Fresh Start - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

pressure paradox." Here's how it develops: as pressure mounts, team members start driving toward consensus in ways that shut out vital information. Without even realizing it, they give more weight to shared knowledge and dismiss... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

Linda Hill's book for the star performer-turned-new-manager, Becoming a Manager: Mastery of a New Identity appeared a decade ago to much acclaim. Much of the original book is still fresh today. But a new edition, Becoming a Manager: How... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

unprecedented to have a large cohort of people all over the world start working remotely at the same moment. The only parallel I can think of is from World War II, when waves of women entered heavy manufacturing for the first time. This... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Fed Up Workers and Supply Woes: What's Next for Dollar Stores?

They all started out with this mentality, which I would argue is like the modern Five & Dime, with treasure hunt. Treasure hunt from a retail standpoint means when you go in, every time the merchandise is different. People go in... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Retail

05 Sep 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Making the Right Technical Hire

than someone who can code a fresh UI. If performance issues are causing churn, then hire a performance engineer, someone who knows how to diagnose and fix performance issues. Just like you are building a product to solve for the job to be... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin; Technology

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

like candy and cigarettes, it wasn’t effective for packaging fresh food. In 1927, DuPont developed moisture-proof cellophane, food manufacturers started using it to package items like cakes and cheeses, and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

04 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 4

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51635 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital By: Ewens, Michael, Ramana Nanda, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract—We study how technological... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

was the harsh reality facing four women determined to make their mark in the city: Maxeme Tuchman, a Miami-born daughter of Cuban immigrants, 2012 graduate of HBS, and former teacher, was fresh off a White House fellowship in 2016 when... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Understaffed and Overworked: What Now?

delicate subject? "When in doubt, share the dilemma," DeLong says. For example, you might start a conversation with your boss like this: "I'm excited about the opportunities I have. But I have ten great opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Michelman

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

question, filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy is by no means a death sentence. If anything, it can provide troubled businesses with a fresh start and a path to future profitability. But Chapter 11 is also not a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

17 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’

The details differ slightly, but the story, in its telling, is always the same. Ninety or so MBA students sit nervously awaiting the start of their first Marketing class. At the appointed time—not a minute more or less—a slight man with... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Retail

16 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

ongoing enticement for Birnbaum and the other alumni interviewed for this article. "Luxury goods are in essence a highly creative field," notes Thuy T. Tranthi (HBS MBA '93), president of Thomas Pink USA, the London-based shirtmaker. "Many of the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products

10 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

conversations about how you would organize the operations of the company if you were just starting out and there was no such thing as “but that’s always the way it’s been done.” As explained by Team Strength Inc.: ”Start [the clean sheet... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

No one can be an effective leader in a crisis by attempting to go it alone. Leaders must be the first to recognize this reality and plan accordingly." The seven leadership lessons include: Face reality, starting with yourself. Don't... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

using cochineal extract and start using lycopene to dye its drinks pink instead. Lycopene is a red pigment found in several fruits, but strawberries are not among them. The lycopene that now colors strawberry Frappuccinos is tomato-based.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

to as "user-centered design." Yet, analysis of design-intensive manufacturers such as Alessi, Artemide and other leading Italian firms, show that their innovation process hardly starts from a close observation of user needs and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

its thirty years of performance, yet fresh capital continues to flow in. Why the discrepancy? A: Great, great question. It's a puzzle. Investors have been very patient. Maybe they are lured by the possibility of owning stock in the next... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology

05 Oct 2016
What Do You Think?

Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?

meeting the needs facing the threats of rising sea levels and record floods; converting energy systems to truly replaceable sources; reducing fresh water consumption or creating large desalination operations; saving top soils; reducing... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

learned and what they would do differently. Over time, says Wheeler, this record can help people see patterns to help them improve, rather than starting fresh each time. “There is a missed opportunity in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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