Harvard Business School Symposium - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

took a slightly different approach, noting that barriers to entry are not likely to become insurmountable. "As services proliferate, how do you figure out who you trust and who you do business with? Frankly, it's the same way you always... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

doing so may expose a weakness: a lack of self-control that would make others judge them harshly, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julian Zlatev in a recent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for Brain Sciences, who studies the neural and psychological factors... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

16 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Is MySpace.com Your Space?

Harvard Business School and an expert on interactive advertising, to give us a quick overview of the MySpace phenomenon. Deighton was the founding co-editor of the Journal of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising; Information; Publishing

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

Harvard Business School professors Richard S. Tedlow and Rawi Abdelal, who provided a historical perspective on Levitt's work at the Globalization of Markets colloquium held... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

a single quarter last year, invested $3.8 billion in Internet start-ups. But, is the get-big-fast strategy right for everyone? To what extent is its payoff dependent on speculative excess in the capital markets? These probing questions captured the interest of View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

to replicate the unique characteristics of a specific person’s writing style, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-046.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

buy, how we talk, and even how we feel—and use that to make predictions about how we’ll act next. As the field of machine learning (ML) has become increasingly mainstream, says Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

unconventional for many foundations, and we found they were still of critical quality and substance. "In that sense, we found that we can't reject the wisdom of crowds." This article first appeared on the Harvard View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

a new study coauthored by Harvard Business School Professor Shai Bernstein. “Attracting high-quality talent is an important challenge for any young firm, and it’s critical to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

lauded by some for defending the integrity of its products and the security of the owners of its products. All of this makes for a classic Harvard Business School case problem.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

03 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Facebook’s Future

Editor's note: Now 10 years old, Facebook's growth is starting to slow. That's one reason it purchased What'sApp last month in a jaw-dropping deal valued at $19 billion. What might the next decade be like? Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Mikolaj Piskorski

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

clustering affect the American economy as a whole? Harvard Business School’s William R. Kerr sets out to explore those questions, and their implications for US immigration policy, in a new working paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

40 or so years, SASB hopes to simplify and standardize how businesses report data from their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) initiatives. George Serafeim is the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Porter’s Perspective: Competing in the Global Economy

articles. Much of Porter's thinking originally appeared in the pages of the Harvard Business Review. Eleven of those seminal articles are collected in On Competition, a book published by the View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

Scientific Publishing Company, in press An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.worldscibooks.com/economics/8336.html Managing Your Boss Authors:Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback Publication:Chap. 1 in Guide to Managing Up and Across, 7-11.... View Details