Comparative Case Study - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

exclude customers without Internet access or a bank account. That strikes me as a relatively small investment to make for a relatively large number of individuals. Tufano suggests a few adjustments to "reinvent" the savings bond program, such as allowing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

managers: "Can we teach [the people we serve] the importance of being self-sufficient while not being self-sufficient ourselves?" Bread Means Business The bakery at Boston's Haley House is a case View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?

comparing the sales of almost 700 albums as reported by Nielsen SoundScan. Oberholzer and Strumpf concluded that there was almost no relationship between the two. How could this be? The researchers believe that most downloading is done... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Music

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

Weaver lists Facebook, Apple, and Progressive Insurance as other examples of successful curators. In the case of Facebook, he argues that the social media giant is wildly successful in part because it exacts precision over how users... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

turns out that these research findings hold value not only for football teams, but for any organization that depends on leadership for success. An empirical study of coaching ability In 2009, scholars Tim R. Holcomb, R. Michael Holmes... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

minority backgrounds did not apply to HBS because of intimidation, poor counseling, or other notions that they didn’t qualify. The idea was to bring undergraduate students of minority backgrounds between their junior and senior years in college to campus for an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

dangerous to share," John says. Creepy Questions Specifically, John and two colleagues from Carnegie Mellon set out to study a common contradictory attitude toward Internet privacy. On the one hand, studies... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail

business of rationality or emotionality?” To kick off the conversation, Raman relayed what happened when Cleveland Clinic CEO Delos "Toby" Cosgrove visited a class at HBS a few years ago to discuss a case View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

02 Feb 2007
What Do You Think?

Is There Too Little “Know Why” In Business?

that could not transition from a passion-driven enterprise to an execution-oriented enterprise." Paul Kohn pondered whether a sense of purpose wanes as an organization reaches a certain size. He commented: "It would be an interesting View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Aage Sorensen Memorial Award for sociological research. With his coauthor, Rock Center Entrepreneur-in-Residence Henry McCance of Greylock Partners, professor Wasserman recently completed a case study about... View Details

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

must distinguish these two very different agendas, which present different organizational challenges. As I will develop more fully in my next book, best practice improvement is organizationally much easier to deal with than developing and adhering to a strategy. It is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

19 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers

otherwise." In the cases of umpires and ministers, Parsons's work falls under the broader category of incentive research. "They are about what causes people to behave in predictable ways, and how that changes over time," he... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Information; Publishing

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

Financial Development in Brazil, 1882-1950, which studies the relationships between law, corporate governance, and economic development. We also asked him what turn-of-the-century Brazil can teach us about government bailouts today. Sean... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

prosper because they continue to be innovative; they continue to have the courage to embrace change." At the same time, as a student of organizational behavior, Nohria said he understood the importance of remaining resolute about certain traditions that have made... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

02 Apr 2014
What Do You Think?

Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?

Summing Up What Will Capitalism Require of Us in the Future? If one were to sum up the ideas in response to this month's column, it could be: Capitalism as we know it is here to stay; the question is about its long-term impact on our way of life. Daniel Dyer made a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

leave. Research has shown that US cities that mandated paid sick leave experienced less contagious presenteeism (employees coming to work while sick) compared with control cities. That is, people were less inclined to attend work when... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

CMOS (complementary metal-oxide semiconductor), was aimed at simplifying multicomponent test systems. Typically, silicon wafers moving through production are fed into the test system, which sends electrical impulses into each wafer and View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

emergency medical workers, and medical researchers all demand cadavers or cadaver parts. As an illustration, orthopedic surgeons use human joints to fine-tune their skills to learn new procedures. Similarly, some researchers studying... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

manage it, and give it direction? That's what our new book, From Resource Allocation to Strategy, is about. People have studied the process in various ways, first to understand how it works and then to understand how it breaks down; and... View Details