Recalls - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

the power to impact the health of millions rallied the team, recalls Jon Puz (MBA '08), a director of account management at the health-care consultancy Carol Corp. (Puz continues to serve DFA in an advisory role; DFA's original team also... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

application aside and asked whether I'd like to get a doctorate instead," recalls Light. After discussions during a visit to the campus, Light agreed to enter a new doctoral program in decision and control theory, a joint program... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

01 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls

horse champing at the bit to do this, and the steering committee held me in the corral so we could really think it through," recalled LaMagna with a smile. "I know how reckless and impatient I can be, and these people kept me in... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas H. Davenport & Brook Manville; Consumer Products

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

example, how well consumers were able to recall a brand name after commercials have been run—but not much more. The effectiveness of marketing investments was rarely directly tied back to sales. This has completely changed with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

accomplishments speak for themselves - together they have developed the type of chemistry on and off the field that is crucial to success,” said the Buccaneers general manager, Jason Licht. When asked if he and Brady had ever discussed playing together again,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

15 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise

Without it, they would always approach nonprofits as philanthropy. I believe our curriculum conditions our graduates to ask the difficult questions on performance, and even go beyond and recall cases, frameworks, and solution approaches.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

content, Kate’s finding suggests that the interviewer might infer that you’re shallow that you do not like intellectual programming, for example.” Finally, the research findings provide a weapon against self-doubt. John recalls a recent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

spend a lot more time researching where products come from and what ingredients they contain. During recent scares concerning pet food ingredients and some children's toys, people suddenly had to research which products were recalled and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

policy. “You have to acknowledge that [Gleason] was trying to fix prices. This is antithetical to how most Americans think of the US market operating” “I thought, who is this plucky woman amongst men?” Sawyer recalls after seeing... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

hypothesis in a lab setting that involved recalling the Ten Commandments, and then performed a similar ethical field study at an insurance company, where they successfully replicated the findings they saw in the lab. "This was nice, since... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

subtle than it sounds," says Ton, "because, in fact, it involves information passing through the system in all directions." To accomplish that, Mercadona invests in field employees called "prescription instructors" who constantly visit stores... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

themselves may be conflicted. They often have very large contracts in the very same companies for pension work, for instance. Moreover, the use of consultants (and the way it's done in a lot of companies) creates what I call "the Lake Wobegon effect." You... View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 23, 2015

interpretation of sarcasm lead to greater creativity because they activate abstract thinking. Studies 1 and 2 found that both sarcasm expressers and recipients reported more conflict but also demonstrated enhanced creativity following a simulated sarcastic conversation... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

part of the physician's learning and socialization. The first incision is something few physicians forget. That procedure is reproduced time after time, in country after country, and provides a seminal building block of medical education (Boulware et al. 2004). As a... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

17 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Resisting the Seductions of Success

and the reason Tony takes the bribe. Recall that Tony is excited, not scared, when Max presents Lassatta's offer. Later that night, as he lies awake in bed, Tony thinks he will be reborn the next day. For forty-three years, he had... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco Jr.; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

recalls her two-year-old exclaiming it was “snowing” while scattering salt from an open jar all over the floor, or her young children running around the kitchen, flinging open cabinets, and putting colanders on their heads as hats. “I... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Zimbabwe, he had been in the job so long that few recall how he got there. Fewer still remember that it was Henry Kissinger, whose complex, if unlikely, negotiations to achieve black majority rule in Rhodesia, later Zimbabwe, helped to... View Details