Future Focus - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

features of relational pluralism inside and across organizations. We conclude with a discussion of future directions for research. August 2013 Psychological Science A 'Present' for the Future: The Unexpected Value of Rediscovery By:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

maintaining a single-minded focus on profit, acting as agents for shareholders who put their capital at risk investing in their companies. It triggered an immediate controversy. Of greater importance than the issue posed in the article’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11

suggest that carbon tariffs improve the efficacy of emissions regulation, enabling it to reduce global emissions in many settings in which it would otherwise fail to do so. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=42912 Task Selection and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2023
News

Case Study: Staking a Claim

where to focus their distribution energies between these three channels. Terry wonders whether they should focus on one or two of those streams, or if there’s a way to think more holistically about how they... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Insurance Carriers and Related Activities; Finance

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

some brighter future a UFP (United Federation of Planets) to fight back against the FAANGs.” His comment suggests a question: Can single nations counter the threat of surveillance capitalism? What do you think? Original Column George... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

with low risk-free interest rates, a high cost of capital for risky firms, and future declines in output and real investment. These declines are predictably followed by upward revisions in perceived risk, indicating that fluctuations in... View Details

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

minimills entered the rebar market, the integrated mills were happy to exit it. Their gross margins in the rebar business were a mere 7 percent, and rebar accounted for only 4 percent of the industry's tonnage. So the integrated mills decided to View Details

Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony

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Research Design - Impact Investments

Currently, our sample focuses on impact investors and portfolio companies based in the United States, where approximately 52% of the world’s impact investors are located. [5] Future research will expand the Project on Impact Investments... View Details

23 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

8 Strategies to Sustain Business Innovation

caution that it’s a mistake to dwell on the familiar for too long, because the real audience is looking for “what is new, fresh, and unique.” 7. Focus on the job to be done One of the most challenging tensions is between product and... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Regional Winners - Alumni

Lama Mansour, MBA 2006, Co-Founder & CMO Region: Western U.S. Krida Krida, is empowering Business Bankers by automating application data intake, insights, and document generation — so that bankers can focus on building businesses, and not... View Details

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

address concerns, and ultimately get everyone back on the same track to achieve team goals. Team leaders should focus their relaunch in four key areas. Revisit your shared purpose. A relaunch ensures that every team member understands and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 10, 2009

responsibilities, that can affect organizational outcomes. Thus, organizations may be capable of integration while different functions retain different incentives to maintain focus on their stakeholders' needs. We hypothesize that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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RGE Report - Race, Gender & Equity

for board leaders. [...] Read more 14 May 2025 Rewiring the Workplace: Behavioral Economics and the Future of Inclusive Organizations Addressing systemic inequality is a complex, multifaceted, and often behemoth task that we attempt to... View Details

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Events - Business History

future of scholarship in this research area. As part of a larger conference series and publication project, this roundtable aimed to contextualize contemporary debates about governing global capitalism. Organized by Grace Ballor and... View Details

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Nonprofit Strategy & Governance | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

Expanding its early focus on helping nonprofits operate more efficiently to the emerging space of social enterprises and the challenges of measuring social impact, our faculty have developed a body of knowledge that encompasses... View Details

27 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

six months. Medtech product development teams typically focus on a single product category or line, allowing them to apply their expertise more efficiently. However, recalls force these teams to shift their attention from making... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

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Cases & Teaching Notes - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Landman In 2014, Dr. Charles D. Fraser Jr., Surgeon-in-Chief of Texas Children's Hospital in Houston, was contemplating the future direction of the congenital heart disease program. The nation's largest pediatric hospital, Texas... View Details

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

predicting their current language learning. Further, we find that recipients’ cognitive and affective responses over time differentially influence two future behavioral outcomes: intention to leave the organization and willingness to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

2020
Working Paper

Targeting for Long-Term Outcomes

By: Jeremy Yang, Dean Eckles, Paramveer Dhillon and Sinan Aral

Decision makers often want to target interventions so as to maximize an outcome that is observed only in the long term. This typically requires delaying decisions until the outcome is observed or relying on simple short-term proxies for the long-term outcome. Here we... View Details

Keywords: Targeted Marketing; Optimization; Churn Management; Marketing; Customer Relationship Management; Policy; Learning; Outcome or Result

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