Scientific Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

http://www.springer.com/economics/development/book/978-1-4614-1878-8?changeHeader Employee Selection as a Control System Authors:Dennis Campbell Publication:Journal of Accounting Research (forthcoming) Abstract Theories from the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2021
Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

overly narrow goals. Consider the experience of Airbnb, which ran experiments to evaluate booking strategies but ignored the potential for discrimination. After research by Luca and colleagues found evidence of widespread discrimination... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

01 Sep 2008
News

Building a Better MBA

withering critiques at business schools in recent years. Warren Bennis at USC’s Marshall School of Business argues that they are “institutionalizing their own irrelevance” by becoming too focused on scientific View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

the pandemic spread around the world, HBS’s 15 global centers and offices have been instrumental in supporting faculty researching the impact of the pandemic and supporting alumni who have faced unprecedented challenges in its wake. In... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Your Own Medicine

dollars. All told, the process takes about 10 to 15 years. "I think we're all frustrated, we're all disappointed," explains PhRMA's EVP of scientific and regulatory affairs Bill Chin, former executive dean for View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; biomedicine; biopharmaceutical company; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

motives, such as ending research that might pinpoint responsibility and, most threateningly, liability for this man-made epidemic. Europe and the End of the Age of Innocence by Francesco M. Bongiovanni (MBA 1980) Palgrave Macmillan... View Details

23 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)

porous as possible.—Karim R. Lakhani The result has been a product that even academics regularly consult. In late 2005, the scientific journal Nature conducted a study comparing 42 science articles in Wikipedia with the online version of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

the key to success. Drawing on Milkman’s original research and the work of her dozens of world-renowned scientific collaborators, How to Change shares an innovative approach that will help you to change or... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Feb 1997
News

Doing It Your Way

larger corporate setting? Yes, say a number of HBS professors, including Rosabeth Moss Kanter, MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Business Administration, who is currently researching "intrapreneurship." The term, she says, refers both to... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

and professional activities of academic biomedical scientists. In qualitative and quantitative analyses, we show that scientists match to their postdoctoral mentors based on two dominant factors, geography and scientific focus. They then... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

living longer—but eventually dying of diseases that could plausibly have an environmental component. Just as there has been progress in scientifically detecting foreign contaminants in the air and water, the public clamors for protection... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

New Learning at American Home Products

division integrating product development and marketing, but without significant research capability. For all but chemicals and prescription drugs, the corporate focus was on marketing, especially advertising.24 In prescription drugs, the... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chemical; Health; Manufacturing; Pharmaceutical

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

patients than any other hospital in the state—to bend without breaking under the pressure of the pandemic. Professor Robert Huckman is an economist and health care researcher who serves as unit head for Technology and Operations... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

01 Mar 2013
News

Opening the Door

For her innovative research and outspoken advocacy of US health-care reform, Professor Regina Herzlinger is known in some media circles as "the godmother of consumer-driven health care." At HBS, she holds the distinction of being the... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

address this inherent bias problem by enacting strict and scientific hiring mechanisms. For instance, rather than vetting possible hires via job interviews, Los Andes both hired and promoted its employees almost solely on the basis of how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

We investigate these research questions in the context of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's Audit Policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-021.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsGianna Angelopoulos-Daskalaki... View Details