by Carmen Nobel (with video by Amelia Kunhardt) - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

Business Cycles was Joseph Schumpeter's least successful book when measured by its professed aims and several other yardsticks. Yet the book contains two vital aspects that have largely been overlooked. First, the prodigious research that... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

08 Jan 2001
What Do You Think?

Have We Extended the Boundaries of the Firm Too Far?

described by Michael Porter is being fragmented by organizations; value addition ... is taking place in numerous forms ..." Their comments reflected the general assumptions among respondents that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

This opinion piece, first published in the New York Times in August 2005, has been updated by Pankaj Ghemawat for HBS Working Knowledge.Mighty Wal-Mart's headquarters in Bentonville, Arkansas, must feel less like a hotbed of retailing and... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Ken A. Mark; Retail

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), to participate in a workshop with academics who study government regulation and industry compliance. The event featured a series of presentations by scholars sharing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

sales promotion. These substitutes compete directly with traditional media for advertisers' marketing dollars. Similarly, mergers between media providers and content suppliers such as news and entertainment programming also influence... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

01 Jun 1998
News

Chai Ling

Tiananmen, she has twice been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize and remains a leading spokesperson for China's pro-democracy movement. With what she views as an increasingly repressive regime still in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; photograph by Webb Chappell

01 Jun 1998
News

José Royo

José Royo leaves footprints nearly everywhere he goes. A native of Spain, Royo was studying for his Ph.D. in East Asian studies at Harvard when he applied for a support job in information technology at the Business School in 1990. With... View Details

Keywords: Eileen McCluskey; photograph by Webb Chappell

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

because of the challenges associated with measuring effectiveness. Notably, these obstacles are not limited to evaluation by external parties, as firm managers also struggle to assess the returns associated... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

networking for resources, they actively search for new ideas by talking to people who may offer a radically different view of things. For example, Jobs talked with an Apple Fellow named Alan Kay, who told... View Details

Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen

01 Mar 2019
News

The Blue-Green Revolution

biotech company cofounded by genomics pioneer Craig Venter and Nobel Laureate Hamilton Smith, together with writer and life sciences investor Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986). And it... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustration by Eric Nyquist

06 Jan 2012
Op-Ed

Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail

News Corporation—a multinational media conglomerate that includes BSKYB, Dow Jones, Fox News, 20th Century Fox and Star, among other units—announced earlier this year that it has become climate neutral, meaning that its operations have no net impact on global climate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler; Information; Publishing

01 Mar 2025
News

Audit: War & Peace

QUESTION: “How did you ensure the talks didn’t fail because of internal strife?” —Alexandra Baranowski (MBA 2025) “I had to handle that with a lot of cold blood and not engage the opposition in every argument. I had to maintain the course, explain why we were doing... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustration by Matt Rota

15 Dec 2024
News

After Ozempic

Back before Ozempic, when Kate Mulroney (MBA 1984) spoke at technical conferences about her work at Novo Nordisk, people often assumed she was talking about Novartis. “I’d have to explain that’s a Swiss company; we’re Danish,” says Mulroney, now head of advanced... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Illustrations by Pete Ryan; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

social initiatives is to find a way to promote social justice in a world where the shareholder wealth maximization paradigm reigns supreme. Advocates for corporate social initiatives must be prepared to argue with a View Details

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

30 Nov 2012
News

HBS Professor Al Roth Named Fellow of American Association for the Advancement of Science

28 Jun 2021
Video

Ouided Bouchamaoui

Ouided Bouchamaoui, the Nobel Prize winning co-founder of the Tunisian National Dialogue Quartet and CEO of Hédi Bouchamaoui Group, discusses the challenges faced by business in Tunisia under the presidency of Ben Ali (1987-2011) and subsequent challenges of... View Details

September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Case

Marc Abrahams: Annals of an Improbable Entrepreneur

By: Boris Groysberg and Michael Slind

Marc Abrahams was a media entrepreneur who specialized in science humor. In 2008, he sought to boost the scale and monetization potential of his business. That business, called Improbable Research, encompassed a magazine (Annals of Improbable Research), a high-profile... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Selection and Staffing; Human Capital; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Personal Development and Career

Citation

Find at Harvard

April 2001 (Revised August 2001)
Case

UNext: Business Education and e-Learning

By: Michael G. Rukstad, David J. Collis and Tyrell Levine

UNEXT has signed agreements with Columbia, Stanford, Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, and the London School of Economics to create online business courses. The company is backed by Michael Milken and Larry Ellison and has four Nobel laureates on its advisory board. Describes... View Details