Publishing - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out

year. (Indeed, published reports confirm the notion that Francona depended on certain players to help him deliver key messages to the team.) But in 2011, absent of obvious team leaders, the Sox may have needed a top-down kind of guy.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Banking

01 Nov 2024
In Practice

Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times

stations,” the Journal reported. “Doing a layoff for the right reason is not just smart strategically, it’s smart organizationally.” Two months earlier, in July, Intuit CEO Sasan Goodarzi published a note in the financial software firm’s... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

13 Dec 2022
News

The First Five Years: Christine Keung and Reggie Smith

Weinzierl, published in November 2021 "We worked with the state's Small Business Administration to help small-businesses access to Paycheck Protection Program loans in 2020." What drew you to this work? Reggie: "We grew up on opposite... View Details

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

Harvard Business School. "Marla, my spouse, would see all kinds of things going on that I would simply miss. Why? Perhaps this was due to my tendency to focusing, and in my case, narrowly." In his forthcoming book The Power of Noticing: What the Best Leaders... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

Looking back, how should the company's restructuring be assessed? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811030-PDF-ENG Caijing Magazine (B) Karthik Ramanna and G.A. DonovanHarvard Business School Supplement 112-049 In late 2009, Wang Boming, View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2010
News

Light Looks Back on Forty-Year HBS Career

School’s Bureau of Business Research published in the 1920s, and I’m sure cases at the end of the 21st century won’t look much like they do now — we’ll probably be viewing them on some sort of handheld device. But I’d guess that they’ll... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

COVID-19," published on April 23—which was Day 16 of her struggle with the virus. Ruparell has been very sick with the virus, but because she is in New York City, the epicenter of the disease, she was asked to manage symptoms at home. She... View Details

06 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels

Management Practice in Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who recently published a paper on the topic of technology commoditization in MIT Sloan Management Review. According to Shih, manufacturers are able to duplicate... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing; Electronics

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

to comprehensively analyze the demographics of leadership and access in business in the United States. The last comprehensive studies were published in 1955: (1) Mabel Newcomer's The Big Business Executive, the Factors that Made Him,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2007
News

To The Rescue

problems of success — not problems of failures.” Garrett M. Graff is editor-at-large at Washingtonian magazine. His first book, The First Campaign: Globalization, the Web, and the Race for the White House, will be published in December by... View Details

Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

improve inner cities a decade ago. In the early 1990s, with support from then HBS Dean John H. McArthur, Porter oversaw a series of field studies that looked at potential solutions to the problems facing America's inner cities. This research inspired Porter to View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Professor Linda A. Hill and Kent Lineback write in the new preface to their book Being the Boss: The Three Imperatives for Becoming a Great Leader, first published in 2011 and reissued this spring, “Leadership has always been hard, and in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

actually contrary to previous research. Readings in Modern Marketing Author:John A. Quelch Publication:Hong Kong: Chinese University Press, 2006 Abstract Readings in Modern Marketing is a collection of Quelch's highly-praised scholarly articles previously View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

legal, and political history of financial globalization. This article is part of the larger project. My book, Capital Rules: The Construction of Global Finance, is going to be published by Harvard University Press later this year. Q: How... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Web

Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Alumni Recruiting MBA Recruiting Recruiting Resources Alumni Bulletin Baker Library | Bloomberg Center Business History Review Harvard Business Publishing Harvard Business Review HBS Working Knowledge Close Harvard Business School About... View Details

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

the White House. They've had conversations with multiple officials at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). Most recently, Feeley sat down with US Secretary of Health and Human Services Sylvia Mathews Burwell—who published... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

and translated this insight into a sustained political and publishing campaign to ensure that the English and later the British Empire would consist of an industrializing core and a periphery producing and providing raw materials. He... View Details