Education and Retail - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

different operations to look beyond their silos to consolidate operations and share best practices to lower costs. Similarly, firms such as big-box retailers that centralize merchandising View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

12 Jan 2018
Cold Call Podcast

Leadership Lessons from a Young Martin Luther King, Jr.

what he did. Kenny: That's great to hear. It gives me more confidence, I guess, going forward. So, you've discussed this in class, I'm guessing, with both MBA students and probably executive education... View Details

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

In 2001 it was renamed the Coverdell Education Savings Account program, after the late Georgia senator Paul Coverdell. This is a federal program that allows you to put after-tax earnings into a special ESA account. Returns cumulate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

research can best help society by encouraging citizens to purchase products that will improve their own welfare. However, most researchers appear to have neglected consumers as even an indirect target audience for their work. By and... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

24 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

In Troubled Africa, Botswana Flowers

hoping to recruit African students more aggressively and to expand our executive education offerings on the continent. Our new initiative, Making Markets Work, has already received great interest from... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

02 Jul 2014
What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

conclude that I understood leadership pretty well, I've begun to wonder. Let's start with the leadership associated with large organizations with relatively long histories. In recent years, we have been educated by concepts such as MBWA... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 May 2012
What Do You Think?

Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?

often in a one-size-fits-all manner. "leadership can be learned quickly and easily." "leadership can be codified and summarized and packaged."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

according to Alexa Internet. The business-oriented social network has more than 300 million members, all of whom list their educational and professional achievements on the site in the name of professional... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

fourth, “Do not connect it to anything.” But surely the genius that created the internet that makes so much connectivity, speed, and information exchange possible today can outthink the hackers who would bring it all down. Will it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

to figure out how to distribute HBS cases more widely in Japan and how to translate those cases into Japanese so that Japanese business schools can adopt them. There is growing interest in management View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

Programmers contribute to free software and open source projects for many reasons—some for the fun of it, some to improve their skills, others for a paycheck. Many people have wondered why these people give their work away. The truth is... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

Lovett, Bohlen, and Kennan. They had similar educational backgrounds (Groton, Harvard, Yale, Princeton). Four had successful private sector careers as well as extensive public service. They shaped the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

more performance-driven if they are going to survive long-term. Socially speaking, families are becoming somewhat less enmeshed, hierarchical, and strictly controlling, which is a result of the globalization of these economies as well as... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

tasks, conditions, and standards, we take thousands of young recruits every month and train them to operate some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world under some of the most challenging conditions... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

face. More than 1,500 MBA students at Harvard Business School have experienced these groups since 2005, as well as participants in executive education courses and World Economic Forum's Young Global Leaders.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

materials for the first year MBA core curriculum and created three programs for executive education both here and off campus. What did your participants identify as some of the... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

07 Jun 2019
Book

Are You a Digital Manager?

Lagace: As you teach MBA students and Executive Education participants, are they describing new pressures that weren’t there before? Hill: Leadership is truly getting more demanding. I don’t think anyone... View Details