Business Schools - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

If so, what will it take to achieve it? What do you think? To Read More: Clayton M. Christensen,The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail (Boston: Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

for anything where the prior art is known," explains Prithwiraj Choudhury, an assistant professor in the Technology, Operations, and Management unit at Harvard Business School. "But when a Western firm goes to a Western... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

takes time and patience to discern their meaning. 3. Look For Anomalies Certain people have the knack of picking up on nonverbal cues. Clancy Prevost, a Minnesota flight school instructor, is such a person. Several years ago he had a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

31 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?

of the study, Alvin Silk, Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus, and Joel Weissman, associate professor, department of Medicine and Health Care Policy, Harvard Medical School. The Physicians Report ran... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

(Photo source: Catherine Lane) Giving to charity is the ultimate act of selflessness. We offer our own hard-earned money to those in need, with no thought of return. The reality of altruism, however, is much more complicated, as Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

Editor’s note: Concerns about data falsification and fabrication in a study conducted by Francesca Gino as part of this article have been shared by Harvard Business School with the publishing journal’s... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

26 Feb 2018
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels

Farronato, a Harvard Business School assistant professor, and Andrey Fradkin, postdoctoral fellow at the Initiative on the Digital Economy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. "You might find a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Travel

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up costs of... View Details

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

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

In his new book, Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter, Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Gautam Mukunda addresses the question of whether leaders create history or are created by it. In this... View Details

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

by our unconscious mind” Both decision-making methods have strengths and weaknesses, says Harvard Business School postdoctoral fellow Maarten Bos. Our conscious mind is pretty good at following rules, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

that Gary has been kind enough to help the School in a number of ways in launching a Global Leadership Initiative. Our work on that project has led us to conclude that there are not many short executive education courses anywhere that... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

Business School Press, forthcoming) as reported in Louis Uchitelle, "Revising a Boardroom Legacy," The New York Times, September 28, 2007, pp. C1 and C5. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

media would benefit their personal reputations more than spreading misleading articles, the research shows. Furthermore, when political articles are shared on Twitter (now X), accurate information tends to garner more approval, finds Jillian J. Jordan, assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

04 Jan 2012
What Do You Think?

Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?

business and society." The right amount of income inequality may be hard to determine, but respondents to this month's column offered up a number of measures, some more straightforward than others. Comments suggesting that right... View Details