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  • 12 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

the Dorothy and Michael Hintze Professor of Business Administration at HBS, and LISH research scientist Michael Menietti; as well as George Washington University’s Zoe Szajnfarber and Jason Crusan. “Given that these types of decisions can... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace
  • 21 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life

It’s a philosophical debate as old as time: What is the secret to leading a meaningful life? For many, the question gained new urgency after years of social distancing and upheaval during the COVID-19 pandemic. After surviving a public... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
  • 2021
  • Chapter

Renewing the Relevance of IB: Can Some History Help?

By: Geoffrey Jones
International business (IB) as a discipline has given limited attention to contemporary grand challenges of inequality, global warming, aging populations, endemic health crises, and de-globalization, in all of which multinationals are either central to the problem or... View Details
Keywords: International Business; Globalization; History; Multinational Firms and Management
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  • 09 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

The Simple Secret of Effective Mentoring Programs

Old-fashioned mentoring may be one of the most effective ways to improve job performance, but many mentorship programs don’t reach new hires who need guidance most, new research suggests. Newly hired employees at a United States call... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Apr 2013
  • Research & Ideas

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or Revealing Their Best? Reframing Socialization around Newcomers'... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Web Services; Service; Telecommunications
  • 08 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate

splitting off into more isolated and well-defined communication networks, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Tiona Zuzul. The authors of the working paper stress that this shift is not necessarily negative, noting... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

    Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation

    As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an... View Details
    • 13 Aug 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

    research suggests there was something at work beyond simple greed, setting the stage for deeper exploration of how incentives shape not only what we do, but also how we perceive reality. “The question of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
    • 31 Aug 2020
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?

    number of readers put forward well-tempered comments questioning research on whether diversity and inclusion enhance organization performance. The implication is that this may account in some part for the... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 24 Jun 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Four Keys of Enduring Success: How High Achievers Win

    Think of Rupert Murdoch, Al "Chainsaw" Dunlop, and Madonna. They're talented. They're shrewd. Now, are they successful? Or, as HBS professor Howard H. Stevenson framed the question at a recent presentation for alumni, would you... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 11 Jan 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

    Maybe it goes without saying that the past two years have been stressful for employees. But new research suggests managers should say it anyway. That’s because verbally acknowledging someone else’s feelings, especially negative ones, can... View Details
    Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
    • 29 Nov 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?

    Do you have that one friend who seems to snag the coolest, most fashionable shoes, jewelry, or clothes? Now new research shows that when luxury goods companies cater to these trendy consumers by controlling how rare certain items... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
    • 20 Dec 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Zooming In: A Practical Manual for Identifying Geographic Clusters

    Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Minyuan Zhao
    • Research Summary

    Developing Organizational Capabilities to Compete

    By: Michael Beer

    Michael Beer’s current research focuses on the question of what makes an Effective Organization. Based on his extensive research and practice about this question Beer has identified six highly interrelated core capabilities:

    1. Capacity of the... View Details
    • 15 Mar 2021
    • Office Hours

    Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

    “Office Hours” series. During “Office Hours,” HBS experts field questions from Instagram users, responding through short videos. Cohen studies finance and innovation, producing research and courses about... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services
    • August 2021
    • Article

    (Un)sustainability and Organization Studies: Towards a Radical Engagement

    By: Seray Ergane, Subhabrata Bobby Banerjee and Andrew J. Hoffman
    In this essay, we trace the evolution of the field of sustainability in management and organization studies and narrate its epistemological twists and turns. Concerned by the current trajectory that tends to diminish a focus on political concerns, we propose a new... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Perspective; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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    • May 2011
    • Article

    The Best Way to Name Your Product 2.0

    By: Marco Bertini, John Gourville and Elie Ofek
    Although there's ample research to guide marketers in naming new products, little of it has addressed follow-on offerings, even though these make up the bulk of new products in many industries. Companies have two basic strategies to choose from. They can stick with a... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Management; Brands and Branding; Strategy
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    • 03 Jan 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: January 3, 2007

    Kendall Square Research was a small competitor in the supercomputer industry. Sales grew rapidly in 1992 and early 1993 and the company sold stock to the public for the first time. Analysts forecast higher earnings for 1993, then the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September 2022
    • Article

    Find and Replace: R&D Investment Following the Erosion of Existing Products

    By: Joshua L. Krieger, Xuelin Li and Richard T. Thakor
    How do innovative firms react when existing products experience negative shocks? We explore this question with detailed project-level data from drug development firms. Using FDA Public Health Advisories as idiosyncratic negative shocks to approved drugs, we first... View Details
    Keywords: R＆D Investments; Drug Development; Product Shocks; M＆A; Biopharmaceutical Industry; FDA; System Shocks; Research and Development; Investment; Decision Making; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 17 Nov 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Decoding the Artful Sidestep

    the right question poorly," the authors note. "In this research we find that, at least in part, people value style over substance because the style blinds us to the lack of substance," says... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace