Access To Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

ESG issues tend to have the best future investment performance. Q: Why is that? A: If we have better information around ESG issues, and it is communicated and used more effectively, then that information will be incorporated into stock... View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

According to Oliva and Suarez, YPF, Argentina's formerly state-owned oil company, is one example of a company's transformation following economic reform. Unlike Chile, which modified its economic policies gradually under the Pinochet... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

Act, which was passed by Congress in 2010, created a mechanism to deal with many of them, alongside Basel III the most recent iteration in global banking regulations. Important details of both are still being hammered out. The most... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

no company is off limits. Activists have recently pressed for action at Apple, GE, and DuPont. Campaigns against companies with market capitalizations of more than $25 billion nearly tripled last year. The activist’s transformation View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

09 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’

early twentieth century. It is a story, in part, about how fortune telling was professionalized. Unlike Adams, whose insights into the future rested on her purported ability to read the stars, the entrepreneurs profiled here were... View Details

Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman

04 Jun 2014
What Do You Think?

Does Internet Technology Threaten Brand Loyalty?

as a results magnifier—in either direction." Is the potential negative impact of new information technologies on customer loyalties overstated? What do you think? Original Article The world is fascinated by an international debate about information technology,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products; Technology

25 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

of 1949 Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "The team discovered that having access to laptops and finding uses for them wasn't the main problem. A greater problem... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

likely to work out if they know whether their peers are working out, too. The researchers assigned the employees to one of three conditions. Some employees had access only... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Debora L. Spar

that breaks with history? A: There are many ways in which the Internet differs from past innovations. The Net is much more international, for one thing, and it crosses borders even more easily than did the telegraph or the radio. It is a relatively inexpensive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Nov 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

want to capitalize on the first-movers' research and development. . . . Regardless of the type of complexity, whether product- or choice-related, the consumer is ultimately overwhelmed." Addressing the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

"Discover Your True North." Related Reading: When CEOs Become Activists A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism The Climate Needs Aggressive CEO Leadership View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of their access to the appropriate set... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

deliver a different value proposition than competitors or the same value proposition better. The strategy map framework allows companies to identify and link together the critical internal processes and human, information, and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

to their specific needs—e.g., insurance for long-term care and drugs; easy access to integrated teams that specialize in treating chronic diseases and disabilities; pre-tax... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

arise primarily from the wave of mergers and acquisitions that continue to alter the balance of power among media firms. The Walt Disney Company, for instance, in addition to owning the American Broadcasting... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

08 May 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Writing the Case for Public School Reform

Campaign for Human Capital at the School District of Philadelphia" examines one district's innovative approach to recruiting and retaining qualified teachers; "Reinventing Human Resources at the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

workplace—starting with job listings. What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality" and ponder ways to give women... View Details