conferences - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

16 Dec 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Marrying Distance and Classroom Education

discussions to exchange electronic information and high quality content. SS: One other thing underscored during the conference was that people respond differently to different ways of teaching. Someone in an online environment may be much... View Details

Keywords: by 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

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

High on every agenda as well, of course, is the use and impact of technology, and that was the focus of a Global Alumni Conference session hosted by HBS professor Richard Nolan. Titled "Technology and the Future of the Financial... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

criteria. A study by the Conference Board came to the following conclusion: There appears to be little evidence to suggest which of the [various] organizational formats would be best to assure the business's overall success, or even why... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

Manufacturing and information technology these days go together like bread and butter. But it wasn't always so. As Professor David Upton pointed out in a Global Alumni Conference panel titled "E-Commerce and the New Operations,"... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

fruition. The typical pitfalls encountered in group decision-making are all too familiar. Who hasn't witnessed, for instance, the silence around a conference table as meeting participants turn suddenly speechless, unable to generate novel... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

women have made Some conference speakers pointed out that it’s important to celebrate the gains women have made over the years. For example, white women have made strides in education circles; these days they represent the majority of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

Fund Management Author: Robert C. Merton Publication: Chap. 1 in Innovations in Investment Management, edited by H. Gifford Fong, 1-17. JOIM Conference Series. New York: Bloomberg Press, 2008 Abstract In talking about pension plans at... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens in Vegas Could Shape the Metaverse

that felt a bit wacky at first. “One day, David purchased a superhero skin in Fortnite, and I thought that was insane,” Wu says. “And eventually I spent $60 on virtual clothes myself.” What can metaverse developers learn from Las Vegas? At an academic View Details

Keywords: by Scott Nover; Computer; Information Technology

23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

percent to Y Combinator’s Hacker News. And of course, they dominate the conference rooms of venture capitalists and tech companies that are making decisions on investing in new products. “When you are trying to grow a startup, the people... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

the CEOs of Hershey, General Motors, Nvidia, and Amazon during earnings conference calls against AI-generated responses to the same questions: Hershey CEO: “We’ve continued to invest in capacity in brands and businesses across the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

Imagine you've arrived for a meeting at a corporate campus. But now you discover that the conference room is in another building a quarter mile away. Sure, you could walk there but in the rain? Up purrs an automated people mover, a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

than already-mixed concrete delivered by trucks. A more significant finding was that do-it-yourself projects have a special significance for this demographic. Building projects, the team learned, provided more than the functional benefits of extra living space to these... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

the procedure his call. "'I hope they find just the shadow of something suspicious because then the decision won’t be up to me.'" Knebel ultimately opted for surgery, but said during a press conference that deciding what to do was... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

about 410 parts per million (or ppm). Our double-blind experiments showed measurable cognitive impairment at concentrations ranging to 1,400 ppm, a level frequently encountered in a classroom or conference room. Stuffy or ill-ventilated... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

Deflategate, the pro football controversy that spawned a media frenzy, Twitter war, even a presidential joke, has a new claim to fame as a Harvard Business School case study. At the heart of Deflategate is the question of whether the New England Patriots cheated in... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

06 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

stigmatization and dysfunctional finger-pointing being the result." Stress Or Mental Illness? A culture of 3 a.m. emails and competition in the conference rooms can contribute to workplace stress. A 2013 survey by the American Psychiatric... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language indicating a short-term focus... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

motivated both to elicit sympathy and impress others. Despite the belief that combining bragging with complaining or humility confers the benefits of each strategy, we find that humblebragging confers the... View Details