Cognition and Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive

awakening in the last couple years around diversity, equity, and inclusion in the workplace. Is this moment leading to real change, in your view? Frances Frei: I totally agree there’s been an awakening, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint

02 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Cuts Don't Increase Middle Class Incomes

Halfpoint In the worlds of economic theory and conservative political orthodoxy, corporate tax cuts, such as the 2017 tax reform in the United States, should create benefits beyond businesses. As the View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

10 Apr 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Where Does it Go? Spending by the Financially Constrained

Keywords: by Shawn A. Cole, John Thompson & Peter Tufano; Financial Services

13 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

investment, and the people who weren’t nominated averaged no return at all. That was our first signal that some of these alternative screening mechanisms based on soft information could transform how we View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services

23 Mar 2022
Blog Post

Learning Curve: The Brother-and-Sister Team Behind a New Edtech Nonprofit

poverty,” Gupta says. What they lack are the awareness, the information, and the tools required to take a more active role in supporting their children’s early cognitive development—all of which are gaps... View Details

28 Nov 2018
HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

Professor Srikant M. Datar in a recent case study, Data Science at Target, co-written with research associate Caitlin N. Bowler. “Target had to make this big shift from thinking only about retailing to also View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research

I think that most business school research should examine and help solve real-world problems that managers are facing--or that they might face in the future. This means that these scholars need to choose relevant research questions, and propose and test hypotheses... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

What Makes a Good Leader

thinking about problems and to do it at the right time or even ahead of time. He's a marvelous freak of nature." On quiet moral leadership: "Within everyday ordinary people, if you look closely, you can find... View Details

Keywords: Management

Dorothy A. Leonard

Dorothy Leonard*, the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita, joined the Harvard faculty in 1983 after teaching for three years at the Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology. She has taught MBA courses in... View Details

Keywords: computer; consulting; education industry; electronics; federal government; high technology; information technology industry; software; venture capital industry

02 Sep 2015
What Do You Think?

What's Wrong With Amazon’s Low-Retention HR Strategy?

Sam’s Club’s parent, once said: “Give me fewer, better-trained, better-paid people and they’ll win every time.”) But think a minute. We’ve mentioned four organizations that all have been quite successful... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Consumer Products; Fashion

18 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

The Cost of Leaning In

Last summer, Christine Exley polled 200 American adults with a simple yes/no question: Do you think women should negotiate their salaries more often? Seventy percent of respondents answered in the affirmative. She wasn’t surprised by the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

programs requires more than providing accessible, affordable care; it requires understanding what makes both end users and providers tick. By understanding the cognitive processes underlying our choices... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

March 2012
Article

Fixing What's Wrong with U. S. Politics

By: David A. Moss

In America today there's a growing sense that the political system is broken and that its ineffectiveness is a major threat to U.S. competitiveness. Why do so many think the political system is not working? Research shows that in Congress, Republicans and Democrats are... View Details

Keywords: Government and Politics; System; Conflict Management; Performance Productivity; Policy; Public Administration Industry; United States

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Case Method Teaching - Case Method Project

About Case Method Teaching 1ms What is the Case Method? The core pedagogy of Harvard Business School since the early 20th century, the case method boasts a unique ability to make complex concepts accessible and develop students’... View Details

March 2008
Article

Testing a Purportedly More Learnable Auction Mechanism

We describe an auction mechanism in the class of Groves mechanisms that has received attention in the computer science literature because of its theoretical property of being more "learnable" than the standard second price auction mechanism. We bring this mechanism,... View Details

Keywords: Market Design; Auctions; Learning; Economics

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13 Dec 2019
Blog Post

All Is Well in Texas: How Julia Cheek Founded Her At-Home Lab Testing Startup, EverlyWell

company full-time. Although Julia does not regret the choice to focus on schoolwork, reflecting she thinks maybe should have used that time to start a company instead. After HBS, Julia ended up taking a job, View Details

04 Sep 2013
What Do You Think?

How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?

this month, the topic is strategy planning and organization. Conventional thinking and organization that has encouraged us to seek sustainable competitive advantage in the past... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 Jul 2018
News

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16 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders

many firms can improve. And if we can get people to manage better, we think they can keep more employees and be more successful.” Through social interactions with other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 May 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can

products—in 2019 than they were in 2006. “Here’s one way to think about it: How much would you need to be paid to move from your most preferred brand to your second-most preferred brand?” MacKay says. “Maybe you value a few dollars here... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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