Conferences - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Morgan Roberts at a recent conference. But what are the nuts-and-bolts details of starting and sustaining a minority-owned business in today's tough economy? Panelists at the 2003 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference emphasized the well known... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

Institute conference in Baltimore on January 22. His talk, “Reinventing the Store: Achieving Growth in the Face of New Business Risks” will feature findings from his study on the bookstore sector. A new chapter for booksellers Click... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

Leaders from some 150 nations have convened in Paris this week for the COP21 conference with a singular goal: to fight the global threat of climate change. Each of them have brought to Paris their own national plan for reducing greenhouse gas emissions that drive... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

08 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

it required a huge amount of travel, with communications mailed and faxed around the world. Things are obviously different now, with the Internet, satellite phone connections, and video conference calls on Skype." Those... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

According to experts at the conference session titled "From Bubble to Recession: The Current State of the Venture Capital Industry," none of the answers are simple, but a sense of perspective remains one highly valuable... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

panelists at a Global Alumni Conference session addressing the topic "Global Brands: Connecting with Consumers across Boundaries," chaired by HBS associate professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of the... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

Venture capital is a tale of two continents, HBS professor Josh Lerner (coauthor of the book The Venture Capital Cycle) explained in his opening remarks at a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "European Private Equity: Can the... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at a research View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

feel they have. Some research suggests that the perceived quality of an employee's boss has a significant influence on job satisfaction. This underlines the importance of the most recent Conference Board study results showing that, for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

23 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains

that there was no resource to connect academic research with practice. If you wanted to make that connection, you had to go to the managerial conferences and talk to practitioners during coffee breaks or during the sessions. The... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Apparel & Accessories

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

that had introduced an innovation to address a practice gap or anomaly. It then described the innovation in articles, cases, and public conferences and proceeded to help a new set of companies implement the management innovation, which... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

their control for leadership effectiveness. He suggested that tribal leadership, described in a book by the same name, is “a perfect fit for the fast moving networks of the Seventh Sense.” It describes organizations formed around natural groups that View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

Rangan brought together veterans of the retail world to share strategies for cashing in on what could be a new wave of organized retail in India. The discussion took place April 4 at the India Business Conference at HBS. Kishore Biyani... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

two unprecedented global megaconferences: the Third U.N. Conference on the Law of the Sea and the U.N. Conference on the Environment and Development, also known as the Earth Summit. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2008
Research & Ideas

Decoding the Artful Sidestep

or was this topic on your radar for other reasons? Todd Rogers: This line of research began when I was watching a press conference where the spokesman basically didn't answer any of the questions he was asked. I didn't even realize he was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

given to "those who, during the preceding year, shall have conferred the greatest benefit to mankind." "The heart of the brand, the essence of the brand, resides in the will of Alfred Nobel," says Greyser. He continued, "people associated... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

While IT provides "very good, detailed, fact-based data," according to Berg, nothing substitutes for walking the stores to get an intuitive sense of how things are working out. Added conference participant Paul Kastner of... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

David Upton's Alumni Conference report on the state of information technology for business-to-business began with a lesson in technology history because, said the HBS professor, "understanding doesn't come easy without an... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

25 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

that this seemingly suboptimal behavior may in fact confer benefits when factoring in the social context of consumption. Our studies demonstrate that choosing products with more capabilities (i.e., feature-rich products) provides social... View Details