Projects - Publications - Faculty & Research

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

when to hire them and in what parts of the world; and determines how to develop, compensate, and motivate them, along with how to form them into project teams and manage the process in a cost effective manner. This case also provides a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2019
Research Event

Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture

who handle their clients’ anxieties with more skill and confidence do tend to set more reasonable expectations for their teams. They know how to narrow the scope of a project to exactly what’s needed and avoid unnecessary effort, she... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Consulting; Service

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

The Watsons: IBM’s Troubled Legacy

"To be sure," sniffed the Times reporter, "representation by one painter alone [from each country] is inclined to provoke a smile and must have caused prodigious head-scratching." Nevertheless, the plan was pronounced to "[work] well enough ...... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Group Therapy

on the role of the families controlling these groups focuses on the mechanisms of family intervention in company management that are effective in creating value. In another project with HBS assistant professor Jan W. Rivkin that utilizes... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

31 Oct 2019
Blog Post

5 Things on My Mind in the Second Year of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

committing with a full-time role. Students chose to spend their summers in a variety of ways. There were many people who worked on their startups continuing their projects from our first-year design class, Technology Venture Immersion.... View Details

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Pricing Strategy: Monetizing and Growing the Business - Course Catalog

presenting frameworks, analytical techniques, practical insights, and pertinent real-world examples. Grading Grading is based on class participation (50%) and a take home exam (50%). Interested students can request to substitute the exam with a View Details

01 Mar 2017
News

Case Study: Moment in the Sun

hospitality. Offices and health care facilities could both offer the company access to huge sectors of the $80 billion lighting market. The Question: Hoskins describes the competitive landscape as “a land grab.” He’d love to do some pilot View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

the EC as a bit of a bellwether: What are students interested in? What are the faculty looking at? We also think about how we can intentionally get out of the way of the students or the faculty. We’re now working on projects where we will... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Jun 2015
News

Learning from Global Immersion Experiences

second module of the three-part course, sends all 900-plus first-year MBAs across the globe in January to work on projects with partner organizations in emerging markets. “The logistical challenges are enormous,” says course head Tony... View Details

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

the firm was bought (by Merrill Lynch), he and two colleagues decided to branch out on their own and founded Gollust, Tierney & Oliver in 1978. For the next eighteen years, the firm grew, expanding from its initial focus on financing transportation View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

31 Mar 2023
Blog Post

How to Come Out at Work

felt the most affirmed and championed when my team has seen my distinct lived experience as an asset, not just an advertisement opportunity. Social Finance did just that and allowed me to leverage my queer identity and global health background to add value to an HIV... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.

Volunteer for work: New projects are opportunities to show your competence and your commitment. But be careful not to over-commit. Volunteer only if you have the time to follow through. 5. Claim an unoccupied lane to shine Most... View Details

20 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

marketing chicanery almost by accident. He was working on a related project involving a major US-based clothing and accessories brand (he can’t say which), when he noticed something odd happening at their outlet stores. “They never even... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

all sorts of people in all sorts of situations helping to provide at least some degree of leadership. A project engineer might take some initiative. Because of his or her leadership, a small group of people is mobilized to find and... View Details

Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter

28 Nov 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?

with a comparison of two different systems under which he worked, preferring pay for performance "based on my direct impact on profit, relationship with my client, project team performance and development of individual members of my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Nov 2008
What Do You Think?

How Much Can You Ask of Your Customers?

National Geographic Genographic project (Inga Ness), Trendwatcher (Gerald Nanninga), and Wikipedia (Adnan Younis Lodhi and Sameer Kamat). In spite of the advantages of putting customers to work, a number of cautions were raised as well.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 17, 2007

economies. The Industry R&D Survey—Patent Database Link Project Authors:William R. Kerr and Shihe Fu Periodical:Journal of Technology Transfer (forthcoming) Abstract This paper details the construction of a firm-year panel dataset... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles

understanding the effects of inexperience more broadly. We are working on a project that looks at individual investors' trading decisions in their brokerage accounts. View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off

What better way to drive people to work harder and more efficiently, you may ask, than to offer them a special carrot: more money for hitting specific company targets? The idea seems perfect. Managers want their employees to pull out the stops on View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional

panelists went on to describe could not claim that ideal framework, the projects they described did identify niches and illuminate business issues that are already reshaping the health care field. Daniel D. Moriarty, Assistant Provost and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

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