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  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

Many executives believe that leadership development is a job for the HR department. This may be the single biggest misconception they can have. As corporations have broken down work into manageable activities and then consolidated capabilities into areas View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves
  • December 2021
  • Article

Auctioneers Sometimes Prefer Entry Fees to Extra Bidders

By: Jiafeng Chen and Scott Duke Kominers
We investigate a market thickness–market power tradeoff in an auction setting with endogenous entry. We find that charging admission fees can sometimes dominate the benefit of recruiting additional bidders, even though the fees themselves implicitly reduce competition... View Details
Keywords: Entry; Reserve Prices; Entry Fees; Auctions; Design
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  • 17 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

those declines. Our argument is built around three core themes. Theme 1: When a Country Loses the Capability to Manufacture, It Loses the Ability to Innovate Innovation and manufacturing are often viewed as residing at the opposite ends... View Details
Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing
  • 09 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Jun 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Business School. "We used to have friends without Facebook, or Twitter, and we used to find spouses without dating sites, and nobody ever complained. This begs a very basic question—what kinds of interaction does the online world give us... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 2007
  • Casebook

Managing School Districts for High Performance: Cases in Public Education Leadership

By: Stacey Childress, Richard F. Elmore, Allen S. Grossman and Susan Moore Johnson
Managing School Districts for High Performance brings together more than twenty case studies and other readings that offer a powerful and transformative approach to advancing and sustaining the work of school improvement. At the center of this work is the... View Details
Keywords: Management; Strategy; Leadership; Public Sector; Organizational Design; Education; Performance Improvement
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  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

entrepreneurs. Designed for entrepreneurial and international business courses. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807075 Bill Gates and Steve Jobs Harvard Business School Case 407-028 Bill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Teaching Interest

Overview

Luciana has taught in front of MBA, Master of International Business and Economics, and Executive Education students. At HBS, she was a teaching fellow in "Managing Innovation" (taught in the MBA program by Professor Karim Lakhani) and co-developed most teaching... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Evolution; Organizational Behavior; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 1

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-016.pdf   PublicationsThe Concept of Capitalism Author:Bruce R. Scott Publication:Springer-Verlag 2009 Publisher's Preface: This monograph on the concept View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
  • Case

Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland

By: Robert C. Pozen and Scott Eric Perl
Rose Adams, the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice president and treasurer, about the brewing crisis with... View Details
Keywords: Retirement; Crisis Management; Design; Planning; Human Resources
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  • 25 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

forthcoming Journal of Political Economy Reserve Design: Unintended Consequences and the Demise of Boston's Walk Zones By: Dur, Umut, Scott Duke Kominers, Parag A. Pathak, and Tayfun Sönmez... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 10 May 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Flattened Firm—Not as Advertised

Keywords: by Julie Wulf
  • 14 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

and enlarging the stations, which led to a cost spiral. These days, designers understand the crucial importance of small vehicles to limiting system cost. Another key improvement: Robust computer control is... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation
  • 29 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

career advice and placement for our students. Our core Real Property survey course is in the fall of the second year. We also have two new winter courses on Emerging Real Estate Markets and Design,... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • Profile

Jeremy Andrus

called Link, a device that enabled headphones to have two plugs so you could switch back and forth between music and phone. We took off from there in the direction of designing headphones that would be... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products; Entertainment / Media
  • October 2020
  • Article

Comparative Statics for Size-Dependent Discounts in Matching Markets

By: David Delacretaz, Scott Duke Kominers and Alexandru Nichifor
We prove a natural comparative static for many-to-many matching markets in which agents’ choice functions exhibit size-dependent discounts: reducing the extent to which some agent discounts additional partners leads to improved outcomes for the agents on the other side... View Details
Keywords: Size-dependent Discounts; Path-independence; Respect For Improvements; Market Design; Mathematical Methods
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  • 23 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

social and environmental policy issues not directly related to their company’s core business. Distinct from nonmarket strategy and traditional corporate social responsibility, the recent wave of CEO activism... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2014 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

Sanford C. Bernstein Goes to Asia

By: Linda A. Hill, Dana M. Teppert and Allison J. Wigen
Sanford C. Bernstein, a premier sell-side research firm, is expanding globally. Three years after launching Bernstein's Asian business, senior management has appointed Ghislain de Charentenay, a six-year sales veteran of the firm, as director of Asian research in Hong... View Details
Keywords: Collaboration; Talent Management; Leadership; Talent and Talent Management; Organizational Design; Emerging Markets; Globalization; Hong Kong
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  • 20 Jun 2014
  • News

Innovation is not a side business to running a company—innovation is the business

of the core business. "Cutting back and hunkering down during downturns may get you through a short-term crisis but will not position you to be a leader in the future," Applegate says. Rather, she advises... View Details