett Van Ryzin, Columbia & Amazon

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

(Editor's Note. Carl Icahn is in the news again. On Monday, SEC filings revealed the militant investor has sold his entire stake in eBay, after successfully pushing the company to spin off its PayPal operation. Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

01 Sep 2023
News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Mele

31 Jan 2024
Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

The HBS Business and Environment Initiative launched the Climate Rising podcast in 2019 to elicit insights from leaders working at the intersection of business and climate change. The podcast is particularly valuable for those seeking to work in this space. Host View Details

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Enter Elton Mayo – The Human Relations Movement – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

In 1925, Donham wrote to Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell asking for funds to appoint Mayo associate professor in the study of human relations. Lowell at first responded that he could not justify the... View Details

21 Sep 2016
HBS Seminar

Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

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Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

Assets." Harvard Business School Technical Note 125-120, June 2025. Paul Weiss: Fighting or Negotiating with POTUS By: Eugene Soltes and Anthea Brady June 2025 | Teaching Note | Faculty Research This note was prepared by View Details

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

School. So we designed this project to ask: May they, can they, should they, and do they? We commissioned three papers, one by law school professor Einer Elhauge, to examine "may they?" He concluded that firms could indeed go... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

unforeseen consequences on executive performance and may work against the interests of employers. Romana Autrey, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, recently completed two working papers on this subject in collaboration... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

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Business, Government & the International Economy Faculty - Faculty & Research

Business, Government & the International Economy Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students Unit Head David A. Moss Paul Whiton Cherington Professor of Business... View Details

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

If people smile, nod, and say "yes" at your company, maybe it's time to start an argument. According to HBS professor Michael Roberto, the lack of good conflict—constructive conflict—within an organization makes it that much... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 24, 2008

Paul S. Adler. Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, forthcoming Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/uk/catalogue/?ci=9780199535231 A Better Approach to Foreign Aid Authors: Justin Muzinich... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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