Giving And Philanthropy - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

workplace—starting with job listings. What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality" and ponder ways to give women... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

all the kinds of transactions? A: No, actually, that's the easy part of the problem. And that's proven by the fact that frequent shopper programs are able to deliver coupons and in some cases, samples, to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

and involves all levels of the organization. How Can Operations Become A Competitive Advantage? Operations and the Competitive Edge Many managers expect operations organizations to fulfill only a support... View Details

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

eventually lost out. In this case, says Ahuja, the company may have been better off giving up its product and instead profiting by licensing the idea to Gillette or another large company. "Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

11 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Marissa Mayer Should Bridge Distance Gap with Remote Workers

organizational and not being left to individual families to work out on their own. It's now up to Mayer to show employees threatened by her new policy that belonging to "one Yahoo!", as she put it, will not mean that they have... View Details

Keywords: by Lakshmi Ramarajan; Publishing; Web Services

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

it is self-limiting. It is chiefly a disease of caregivers for that very reason. In that regard, we must give the doctors and nurses on the front lines credit for being willing to take significant risks to... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

experiments for second-year MBA students and in his 2020 book, The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data-Driven World, co-written with Max H. Bazerman, the Jesse Isidor Straus Professor of Business Administration at HBS. Five... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

give important insight ...." Stephanie Fuentes said that "It's not hard if you take the time to do the planning and preparation." But the comments of the first group leave us wondering whether... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

and marketing. Retailers, for instance, will be inclined to give bigger bets more shelf space, and we know that in itself is a key driver of sales. Q: If you were to pick a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

example, debt seems to be on the mind of a lot of people. That's ironic at a time when, as one CEO recently told me, "There is a sale on money." (One company with which I am familiar acted on that belief recently by borrowing a billion dollars that it didn't... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

strategy is to give the other party an out. If someone says, "Take it or leave it," simply treat the statement as untrue for the moment and make a counterproposal. The truth of an ultimatum is... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

09 Mar 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade

coordinating choices throughout the value chain while giving students a sense of how competitive dynamics work. A dashboard from the Strategic Brew simulation. Two years and thousands of hours in the making,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education; Food & Beverage

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

13 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams

members and their superiors, they found the opposite effect. When ethnicity was different, it raised the fraction of completed visits by 14 percent and led to meetings that were 69 percent longer. “If you... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two

institution. There is also the talent for choosing other great institution builders, and the inclination and willingness to give them the power to do this. Sharing The Vision... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

those of the owners." Hall's research has led him to conclude that annual option arrangements such as "fixed value" and "fixed number" plans are typically preferable to one-time option grants. A fixed value... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

economic construct; it’s a psychological construct—the happiness one gets by being close to family and friends—and it needs to be taken into account.” By giving workers the flexibility to take vacation time... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

really give to someone like Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson or to Wilbur Ross, the Commerce Department nominee, or to Vice President Mike Pence? It looks like he’s a person who hasn’t delegated a lot in the past. So those would... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

27 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Social Network Marketing: What Works?

camera. Sony can either advertise on Facebook and accept a very low click-through rate, or give away free cameras to several Facebook members (potentially at a lower cost than advertising) View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising; Publishing; Retail

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