Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Often the CEO is portrayed as 'the only person in the world who could do this job' You can thank the financial press for this mystique." In pointing out the futility of the effort, Rebecca West commented that "the current... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Jun 2016
News

Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story

subservient to the needs of the story. “I saw Wolf of Wall Street,” says coproducer Linda Zwack Munger (MBA 1982), a former senior vice president in Lehman Brothers’ mortgage bond department. “It’s so unrealistic.” In addition to not always View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman; photography by Chris Taggart; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

characterized those urging patience. As he put it, “The computer was created by Babbage in the 18th century We only started seeing the pervasive benefits from computing in the last 10-15 years. Today’s innovations will bring real... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

May 2020
Case

M-Lab: Enabling Innovation at Mitsubishi Corporation

By: Krishna Palepu and Allison M. Ciechanover

M-Lab’s founding goals were to infuse an innovation mindset into Mitsubishi Corporation; to catalyze new business opportunities; and to enable a dialogue between Japanese business and Silicon Valley. M-Lab housed representatives from each of Mitsubishi Corporation’s... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Disruption; Transformation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Multinational Firms and Management; Innovation and Management; Innovation Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Japan; United States

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24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable to those who know the warning... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

completion. In addition, the ERC has been involved in about thirty course development projects, for instance by searching for appropriate case sites for a faculty member, facilitating company contacts, or participating in European... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

18 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?

all aspects of health care delivery, there are places that are doing it very well. If we were all doing all these things, we could reduce the cost of health care by 30... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

01 Jun 2024
News

Research Brief: Ahead of the Game

harder to learn in a classroom setting,” he says. While the data are clear that athletes benefit from these skills—and that managers would be smart to hire for them—Gompers acknowledges that the existing research doesn’t explain why.... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Antonio Pinna

01 Jun 2024
News

Quantum Leap

than a kid in a candy store. A lifelong techie, Levy learned to read by deciphering The Boys’ First Book of Radio and Electronics, a 1954 classic that gave step-by-step instructions for building a radio... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Chris Sorensen; quantum computing; innovation; leadership; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

innovation can be achieved whether a state is big or small, red or blue. There are fifty states in this union, and many are still waiting for the political innovation spark to be lit. Will you do it? Lighting that spark requires shaking... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

is and also the fact that other people might have another mindset." Students also learn not to get snowed by certain tactics that are used by the other party. For... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

"It was a moment when there was a need to come up with a different vision of how business leaders would operate," said Nohria. "Harvard Business School was created to fulfill that vision. Now, many people are asking the question, can we View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

21 May 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

protagonist. "When you discover truths by answering a series of questions, you are not just learning, but also learning how to learn," says Narayanan, Thomas D. Casserly, Jr. Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

message, but he overcomes that by using an "unscripted fireside chat. It's 'Here's what we are doing well,' with a lot of thank-yous and kudos and pointing out wins and successes, and then talking about... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

both companies had to learn how to cope with the increasing interest in their business—not only by their traditional shareholders but also by new classes of share- and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

08 Oct 2018
News

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

of new fintech entrepreneurs began to change that by improving the speed and ease of the small business customer experience, and making their financial activity more visible to potential lenders. Lagace: How much View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

"Selective Attention and Learning"

What do we notice and how does this affect what we learn and come to believe? I present a model of an agent who learns to make forecasts on the basis of readily available information, but is selective as to which information he attends to: he chooses whether to... View Details

19 Jun 2015
Blog Post

What is the HBS Show?

The HBS Show began in 1974 with a handful of students, a few comedy sketches, song parodies, and one spotlight and now has transformed into a full-length Broadway style musical that is entirely written, directed, produced, and performed View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

HBS Working Knowledge recently celebrated its tenth birthday, and we mark the occasion by looking back and looking forward. We've asked HBS Dean Nitin Nohria and a number of faculty to both remark on what they view as the most significant... View Details