Actionable Practice - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2015
News

Faculty Q&A: The Price Is Right

is different in that consumers never have to walk away, as any price they generate will be accepted. Conceptually it’s a very efficient pricing model, but I was curious as to how it works from a practical standpoint. How do consumers... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

02 Feb 2004
What Do You Think?

Leadership: A Matter of Sustaining or Eliminating Groupthink?

in expressing an idea." One anonymous respondent resolved that "If I am not one already, I think I will aspire to be the office fool ..." All of this suggests that successful leaders need a fine sensitivity for times when various modes of thinking and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2023
News

Just Breathe

overcoming the need to outperform, and in countering imposter syndrome. What’s your call to action with this book? While we can’t control the world around us, we can control how we feel inside. I want to encourage BIPOC communities to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

27 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 27, 2009

and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2016
News

HBS Fund Helps Fuel Faculty Research and New Learning Experiences

sees her research as helping firms build actionable solutions to their business challenges. Sadun’s research is developed from management practice data that she and her colleagues compiled by interviewing... View Details

27 Oct 2020
News

HBS Votes

user-friendly, practical “5 Actions Guide" for business leaders to support the election with a week-by-week communications toolkit they can use to message employees and customers. “The pandemic is creating... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

differently while pregnant?” The focus is on practical, actionable recommendations. Risks are put into context so women can make their own choices, aware of the trade-offs they’re actually making. Pursuing Other Opportunities: A Corporate... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

to have packaged and measured the relationships in a way that made sense to a lot of people. Q: Many companies approach creating a good customer experience as a discrete action: a customer satisfaction program, for example. But your books detail an integrated set of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

economics research, business academics and managers will have the power to substantially improve both the practice of business and the welfare of society. My hope is that we will use that power responsibly. Carliss Y. Baldwin The two... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Aug 2023
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?

spread of epidemics, reducing congestion on highways, or finding ways to detect fraudulent transactions.The trend toward people analytics, Polzer says, is a logical extension of the era of big data, as the science of processing and identifying patterns in large... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

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HBS & the Case Method - Message From the Director | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

policies with which these conditions should be remedied?” as a way of opening the class discussion about possible actions to address the issue. HBS cases have evolved since that time, through innovations in teaching and learning, but the... View Details

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

hospitals, and physicians to become more accountable for patient outcomes and total costs. The case describes new forms of partnerships for therapy optimization, management of acute care episodes, and management of chronic care patients. The case also illustrates how... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

working paper, published this year, titled "Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education." Mallory Stark: How does the PELP program operate? Stacey Childress and Allen Grossman: PELP operates as a learning laboratory with seed funding from the HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

01 Jun 2018
News

Up by the Roots

big firms’ appetite for technology, but also of their aversion at the time to acquiring it through potentially risky partnerships with innovative upstarts. And in part it was because B2B fintech, which is where much of the action in New... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; illustrations by Dan Page

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

Beginning with Chile more than twenty years ago, Latin America has experienced a wrenching yet exciting transformation of its predominantly inward-looking, state-driven economies to a robust acceptance and practice of open-market... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

to practice and from simple to complex, the present paper builds on that work. It illustrates several classes of practical measures that negotiators can use to advance their own interests by focusing on the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

research to professional, media, and academic audiences. She serves as an expert witness in individual and class action discrimination cases in both the U.S. and Canada. Soraya Chemaly Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and... View Details

29 Oct 2013
First Look

First Look: October 29

book, Joseph Badaracco answers this question in practical and, at times, provocative ways. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/product/the-good-struggle-responsible-leadership-in-an-unforgiving-world/an/11540-HBK-ENG August 2013 Simon &... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 1999
News

New Releases

longtime collaborators not only update their findings but also translate their earlier strategies into action to compose a complete picture of the issues, problems, and opportunities encountered in implementing a transnational strategy.... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

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Privacy Statement (English) - Global

information on practices of Harvard University relating to the processing of personal data when such processing is within the scope of the GDPR, please see https://gdpr.harvard.edu/eeaprivacydisclosures . Harvard Business School... View Details

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