Advice Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

accepted advice is that wealth and growth will come to countries that open their borders to foreign direct investment. "The historical evidence shows clearly that this is an article of faith rather than proven by the historical... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

to the researchers, successful digital economists share three broad skill sets: the ability to assess and interpret empirical relationships and work with data; the ability to understand and design markets and incentives, taking into... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

of a large incumbent organization, with high personnel costs, crippling bureaucracy, lack of customer-centricity, a dull brand, and eroding profitability. Tsamaz was taking over the reins at a time of deep economic crisis in Greece, which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

they seek advice from others. However, increasingly companies that operate in high-anxiety settings (like financial services, health care, and education) are deploying self-service technologies (SSTs), through which anxious customers... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

at all. In many cases, in fact, the state actually hurts innovation in order to benefit the Party. Take the case of Grace Vineyard, a private winery that makes the best wine in China. "And yet, it has to compete with state-owned... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

when it leads to damaging behavior and may never notice the correlation in others’ advice even when that failure leads her to follow repetitive advice too much. More generally, we show that for every error... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

going it alone even more than the returns to partnering with local firms. The reasons are that the forces of globalization—particularly reduced trade costs leading to more fragmented production processes—are making it more and more attractive for multinationals to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Jul 2018
What Do You Think?

Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?

moral leadership, it needs to carefully examine and discuss issues that cross the line from legal to immoral. Microsoft needs to show its employees that it takes the issue of separation ( of families by ICE) seriously. How it does that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

innovations while also making steady improvements to an existing business is so commonplace—and so fascinating—that it has become a battleground of management thought. For decades, scholars have spun theories to explain the puzzle and offered View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

28 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

the subject of brand building, Kapur is very keen on the idea that brands take a long time to build, there are no shortcuts. He says, “One [piece of] advice that I would give is to make absolutely sure that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

company with an added fresh start. Of course, all this does not come without cost. American has been paying almost $20 million a month for legal and financial advice since it filed for bankruptcy. But for large companies (American had... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

looking to hire. Holding contests to seek advice from the crowd may help companies fill the need for innovative answers more cheaply and quickly. “Contests create incentives and drive parallel search,” Lakhani said. “What you want when... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

attention. The China Questions takes us behind media images and popular perceptions to provide insight on fundamental issues. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53957 Summer 2017 Journal of Economics &... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

classmates Alex Stratoudakis and Emma Taylor. In 15 minutes they present their plan for AfterSteps, a Web-based end-of-life planning service that offers advice and secure storage for legal, financial, personal, and funeral documents. For... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

How to Build a Better Board

frameworks to decide exactly what they're going to do, what decisions they're going to make, what things they want to monitor and oversee, and also the areas in which they want to offer advice and counsel to their CEO. So given that fact,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market

art was redefined as a new product category—modern Indian art—by a variety of participants including artists, academics, commercial auction houses, and critics. And as Western museums and collectors began to take notice, prices for pieces... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

individual's portfolio to his or her age (young investors should take more risk with stocks) and attitudes toward risk (conservative investors should hold more cash). Research done by Harvard Business School finance professor Luis M.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

world (South Korea: 2 percent vs. world: 7 percent). Even taking into account the country’s population, South Korea’s number of cases per capita is substantially lower than those of other countries. The United States (with more than 1.7... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

and discrepancies can emerge as a result. Effective Auditing for Corporates provides you with proactive advice to help you safeguard core value within a corporation and to ensure that auditing processes and key personnel meet the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 27

two-person venture into a global company valued at $1 billion, Rickenbach's willingness to take calculated risks has kept it at the leading edge of the CRO sector. Now, despite slowing demand for CRO services and against the View Details