by Daniel Snow - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

small-business owners trying to survive. Strict safety protocols haven’t been enough to get customers through the door for some small businesses, and many owners—crushed by inventory and overhead costs—are grappling with hard choices.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

Stress) It's not about the bigger home or the better vacation. Financial stability helps people escape the everyday hassles of life, says research by Jon Jachimowicz. 3. Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Feb 2019
Book

What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology

non-committal prices. That is, until Birchbox came along in 2010 with an innovative offer: Pay a monthly fee and receive a curated box of beauty samples by mail. “They said, ‘We're going to start off doing this one part of the customer... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Beauty & Cosmetics; Insurance; Service; Retail

27 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

patients. “The extremely high profit margins in medical devices offers a setting in which the risks are often overwhelmed by the potential rewards to innovate, especially when competitors face their own product failures,” according to the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Happiness, artificial intelligence, and climate change were just some of the themes that caught the attention of Harvard Business School podcast listeners in 2023. Here are some of the most-downloaded episodes of the year: Deep Purpose How Framebridge Founder Susan... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

30 Apr 2020
Book

Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Rebecca Henderson spent her young adult years living two lives. At work, she preached the risks of resisting change to MBA students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, drawing on lessons she learned while watching factories close as a management consultant.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Energy

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

"We are the 'piggy bank' that everyone wants to take advantage of," President Donald Trump told his 61 million Twitter followers in May, days after he hiked tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. "NO MORE!"" But research View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

in other spheres that are vital to the interests of society (such as law and government, military affairs, health, and religion, to consider the classic examples), modern societies have responded by creating the institutions that we know... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

on how COVID-19 might reshape city life and the business ecosystem. “As business and policy leaders try to navigate the crisis created by the pandemic, there’s an urgent need for data and evidence to help guide the decisions leaders are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

Danielle Kost: Every executive is searching for the next big idea or strategy. Are there any techniques or approaches that people can use to stimulate their own creativity at work? Teresa M. Amabile: Three of the components necessary for... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Jan 2017
Working Paper Summaries

The Ties that Bind: Railroad Gauge Standards, Collusion, and Internal Trade in the 19th Century US

Keywords: by Daniel P. Gross; Rail

30 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

love the product? Or investors who believed in the founder and her dream? Many entrepreneurs rightly want to protect the interests of these constituencies, Eisenmann says, and will strive to do so by keeping the startup alive—sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

What's Missing from the Racial Equity Dialogue?

procurement side, research I’ve conducted with Kylie Hwang shows that returning citizens are more likely to become entrepreneurs. As part of a business’ diversity initiatives, hiring a vendor or supplier owned by a returning citizen can... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been harmed View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Banking

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

20 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

the Trump Administration authorized $7 billion in disaster loans for small businesses affected by COVID-19. The program helps businesses in states that have declared emergency status borrow as much as much as $2 million and repay it over... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age

with Microsoft (The Free Press), Yoffie and Michael A. Cusumano of MIT's Sloan School of Management use this high-tech confrontation to outline a comprehensive approach to strategy in the ultracompetitive environment created by the... View Details

Keywords: by Daniel Penrice