Weakness Of Will - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 May 2003
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

answer. Q: What is the basic business model for Gyaana? Why will this model work when government-led or other plans to improve education in India have not been successful? A: The basic business model for Gyaana is to offer two remedies to... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

subtle shifts in abstract judicial doctrine will affect the amount they pay for new products. Even CEOs are not apt to give these arcane issues the same kind of attention as something like tax policy, which... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

27 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning to Make the Move to CEO

macroeconomic view of world regions so that participants have a clear sense of how various economic and sociopolitical factors will affect their businesses. The heart View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

Yahoo is able to collect data, such as click patterns, from its users and use the information to individually "tune" searches to users' personal tendencies. Such product improvements, Horowitz said, will change the nature View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

away, we're going to end up with a very different world, where we will have more hybrid organizations in terms of people working in the same space or not. Hopefully this book provides a blueprint for how... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

versions, we will add support for other online marketplaces,” the researchers write on the site debiasyourself.org. The tool also allows guests to peruse potential rental properties without seeing profile pictures View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

06 Jul 2009
What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

managing successfully in an environment of uncertainty." As for what this means for educators, Joseph Holt believes that "economics and management will be taught even more effectively the more... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Aug 2012
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’

government intervention " Gerald Nanninga was less willing to accept the notion of "too big to succeed," setting forth several ways of scaling up a company to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing; Financial Services

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

and doesn’t let skilled migrants come in, there will be the loss of the first-order effect, which is the knowledge being transferred from their geography to here,” Choudhury says. “But the bigger loss would... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

17 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?

well-informed about what will make someone successful, or it could be that they are hiring someone from their hometown”—or any number of other biases that have nothing to do with job performance. To test... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Employment

08 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Women Negotiating in the New Millenium

for ourselves than for others." "You have to be who you are, your authentic self," advised Kolb. Learn to read different situations. "Not all situations in an organization will be the same. There are lots View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

to note, though, that this situation might benefit other countries that will welcome these workers, as for instance Canada has been saying. The US will get a smaller slice of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

managers would have to explain to their investors why earning a negative 2 percent return would make sense as opposed to either investing or disgorging that cash to shareholders. The definition of "excess cash holdings" View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

He's been called "the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen" for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a parfait glass. Each year, some 2 million hopeful diners vie to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

can trigger large price bubbles. We analyze the patterns of cash-flow news that generate the largest bubbles, the reasons why bubbles collapse, and the frequency with which they occur. The model also predicts that bubbles View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels View Details

Keywords: by Staff

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

are the long-term memory of the corporate brain." Most respondents, in one way or another and without mentioning it explicitly, suggested strong linkages between the health of the corporate brain and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

joined this train of thought as he commented, “A new economy has not arrived, if we define it as one that will sustain humanity on the planet for eternity ” The reasons it has not arrived are many, he... View Details