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03 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

What makes a movie click with an audience? How important is buzz in the success or failure of an entertainment product? Should worldwide releases of movies be done over time, or all at once? Those are the kinds of questions that interest View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

17 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

context a moral gray zone.” However, to date I have not found a single person unable to articulate in his or her work context a moral gray zone. Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution

three-part interview with Harvard Business School Marketing professors Rajiv Lal and José B. Alvarez, they discuss who is winning this revolution and which brands appear to be... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Computer; Financial Services

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

There is nothing small about the research practiced by Harvard Business School professor Benjamin Esty. He studies the financing of some of the largest projects in the world:... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

strictly an American phenomenon. “Voter turnout has been declining in many Western democracies over the past decades,” says Vincent Pons, assistant professor at Harvard Business View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

system is in better shape. Professors Victoria Ivashina, David Scharfstein, and Arthur Segel, all members of the Harvard Business School Finance Unit, examine the current state... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

Thank you for inviting me to testify before you. My name is Alnoor Ebrahim, and I am an Associate Professor at Harvard Business School and a Principal of the Hauser Center For... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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