Publications

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

shock that occurred when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. Our study is among the first to theorize about the impact of ratings on subsequent performance, and we introduce important contingencies that influence firm response.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

Costs of Racial 'Color Blindness' By: Norton, Michael I., and Evan P. Apfelbaum Abstract—The article looks at research on people's attitudes and behaviors with respect to noticing and referring to a person's race. It explains the 2013... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 14, 2015

Production and the Design of Supporting Institutions By: Boudreau, Kevin J., and Karim R. Lakhani Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49361 May-June 2015 European Business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2010
News

Head Games

either from the run of play or impact with the playing surface. Improvements in equipment and rule changes can make things better but probably not eliminate the longer-term danger of life-shortening injury or impairment. Is it possible... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

occupational standing and fostered industrial production and capital utilization. However, despite these economic benefits, it triggered hostile political reactions, such as the election of more conservative... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

ReVista: Harvard Review of Latin America Globalizing Latin American Beauty By: Jones, G. Abstract—This article discusses the growth over time of the beauty industry in Latin America and its bias towards... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 24

keep its product pipeline on the cutting edge. The company also worked to integrate vertically-to own or control every viable piece of the supply chain-in an effort to manage the flower and produce... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
Case

Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?

By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber

In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details

Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations

May 2022
Case

Thinking Outside the Wine Box (A): Mekanism and the Franz for Life Campaign

By: Tomomichi Amano, Elie Ofek, Mengjie Cheng and Amy Klopfenstein

This case provides an overview of “Franz for Life,” an advertising campaign that independent advertising agency Mekanism created and executed to revitalize the brand image of Franzia, a low-cost boxed wine. For several years, Franzia’s popularity declined among... View Details

Keywords: Marketing; Brands and Branding; Marketing Strategy; Digital Marketing; Social Marketing; Marketing Communications; Product Positioning; Food and Beverage Industry; Advertising Industry; United States

27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27

a new business venture is one of the most important decisions entrepreneurs will face: Should they go it alone or bring in cofounders, hires, and investors to help build the business? More than just financial rewards are at stake.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

July 2005 (Revised October 2006)
Case

Recall 2000: Bridgestone Corp. (A) (Abridged)

By: Lynn S. Paine

In September 2000, the president of Bridgestone-Firestone, the U.S. subsidiary of Japan's Bridgestone Corp., was invited to appear before a U.S. congressional subcommittee investigating the August 2000 recall of more than 6.5 million tires made by the subsidiary. The... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Crisis Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Product; Trade; Organizational Culture; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Auto Industry; United States; Japan

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01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

backgrounds. While I kept up a good game face for two years, internally I registered great emotional dislocation. It was difficult to be the only Asian American in a classroom of 80 students. Some of the... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

2011
Working Paper

What Do CEOs Do?

By: Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat and Raffaella Sadun

We develop a methodology to collect and analyze data on CEOs' time use. The idea-sketched out in a simple theoretical set-up-is that CEO time is a scarce resource and its allocation can help us identify the firm's priorities as well as the presence of governance... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Employee Relationship Management; Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Productivity; Italy

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April 2020 (Revised May 2020)
Case

NTT DOCOMO's Race to 5G

By: Juan Alcácer, Horst Melcher and Akiko Kanno

The case, based on extensive interviews with NTT DOCOMO’s technology leaders, focuses on the opportunities and challenges that NTT DOCOMO faces with the launch of infrastructure and services for 5G wireless telecommunication technology. With higher data rates and... View Details

Keywords: 5G; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Strategic Planning; Decision Making; Strategy; Telecommunications Industry; Technology Industry

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

Business School Case 806-044 Fred Khosravi is a serial medical device entrepreneur. In his latest venture, he must decide whether to sell now or continue to develop his current product and whether to market it, sell the company, or IPO.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 7, 2007

reversion to very early hiring or the use of a centralized matching system such as that used for medical residencies. We suggest, however, potential avenues by which the clerkship market could stabilize at something like its present... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Article

The Information Technology Ecosystem: Structure, Health, and Performance

By: Marco Iansiti and Gregory L. Richards

A number of modern industries are organized as complex networks of firms whose integrated efforts are necessary to deliver value to end customers. The complexity of these networks, or business ecosystems, and the associated interdependencies among firms, make... View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Networks; Value; Customers; Performance Productivity; Product; Applications and Software; Innovation and Invention; Competition; Business Model; Information Infrastructure; Information Technology Industry