Personal Development and Career - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market

works, whose prices will likely be lower without the floor-setting mechanisms and associated costs of intermediaries. Khaire explained that in the western world, there is a clear understanding of what is considered "good art" (a... View Details

30 Oct 2005
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Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures used to evaluate a manager's achievements. For example, a View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

12 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Private Sector, Public Good

with a joint appointment at Harvard Business School and co-director of the Business and Environment Initiative. The seminar series is being sponsored by the Division of Research View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

the COVID-19 pandemic. “If ever there was a time for leaders to be authentic, this is it.” Fortunately, many of our corporate and scientific leaders are already stepping up, unselfishly taking action to stop the spread of the virus View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

31 Jan 2005
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Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

16 Sep 2015
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Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

One economic problem is search costs—the time, money, and effort spent on researching which dog to adopt. Another is information asymmetry—in which one person involved in an economic transaction has more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

Radcliffe College, indicating a personal commitment to educating women well before they were officially admitted into the full two-year MBA Program. In 1965, the School hired an administrative assistant to the Dean, whose main... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

12 Jun 2006
Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

partners in accomplishing go-to-market goals, two important aspects of channel management—assessing performance and setting goals—are only weakly developed and enforced.... View Details

Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products

31 Dec 2012
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Most Popular Stories of 2012

significant economic development of 2013. Use the "Comments" link to tell us what and why. Most Popular Stories In 2012 1. Clayton Christensen's "How Will You Measure Your Life?"... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

issues. In short, it posits that when hired managers, or "agents," are faced with a conflict between their organization's best interests and their personal best interests, the agents will choose... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

19 Aug 2013
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Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

Tobin Project brought together a dream team of researchers, from various fields and universities, to develop a novel set of experiments on inequality and decision-making.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

judgement, and (4) internal competition that turns friends into enemies. A fifth item on their list is the substitution of several activities—talk, making presentations, preparing documents, developing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Genomics: Can We Start Making Money Now?

Stefan Thomke, assistant professor Jonathan West, and Senior Research Fellow Juan Enriquez-Cabot. On February 12th of this year, this latest scientific revolution was launched in earnest when two research groups published their work to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2017
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How About Investing in Human Infrastructure?

SUMMING UP: Investment in Human Infrastructure: Not Whether But How? Few dispute the notion that a significant US investment in human infrastructure is warranted and timely, although there were significant differences of opinion about how... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Construction

12 Oct 1999
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Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

from different points of cultural reference, they learn to anticipate and deal with the kinds of value conflicts they are likely to face as global managers. Paine points out that students taking her course also View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

11 May 2011
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Building a Better Board

meaningfully to strategy development. Making It Safe To Be Critical Chief among the responsibilities of a corporate board member is to develop and share an honest assessment of the company's performance,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

wage disparity, which is more a symptom than a cause of the larger problem. These discussions often elicit an observation that, in many developed economies, too many workers can't live on the money they make. For whatever... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

the research in Imperial Reckoning. “They wanted to bring forward the strongest claimants in what would be a tort claim—basically a big personal injury case that accused the British government of systematically torturing them View Details