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10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

faculty chair of the HBS Gender Initiative, discusses with Kanter the genesis, key insights, and influence of the book—as well as its relevance in the #MeToo era. Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at HBS. —Zeenat Potia... View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

01 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 1

Duke KominersHarvard Business School Case 911-033 Describes a wallet maker's application of seven Internet marketing technologies: display ads, algorithmic search, sponsored search, social media, interactive content, online distributors,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

preferred algorithmic advice, and for subjective decisions, participants preferred advice from people. Experiment 6 tested the interaction of subjectivity and the availability of expert advice. Participants preferred an expert to an... View Details

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

or "shepherds," rather than micro-managers of the creative process. How the market interacts with creativity and the impact of this interaction on creativity in organizations. The relationship... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

benefiting small business Karen Mills, Former administrator of the U.S. Small Business Administration (SBA) and now a senior fellow at HBS and at the Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government at Harvard Kennedy School. Having a... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

access the debt markets. However, fundamental differences in governance and project co-insurance between the two types of acquirer interact with debt misvaluation, resulting in variation in how assets are owned that depends on debt market... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

don't know what Twitter is. In 2015, the average American spent more than one-third of her media interaction time online and around one-third watching television, 10 percent reading magazines and newspapers, and 10 percent listening to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

17 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

What Hospitals Must Learn to Compete

Harvard Business School professors Raffaella Sadun and Leemore Dafny are both economists who have studied hospitals extensively—Sadun’s research has looked at the economics of management, while Dafny’s examines interactions between health... View Details

Keywords: by Alumni Bulletin Staff; Health

25 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People

they already knew from a roster of names and photos. Researchers randomly assigned participants to teams and work stations in a large open space and challenged them to create a mobile app for the Indian wedding industry. They tracked participants’ View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

office architecture on employees’ interpersonal and electronic interactions. Working with co-author Stephen Turban, who was introduced to Bernstein by the late HBS professor David Garvin, their study yielded surprising findings about the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

24 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

with their smartphones before a meeting begins, thinking of it as an efficient way to manage their time," says Maarten Bos, a post-doctoral research fellow at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with HBS Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

“Office Hours” series. During “Office Hours,” HBS experts field questions from Instagram users, responding through short videos. Cohen studies finance and innovation, producing research and courses about topics including fintech, asset... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

hedge fund, an Amazon employee focused on retail data, and a forecaster at General Electric," says HBS David Sarnoff Professor of Business Administration Marco Iansiti, who serves as faculty chair of the initiative and head of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

co-written by HBS doctoral candidate Hayley Blunden, Harvard University post-doctoral fellow Jennifer M. Logg, and HBS professors Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie K. John, and Francesca Gino. “In asking a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

everyone is expected to give and take, teach and learn, during the discussions of issues in its classrooms. A book, Teaching by Heart: One Professor's Journey to Inspire, by Tom DeLong (pictured above), a member of the HBS faculty,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

customer has a bad experience, they might just not come back again. Airbnb is really trying to interact with customers more frequently by adding services, even in your own city. So, instead of traveling, you might use Airbnb to line up... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

14 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Right Fit for Software Testing

cubicles—is often treated as an afterthought at immature IT organizations, says HBS professor Robert Austin. Yet this attitude is unwise, because the sooner bugs are caught, the easier and cheaper they are to correct. But who is best... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services; Computer

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

up until the point (and even after) the company tumbled off a cliff. Indeed, HBS professor Mark Bradshaw and collaborators Scott Richardson and Richard Sloan found that pre-year 2000 forecasts and recommendations done by Wall Street... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

"While companies might have an intended strategy, the strategy that actually emerges can be very different," says HBS professor Clark G. Gilbert. It is a topic that Gilbert and professor Joseph L. Bower have explored at length... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash flow. Organic growth depends on... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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