Crowd Of Crowds - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

Most ethical principles are pretty unambiguously good. Honesty, fairness, compassion—sure they have their downsides (being “honest to a fault”), but that’s more a by-product of something good than it is something evil in and View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

Capital IQ database, fewer than 6 percent achieved more than $10 million in revenues by 2010, and fewer than 2 percent grew to more than $50 million. The percentages are worse for US and international companies founded in years since 2000. The increase in angel groups,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

doesn't crowd out other incentives," says Parsons. "I think it's a safe call to say that not many ministers get into the ministry to make a buck, but that doesn't mean a monetary incentive for doing a good job doesn't... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

core (“the dominant organizations, institutions, groups, and processes of the pre-Internet era,” that, for example, produced our printed encyclopedias) to the crowd (“new participants and practices enabled... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

of non-practicing entities (NPEs) in the intellectual property space. Our model shows that NPE litigation can reduce infringement and support small inventors. However, the model also shows that as NPEs become effective at bringing... View Details

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

long espoused a “doing well by doing good” philosophy going back to founding figure William Lever. In the late nineteenth century, Lever had built a business by making and selling household soap that he hoped would improve hygiene and reduce illness in the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

Editor's note: Check out the crowd at a concert, a movie, a school play, a beach—heck, even a funeral—and you'll likely see several people sneaking prolonged peeks at their smartphones. They just can't help themselves. Ringtones and... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

of the experience. You are paying almost $500 for lunch, so being made to feel part of the in crowd is actually really beneficial and important. [Noma] has one four-hour... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

25 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Who Wants to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part II]

Kristin S. Rhyne, MBA '99, would have loved to have the problems of reconciling employee priorities and juggling financial plans. Late last May, a year after incorporating Polished, she was still struggling to open its first unit. The... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

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