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  • 03 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

problem of unaffordable student loan burdens lies primarily with individuals who don’t complete college (only three of five full-time freshmen students at public institutions graduate within six years), graduates who complete programs... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education
  • 15 Jul 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

to the belief, now firmly lodged in public consciousness, that high environmental standards are not just desirable but their birthright. To set the stage, Reinhardt reminded the group that pollution is not a new phenomenon in human... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • Web

Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Turnarounds and Transformation Course Number 1636 Professor Ranjay Gulati Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 sessions Paper/Project (formerly Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment) Career Focus This course is intended for students pursuing... View Details
  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

Porteus Abstract—We extend the Clark–Scarf serial multi-echelon inventory model to include procuring production inputs under short-term take-or-pay contracts at one or more stages. In each period, each such stage has the option to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 2, 2007

and rewarding more participatory, more sincere, and less directive marketing styles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-017.pdf The Impact of Shareholder Activism on Financial Reporting and Compensation: The Case of Employee Stock View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

  Publications February 2015 Academy of Management Review Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited" Ten Years Later By: Benner, Mary, and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping leadership roles in business, teaching, View Details
Keywords: by Deborah Blagg
  • 24 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System

internalize and use them in practice. “Societal purpose and values help meet an emerging public demand.” For vanguard companies, grounding strategy—which businesses to pursue and how—in a sense of wider societal purpose provides many... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1344068 The Pursuit of Power Corrupts: Investing in Outside Options Motivates Opportunism in Relationships Authors:D. Malhotra and F. Gino Publication:Social Psychological Perspectives on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

an apparel purchase. Apparel purchasing decisions are closely linked to individuals' feelings about themselves: their body image and the image they wish to project. Clothing is the "skin" one chooses to wear to project one's self-image to the View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 02 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 3, 2008

creation of a system of secure land titles, and a homestead program to encourage cultivation of public lands. During the first phase of American occupation (1898–1918), we find that the progress of implementing these reforms was very... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

banks understand the tradeoffs that the public is willing to accept in terms of unemployment for inflation, at least in terms of keeping the average level of one particular emotion (contentment) constant. An alternative use of these data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 3, 2015

administrations are collaborating with academic economists and other quantitative social scientists to apply such rigorous methods to the study of public finance. These developments allow for more reliable measurements of the effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 18

  Publications February 2015 Little, Brown and Company Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges By: Cuddy, Amy Abstract—We often meet life's challenges with fear and anxiety. We fail to be our best and end up... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2008
  • First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 27 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

Because these social networks are a unique way of broadly communicating real-time messages to the audiences they want to reach. They can write a message anywhere, anytime, and share it with interested parties without any public relations... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 02 Nov 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

particular tool put forward in reforms is the idea of "say on pay," which gives shareholders a non-binding vote on executive compensation and severance packages. The Obama administration has proposed requiring it in all public... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services
  • 02 May 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Where is Consumer Generated Marketing Taking Us?

what some might think is the most revolutionary concept in marketing to come along in a long time in a very matter-of-fact way. Bob Nemens commented, "Traditional marketers may be quick to dismiss Internet chatter as coming from the 'uninformed.' ... If Thomas... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2014
  • News

Case Study: Gazelle's New Predators

allow it to offer better (higher) prices to consumers on its buy side and so on in a virtuous cycle." —Associate Professor Andrei Hagiu "[I suggest] a modified TOMS Shoes model. From the customer/end-user side: When they want to sell their device, they'll also have the... View Details
Keywords: ecommerce; Kathy Korman Frey; Telecommunications; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Retail Trade
  • 13 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 13

argue the authors of Higher Ambition. In fact, as global competition stiffens and enterprises face increasing public scrutiny, successful leaders must win on all fronts-with their people, their customers, their communities, and their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne