Black Lives Matter - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Star Power! How to Win in Professional Services

But this is a far cry from the PSF CEO, who lives and works among her "shareholders." She passes them in the hall, eats lunch with them, and has to guide them productively to accomplish her objectives. Even if they work in... View Details

Keywords: by Jay W. Lorsch & Thomas J. Tierney

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

foreign business—without experience in that type of environment—to enter and to prosper in. The crime rate is certainly one of the highest in the world, to the extent that it affects the everyday lives of people and managers. The HIV... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

in the diabetic space, became MannKind’s marketing partner and helped launch Afrezza in February, 2015. Although the drug had a black box warning and required doctors to perform a lung test on patients, expectations were high, with some... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

explores many issues in the construction of large-scale buildings: how to envision such a project, how to manage the architects, how different designs add value, and what criteria matter in resolving a dispute between designers. The case... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

does reveal is that their analysis pointed to “a complete lack of understanding” of the actual physics involved with football by those who make their living off the game. The lessons to be learned from that stretch beyond Deflategate. “I... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

ephemeral state of entropy we live in, called Digital." We're left with impression that changes in leadership required for success in the fast-moving information economy will be achieved with limited discomfort. And yet we are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

company-no matter how large-was immune to failure, and that the lessons he was learning from startups could be applied far more broadly. "I realized it wasn't just small companies who were fragile, and whose leaders were facing high... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

organization is crucial. "Don't treat it like plumbing," says McElheran. "I don't know a CEO who is deeply concerned about the firm's sewer system." Long-term horizon. Transforming business processes takes time, so companies need to be willing to View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

Dina Pomeranz's interest in helping people build a savings cushion for difficult economic times emerged during a summer internship in Cameroon, where a woman she lived with shared how worried and anxious she was about her financial... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

22 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

nations, but the diseases' effects and potential impact on businesses and organizations is only recently coming into stark relief, particularly in Africa and Asia. Approximately 38 million adults and children in Africa and Asia (including Eastern Europe) were estimated... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

for a second-mover to challenge a first-mover. A: Firefox and Camino claim only a small market share, and those users are on the tech-savvy end of the user spectrum. In particular for Mac-centric browsers, we still live in a PC-dominated... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

04 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids

Responding to COVID-19 in early 2020 was an exercise in crisis leadership. In 2021, the pandemic feels like a painful marathon that will never end. The rapidly spreading virus forced a precipitous shift to remote work at many companies, complicating View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

matters in the investment decisions made in financing a project. Could you explain this further? A: Modigliani and Miller's (M&M) "irrelevance" proposition is one of the foundations of modern finance. It states that... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

the recognition that no matter how much technology we have, how many PowerPoint slides we have, how many knowledge management systems we have, the fact of the matter is that people learn from experience.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

the method prepared future business leaders, however, Harvard faculty and administrators have long been aware of a nagging truth: learning how business operates and actually doing business are very different things. No matter how well... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

10 Nov 2014
HBS Case

How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World

such as ground grasshopper miso and live shrimp dipped in brown butter. In doing so, he has resuscitated Nordic cuisine, spawning new restaurants all over the world and expanded his own repertoire of super-local cuisine with a pop-up... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

19 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

in our professional lives encounter situations involving what we believe to be wrongful or injurious activities that may cause harm to innocent parties, our company, or the public. It may be necessary to bring the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

market for the employer. In the current NFL situation, agents have been instrumental in sending teams videos, live streams, comparative statistics, and profiles of their clients. 2. Hire complementary stars to build a high-performing team... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

period of economic turbulence. But if that turns out not to be enough, then they are going to be taken into the receivership process and liquidated or restructured. "One thing the critics don't fully acknowledge is the world we live in... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707505 PublicationsRedefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter Author:Pankaj Ghemawat Publication:Boston: Harvard Business School... View Details