Harvard Business School Symposium - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 11

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2311152 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-044 Infection Control at Massachusetts General... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

When Words Get in the Way: The Failure of Fiscal Language

Does the federal deficit matter? Oceans of ink track and report this monster tally (current estimates for fiscal year 2006 stand at $260 billion), yet Jerry Green of Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

28 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections

New research from Harvard Business School shows that mass advertising is better at swaying undecided consumers while face-to-face personal selling is more suited at closing the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

pp. 44-58. Eric Reis, The Lean Startup: How Today's Entrepreneurs Use Continuous Innovation to Create Radically Successful Businesses, (New York: Crown Business, 2011). Michael L. Tushman and Charles A. O'Reilly III, Winning Through Innovation: A Practical Guide to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

Four Companies that Conquered America

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

17 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

If Marketing Experts Ran Elections

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

majority of them are not doing it effectively," says V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School. "If you look at the Fortune 100 companies, you'll find... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

during military conflicts. As countries such as the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom honor their veterans this month, Harvard Business School Professor Robert... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

industry practice and discuss potential directions for future research. Download the article: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsBlackRock Money Market Management in September 2008 (A) Kenneth A. Froot and David LaneHarvard View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

have worked on" —Max Bazerman A recent collaboration between Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Business School Press, forthcoming) as reported in Louis Uchitelle, "Revising a Boardroom Legacy," The New York Times, September 28, 2007, pp. C1 and C5. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Jan 2013
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Understanding Customers

Crisis It was the Valentine's Day from hell for JetBlue employees and more than 130,000 customers. Under bad weather, JetBlue fliers were trapped on the runway at JFK for hours, many ultimately delayed by days. How did the airline make it right with customers and learn... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

21 Nov 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms

challenges that an executive can undertake, requiring mastery of talent management, change management, and ethics. “The business today is much more complex than ten or twenty years ago" —Paul M. Healy "The View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

up,” says Benjamin G. Edelman, an associate professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School whose research focuses on consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School and an expert in technology strategy. So when... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

on the 1040 form—but it's a start. Tufano is the Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management at Harvard Business School. He is a senior associate dean of the school and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

Online Reviews at TripAdvisor in the HBS case collection at hbr.org. I’m Brian Kenny and you’ve been listening to Cold Call, the official podcast of Harvard Business School. Related Article The Yelp Factor:... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-090.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsChina Rising: An Economic Snapshot Harvard Business School Note 308-064 "Rising China: An... View Details