Work Force Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Aug 2011
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First Look: August 16

destination countries like the U.S. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/wkerr/Kerr_Kerr FEP11_ImmSurvey.pdf Working PapersThe Organization of Firms Across Countries Authors:Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology

groups within the firm. The key in such situations is for managers to use their knowledge of a firm's particular social context to prevent turf battles from hindering the adoption of technologies that would otherwise improve productivity.... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Health

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

“There are many more private equity firms than in the past, so it’s becoming difficult for them to generate returns and add value,” says Brian Baik, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

04 May 2010
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First Look: May 4

markets; however we find significant correlations between kidney market disapproval and attitudes reflecting disapproval towards certain transactions—including both other body markets and market encroachment into traditionally non-market exchanges, such as food... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

revised version to ensure it could not justify discrimination against gay and lesbian customers. But the results of a CEO climbing into the bully pulpit don’t always work out as intended. As Chatterji notes, “Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

For Harvard Business School faculty, summer marks the perfect time to catch up on reading for work and pleasure. We asked six faculty what they're looking forward to digging into over the next few months. Jeff Bussgang wo of my books... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene, will be out in May 2004 from... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2007
What Do You Think?

Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?

a slow but surer approach to understanding human behavior." Others welcomed the possibility that this work may bring together economists, management theorists, and medical researchers. As Shann Turnbull... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities

John Walson launched the first commercial cable television system in Mahanoy City, Pennsylvania, an Appalachian town eighty-six miles from Philadelphia. 1,2 Walson worked as a lineman for Pennsylvania Power & Light and also owned a... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018

philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and long-term relief measures. The management needs to address several questions as they navigate the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

focused on IT businesses and involved male protagonists. Mends thought it would be exciting to explore a wider range of model companies and leaders, and Koehn, whose work has often focused on entrepreneurs in unconventional settings,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

do everything your way. Not to mention being best at every activity of your life, from tennis to cooking to managing your portfolio. For this kind of mix, maximization will not work as an operating paradigm.... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

30 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

and service its own customer relationships and manage the effectiveness and efficiency of its sales funnel. Currently, a team of chat representatives worked with marketing to qualify and prime prospects for... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

front. "The price of a piece of information is vanishingly small, so we have to play tricks to make sure it doesn't disappear to zero," said Upton. "That doesn't work unless I make some artificial distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

17 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 17

Publications August 2013 California Management Review What Impact? A Framework for Measuring the Scale & Scope of Social Performance By: Ebrahim, Alnoor, and V. Kasturi Rangan Abstract—Organizations with social missions, such as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 May 2016
What Do You Think?

What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?

Show!’ Partner with a toy company and there could be a Boaty under every tree this Christmas and a Boaty Book explaining his or her research mission.’ Others were less enthusiastic. Darmody1 reminded us that, “it’s important to consider the effect of such a name on the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

because of what they did, but because of what they are? That's the question that intrigued Jonas Heese, who recently joined Harvard Business School as an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management unit. While earning his PhD in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

you entrepreneurial.' "From the very get-go, we get very different messages about who we are as economic beings," she observed. Women's economic education, continued Godfrey, a former social worker, "is really one of the most subversive pieces of View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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