Managing People - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

impact by comparing warnings received after having safe personal experience with those received before people start making choices. A series of five experiments studies this question with a paradigm that combines both descriptive... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

Should tall people pay higher taxes than the rest of us? It is an idea that is bound to raise eyebrows, if not a smile. Yet the underlying notion is not entirely silly, grounded as it is in serious questions about why we tax the way we do... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

Operations Management unit, to see what would happen if they showed people exactly what government was doing on their behalf—starting on the most basic level of street repairs. Would that kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

that the country should focus on the brain. We also have to acknowledge our predecessors in the Technology and Operations Management Unit. For many years, people like Bob Hayes, Kim Clark, and Steven... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

13 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?

Creative destruction of a different kind occurred during the political transition in Turkey in 1980, after the military coup. Previous political and social connections lost their value over night. 450 new people sat in parliament, and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

World As It Is The last part of the course focuses on Machiavelli's The Prince. If you look closely at Machiavelli, said Badaracco, the people he admired were the entrepreneurs of his era. They weren't starting new businesses; they were... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

founded a world-renowned animation studio. What do all of these people have in common? They love their jobs, they break the rules, and the world is better off for it. They are rebels. From an early age, we are taught to be rule followers,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster

was U.S.-owned, it had a history of stable lifetime employment and a union that enjoyed close relations with management. However, when the plant's first U.S. manager instigated downsizing to enhance returns—even though the plant was... View Details

Keywords: by Ron S. Fortgang, David A. Lax & James K. Sebenius

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

15 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Women Find New Path to Work

What's happened in the world of marketing in the past five years? What new tools are out there? What avenues are people using to reach customers in new and different ways? How are they even thinking about the customers? [HBS marketing... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

have a positive change in the year after their investments abroad. SWFs where politicians are involved have a much greater likelihood of investing at home than those where external managers are involved. At the same time, SWFs with... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade

project, starting with the data generation. "She managed to convince people to tell her how they were doing every day," said Perlow, the Konosuke Matsushita Professor of Leadership. Amabile explained the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

variety of new goods and services being brought to market. Most consumers in the 1980s had not even heard of e-mail or cappuccinos. Yet in less than a decade, millions of people not only became familiar with these and other novel... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

this is not what business does or should do, Henderson said. “If managers can support public institutions and provide public goods and make money, why aren't they?” "They say the answer is regulation or the answer is taxation,"... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

water management technologies because they were aware of its weaknesses. "The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time," said Reinhardt. It's also one of the reasons... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

We've heard that Eskimos have 100 words for snow—a common way of expressing how language affects the way we see the world. Whether or not that particular example is true, cultural linguists have long theorized that the words a particular group of View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

participation by everyday folk in the capital markets was all but unheard of; Wall Street remained an exclusive investment preserve (some would say playground) for America's financial elite. But by making the ownership of securities easy and affordable for View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

02 Jun 2003
What Do You Think?

What Can Aspiring Leaders Be Taught?

managers confronted with alternatives that some would view as involving right and wrong, and others would view as involving a selection of the lesser of two or more wrongs. Taken to its extreme, this may involve some effort to effect... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

merchandise sales, with sales so far topping only $30 million, compared to Vancouver's $51 million. Such lackluster performance spells trouble not only for the Games themselves, but also for all of the brands that hope to ride its bobsled to marketing gold. "If there... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

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