Harvard Business School Symposium - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

business leaders, moderated by HBS professor Myra Hart, at the Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference. Robin Chase said that being a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

the author Sean Silverthorne is editor-in-chief of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photo] Related Reading Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness How a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

LinkedIn. Follow Jeffrey Bussgang on LinkedIn to read more of his posts. About the Author Jeffrey J. Bussgang is a senior lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at the Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

featuring Harvard Business School faculty dishing on the latest happenings at the crossroads of business and culture. Find it on Apple podcasts... View Details

25 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation is Remaking the University

evolved over the past several hundred years. Even more than most organizations, traditional universities are products of their history. That history is shared, because most universities have emulated a handful of elite American schools... View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen & Henry J. Eyring; Education

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

13 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Trust

It's called TrapGuard—a special kind of floor drain developed by a Georgia company that prevents sewer gases from entering homes. On the great spectrum of innovative products, it's probably not keeping company with the iPod or Segway scooter. But View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Service

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, who outlined the research findings in a recent working paper, Being the Boss: Gig Workers’ Value of Flexible Work, co-authored with HBS doctoral candidate... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

going to get a sit-down with the CEO,” says Eugene F. Soltes, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, whose research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Here's a tip for companies looking to woo customers away from the competition: Besides advertising fair prices for your products, try advertising fair wages for your employees. Recent research from Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

thousands of others, in the HBS case collection at hbr.org. I'm your host, Brian Kenny, and you've been listening to Cold Call, the official podcast of Harvard Business School. View Details

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

Business School Case 415-028 Aarti Grover and CMS Computers No abstract available Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/415028-PDF-ENG Harvard View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge,... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

13 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Women Heart Patients Have Better Survival Odds with Women Doctors

heart attack. Of those, between 1,500 to 3,000 fewer women may have died if their doctor had been female, Laura Huang, a study co-author and Harvard Business School associate... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

In a first-ever look at the internal economics driving private equity partnerships, Harvard Business School researchers have found that many of these funds can be torn apart by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

If so, what will it take to achieve it? What do you think? To Read More: Clayton M. Christensen,The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Boston: Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

for anything where the prior art is known," explains Prithwiraj Choudhury, an assistant professor in the Technology, Operations, and Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But when a Western... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E.... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

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