Focusing On Customers - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

The CEO's key to a successful earnings call with investors? Crystal clear communication. Earnings calls are typically held after the release of quarterly earnings, allowing company executives a chance to brief investors, analysts, and oftentimes the media View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

a required course called The Entrepreneurial Manager was created. TEM focused on financing and development of new ventures, with a few cases dealing with entrepreneurial managers in large organizations... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

As we work on challenging public problems, embracing the entrepreneurial spirit can help in developing solutions, says Harvard Business School Professor Mitchell Weiss in a new book, We the Possibility: Harnessing Public Entrepreneurship... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

found yourself struggling with the wording while writing a paper, but after taking time away from it, you're able to quickly find the right words? This is your unconscious mind at work. While our conscious mind is focused View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

Management Science The Role of Taxes in the Disconnect Between Corporate Performance and Economic Growth By: Khan, Urooj, Suresh Nallareddy, and Ethan Rouen Abstract—We investigate the relation between the growth in corporate profits and the overall U.S. economy, View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

statements they issue for firms in the future? A: The current debate focuses on the desirability of making additional information observable to shareholders. Of course, this information will also be... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

a case about the Kumbh Mela focusing on finance and strategy. An A case will be largely descriptive about what we saw on this trip. It will be followed by a B case set at the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

technical and academic writing over the past decade has focused on mergers and acquisitions, which are typically negotiauction situations. But one of the main messages in the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

A: The compensatory consumption thesis is particularly focused on how straight white men from working and middle class backgrounds, those below the top 10 or 15 percent, create a meaningful sense of identity... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

02 Jul 2024
Book

Five Essential Elements to Build the Capital You Need to Lead

leadership lessons focused on what he calls “the five Cs”: capability, culture, communication, connection, and confidence. Each of these five Cs acts as a building block for developing and deploying... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

economists have recently modeled that increasing regulatory burdens are forcing banks to hire additional full-time employees focused on oversight and enforcement, which can hurt the return View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

had to share control, and in this Rich versus King choice, he was choosing to remain King. Q: Is it better to be focused on one or the other? Is it possible to have a healthy... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

12 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

vaccine.” CAMH is Canada’s largest mental health teaching hospital, with a 550-person inpatient facility and a 24/7 dedicated psychiatric emergency room. Its staff of more than 3,000 physicians, clinicians, researchers, educators and support staff provide clinical... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health

01 Mar 2004
Lessons from the Classroom

Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science

design "programs" or sequences of projects over time in order that learning is maximized. Most past research on innovation has focused on the management of individual... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

The Growth of the Social Enterprise

building on this research, Wei-Skillern is working on a long-term study on how multi-site nonprofits are structured and managed to achieve their goals. This research View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

Elephant Live Happily Ever After?" focuses on acquisitions of three social icons: Tom's of Maine acquired by Colgate, Stonyfield Farm Yogurt purchased by Danone, and Ben & Jerry's bought by... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

did you write this book? Jeffrey Fear: This book began as a very different project. One problem in German history is that a good deal of literature understandably focuses on... View Details