by R. Gibbons - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

categories assigned value? One of the first studies of value construction as a detailed process in new market categories has been written by Mukti Khaire, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2011
News

Paul Lawrence, at 89; pioneered study of organizational behavior

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

at speeds reaching more than 2,000 miles per hour. By the time it glided to a landing two hours later the ship had won the coveted Ansari X PRIZE, a $10 million award for the first privately funded manned spacecraft to break through the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

HBS Career & Professional Development (CPD) is sharing Working Knowledge articles to further educate our recruiting partners about best practices in human resources. Employee orientation programs ought to be less about the company and more about the employee,... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

24 Jun 2013
News

The Price Is Racist: When Minorities (and Women) Are Asked to Pay More

16 Jun 2015
News

The Isolating Effects of Anxiety

30 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI

two reasons. First, they are systematically lower than the returns of American outbound FDI. By way of example, the data indicate that GE earns a much higher return on overseas activities than Siemens does in the United States. Indeed,... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

12 PM – 1:15 PM EST, 08 Nov 2021
Virtual Programming

Building Your Scaled Digital Organization

During this program led by HBS professor Karim R. Lakhani, learn how you can translate your HBS skill set to build or scale your organization using digitization, analytics, and artificial intelligence (AI) from a panel of HBS alumni who will share their extensive... View Details

January 2008
Supplement

Joe Bachelder: Reflections

By: Brian Hall and James K. Sebenius

After Charles Suarez's failed compensation negotiations with Victor, Suarez's attorney, Joe Batchelder, joined class discussions of the case in a course taught by Professor Brian Hall. Professor James Sebenius also interviewed Joe Bachelder at length on this case and... View Details

Keywords: Courts and Trials; Attorney and Client Relationships; Negotiation Deal; Executive Compensation; Knowledge Sharing; Talent and Talent Management; Perspective; Organizations

Citation

29 May 2008
News

Six HBS Students Honored for Service to the School and Society

11 Jul 2013
News

Women Pay More to Fix Cars

11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

professor Robert S. Kaplan and Acorn Systems founder and chairman Steven R. Anderson (HBS MBA '95) introduce a system that calculates product, customer, and regional or branch P&Ls quickly and inexpensively. The work marries the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

25 Aug 2016
News

Bloomberg Philanthropies and Harvard University Launch Bloomberg Harvard City Leadership Initiative

07 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 7, 2006

Working PapersEveryday Failures in Organizational Learning: Explaining the High Threshold for Speaking Up at Work Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines how people working in organizational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

turns out that these research findings hold value not only for football teams, but for any organization that depends on leadership for success. An empirical study of coaching ability In 2009, scholars Tim R. Holcomb, View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

12 Feb 2014
News

A decidedly mixed bag

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

its effect was quantitatively dominated by inequality-raising effects of population growth. The land distribution program lowered landlessness, but this was partly offset by targeting failures and induced... View Details