Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Freedom to use vacation time to attend celebrations with family and friends helps improve performance for employees who work far away from their hometowns, new research by Prithwiraj Choudhury suggests. When employees move away from their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

possible," Farre-Mensa stresses. One way to do this is by tying managerial compensation to a firm's long-term performance, including clawback provisions if future poor results turn out to be due to bad... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

clear: many retail segments are under assault by cheaper, more convenient retailers selling online. "The surprising thing is that despite the success of lots of big businesses in having developed Internet businesses, despite the fact that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

How can we profit from the structural reality of emerging markets by identifying opportunities to fill voids, serving as market intermediaries? For Khanna and Palepu, an emerging market is anyplace where buyers and sellers cannot easily... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

years before reforms. For these firms, measures of technology transfer increased by more than 30 percent. In addition, we found that non-resident patent applications increased and grew at a faster rate following reforms, indicating that... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

experimentation from permeating the company’s culture. Instead, organizations might learn from the travel site Booking.com, whose leaders have forged a rigorous testing culture that has guided the company to growth, Luca says. The company... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

09 Feb 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul

02 Dec 2002
What Do You Think?

How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?

long as stock options are so directly linked to company valuation alone (i.e. uni-dimensional) the system might be open to inevitable abuse." Some might argue that these well-intended suggestions either ignore or reduce the value of options as an incentive. But... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

This philosophy of management, wherever it is found in the Silicon Valley, was in some ways inspired by Bill Hewlett and David Packard, founders of Hewlett-Packard and proponents of the "H-P Way" of View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

finance shape where companies end up locating?" It is the districts “in between” that comprise a rich laboratory for learning about the relationship between infrastructure spending and economic growth more broadly. A new study... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

peer group in the recovery? “According to our research, companies that master the delicate balance between cutting costs to survive today and investing to grow tomorrow do well after a recession These companies reduce costs selectively... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

repositories of advice.” Dina Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Image: iStock Related Reading: Advice on Advice Research Paper Do We Listen to Advice Just Because We Paid for It? Manager or Mentor?... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Apr 2001
What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

highly attractive deals, they may find that their prospective partners no longer exist. By the time they are ready to transact or invest, that talent they found so attractive may be gone. What is happening here? Is it free enterprise or... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

should get paid?" or say, "I'm having a rough struggle with this and that." There is not the same kind of emotional bond across gender. It's obviously difficult to have tight emotional bonds across gender. Q: Given what you're View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

on digital photography would inevitably distract the mainstream managers. Fund in stages. Establishing a freestanding venture is a good first step, but it's no guarantee that the people in charge will manage the business as an independent opportunity. Top executives... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Design, described... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

product information standards makes the current aggregation and dissemination of such content an expensive and inefficient proposition—an effort duplicated by each distributor in the channel. This problem is further compounded View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

would ask, "What do the students need to know?" The second challenge is about faculty. How do schools ensure that faculty continue to exert cultural authority in the classroom and are seen View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

28 Oct 2015
News

Publications