Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

in MBA programs. It didn’t work out that way. Our recruiting team returned from the field with a fraction of the potential students we needed to field a program. Clearly, we had misjudged something. Then two members of our administrative... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

social insurance, bankruptcy law, disaster relief, and so forth) have been studied extensively on an individual basis. What struck me, however, was that no one had ever looked across these policies View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

16 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

NPIL's new acquisitions in Canada and the United Kingdom to market NPIL globally. His three direct reports are each involved in different aspects of NPIL—the Canadian operations, the British operations, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

In the late 1980s, scientists for New York City-based drug-maker Pfizer began testing what was then known as compound UK-92,480 for the treatment of angina. Although UK-92,480 seemed promising in the lab and in animal tests, the compound... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

27 Aug 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Learning From Japan’s Remarkable Disaster Recovery

idea to write their own cases, and Takeuchi readily agreed. He works with the small teams doing the work. "This allows HBS to make a difference by leaving best practices for future generations to study... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Utilities; Retail

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

since 2010, Senior Associate Dean for the School's Culture and Community Initiative, organized a research team to look into the factors that made female students and faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

08 Aug 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road

and hardiness identify as crucial: Control: Which facets of the situation can you potentially influence? Think about how a person you emulate and admire would act. Then, work with your View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Mar 2006
What Do You Think?

The China Dilemma for U.S. Firms: Comply, Resist, or Leave?

individuals using their Internet sites that could endanger users' welfare, (2) resist such license requirements, or (3) cease doing business in China. The increased complexity arises from the fact that Yahoo, Google, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

University of California law professor Jodi Short, and HBS doctoral student Andrea Hugill examined factors such as whether it was more effective to send the same auditors back to a company or send new auditors with each audit. The answer:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks." Stephen Basikoti agreed, noting that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

essentials for economic development have long been, in Galbraith's words: "savings over current consumption to purchase capital; a progressive technology to embody or make use of the capital; a political and social system that allows... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

known, unknown, and potential competitors. In February 2010, Subramanian will publish Negotiauctions: New Dealmaking Strategies for a Competitive Marketplace, a book that draws on his experience studying and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 5

questionable behaviors during the financial crisis and individual acts of unethical behavior in many spheres of society. When considered together, these actions have had large-scale impact on the economic... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model

the hospital's work reaches beyond individual patients and into informal but important diplomacy, Khanna speculated. If you can pay, you pay; if you can't pay, you get treated for free. It doesn't matter... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

which investors should have access in order to make informed investment decisions, it engaged in a public comment period, soliciting feedback from various stakeholders about the provisional standards it developed by sector. As such, it is iterating its assessment tools... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

economic motives behind individual concerns for privacy. Recent theories of privacy demands in commercial contexts have assumed an economically aware and sophisticated consumer, capable of evaluating the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 May 2019
Book

These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems

from a UK prison, significantly reducing the rate of recidivism. The book is the result of four years of research, including a survey of 13 MBA classes, more than 200 interviews, and extensive archival and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology

13 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 13

independent films, including those not supported by the Sundance Labs. Thirty years after Sundance was founded, its top management team wonders whether the mission of Sundance would be best served by increasing View Details