Conversation - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Nov 2013
Op-Ed

Twitter IPO: Overvalued or the Start of Something Big?

opportunities for real-time conversations and engagement to people around the world. The company has accomplished this by taking advantage of the modular nature of today's ubiquitous communications infrastructures provided by the Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Chet Huber; Technology

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

these tensions themselves.” In contrast, the successful organization required the job counselors to consult with the production supervisors before making any key decisions, and vice versa. And it provided ample time and opportunity for these mandatory View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

Bringing the Environment Down to Earth

Avoiding dissenting opinion. People find it comfortable to talk with those who share their views. Managers need to keep their minds open to the new perspectives and new facts that can come from regular conversations with government... View Details

Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt

28 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

partial conversion (only part of the waste stream is converted into by-product), full+ conversion (the entire waste stream is converted into by-product and "waste substitute" virgin raw material is... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion (Harvard Business Review) Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) COVID-19 Business Impact Center... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

Stores were designed as a place for lingering and relaxing. For customers who were looking for an in-and-out buying experience, that was frustrating and frivolous. Just give me my coffee! But for others, there was value created in a moment of View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

conversant in these issues, Luca says. The advent of digital economists is unlikely to kill collaborations between academia and tech companies. By working with academic economists, tech companies benefit by getting deep expertise on a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

07 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

tweaked the website, the overall sales conversion rate for buyers actually went up by as much as 23 percent, meaning that customers weren’t just buying higher-priced items, rather, they were buying more items overall. When Teixeira and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

marketplace, who defines the winner? It’s all perception–you think you’re the leader, and you’re really not,” he said. “For me, it’s all about conversion [monetizing existing goods and potential services] in the platform.” Discouraging... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

negotiator, you can minimize the impact of freezing up by having a few stock moves on hand that will buy you time to regain your footing. Shift the conversation to process and treat whatever just occurred as a mutual problem. "Maybe it's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

symposium, Ely talked about how intersectionality can complicate workplace and societal support systems among women. Would-be support systems often focus solely on the fact that women are women, ignoring the differences among them. View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

managers do can have great impact on their workers, says Professor Teresa Amabile. In this conversation with Professor Mike Roberts, she updates her ongoing research on creativity in the workplace by investigating how people's intense... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

Sharing News That Might Be Bad

fulfill her commitments and still protect the business by shifting the focus of the conversation to the future, says Heath Shackleford, manager of public relations at Nashville-based American Healthways. "What the manager really... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

conversion factors to translate these into GHG emissions. But to calculate their Scope 3 emissions for materials and components they procure, not all suppliers are willing or able to share this information. “LCAs tend to be quite... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

Suns: The Epic Story of America's Great Migration and Beverly Daniel Tatum’s Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?: And Other Conversations About Race. Wilkerson is an award-winning journalist. Tatum, a former... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

Tencent to Scandinavian digital trailblazer Schibsted, from The New York Times to The Economist, and from talent management to the future of education. Synthesizing what these stories have in common, and drawing on the latest research in economics, marketing, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

schools took some responsibility. The conversation was cut short upon the entry of the United States into World War II. After World War II, business schools experienced one of their fastest growth rates as a consequence of the GI Bill.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

19 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

The Landscape of Integrated Reporting: An E-Book

334-page e-book, The Landscape of Integrated Reporting, can be downloaded in .pdf format from the link at the bottom of the story. Selected remarks to the group made by HBS Dean Nitin Nohria are reprinted here. I am truly excited to have this opportunity to begin a... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria; Accounting

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

smart decisions will be made as to where available money is allocated. But the impact will be severe and cause a lot of change in the sector. Ebrahim: The conversation about results and performance management is occurring globally, not... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

the platform for one conversation in which all stakeholders can and must participate.” Additionally, One Report ensures that a coherent and consistent message is going out to all stakeholders. It creates the platform for one View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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