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  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

Silicon Valley's culture as a whole—‘an algorithm solves everything’ and ‘just put it out and we'll fix it later.’ In traditional media, for example, considerable debate can go into the production of a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 14 Nov 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Do We Underestimate the Importance of Generosity in Leadership?

based on such things as the nature of the gift and the relationship of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2005
  • News

House of Bread on the Rise

operated by franchisees. Based on her Santa Cruz experience, McCann makes a point of telling her franchise owners that they need to live within a half-hour of View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality
  • July 2002
  • Article

The Sale of Ideas: Strategic Disclosure, Property Rights, and Contracting

By: James J. Anton and Dennis A. Yao
Ideas are difficult to sell when buyers cannot assess an idea's value before it is revealed and sellers cannot protect a revealed idea. These problems exist in a variety of intellectual property sales ranging from pure ideas to poorly protected inventions and reflect... View Details
Keywords: Intellectual Property; Contracts; Strategy; Valuation
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  • November–December 2010
  • Article

A Method for Defining Value in Healthcare Using Cancer Care as a Model

By: Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi Albright, Ronald Walters and Thomas W. Burke
Value-based healthcare delivery is being discussed in a variety of healthcare forums. This concept is of great importance in the reform of the US healthcare delivery system. Defining and applying the principles of value-based competition in healthcare delivery models... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Cancer Care In The U.S.; Healthcare; Health; Management; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • Web

The Challenge of Color - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

base colors that enhanced the dramatic quality of the resulting prints. 9 Photograph conservator Paul Messier contends that in terms View Details
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

G.I. Joe Phenomena: Understanding the Limits of Metacognitive Awareness on Debiasing

By: Ariella S. Kristal and Laurie R. Santos
Knowing about one’s biases does not always allow one to overcome those biases— a phenomenon referred to as the G. I. Joe fallacy. We explore why knowing about a bias doesn’t necessarily change biased behavior. We argue that seemingly disparate G. I. Joe... View Details
Keywords: Biases; Judgment; Decision-making; Nudge; Debiasing; Illusions; Prejudice and Bias; Decision Making; Behavior; Change
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  • June 2024 (Revised September 2024)
  • Case

Major League Baseball: Changing the Rules of America's Pastime

By: Stephen A. Greyser, Mac Levin and Brent Schwarz
This case describes the efforts of Major League Baseball (MLB) to make meaningful changes in the rules affecting the ways the game is played. These changes are intended to speed the pace of the game and make it more appealing to younger fans. The principal changes... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Age; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Demand and Consumers; Sports Industry
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  • 2016
  • Book

Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies

By: Shashank Shah
Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or anywhere else? Why did HDFC’s Aditya Puri insist that employees leave for home by 5:30 p.m.? How did HUL develop a cheaper, better product to beat its competitor, Nirma? What do... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Success
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  • 12 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

fossil-fuel based appliances tend to be lower, ongoing fuel costs make up the bulk of the ownership costs (55-75% View Details
  • TeachingInterests

Managing the Future of Work (MBA Education—Elective Curriculum)

By: Christopher T. Stanton

The nature and scope of work is changing rapidly, creating massive business challenges in the shadow of broader political and social shifts.  HBS launched a major initiative in 2017 on Managing the Future of Work to define these workplace issues and... View Details

  • 31 Jan 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

working across group lines and group differences. And I think that makes a lot of people wary." “A lot of policies in the workplace about diversity are View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Jun 2007
  • News

Profiles from the class of 2007

party in Boston that raised more than $2,000 for the Irish Hospice Foundation, a nonprofit based in Dublin that supports the development of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
  • 14 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS

at the DoubleTree Hotel. E – EC. EC stands for Elective Curriculum and represents students who are in their second year of the MBA program. In View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 06 Dec 2012
  • News

The Microwork Solution

  • 05 Oct 2016
  • What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

H. Duell, Commission of the U.S. Patent Office in 1899 (early in Gordon’s “special century”). What I believe, based on personal homework, is limited to just a few things: (1)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

This reasoning is why most prior research pitted affiliated analysts against unaffiliated analysts. Clearly, if the choice of brokerages by managers based itself on View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
  • October 2015
  • Article

Hormones and Ethics: Understanding the Biological Basis of Unethical Conduct

By: Jooa Julie Lee, Francesca Gino, Ellie Shuo Jin, Leslie K. Rice and Robert A. Josephs
Globally, fraud has been rising sharply over the last decade, with current estimates placing financial losses at greater than $3.7 trillion dollars annually. Unfortunately, fraud prevention has been stymied by lack of a clear and comprehensive understanding of its... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Ethics; Science
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  • June 2009 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Mrs. Ebtissam Algosaibi: An Entrepreneur in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia

Mrs. Ebtissam Algosaibi has created the leading high end jewelry company in the Middle East, Erum Jewelry, based in her home town of Alkhobar, Saudi Arabia. She believes Erum has the potential to be a world player similar to Cartier and Chopard. How should she expand... View Details
Keywords: Gender Characteristics; Entrepreneurship; Global Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Expansion; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Al-Khubar; Middle East
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  • December 2018 (Revised July 2023)
  • Case

Instituto Dara: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty and Illness at Scale

By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Priscilla Zogbi and Johanna Mair
Dr. Vera Cordeiro founded the NGO Instituto Dara in 1991 to help poor families break the cycle of poverty and illness in Brazil. She and her team of employees and volunteers developed a holistic methodology to address the multidimensional sources of poverty based on... View Details
Keywords: Social Innovation; NGO; Scaling; Health; Social Enterprise; Social Entrepreneurship; Non-Governmental Organizations; Health Care and Treatment; Poverty; Health Industry; South America; Brazil
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