Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

acquisition of Time Warner is a case in point. Time Warner's shareholders did well in the immediate aftermath of the announcement; many of them rushed to cash out. AOL's shareholders, by contrast, did not do... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

they’ve come down by roughly an order of magnitude, roughly 90 percent. Starship promises to do that again. You could be talking about launch that’s something like 99 percent cheaper. The other thing that’s... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

and purviews. This leaves online small business lenders to be governed by an expensive and time-consuming patchwork of state oversight, often with inconsistent rules that can confine online lending to state-by-state silos, undermining... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

23 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Real Wal-Mart Effect

would pay several percentage points more for the food and nonfood merchandise that—after housing—is their second-largest household expense. So in the debate about what to do about Wal-Mart, let's keep in mind who's reaping the benefits of... View Details

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

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

individualized) levels." Peter Lee added "The real issue is what you consider to be performance Performance is all about quality-quality of effort as well as results." Gerald Nanninga suggested that "let's solve the problem View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

possibility that hiring managers would be swayed by their own backgrounds, meaning that sporting either a finance degree or a social work degree didn't result in preferential treatment for a potential candidate. But Battilana's research... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

the right questions, and taking a broad view all are important skills. You also can enhance your abilities by watching movies. This may seem like odd advice, but consider this: talented actors give us a unique opportunity to compare what... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

state-owned enterprises (SOEs) such as those in the Soviet Union and China, which were tightly controlled by government, packed with party apparatchiks, and stifled honest competition by introducing all... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2020
What Do You Think?

How Can We Get Companies to Invest More in Low-Wage Workers?

the lower ranks. One of the causes may well be inequities in the ability of executives and frontline labor to negotiate compensation for their skills. In particular, the declining power of unions and the stickiness of minimum wage laws are often cited as factors. A... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

Startups welcome growth but are often strangled by it. This podcast discusses how entrepreneur Vijay Shekhar Sharma is meeting this challenge with his mobile payments company Paytm. Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

In what is believed to be the largest study of its kind, MBA students at Harvard Business School recently analyzed the financial returns generated by 110 early-stage companies backed by Investors' Circle, a... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

at Harvard Business School, who wrote the article with Dan Ariely of Duke University. "But is creativity always good? We often hear of cases in which people use innovative behavior to create a sense that what they're doing is not... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

because I want them to keep giving me the best service they can deliver in exchange for my commitment to fly them whenever I can. Consumers can achieve anonymity today by declining to join supermarket frequent shopper programs, but View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

11 Jun 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

research had not, it's not our idea, it is Emerson's original idea. Q: I thought that the methodology that you used was interesting. We wondered why you chose a job interview negotiation to test the hypotheses. A: We have found in lots of research that if you're going... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

or sell. Payatas and the orderly, verdant Harvard Business School campus—nearly equals, as it happens, in terms of the acreage they occupy—are separated by a gulf far greater than any measure of miles or statistics. Yet as HBS professor... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

environment. By doing so, they benefit not only their own shareholders and stakeholders but their homeland. Thus, these firms must be encouraged to act as incubators, spawning new ventures that provide... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

investment deals and 2.3 percent of dollars among the investors surveyed went to women-owned firms, the Center discovered. HBS professor Myra M. Hart, an authority on entrepreneurship—especially the founding of high potential new ventures—is examining why this is so... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

deeper, and important negotiation lessons emerge. First, you can succeed without explicitly swapping favors. After all, Rovell had nothing of substance to offer successful sports figures. But by being respectful, persistent, and View Details