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26 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

established. Auburn, Michigan, Ohio State, and other schools from the Power Five conferences were deemed more established. Less established schools hailed from less prestigious conferences with a shorter track record in intercollegiate athletics. Victories gave both... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

09 Nov 2022
Blog Post

Building Community: Meet the HBS Latino Student Organization Leadership

being a part of that showed me the true value of the Latino community at HBS, while also the untapped potential we had given the disruption that COVID brought. I decided to run for LASO President to help reignite the flame and help to take LASO to new post-pandemic... View Details

14 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

listening to podcasts, according to a survey of hundreds of drivers who commute to work each day conducted by a group of interdisciplinary researchers, including Raffaella Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

25 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

take root? It starts with the leader and senior team taking a hard look at management or organizational barriers, including the senior leadership team itself. To do this, they must enable truth to speak to power. But Beer says that even when honest conversations in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Education

26 Feb 2019
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want... View Details

19 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Don't Ignore Your Employees' Misery—TAKE Control

productivity. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/WvZ0cFGPFEU8Igj4vKIZ][/div] Diagnostic tools, such as surveys and small group discussions, are critical to developing a more holistic view of the employee experience. In the Army, officers... View Details

Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and MaShon Wilson

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

executives, led by Ken Lay, created an extreme performance-oriented culture that both institutionalized and tolerated deviant behavior. It's a story about a group of executives who created a world that they could not understand and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Sep 2017
News

Christopher Harland (MBA 1984)

operations in Brazil and Mexico and opened new offices in Peru, Columbia, and Chile. He is now a partner in the Advisory Group at PJT Partners. When making philanthropic choices, Harland and his wife, Ashley Leeds, consider what matters... View Details

01 Oct 1997
News

High Fives

company. Another was when Dick Fisher and John Mack asked me to head the investment banking division of Morgan Stanley, which I consider to be a great responsibility and a great honor.” Stephen A. Schwarzman President and CEO The Blackstone View Details

Web

Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online

Official Networking Group and gain exclusive access to events and other networking opportunities. Description of silent animated video above: Learner types an answer in the discussion board in response to a peer's question Immerse... View Details

13 Apr 2021
Book

How Inclusive Managers Create Glass-Shattering Organizations

managers about the gender biases that influence hiring decisions. Companies should also anonymize resumes, diversify interview panels, and evaluate candidates as a group against a set of defined criteria. Integration. Create opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

09 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Leadership Lessons of the Great Recession: Options for Economic Downturns

peer group in the recovery? “According to our research, companies that master the delicate balance between cutting costs to survive today and investing to grow tomorrow do well after a recession These companies reduce costs selectively by... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra Sucher & Susan Winterberg; Aerospace; Electronics

19 May 2022
Blog Post

HKS Policy Analysis Exercise Showcase

implement the PAE recommendations made by students. PAE Showcase Each spring, a select group of MPP students present their PAE projects and share their findings and recommendations with the HKS community. Photos from the 2022 PAE... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

scientific research. Patents that cited other science-based patents had values of 18 percent more. The group also assessed a patent’s novelty by evaluating word combinations, finding that those rooted in science were more unique, adding... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

that success requires some talent and some luck, while great success requires some talent and a lot of luck. The importance of this observation is that systems that involve significant amounts of luck, such as investing for many people, revert to the mean for the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

The Secret Life of Supply Chains

versus to consumer households. They grouped industries into supply chain versus business-to-consumer (B2C), to find the percentage of outputs in each of these areas. “We find that the supply chain economy is a distinct and large segment... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing; Service

Research Summary

Dissertation - Social Structure and Mechanisms of Collective Production:Evidence from Wikipedia

Andreea's dissertation research examines social networks in the setting of collective production, defined as collective action oriented towards production of collective goods - goods available for consumption by all members of a group whenever they... View Details

2020
Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman

The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details

Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States

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Moving Beyond Schumpeter: Management Research on the Determinants of Technological Innovation

By: Gautam Ahuja, Curba Morris Lampert and Vivek Tandon

Schumpeter's conjecture that large monopolistic firms were the key source of innovation in modern industrial economies has been the underpinning for much work on the topic of innovation. In this review paper we consciously move beyond the Schumpeterian tradition of... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Management; Strategy