School Choice - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-046.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBroadcast Television in the Broadband World Harvard Business School Note 707-486 What strategies have the top four (NBC, CBS, ABC, and FOX) broadcast television... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

programs requires more than providing accessible, affordable care; it requires understanding what makes both end users and providers tick. By understanding the cognitive processes underlying our choices and applying the tools of... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

2014
Working Paper

Sharing Design Rights: A Commons Approach for Developing Infrastructure

By: Nuno Gil and Carliss Y. Baldwin

This study empirically investigates the relationship between design structure and organization structure in the context of new infrastructure development projects. Our research setting is a capital program to develop new school buildings in the city of Manchester, UK.... View Details

Keywords: Design; Buildings and Facilities; Education

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Companies compete on the decisions they make. For years—even decades—in response to intensifying global competition, companies decided to outsource their manufacturing operations in order to reduce costs. But we are now seeing the alarming long-term effect of those... View Details

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

guy who calls the guy.'" When David Lax, my coauthor on 3-D Negotiation: Creating and Claiming Value for the Long Term (forthcoming from Harvard Business School Press), and I were advising a client who was seeking to sell his... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

04 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Don’t Lose Money With Customers

disciplined firms are at the market and segment levels if the same focus and precision don't exist in customer choice as well," Narayandas points out. In the second phase, Narayandas identifies three key aspects of managing customer... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

underscored the importance of employee engagement, contributing to the community, and creating sustainable environment strategies. Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela In this video report, Senior Lecturer John Macomber visits the... View Details

16 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?

new course in our required curriculum next year. This course will draw on a great deal of work at the School and focus on three issues: Individual decision making (how you as a leader confronting ethical dilemmas or difficult View Details

Keywords: by Kim B. Clark

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

the top 10 leaderboard this year. But the fact is, America has been slipping since the year 2000, long before the housing bubble burst and recession swept the country, say Harvard Business School Professors Michael E. Porter and Jan W.... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

again? Should companies do away with Zoom and return the workplace to its pre-COVID ways? The answer, in a word: No. At least that’s not the future of work envisioned by several members of the Harvard Business School faculty—all of whom... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

27 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 27, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207092 Microsoft Xbox: Changing the Game? Harvard Business School Case 707-501 In September 1999, the Microsoft Xbox team was wondering which strategic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

might not like particular policies). This will give a big boost to business and consumer confidence. Under Biden and Harris, drama and uncertainty will be replaced by goal clarity and communication transparency. President-elect Biden’s Cabinet and advisor View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

wind up just as happy in adulthood as the children of moms who stayed home. Harvard Business School Professor Kathleen McGinn hopes the findings bring a big sigh of relief for guilt-ridden mothers who either have to hold down a job to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

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

perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

19 Nov 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

E-Santa: Is Retail Ready for Digital Christmas?

carlballou Most industries are in major digital upheaval, but retail particularly seems in some kind of disruptive spin-cycle. As the retail season eneters its most crucial time of year, we take a deep breath to contemplate research from Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

14 Jan 2019
Blog Post

"It'll All Work Out": Two Alumni Discuss Balancing Marriage and Markets

Love came to Carolina Delgado Joyce and Charlie Joyce (both MBA 2018) before they entered HBS together in 2016. With a wedding scheduled for July 9, "It was challenging," Charlie admits. "It's hard not to pull your hair out when you're simultaneously... View Details

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Research Areas - Doctoral

Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Research Areas 2ms HBS faculty conduct research on a wide variety of topics. In the application you must indicate your top three choices of research areas, in order of preference, from the... View Details

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Strategy - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

product itself. “Smart, connected products” are expanding and transcending industry boundaries, disrupting value chains, altering industry structure, and raising a new set of strategic choices for competitors. Strategy and IT About... View Details

10 Sep 2021
Blog Post

Perspectives on Anti-Racism in the HKS Curriculum

In fall 2020, the Harvard Kennedy School incorporated a two-week module on Race and Racism in the Making of the United States as a Global Super power into the MPP core curriculum. The school created this... View Details

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