A History of Entrepreneurship at Harvard Business School - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

unintended, but insidious, outcome. By labeling everyone a customer, the organization becomes confused about its purpose and whom it is designed to serve. If everyone is a customer, then no one is—and focus... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

Farronato, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Andrey Fradkin, postdoctoral fellow at the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

15 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Infographic: Can I Please Speak to an Actual Person?

Technology and Operations Management Unit. About the Authors Katherine Vizcardo is a graphic designer based in Providence, Rhode Island, and Danielle Kost is senior editor of View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Vizcardo and Danielle Kost; Service

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

At the beginning of January, over two hundred senior executives and government officials from around the globe met at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

there, but I don't think that's going to happen in my lifetime, though I do expect to see changes. Right now women represent between 35 to 40 percent of the applicants to business schools. I think View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

according to two new surveys by Paul A. Gompers, the Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

completion of a brief form. We asked Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

19 Mar 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

8 Ways To Be An Environmentally Conscious Manager

iPhoto In an interview about his recent book Profits and Sustainability, which portrays the iconoclastic entrepreneurs who built green startups in the 19th century, Harvard Business School historian Geoffrey Jones notes that being a business-environmentalist can be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? CEOs and Coaches: How Important is Organizational 'Fit?' Boris Groysberg is a professor of View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

22 Oct 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Motivate Me, Please

Business School research on motivation. The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator The most powerful workplace motivator is our natural tendency to measure our own performance against the performance View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

tax system can help us get there" On a recent and unexpectedly warm day for a New England fall, Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Research. The paper was coauthored by Andrei Shleifer, the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen, a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

In an email interview, Harvard Business School professor James Austin spoke with HBS Working Knowledge managing editor Carla Tishler about his work on collaboration and his... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

13 May 2019
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

government, the different agencies, and ultimately the suppliers,” says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Jonas Heese, one of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

can explain over 660,000 of the state and local government jobs lost in April, about two-thirds of the total observed declines.” In their research, Green, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers

protect local businesses from the crushing competition of "big-box" stores. But it turns out such rules often backfire, according to research by Raffaella Sadun, an assistant professor in the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in... View Details