Ideas - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Jul 2019
Book

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

overconfidence. Exaggerating synergies and ignoring integration costs Synergy is the idea that once merged, the value of two companies will be greater than the sum of the values of each individual company. On the surface, the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

Don’t Include Them OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: iStockphoto/lakshmiprasad View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

06 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

co-workers can help those employees improve. “When you are exposed to different ideas or a different way of working, it can change your own behavior,” says Christopher Stanton, the Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

12 Dec 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock

get adequate sunlight; and the Follo, a roving robot that would act as its owner's personal assistant. Conducting consumer research on a completely new product idea is a dilemma for many entrepreneurs. "When you come to consumers... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

07 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

How Marketing Can Reduce Worldwide Poverty

drawing upon literature and ideas and other disciplines. We're looking at identity politics, political science, and social policy. We are trying to learn from other interdisciplinary approaches and asking, "How do we rationally and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Should Men’s Products Fear a Woman’s Touch?

dissertation at HBS. In short, she found that many group members associated SUVs with suburban mothers. And the idea of a suburban mother driving a Porsche to run errands was anathema to many Porsche men. "Hopefully I will see a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Auto

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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Roche : Recipient of the 2023 Outstanding Reviewer Award from Organization Science . Raffaella Sadun : Included in the 2023 Thinkers50 Radar list—a list of 30 "up-and-coming thinkers whose ideas we predict will make an important impact on... View Details

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

useful way to reduce loneliness and improve their wellbeing and productivity.” You Might Also Like: Outrage Spreads Faster on Twitter: Evidence from 44 News Outlets Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars' More Proof That Money Can... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

the loss of jobs in manufacturing hadn't been offset by new tradable jobs involved in the creation of ideas (for example, consulting and the development of new information technologies, nearly all service sector jobs). Spence argues in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

24 May 2017
News

David G. Bradley, MBA 1977

Bradley built and led the enormously successful firms that emerged: the Advisory Board Company (ABC) and the Corporate Executive Board (CEB). In 1999, having sold CEB, Bradley purchased the Atlantic, the monthly magazine that has explored American View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Sep 2023
News

Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley The Happiness Handbook By Landon Carter (MBA 1967) Marshall and McClintic Publishing Have you ever wished you had the instruction manual for being a happy human on planet Earth? This book will answer some of life’s fundamental questions: Who am... View Details

28 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Making the Decision to Franchise (or not)

study was written by HBS professors Dennis Campbell and Srikant Datar, with Tatiana Sandino (HBS DBA '04) of USC's Marshall School of Business. "Franchising is a very observable, real choice that organizations make." -Dennis Campbell "The basic View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Corp. You Might Also Like: Your Best Employees Are Burning Out: A Framework for Retaining Talent Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control Feedback or ideas to... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?

is far more valuable in decisions regarding people " However, intuition lags reality. "Use it to consider if the new idea makes sense, but don't give it more weight than it deserves." B. Graham equated judgment with a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 18

PublicationsSidetracked: Why Our Decisions Get Derailed and How We Can Stick to the Plan Authors:Francesca Gino Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming Abstract You may not realize it but simple, irrelevant factors can have profound consequences on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Article

Healthy Buildings in 2070

By: John D. Macomber and Joseph G. Allen

Fifty years seems a very long time in the future for most industries. Not so in buildings and real estate; built structures routinely last decades if not hundreds of years, as long as they are economically competitive. Any discussion of the 50-year future has to... View Details

Keywords: Health ＆ Wellness; Real Estate; Architectural Innovation; Public Health; Health; Buildings and Facilities; Well-being

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Demonstration Policy | About

responsibilities of every member of our community is vital. The ability to dissent is a reasonable expectation. So, too, is the idea of personal accountability for individuals who, through their words or actions, fail to uphold our... View Details

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

are told that great entrepreneurs are persistent. So, if you throw in the towel, you must not be a great entrepreneur.” It’s hard to let others down. Letting go of an ill-conceived idea becomes much harder when dozens of employees rely... View Details