Authority - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Feb 2023
Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

and consider the culture that your company has cultivated. In the book Unleashed, authors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss use an “inclusion dial” to gauge the temperature of an organization—the degree to which employees feel that they... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore

16 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

high was never truly equitable. The actual percentage of female candidates on the site, about 42 percent, was never proportionately represented in the top rankings. Can incentives help? For that reason, the paper’s authors say,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

practitioners often exhibit confusion about whether the terms "integrative" and "distributive" refer to behavior or to underlying issue structure (or both). Third, the authors develop the "Distributive Bargaining... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Nov 2021
Op-Ed

Team Success Starts with the Individual—and with Love

Follow Ranjay Gulati to read more of his posts. About the Author Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration. [Image: AP Photo/Ted S. Warren] What do you consider the secret to team... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati; Sports

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Bundles, one of Walker's descendants who authored the biography On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker, told MBA students at Harvard that her great-great-grandmother wanted to help women look and feel better.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

17 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Quiet Quitters Need More Than Money to Re-Engage

head, heart, and soul,” he says. “I know you are not going to want to disappoint me, and you know I am not going to disappoint you.” For decades, the authors say, both liberals and conservatives have wrongly identified the main economic... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

The Problem with Hedge Funds

But they should be required to do so. They should be required to report activities and positions to regulatory authorities frequently so that the regulators know what is going on. When the Long Term Credit Management crisis broke, it... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

24 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

People Have an Irrational Need to Complete 'Sets' of Things

and lead author of the paper “Pseudo-Set Framing,” written while she was a doctoral student at Harvard Business School. The term “pseudo-set” refers to the idea that the set is kind of arbitrary—manufactured for the sole purpose of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

Publications 2006 pub Matching Firms, Managers, and Incentives By: Bandiera, Oriana, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We exploit a unique combination of administrative sources and survey data to study the match between firms and managers. The... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth By: Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan Abstract—At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model

Keywords: by Nicholas Barberis, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin & Andrei Shleifer

23 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals

Keywords: by Matthew Lyle & Charles C.Y. Wang

11 Jan 2013
Working Paper Summaries

The Spatial Diffusion of Technology

Keywords: by Diego A. Comin, Mikhail Dmitriev & Esteban Rossi-Hansberg

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

PublicationsChange Agents, Networks, and Institutions: A Contingency Theory of Organizational Change Authors:Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro Publication:Academy of Management Journal 55, no. 2 (April 2012) Abstract We develop a contingency theory for how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Aug 2010
Working Paper Summaries

The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on Framing in Nascent Industries: The Evolution of Digital Cameras

Keywords: by Mary J. Benner & Mary Tripsas; Electronics

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

Working PapersRegional Trade Integration and Multinational Firm Strategies Authors:Pol Antrás and C. Fritz Foley Abstract This paper analyzes the effects of the formation of a regional trade agreement on the level and nature of multinational firm activity. We examine... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Research Summary

Managing Multiple Identities at Work

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan

Peoples’ work identities, which are often a deep source of meaning for them, may conflict with or complement cultural, familial, or personal identities they value. A central focus of Professor Ramarajan’s work is understanding, on the individual level, how these... View Details

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

give candidates equal access to voters, and monitoring the accuracy of handouts and social media posts that campaigns share. “It’s important to make sure that all campaigns are able to get their message out through these powerful channels,” Pons says. About the View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Apr 2021
Book

A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success

push back, limiting the financial upside. If you create value, no one pushes back. About the Author Danielle Kost is the editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStockphoto/JamesBrey] What separates a good... View Details