Visits By Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

return of a pandemic. But what about potential opportunities associated with the recession of the coronavirus, opportunities associated with a “reshuffling of the deck” in the workforce caused by COVID-19 that could create opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

1997, Mexico inaugurated a program in which all pension contributions are collected by the State and transferred into individual investment accounts managed by private... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

2013
Working Paper

The Appeal of the Appropriate: Accounting, Risk Management, and the Competition for the Supply of Control Systems

By: Anette Mikes

How do certain risk measurements in organizations come to be seen as more reliable and acceptable than others? Taking a multiple-control perspective, I investigate the aftermath of a control debacle at a financial services company (MultiBank), focusing on its insurance... View Details

Keywords: Management Control Systems; Multiple Control Systems; Interactive Control Systems; Performance Measurement; Risk Measurement; Financialization Of Accounting; Institutional Logics; Banking; Risk Management; Fair Value Accounting; Insurance; Financial Services Industry

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25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

the choices made by Stevens, butler though he was, continue to resonate deeply with MBA students. Among the many works of literature that students read in The Moral Leader, he observed, from classical philosophy to contemporary short... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Work, Family, Private Life: Why Not All Three?

nonprofit organizations. Hart, who is also co-head of the entrepreneurship and service management faculty unit at HBS, said that reflection on a balance between work and personal goals can never start too soon. In terms of role models,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

issues, the Joint Center held a symposium in February 2010 on Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance." A new book, co-edited by Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky, managing director... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor of Management Practice, who taught... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

often, then, companies will adopt diversity policies more out of fear than anything else, the researchers argue. And this can lead to nonproductive situations. For example, a manager may shy away from constructively criticizing a minority... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

Fialkow, managing director of General Catalyst Partners, he would first employ the "earnest young man routine" to get an interview with an old guy in business who could explain the ins and outs of the industry. "Keep your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

vis-a-vis local financial development in districts all along the route, is the first paper to connect microlevel financial development with infrastructure development. The paper, Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India's GQ Highway Network, is coauthored View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

06 Sep 2018
News

The pros and cons of collaboration

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

business executives who attended the symposium to discuss how to address inequality issues and encourage greater diversity in the workplace. Held on the Harvard Business School campus on March 31 and April 1, the symposium was co-organized View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business

supply by a record 5.3 million units. Harvey with two young beneficiaries of affordable housing. (photo: courtesy Bart Harvey) "Affordable housing is a problem that increasingly affects companies and employers, as well as the overall... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Construction; Real Estate

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

conclusion that follows is that perhaps the dream that Webvan was feeding—living off—will actually be realized by someone like Wal-Mart, managing only the information side of the business and not getting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

Transnational Brand: How Global Perceptions Drive Value," drew inspiration from Theodore Levitt in order to probe a missing link: the management of the transnational brand. Transnational brands are corporate brands that cross... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Surveying the VC Landscape

Certainly, it is legitimate to worry that long-run but nonetheless critically important research once performed by organizations such as IBM and Bell Labs will be trimmed, and that no one will take the slack. After all, it is unlikely... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

distinguish those protections that reflect genuine consumer concerns from those that merely protect trade-exposed domestic producers. For the moment, such disagreements are managed by the dispute- settlement... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

25 Jan 2021
Working Paper Summaries

The Evolutionary Nature of Breakthrough Innovation: Re-Evaluating the Exploration vs. Exploitation Dichotomy

Keywords: by Dominika K. Sarnecka and Gary P. Pisano

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

most countries, there are strong local brands reflecting local tastes that coexist alongside global brands.” Marketing by producers to consumers is as old as the bazaar. But modern marketing is more than just selling. It involves the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

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