HBS Alumni Association - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too

satisfied, invested in, and committed to their relationships than couples who don't bother with them, according to an April article in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, Rituals and Nuptials: The Emotional and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

position: the chief experience officer or CXO." A knowledge of customer experiences can be invaluable in the design and distribution of a product or service. We were convinced of that by Joseph Pine and James Gilmore in their influential book, The Experience Economy.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

challenging, is achievable. Take HBS colleague Benjamin G. Edelman, an expert in online markets whose research focuses on consumer protection related to online businesses. “My research is made better by choosing questions that are... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

associated with a decrease in non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to parties that had a low probability... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

case with professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The medical services industry hasn't been global historically but is becoming so now, says Khanna. There are several... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

18 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Economic Clusters Drive Globalization

change an industry that starts as extractive to producing externalities that foster development.” In the case of Costa Rica’s ecotourism industry, Giacomin reviews earlier analysis by HBS history Professor Geoffrey Jones and research... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Agriculture & Agribusiness

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

software code. In their working paper "Mixed Source," HBS associate professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and postdoctoral fellow Gaston Llanes consider scenarios in which theoretical software firms compete... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

04 Jun 2018
What Do You Think?

Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?

over for partner and left the firm. “He, the protected rainmaker, went on to make sexual advances to many other female associates and 15 years later is still employed in a cushy job at the firm.” Assuming that this situation is not unique... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

recent research in a new article in Harvard Business Review, “The Other Diversity Dividend,” co-written with HBS research associate Silpa Kovvali. They focused on the venture capital industry, which provided... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services

13 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 13

prosocial behavior associated with licensing. The results of a laboratory experiment and a large field experiment converge to support our account. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/gneezy%20et%20al%20in%20press.pdf The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 17

implement an 18-month long employee suggestion-driven improvement program-58 work areas participated. Our study finds that an action-oriented approach was associated with higher perceived improvement in performance, while an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

rules and thus on capital markets, observes Karthik Ramanna, an associate professor and Henry B. Arthur Fellow in the Accounting and Management unit at Harvard Business School, where he studies the political economy of corporate... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

26 Aug 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

generation ago. If you are a global entrepreneur, says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, "you have to think much earlier and much faster." The new MBA second-year course Launching Global Ventures... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education

28 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

Brick-and-Mortar Stores Are Making a Comeback

brick-and-mortar retailers have amazing assets, but they need to think about what’s unique about having a physical space to convene with consumers and how that can be leveraged to do something that can’t happen in the digital world. This article first appeared in the... View Details

Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Retail

12 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs

next couple of years, near term he is producing discussion papers in the hopes of getting feedback and more leads. The first in this series, Historical Trajectories and Corporate Competences in Wind Energy, cowritten with HBS research... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

"We're trying to see how this new form of organizing people is disrupting business," said Lakhani, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS and the Principal... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

11 Jun 2020
In Practice

Are Digital Organizations Better at Overcoming COVID?

advantage. With that in mind, we asked faculty associated with Harvard Business School’s Digital Initiative how technology is setting the most successful organizations apart during the coronavirus crisis. Here’s what they said: Lauren H.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

13 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought

due in part to an overall lack of liquidity. On average, survey respondents with less than $10,000 in monthly bills had only enough cash on hand to cover one month of expenses. “Firms today are very lean and cash-strapped,” says Christopher Stanton, the Marvin Bower... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

partnered on the research with Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management Practice at HBS; and former HBS research associates Kelsey Carter and Stephanie van Sice. In March, Toffel... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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