New Evaluation System - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

those of their firms? Can such behaviors be predicted and averted? That is a subject of Daniel Kahneman's new book, Thinking, Fast and Slow. He concludes, based on his research, that as decision-makers, we rely too heavily on View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

payment ... over and above the "normal" selling price?" Berglund answers his own question in suggesting that it depends on the extent to which the new (GE aircraft) engine (used in the hard-wiring example) differs from past... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets

build successful businesses. The desire to capture the scale of this change is the ambitious goal of Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets project, whose new website was profiled in HBS Working Knowledge last year. The... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Manufacturing; Auto

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

iStockPhoto State laws that require people to wait a few days before purchasing firearms reduce gun-related homicides by 17 percent, new research shows. Waiting periods saved 750 lives per year in the 17 states that had such policies in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

And consumer finance businesses are the touch points between the financial system and millions of consumers. Despite its size and importance, we had ignored this sector almost entirely in our curriculum. Q: Was HBS alone in not offering a... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

Act, introduced May 19, casts shareholders as the antidote to runaway executive compensation and excessive risk-taking. The bill requires public companies to conduct annual, nonbinding votes by shareholders on executive compensation—so-called say on pay; grants... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

social media companies system from the platform. Unless regulatory or governance change happens, it’s hard to see what changes Facebook implements will solve the Pandora’s box of problems opened when it allowed advertisers access to user... View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted Teisberg. The U.S. healthcare View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

Olmsted Teisberg. Key Learnings 1. The U.S. health care system is a paradox in that it has competition yet fails to deliver improving value. Competition has been shown to be an incredibly powerful force in driving increased quality and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

different ordering and return procedures and system interfaces to each distributor and direct manufacturer with whom they trade, causing them to spend valuable resources in back-office operations (50 percent by some estimates), which they... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Microsoft, Intel, and Apple in the new book, Strategy Rules. Men Want Powerful Jobs More Than Women Do (32,083) While women and men believe they are equally able to attain high-level leadership positions, men want that power more than... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even your own company. The Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of back-scratching is known as... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

from article evaluation standards to the etiquette surrounding debate. "When I got involved in this Article-for-Deletion process, they kept citing chapter and verse the policies and guidelines to me," McAfee says. "It really showed me how... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

single-payer system. Few national politicians are working to uncover why the public exchanges aren’t working for either insurers or consumers. While it’s difficult, the question everyone should be working to answer is: How can the system... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transfers by U.S. multinationals increased following reforms. Affiliates also increased their levels of R&D expenditures. These increases were concentrated among firms that one would expect to value IPR reform the most, namely those firms that made extensive use of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

Overall, the private-risk capital market is still underdeveloped in most countries outside the U.S., with exception of the U.K., because most of the new venture capital firms have not seen their first shakeout. One of the great strengths... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

said, it's time for a new kind of standards to emerge: standards not just for how computers communicate, but for how business processes work. Even an advanced technical protocol like XML, said Upton, "with all its cleverness, doesn't... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

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