Managing Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 13

how management and corporate boards of directors can best manage investor relations with activist stockholders such as hedge funds who are demanding major changes within a corporation to improve stockholder... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

Summing Up In supporting innovation, does it matter how flat the world really is? "The world is oval!" (Hujaj Ali Nawazkhan). "[T]he world is flatly circular" (Santhanam Krishnan). "[T]he flattening process, while... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership

Few industries have had the competitive challenges—the literal ups and downs—experienced by the U.S. airline industry since its formation in the 1920s. Consider that its early pioneers had the unenviable task of selling tickets to people... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Air Transportation

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

09 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary

system negotiate. “Workers on the market have lots of feedback on their past jobs, and can also see how much experience the employer has on the market,” says Christopher T. Stanton, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment; Technology; Computer

02 May 2012
What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

Summing Up How Should We Measure "Leadership Industry" Results? Aspects of leadership can be taught, thereby providing a justification for the "leadership industry." But students of leadership (and followership) bring... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

and the Impact on Innovation, you explore the implications of the recent collapse in venture activity on innovation. Given recent cuts in corporate support for R&D, do you feel this is cause for concern to the innovation process? Or do you feel private equity... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

06 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 6, 2007

turned out, though, that Intel's revenues from memory were by this time only 4 percent of total sales. Intel's lower-level managers had already exited the business. What Intel hadn't done was to shut down the flow of research funding into... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

Aoki took command of a key variable in restaurant management: table turnover, or "turns." "Rocky made the restaurant a theater, with the chef as the star of the show," Klug says. "When the meal was over, the chef bowed, the performance ended,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

23 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Financial Reporting Goes Global

then all the regulators, auditors, analysts, management teams, etc. know that they have a single set of standards to understand and implement. This allows all of those entities to focus resources on making that single set of standards... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell; Accounting; Financial Services

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's “best-run” companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. We find that managers... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

personalities, he and Walton could not have been more different. Walton, the optimist, could light up a room. Revson, the pessimist, could light up a room by leaving it. But they did share one trait—a... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

11 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 11

organizations, Kaplan and Haas identify five common mistakes when managers attempt to cut health care costs. The mistakes are triggered, primarily, by working from the line-item expense categories on P&Ls, rather than clinically based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

enterprises seem incapable of transformative innovation, it is due to how we design and manage them, rather than anything inherent in their scale. In fact, Creative Construction argues, if used properly, scale can be an asset, rather than... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

Content Commercialization: Evidence from Blogs, published last year in Management Science, Zhu and coauthor Sun, of Boston University, bring an empirical approach to a question that has had many anecdotal responses but no firm results:... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies, only 2.6 percent of CEOs are... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

Summing Up Jobs shape us in many ways, according to respondents to this month's column. For example, Sue Stewart said that " we become our jobs." Charlie Cullinane went further, saying that "Not only do we become our jobs... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/column-powerlessness-corrupts/ar/1 Are You Ignoring Trends That Could Shake Up Your... View Details