awards - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

03 Mar 2014
HBS Case

Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato

through direct interaction with the growers. Each year he presents a "Golden Tomato" award at a ceremony attended by all Mutti farmers. It's an opportunity not only to recognize them for a job well done and to share ideas, but also to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Food & Beverage; Retail

27 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities

annual awards dinner grows, the word is starting to get out. What is not yet recognized is that inner cities mirror the future of the U.S. economy. Inner cities are disproportionately populated by minority groups, which reflects the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

the business to 'roughly' understand what a person was earning . Each role was assigned to a pay range. The greater percentage of that range was awarded dependent on performance, benchmarked through goals and objectives agreed earlier in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

this tribute to the 2007 recipient of the Jeffrey Z. Rubin Theory‐To‐Practice Award from the International Association for Conflict Management (IACM), we celebrate Linda Babcock's contributions to diverse lines of research, her tireless... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

efficiency and materials and resources. LEED rating recipients are awarded certification levels of Certified, Silver, Gold, or Platinum, depending on the number of total points. The researchers focused on LEED because of its relative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

programs to an investment board comprising both insiders (senior GSK executives) and outsiders (including a venture capitalist and a biotech CEO). After a three-month review period, successful teams are awarded three years worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jul 2009
First Look

First Look: July 7

decided to exercise their discretionary power to award five top executives a bonus for 2008, even though they had not met the necessary performance measures under the compensation plan. Proxy advisors RiskMetrics and the British... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

technology on the newspaper business with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne in this e-mail interview. An article based on Gilbert's doctoral research in this area received the Robert Litschert Best Doctoral Student Paper View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

largest American investors in that country. His close relationship with Harry Oppenheimer, the head of the Anglo-American Corporation, gave him substantial influence within the South African business system. The case starts with anti-apartheid demonstrators protesting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

and the increasing use of social media by companies to crowdsource ideas, mount contests to award prizes and gather audiences, and attempt to create dialogues with customers. The year 2010 accelerated the trend toward the use of social... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

Frontiers of Management. In 2001 she received the Academy of Management's Distinguished Career Award, its highest award for scholarly contributions, for her impact on management thought, and in 2002 received the World Teleport... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

TelePrompTer and TCI, nearly went bankrupt during the early 1970s due to excessive debt leverage. 20 The cash drain from building and operating cable franchises encouraged industry consolidation. Despite the fact that over three thousand separate franchises had been... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Operations and the Competitive Edge

award from the Association of American Publishers—that in the early '90s our publisher, John Wiley, asked us if we would develop a new, updated edition. Steve and I did some preliminary thinking about this, even prepared a possible... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 17

SesiaHarvard Business School Supplement 110-050 The (B) case describes shareholder and investor reactions to the 2008 compensation awarded Aubrey McClendon, founder and CEO of Chesapeake Energy, which according to Fortune Magazine made... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

patents, in particular, and business method patents more generally. Because so much of the prior work in these areas has not been patented, concerns have been expressed as to the extent to which the awards reflect this knowledge. Inspired... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

29 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 29

laboratory for examining the effectiveness of complementary mechanisms to patents. Patents were introduced in 1885, and by 1911, 1.2 million mostly non-pecuniary prizes were awarded at 8,503 competitions. Prizes provided a strong boost to... View Details