Mainstream - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

indication that experimental research is becoming more mainstream is the fact that a number of faculty who are not primarily experimentalists use the CLER, including HBS Dean Nitin Nohria. The Tipping Point To explain this surging... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2021
News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

trust of the communities they serve.” For the Oregon Community Partners, that has meant teaming up with Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), a micro-lending organization providing entrepreneurs of color with opportunities for financial coaching and access to... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

12 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017

authority has been longstanding, albeit at the margins of scholarly and practitioner attention. Recently, however, organizational experiments in radical decentralization have gained mainstream consideration, giving rise to a need for new... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

What is missing in mainstream political debate? And what do you envision as a more effective position for the United States given current world conditions? A: American political debate is increasingly dominated by hype, exaggeration, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 1996
News

Four Professors to Retire

Christenson was, for example, among the first to bring the social sciences into the mainstream of practical business studies in the MBA Program. In 1976 he also developed a teaching program that brought HBS methods to the training of... View Details

Keywords: Elaine Gottlieb and John Prestage

23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

mainstream big tobacco companies. But playing out the scenario to the end, that is exactly what may happen—and all in the absence of any definitive data showing whether e-cigarettes are more or less harmful to public health than tobacco... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

mainstream business. Q: There had to be some good things you learned by looking at dot-coms, even those that went out of business, and their cultures. A: Many people are skeptical. In fact, a lot of people are putting their business suits... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

Has Entered the Mainstream By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Leaders in all sectors, from business to sports to education, are increasingly wading into controversial political and social issues. Based on interviews... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

convey? You have to stay close to your core consumer. Even though Skullcandy has grown over the years, and we now sell in mainstream places like Best Buy, Target, and Apple stores, the consumer at the center of our circle is still the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

green building, including evolving boundaries of professional jurisdictions; changing industry strategies and structures, including the roles of ownership, supply firms, and market niches; new operational, organizational, and cultural arrangements, including the View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

disciplines which develop their own norms and conventions about interesting research questions and how to answer them. For several decades mainstream academic historians, especially those based in the United States, have devoted almost no... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

29 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 29, 2008

and even remade as movies have come to dominate mainstream media content. At media giant Sony, Ken Munekata, CEO of Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE), and Atsushi Fukuda, President of Sony Digital Entertainment (SDE), are attempting to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Dec 2024
News

The Musts of 2024

expanding the number of years that you live well. So he talks about how you can impact the way you live. It talks about the metrics that they use that are beyond the mainstream metrics, and those are indicators of a good way to age... View Details

01 Sep 2017
News

The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of

mainstream in the early 2000s. Leagues were organized by a central authority, and competitions were televised. Long before the rest of the world discovered the 21st-century sport, South Korean video gamers were held in the same regard as... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Brian Stauffer; esports; Twitch; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

If they try to lock it down, it will actually hurt them and keep their own efforts away from the mainstream on where research on machine learning is going. They get the benefit of other people using it and improving it. Facebook and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia

internal upheaval or violence. And, Abdelal contends, mainstream nationalists in Lithuania, Belarus and Ukraine in the first post-Soviet decade had nearly identical ideologies and foreign policy goals. For nationalists in all three... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

annually and continues to grow, according to the Wall Street Journal. These bonds are purchased by portfolio investors. Even the real estate industry's leading trade group, the Urban Land Institute, sees resilience-modeling and adaptation investments as View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

the Terrie F. and Bradley M. Bloom Associate Professor of Business Administration. Public health will become a mainstream concern Leslie K. John: Healthy hygience habits will finally stick One consistent finding from our research on... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 31

theoretical conclusion based on the historical experiences of business groups built up by the British-based trading companies with their eighteenth- and nineteenth-century origins comes close to mainstream assessments reached by the... View Details