Survey Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Celebrating 'The Men and Women of the Corporation' 40 Years Later

field observations—and the interaction among them all. Ely: Were you a consultant to the organization initially? Was that how you got your foot in the door? Kanter: I was a consultant. What I could bring to bear as a young academic was View Details

Keywords: by Robin J. Ely

26 Apr 2024
HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

progress. In one survey in August 2023, for example, 73 percent of workers identify micromanagement as the biggest “workplace red flag,” saying it leads to negativity and anxiety in the workplace. “If you think about situational... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

service provider has a license, their hiring decision is still more driven by price and online reviews than the quality assurance that comes with licensing. New research shows that tougher licensing requirements reduce the pool of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

23 Jan 2024
Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

Ostensibly, Shah was trying to refocus employees. New research from Harvard Business School Professor Joseph B. Fuller offers a different take. When workers feel tension between their work and private lives, they’re likely to quit or be... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

choices.— Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler The accuracy of color on the Web is of particular concern to consumers. A Web-based survey conducted by InfoTrends Research Group indicated that 88 percent of... View Details

Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail

Research Summary

Overview

By: Vincent Pons

Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.

He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details

05 Dec 2006
First Look

First Look: December 5, 2006

Working PapersThe Industry R&D Survey — Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset combining the NBER Patent Dataset with the Industry... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

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

said. “I really wish the doctor would have just said, ‘Here is what we’re doing.’” To find out if other players would feel the same way, the researchers surveyed 74 baseball pitchers from universities in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

widespread; in a survey of fifty global manufacturing companies, 62 percent reported that they used primarily manual methods to share production schedules with their partners, with one respondent stating, "Our biggest coordination... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

it." With assistance from the Instituto de Altos Estudios Empresariales (IAE), a leading graduate school of business and management in Buenos Aires, Khanna and HBS professor Pankaj Ghemawat have surveyed several aspects of the... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

16 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

on whether they are harming their children—because they are not.” Welcome news Three years ago, McGinn and colleagues got some pushback when preliminary findings were included in a New York Times article. The research found that adult... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 1

http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/15241.html August 2013 Journal of Public Economics The Promise of Positive Optimal Taxation By: Weinzierl, Matthew Abstract—A prominent assumption in modern optimal tax research is that the objective of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

a contestant who entered a prestigious MIT young entrepreneurs competition. Survey respondents perceived the contestant as having higher status when he used his own presentation layout versus the official MIT layout that other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

11 Sep 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Chief Sustainability Officers: Who Are They and What Do They Do?

Keywords: by Kathleen Miller & George Serafeim

Research Summary

The Role of IT in Firm Scope Choice: Diversification or Specialization?

The use of IT can have two, actually opposing, effects on product diversification depending on how technologies are used by the firm. On the one hand, some uses of IT can increase specialization because they allow customers to research and order products remotely,... View Details

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U.S. Competitiveness

latest survey findings and eight years of prior research on the competitiveness of the United States—highlights a disturbing pattern: structural failures in the U.S. political system continue to prevent... View Details

05 Apr 2016
First Look

April 5, 2016

Abstract—This article looks back at the publication and influence of Wesley Mitchell’s Business Cycles published in 1913. It surveys some of the key ideas in the book and explains the reasons why it resonated with a variety of people,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

14 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors

the site launched. Research Matters According to Toffel, 2 research projects are associated with the map: looking at what facilities do, and what the public at large is concerned about. For the first... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing; Chemical

28 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

How Workplace Wellness Programs Can Give Employees the Energy Boost They Need

wellness programs built on a “set-it-and-forget-it” mentality are often undervalued and inadequate in supporting employees’ needs, both on and off the job. Gartner’s 2021 Employee Value Proposition Benchmarking Survey revealed that... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

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