Video On Demand - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy

Monday morning. Eight managers, handpicked by their superiors, face one another in the middle of a room. Seated in a semicircle behind them is the company's top management team. As the members of the inner circle report what they have... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

According to Martinez, "There is probably some research done on the inflationary impact of regularizing illegal residents in the U.S." Roberto J. M. Rodriguez asks, "What is the U.S. economic labor View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

grievances? This article, the first in a series on negotiation dynamics, identifies six ways to more effectively separate fact from fiction at the bargaining table. The focus will be on the interactive... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

average return on long-term bonds in excess of the return on cash has been also small when compared to the average excess return on stocks: It has been about 1.4 percent per... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part One]

electorate is not demanding change yet. The keiretsu system sounds, on the face of it, not unlike your theory of clusters. What is the difference? The keiretsu system involves the cross-ownership of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

creativity and innovation on what you might think of as the demand side. How might [leaders] use space? How might they creatively think about ways to use the data and connectivity, or eventually the... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

partners...—Andrew McAfee Better information sharing among alliance partners may have subtle yet important benefits. One of the most common and striking dysfunctions of manufacturing supply chains is the "bullwhip effect," where... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

02 May 2008
What Do You Think?

What is the Future of State Capitalism?

Preetham commented. Omer E. put it this way: "What this suggests is nothing more than the emergence of changing political tides." In fact, in M. F. Procaccini's words, "the whole 'mixed economy' models of the 20th Century and today are based mostly View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

time." "Today, people are used to getting information when they are doing something else. Today, deadlines are just what they say—they're dead. Old wine matures and gets better, but old news is just late. We're into real-time information View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

the first time read versus books that I’ve re-read dozens of times. I feel like this helps me think in broader strokes, with more perspective, and helps stimulate ideas and connections that I wouldn’t have otherwise encountered. Three books View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 May 2015
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready for Personalized Predictive Analytics?

companies like Amazon have been contemplating. For years, logistics have been managed by principles such as that of "postponement and speculation." The idea is that to approach the best match between supply and demand at a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

In a Harvard Business School classroom, students in the Dynamic Markets class may have one minute to make a decision in a pressure cooker one called "the most stress I've experienced in ten years."... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

Working PapersCan Higher Prices Stimulate Product Use? Evidence from a Field Experiment in Zambia (revised) Authors:Nava Ashraf, James Berry, and Jesse M. Shapiro Abstract The controversy over whether and how much to charge for health products in the developing world... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

teams (in some areas). The case centers on questions of how to adapt this successful model to new demands in a different service domain, specifically, cybersecurity and defense-related areas. The case also... View Details

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

than a yes or no response, particularly in view of his emphasis on organizational culture. For example, Kisiah commented, “Microsoft should not get involved in politics. It does have employees and customers with all types of political... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

most important country determinants of governance. Capital market institutions appear to be less important drivers of CSP. Our results provide insights on the demand and supply forces that determine CSP... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

who gets to be CEO is no longer up to the founders alone. My results show that whenever founders raise a new round of financing, the chances that they'll be replaced as CEO go up dramatically. It's precisely at this point that the founders are very susceptible to the... View Details

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

interpret that to mean that it’s safe.” Luca and Glaeser teamed with University of Maryland Professor Ginger Zhe Jin and Benjamin T. Leyden, an assistant professor at Cornell University. They detailed their findings in Learning from Deregulation: The Asymmetric Impact... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

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