Activities - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

terrible thing. Not only does it create a new social class of underground activity in the U.S., but it also creates millions of broken homes ... in Mexico." He concludes that legalizing the free flow of labor into the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Nov 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017

Kanter, 2009; Porter & Kramer, 2011). Particularly striking is the marked growth of social enterprises, which adopt a social mission as their principal objective but sustain themselves through commercial activities (Battilana and Lee,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy

A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial View Details

Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

limited to the Mac and it had to become a PC peripheral as well. Once he made the move to the PC market, he created the potential to access a much broader market than his core customer base. The Apple core customer base today is only about 8 million View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

on the financing of innovation, inclusive of large companies and new startups. This research strand has been very active over the past five years, generating important new findings, questioning some long-held beliefs, and creating its own... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

director of all operations in Kibera, is leaving to go to graduate school. Rye Barcott, founder and president, has a new career and a growing family and can no longer play an active role in CFK's operations. Kim Chapman, chair of the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “You are losing hundreds of billions in raw economic activity each month—and that’s not even accounting for all the other forms of loss the pandemic has caused. So you can put a lot... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

early modern pirates in Asia can tell you as much about mercantile capitalism of the era as the activity of ostensibly regular merchants. He applied the same logic to hackers and data capitalists of today. In 1970s California, capitalist... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

CamiloTorres What Are the Most Effective Management Approaches to Inclusion? Inclusion is important to an organization. But it is a challenge in the current day workplace climate, especially when it comes to such things as one-on-one View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Mar 2014
What Do You Think?

When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?

bubble, the yardstick for acquisition price was also price per employee. The use of the measure seemed to subside when investment activity once again focused around startups rather than M&A. But now that the most wildly successful of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Publishing; Retail

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

and closed the previous day, in order to show that government was actively responding to requests. In the second condition, they included pins on a map showing the location of these issues; when users clicked on a pin, a window opened... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

active engagement with the Real Estate Academic Initiative (REAI) at the GSD, and his appointment at the GSD teaching the jointly listed course "Sustainable Cities: Urbanization, Infrastructure, and Finance," Macomber is keenly focused on... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

22 Feb 2010
Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

the negatively performing hospitals engaged in low levels of activity, but one poorly performing hospital in particular caught Tucker's eye. This institution had high levels of activity when it came to gathering information and acting on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

quickly as it began. "The offshoring of activities is predicated on a huge number of non-obvious, sensitive policy choices," Rivkin says, citing India's economic liberalization efforts of the early 1990s and the Chinese government's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

not seriously ill, troublesome, or chronic in their complaints. And getting things right takes time, time that many doctors just don't have (or think they don't have). More successful doctors work hard at something called "patient View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

number of leads the program generated and its effectiveness in converting them to active customers (the "lead conversion rate"). 3. Customer retention. Once a customer has been acquired, the key is to keep him. A company retains... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in executing many joint processes as... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

about their activities to make sure they're in sync with where the boss is trying to take the business. Q: To traditional ratios like return on assets and return on equity, you add a new qualitative measure called return on management... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

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

repercussions for failing to achieve a goal, such as committing to donating to a charity—perhaps even a cause the person disagrees with. “The idea is that to be self-controlled, you have to put aside activities you’d rather be doing,... View Details