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  • 16 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

Sometimes executive education has little to do with what happens in a classroom. Mentoring and coaching are the time-tested ways for wisdom and knowledge to be passed through an organization. Harvard Business School professor Dorothy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

Professors Ananth Raman and Roy Shapiro are two members of the HBS faculty team that developed the new Executive Education program, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective. In this conversation with the Executive... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Evidence on Attitudes, Behavior, and Cognitive Biases By: Carpena, Fenella, Shawn A. Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Abstract—This paper uses a large-scale field experiment in India to study attitudinal, behavioral, and cognitive constraints that can stymie the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2012
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

information, we couldn't have accessed it effectively anyway. Email systems were not widely available, let alone mobile devices with capacity to access the data. Now the capacity to store and access information through cloud computing is... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

person's commitment to service outside of their profession ... as good an indication as any of a person's commitment to more than just achieving status and making money" (Tammy Doty); 3) encouraging a school's admissions group to "focus inward and nurture in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 19 Sep 2006
  • First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=706036 Frederick Douglass Charter School: The Renewal Decision Harvard Business School Case 806-063 Five years after the launch of the Frederick Douglass Charter School, its performance is under review by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

observe homophily in ethnicity and gender increases the probability of forming teams by 25%. Homophily in education and past working experience increases the probability of forming teams by 17% and 11 % respectively. Homophily in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

commissions hurt sales. If managers must retain a cap, they should set it as high as possible to avoid reducing reps' incentives. Although overly complicated compensation systems have their downsides, research has found that a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

that they click fewer advertisements, controlling for the number of advertisements they actually click. Results are most pronounced for commercial searches and for vulnerable users with low education and little online experience. Read the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 14

one knew for certain since no comprehensive schedule existed. This was why el Laboratorio para la Ciudad (or LabCDMX) had spawned an effort to generate a map of the labyrinth system that provided an estimated 14 million rides a day.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2022 (Revised April 2023)
  • Case

Pittsburgh: A Successful City?

By: Karen Mills, Caroline Elkins, Vikram Gandhi, Gabriella Elanbeck and Zeke Gillman
Pittsburgh, PA, was once the crown jewel of American heavy industry. During the 19th and 20th centuries, the city was an undisputed leader in steel production, boasting some of the largest companies and wealthiest individuals in the world. Its abundance of... View Details
Keywords: Economic And Social Disparities; Economic Development; Local Economic Development; Contextual Intelligence; Contextual Knowledge; Context; City Growth; City Innovation; City Leadership; Pittsburgh; Local Government; Local Stakeholders; Business And Community; Business And Community Relations; Community Engagement; Community Relations; Cross-sector Collaboration; Innovation; Innovation Economy; Innovation Clusters; Innovation Ecosystems; Shared Prosperity; Equality Of Opportunity; Equity; Inclusion; Business And Government; Business ＆ Government Relations; Business And Government Relations; Business And Society; Neighborhoods; Race And Ethnicity; Innovation ＆ Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Ethnicity; Race; Household; Income; Economic Growth; Economic Sectors; Economics; Local Range; Urban Development; Urban Scope; City; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Growth and Development; History; Leadership; Goals and Objectives; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Human Needs; Public Opinion; Public Sector; Social Issues; Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; Education Industry; United States; Pittsburgh; Pennsylvania
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  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

training-up to be 'as good as' men," says Ely. "They don't take the systemic gender biases in organizations into account when educating women about how to move into and exercise leadership."... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 23 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

represent strategic research sites for understanding the formation of economic practices and representations. This article draws on historical material to analyze the changing place of economics in American business education over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

introduced the Kindle, the first electronic reader with wireless functionality. The case describes the launch of the Kindle and provides information on representative players in the industry (or broader ecosystem) who are likely to be affected and react, including... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

businesses via the Internet, evolved into a completely automated end-to-end solution. Pandesic was a spectacular failure. It sold very few systems and shut its doors in February 2001 after having spent more than $100 million. It is... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
  • 23 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 23

  Publications 2006 University of Chicago Press Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education By: Anteby, Michel Abstract—Corporate accountability is never far from the front page, and Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

buying a home or car. The first Harvard faculty member to hold tenured appointments at both Harvard Business School and Harvard Law School, Subramanian is the faculty chair for the new HBS Executive Education course Managing Negotiators... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 15 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 15, 2015

Competition Policy International Whither Uber? Competitive Dynamics in Transportation Networks By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Transportation Network Companies offer notable service advances—but do they comply with the law? And if not, how should the legal View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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