Request For Proposal - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

disabilities and degenerative neurological conditions. (In one of several such tragic incidents, in 2011, 10-year NFL veteran Dave Duerson (OPM 30, 2001)—who had been suffering from a deteriorating mental state—instructed his family before committing suicide to View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased significantly from 1994 to 2004, that the strength of risk management functions is significantly lower View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

down as MD in 2006, to develop a training program for them. This request raises the question of whether this internal training capability should become the basis of an external service offering. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

(Channelside) LP, a private company. In the early years the cost of water would be almost double the average unit cost the Authority pays at the time of the decision. Is this proposal good policy in the long run to lock in supply and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

behavior, distorted risk preferences, corrosion of organizational culture, and reduced intrinsic motivation. Rather than dispensing goal setting as a benign, over-the-counter treatment for motivation, managers and scholars need to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
News

Back to School

a habit of reading while I’m putting them to bed and waiting for all those requests for another cup of water. That consistency helps. Finding the right book can get you hooked... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran

16 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018

outcomes. (2) Selecting or developing leaders for the future requires a forward-looking strategy and culture. (3) In a merger, designing a new culture on the basis of complementary strengths can speed up integration and create more value... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
News

Alumni Books of 2016

the arguments of economists like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz offering remedies for income inequality. Drawing on a historical study of the ebbs and flows of the US economy, he proposes ways to grow the... View Details

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

The center approached Alessi, a medium-sized tableware company in Italy, at the request of professors Youngme Moon and Gail McGovern for a case in the Consumer Marketing MBA elective. Working through... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

world as it is? Who are we? What can I live with? All five questions must be answered. According to the author, “Each question is an important voice in the centuries-long conversation about what counts as a sound decision regarding a hard problem with high stakes View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 2016
News

Vive la Madeleine!

the end of July, the business tribunal in Caen was considering four offers for the Jeannette brand and leftover machinery, Viana’s among them. Two focused solely on the purchase of the machinery; one View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustrations by Natalya Balnova

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

history of empirical work on the search for a relationship between corporate social performance (CSP) and corporate financial performance (CFP). Second, we critically appraise the quality of this work. And third, we question the... View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

01 Mar 2017
News

The Middle Way

celebrate a new peace: After 20 years of negotiations, the four groups had agreed on a historic deal for land use in the Great Bear Rainforest, a 25,000-square-mile stretch of BC’s north and central coastlands—the largest intact coastal... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photos by Kamil Bialous

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

01 Dec 2020
News

A New Approach to Contact Tracing

IDs, timestamps the occurrence, and logs the length of the encounter. Because it employs Bluetooth rather than GPS, the app doesn’t track users’ location. This helped address some, though not all, privacy concerns. In the event an app user tests positive View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Government

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

time and markets. Specifically, we build a model in which two firms that differ in their capabilities enter sequentially into two markets with different potentials for profit. The model is solved using game theory under three learning... View Details