Publications

28 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 28

Designed around the course at Harvard Business School, Collis' new text takes the firm that operates across borders as a unit of analysis and the senior manager in a multinational as the typical decision maker. Illustrated with examples... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

Technology & Innovation Technology & Innovation December 2014 Article The Distinct Effects of Information Technology and Communication Technology on Firm Organization By: Nicholas Bloom, Luis Garicano, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen... View Details

September 2017 (Revised November 2018)
Case

Marriott International: The Next 90 Years

By: Chiara Farronato and Gary Pisano

The case examines how Marriott should respond to the potential threats from new home-sharing platforms and the rise of online travel agencies. In 2017 Marriott was the largest hotel chain, with more than one million rooms and 7% of worldwide room supply. In the... View Details

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Creating a Successful Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

industries in the 1980s by doing things in a novel way. They essentially rewrote the playbooks for how to run an airline and sell furniture—and carved out long-lasting, unique strategic positions in the marketplace. Elements View Details

December 2021
Case

Burning Glass Technologies: From Data to Product

By: Suraj Srinivasan and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2021, Matt Sigelman, CEO of Burning Glass Technologies, a company that provided labor market analytics for a variety of markets, navigates his company’s transition from data company to product company. Burning Glass originated as a service that used artificial... View Details

Fast Answer

Stock prices: current & historical

desired frequency and time period. You can download this data into Excel. Another option is to choose Chart under Price & Charts. Expand the filter to the left of where it says ‘Templates’ to add in another company, and/or... View Details

02 Apr 2020
What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

the expense of others.” Philippe Gouamba predicted that, “The leaders and organizations that do the right things by their employees will rise to the top.” Nassim Nicholas Taleb himself is reported by Mac to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

15 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Kids Benefit From Having a Working Mom

home country; and Gross Domestic Product in the respondent's home country. Stripping those things away, they focused on the effects of being raised by a mother who worked outside the home. "The direct... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Aug 2013
What Do You Think?

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

the proper role of judgment in decision-making? What do you think? Original Article In the last several years, a veritable tsunami of advice on how to make decisions has hit the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?

Holden Professor of Organizational Behavior at Stanford, and Daniella Kupor, a doctoral student at Stanford. "It is generally considered a good-natured prosocial thing to tip, but bribing is considered... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Jan 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Separating Homophily and Peer Influence with Latent Space

Keywords: by Joseph P. Davin, Sunil Gupta & Mikołaj Jan Piskorski

12 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

proliferation of arbitration Companies from internet service providers to nursing home operators use arbitration to shield themselves from expensive, protracted lawsuits. Proponents say the approach resolves... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

16 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?

blunt solution like eliminating options may be a better alternative. “If you’re confident people are making a mistake but not very confident why, you may be better off in terms of not trying to nudge them but more bluntly get them to do... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Consulting; Retail

11 Mar 2024
Blog Post

A Day in the Life: Ben Hsieh

development. 2:00 PM: One of the best things about HBS is the sheer volume of amazing guests that are brought onto campus. I’m particularly a fan View Details

June 2014 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Kathy Giusti and the Multiple Myeloma Research Foundation

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Joshua D. Margolis and Matthew G. Preble

What do you do when your rising professional career is cut short by an unexpected cancer diagnosis? Kathy Giusti shifted careers, built a new organization that transformed how cancer research is done, and now faces the challenge of sustaining the organization and its... View Details