Event Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

of the most successful and insightful leaders of our time, the CEOs from companies as diverse as Standard Chartered Bank, Infosys, Nokia, Cummins, IKEA, Tata, and Campbell's Soup. The authors reveal how these leaders from around the world are converging on a new View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

analytic methods in a series of experiments across a range of hedonic products. The results suggest that hedonic learning follows a sequence of stages whose order matters and that the holistic stage is facilitated by attending to experience as a narrative View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

Herman B., and Arnold M. Howitt Publication:Mega-Crises: Understanding the Prospects, Nature, Characteristics and the Effects of Cataclysmic Events Abstract Emergency response organizations, as we have argued in earlier writing, must deal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

disaster, according to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). Some research reports estimate that the cost of the CrowdStrike event could exceed $1 billion. Preparation for a crisis is just as... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

An internal event held each May, the annual Faculty Research Symposium affords the opportunity for a few Harvard Business School faculty to share their latest research with an audience of doctoral students, HBS staff, and other... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

for CEO Tim Cook. Responses to this month’s column provided a range of advice that centered around whether or not product security is as important as some other features of the Company’s strategy. Since the Government’s request for help, of course, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

10 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

scandal drifted under a larger cloud of national media coverage, applications took a much steeper dive. For instance, when an event received at least one mention in the New York Times—which is considered a benchmark for studying national... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

authors Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer discuss how even seemingly humdrum events can make huge differences in employees' emotional and intellectual well-being. "There's no reason, no matter how resource-constrained an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 6

Publications Managed Globalization: Doctrine, Practice, and Promise Authors: Rawi Abdelal and Sophie Meunier Publication: Journal of European Public Policy 17, no. 3 (April 2010): 349-366 Abstract Two alternate visions for shaping and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

for compensation committees at public companies. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109036 Hearts on Fire—Brand Development Manager Harvard Business School Case 709-436... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

data?'" That's Paul Nicholas' reaction after reading most of the responses to this month's column. It's not a bad "sense of the meeting," in which many contributors offered suggestions to managers wishing to get the most out of so-called... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

everything—was reportedly in conversations to buy some of those storefronts—possibly its first real beach-head in the brick-and-mortar world. As harbingers of the future of retail, these events certainly caught the attention of Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant to ask advice from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

Not long ago, the senior management of a leading high-tech company was surprised to learn that research showed their R&D groups' creative performance to be in a prolonged slump following a corporate downsizing. The company's... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

27 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work

Two years ago, the World Management Survey on organizational leadership reported that firms led by family CEOs (managers related to the family owning the business) are often managed badly, particularly those... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

31 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Improving Fairness in Flight Delays

Austin, Fearing develops a "fairness" metric that (in the case of severe weather, for example) balances the trade-off between the most efficient and the most equitable allocation of delays. The FAA's current Traffic Flow View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Entertainment & Recreation; Air Transportation

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

seen before. It makes his character richer and more interesting. In fact, it will help set up and explain some events that happen later. Let's keep it. Tone it down a notch. But put it back." Though it was a small thing, adding that touch... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Lawrence and Nitin Nohria

memory that the product was safe to drink. Q: What can any manager or business leader take away from reading Driven? A: All managers and business leaders need to get things done through people. It is hard to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

retailers rely on temporary workers during the holiday season, so training and managing frontline staff becomes essential. Finally, retail executives should be highly focused on customer service. Consumers who shop in person will likely... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

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