Business Performance - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

private firms differs.” So when Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joan Farre-Mensa learned he'd been granted access to a database of accounting information on tens of thousands of private American firms, he knew it was an... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Dec 2011
First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

PublicationsFlying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success Author:Thomas J. DeLong Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, 2011 Abstract Confronted by omnipresent threats of job loss and change, even the brightest... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

be taken. The briefings were led mainly by health and epidemiology experts who had limited political affiliation. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

13 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 13

volatility. This paper presents evidence that movements in both the short-term nominal interest rate and the yield spread are positively related to changes in subsequent realized bond risk and bond return volatility. The yield spread appears to proxy for View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-012.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsArrow Electronics—The Apollo Acquisition Harvard Business School Case 607-007 Having already made 10 acquisitions of competitors in the last decade, the CEO... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

issues, as in the preceding illustration of the need to integrate supply-side and demand-side perspectives in assessing the relative viability of globally standardized and locally customized business models. Second, I think... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2022
News

September 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

fighting stage-four cancer, a battle he sadly lost in 2019. His daughter, Jane Biondi Munna, compiled his words—along with recollections from Peter Chernin, Alan Schwartz, and Sherry Lansing, to name a few—so that we can all draw inspiration from Frank Biondi’s... View Details

23 Jan 2019
Blog Post

The First Five Years: '30 under 30' Edition

line impact fund that was launched in 2016.” Gandhi: “I am a music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

The School of Life

led to a McKinsey Award–winning 2010 Harvard Business Review article. Now, with the help of former HBR editor Karen Dillon (who conceived of and edited the 2010 article) and his former student James Allworth (MBA 2010), Christensen has... View Details

Keywords: Professor Clay Christensen; Educational Services; Management

17 Jan 2019
News

The First Five Years: ‘30 Under 30’ Edition

music producer and drummer whose mission is to elevate and celebrate the female voice. I produce music that tackles issues of modern gender equality today, and I travel the world to speak and perform about these issues.” Tucker: “I’m a... View Details

01 Oct 1996
News

Lasting Impressions

military social aide assigned to the White House under President Johnson. "While we weren't greatly accepted in Cambridge at that time," he recalls, "it wasn't uncommon to have a military background and to be at the Business School. The... View Details

Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

welcome. In fact, new hires often enter fresh roles feeling optimistic and confident their organizations are eager to hear from them, but over time, employees increasingly feel less “psychologically safe” to contribute ideas, new research by Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at Harvard Business School. "In an organization, all the employees already have some of this, in varying degrees." “Altruistic capital is the idea that every individual has... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

toss—and the pressure of real-world negotiations probably makes our actual performance even worse. Sometimes we don't realize we're being conned; other times, we wrongly suspect people who are telling us nothing but the truth.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Business and government officials arrived in force to talk up India’s growth, exceeding an annual rate of 6 percent for the last fifteen years. GDP growth hit 7.6 percent in 2005... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

01 Dec 1997
News

A Piece of the Action

manufactured, or improve the way doctors perform surgery. HBS Takes Root in Silicon Valley While the Il Fornaio staff serve up French toast and fresh fruit, the patrons volley the big ideas that have turned Silicon Valley into a global... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

today: the companies themselves. During that period, investor protection laws in Brazil were relatively weak—yet investors bought equity on a "massive scale," according to Harvard Business School professor Aldo Musacchio,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

In her new book SuperCorp, Rosabeth Moss Kanter argues that capitalism is near a crossroads. The old ways of doing business no longer work. Traditional leadership roles are breaking down. And the public is fed up with greedy executives... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2019
News

John McArthur

above: photo by Bill Gallery John H. McArthur, a member of the Harvard Business School community for more than six decades—as a student (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), as a faculty member (beginning in 1962), as Dean (from 1980 to 1995), and as... View Details

Keywords: Dean

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

We all know the importance of mentors and other early career experiences in shaping the kind of leaders we ultimately become. But how important to that development are the particular companies we work for? For Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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