activism - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

website. If consumers don’t trust the service providers who are active on the platform, they won’t go there and the platform won’t get any revenues. So, a platform’s interests are very aligned with the government goals of protecting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

activity within the business' accounts which can be valuable in a predictive model. Second, they have a built-in source of small businesses seeking loans. Finally, these banks have their own balance sheets off which to lend and don't have... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

the trick in the story. Once you have buy-in, the audience is much more likely to have a wow experience." Failure Is Part Of The Process Innovations don't appear out of thin air; rather, people need to actively "intend to innovate,"... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

Teixeira, which identifies the ingredients necessary to create online videos so compelling that viewers will not only want to watch them but also actively seek them out and share them with friends, family, and coworkers. The research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

activism and unwillingness to compromise, however, makes him a divisive character among business leaders who share his principles but question the ultimate effectiveness of his approach. Is it in their firms' best interests to support... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

issue facing firms, that the business press has outlined a recurring set of prescriptive advice about the topic to practitioners, and why (despite its recurring nature) that advice seems to have limited usefulness. The chapter then reviews some common delineations of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

extremely talented people who never do anything, really. Find out where your skills and talents lie, and then look for your "creativity intersection" — for those activities where your talents and your strongest intrinsic... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

Similarly, the fitness studios I frequented often adjusted the class schedules twice a year—almost like two “semesters.” Likewise, the enrichment activities my kids decided to participate in reset each fall. Even the Broadway plays and... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

23 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

understanding the impact that branding activity (the audio-visual representation of brands) and consumers' dispersion of attention have on their moment-to-moment avoidance decisions during television advertising. It formalizes this in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

rebalancing in the financial portfolio of participants. These patterns conceal strong household-level evidence of active rebalancing, which on average offsets about one half of idiosyncratic passive variations in the risky asset share.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light

vision is realized, we only stand to benefit from the interactions and activities the move will bring. Q: What's your view on business school rankings? A: The difficulty with the rankings is they don't reflect any of the interesting and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

relevant, one should identify it, try to activate it, and then leverage it," says Greyser, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. "All brands have a history, many brands have a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?

commented that this mindset "leads to poor morale and burn out," as well as a loss of effective communication skills. Gerald Nanninga added that "it is destroying the art of pondering" and "by valuing work as a 24/7 View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consulting

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

achievement'" (Dennis Nelson); "the level that does not allow segments of activity to capture regulators or regulations while also ensuring support for the disadvantaged and those in poverty" (Peter Bowie); one that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

knowledge workers confronted with a barrage of data and distractions delivered by new information technologies? A reluctance on the part of managers to relinquish "ownership" over activities and processes needed to achieve... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

deciding in large numbers not to donate. Rather, they are not thinking about it. In other countries (e.g., Belgium), the default is that unless you specify that you do not want to donate your organs, you become a viable donor at death. In the U.S., unless you View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

rather than ignore or suppress them. Comparing 450 bank branches of a single organization, a large commercial bank in the northeast U.S., Ely and Thomas discovered that when work groups actively acknowledge and engage with their different... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

"Although Levitt's article was primarily concerned about the globalization of the product market, this paper expands the domain to three areas—the labor market, the financial market, and the product market—and investigates the assertion that Japan has not View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

of the federal government. The same cycle of activities is evident throughout the history of commercialized technology. LR: Professor Tedlow, what about the gestation of Giants of Enterprise? Tedlow: These days people tend to talk about... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

chain that generalizes Antràs and Chor (2013). To assess the evidence, we construct firm-level measures of the upstreamness of integrated and non-integrated inputs by combining information on the production activities of firms operating... View Details