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  • 01 May 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

frustration and a path to burnout that is all too common in today’s workplace, says Robert Simons, the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “Today’s jobs are... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

L.E. Simmons

who has achieved lofty financial success in his professional career while remaining firmly grounded in solid business wisdom. The second oldest of four brothers who grew up in rural Kaysville, Utah - all of whom went on to earn MBAs at... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 22 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup

thinking. But people aren't mind readers," Conant told a roomful of CEOs during the second Higher-Ambition CEO Leadership Conference, held at Harvard Business School in January. "I had to go out on a limb and talk about my... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage
  • 10 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 10

a comprehensive approach to understanding the drivers of firm location choices by modeling not only the impact of location and firm heterogeneity, but also the strategic interaction among firms. August 2013 Harvard Business Review How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2005 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Genentech - Capacity Planning

By: Daniel C. Snow, Steven C. Wheelwright and Alison Berkley Wagonfeld
While facilitating a complex clinical approval process over the next two to three years for a family of new cancer drugs, Genentech must develop a long-term capacity plan for a major class of new cancer products. Adding to the complexity and uncertainty is the fact... View Details
Keywords: Factories, Labs, and Plants; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Style; Management Teams; Time Management; Product; Product Development; Business Processes; Performance Capacity; Planning; Risk and Uncertainty; Complexity; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • 04 Oct 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Have Managers Underestimated the Need for Face-to-Face Contact?

GenZers’ need for “connection” be any less than that of preceding generations? Has the pandemic so affected their outlook and behavior that they in turn will affect the way work is performed and businesses... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building Effective R&D Capabilities Abroad

World View: Global Strategies for the New Economy is a collection of Harvard Business Review articles edited by Jeffery E. Garten, Dean of the Yale School of Management. At the dawn of the new century, says Garten, "globalization has... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
  • 27 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?

on the line, women were twice as likely to choose to be part of an all-male team, according to a study co-authored by Edward H. Chang, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

  PublicationsThe New M&A Playbook Authors:Clayton M. Christensen, Richard Alton, Curtis Rising, and Andrew Waldeck Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 3 (March 2011) Abstract Companies spend more than $2 trillion on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

January–February 2018 Harvard Business Review More Than a Paycheck: How to Create Good Blue-Collar Jobs in the Knowledge Economy By: Campbell, Dennis, John Case, and Bill Fotsch Abstract—Fifty years ago a good blue-collar job was with a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 May 2020
  • Blog Post

Creating Unity and Belonging through Food and Dance: ‘EKTA’ at HBS

As I sat next to dad on our way to the Srinagar airport, I reflected on how this could be our last family vacation for a long time. The end of August was approaching and soon I would be in a far corner of the world at Harvard Business... View Details
  • 14 Jul 2015
  • First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

Beer et al., we examine how the subject has developed. We offer a normative review, based on that model, and we critique the assumption that the business of HRM is solely to improve returns to owners and shareholders. We identify the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset

When COVID-19 cases in the US began to spike in March, Hikma Health, a digital health startup from the Harvard i-lab and winner of the 2019 Harvard Business School (HBS) New Venture Competition, asked how they could best help to stop the... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing

On Facebook and a myriad of other social media platforms, you can find out who your friends are dating, see pictures of their last vacation, and even know what they had for lunch yesterday. It is now becoming more unusual when someone chooses not to divulge their View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 05 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 5, 2016

July–August 2016 Harvard Business Review Beyond the Holacracy Hype: The Overwrought Claims—and Actual Promise—of the Next Generation of Self-Managed Teams By: Bernstein, Ethan, John Bunch, Niko Canner, and Michael Lee Abstract—Holacracy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 28

that permits away-from-the-table moves to favorably alter the underlying setup, and a “final no.” Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52030 Harvard Business School Case 717-028 Brexit No abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

money using their mobile phones. Mobile money has grown quickly, but high stockout rates of currency persist due to suboptimal inventory decisions made by contracted employees (called agents). In partnership with a Tanzanian mobile money operator, we View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

theory has developed. To reinvigorate academic interest in disruptive innovation, we propose several underexplored topics—response strategies, performance trajectories, and innovation metrics—to guide future research. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Article

Competition for Scarce Resources

By: Peter Eso, Volker Nocke and Lucy White
We model a downstream industry where firms compete to buy capacity in an upstream market that allocates capacity efficiently. Although downstream firms have symmetric production technologies, we show that industry structure is symmetric only if capacity is sufficiently... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Natural Environment; Technology; Production; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Cost; Demand and Consumers; Industry Structures; Performance Capacity
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  • 18 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

self-views,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with Maryam Kouchaki, an assistant professor at the Kellogg School... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel