Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

firms. The faculty are drawn from Harvard Business School's Organizational Behavior and Service Management groups and have expertise researching professional service industries, providing consulting services... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

03 May 2021
What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

judgment. When I lead, my goal is to inspire and motivate my team to realize a vision The two activities need not overlap.” Those regarding the situation as worth correcting largely recommended teacher... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

says. Her team detailed the findings in an article in the July edition of Health Affairs, The Impact of Price Regulation on the Availability of New Drugs in Germany. Drug pricing, German-style Before companies can set higher prices for... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

customers, individual consumers—the actual end users—are often located inside the customer firm: This can create a two-stage adoption cycle—first the business must decide to purchase a product or service and... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

While these general factors might help a company decide in which country to invest its production, of course different factories will have different track records—so it’s important to look at individual audits. But how can a multinational... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

These Coronavirus Heroes Show Us How Crisis Leadership Works

for COVID-19 and is currently able to run 1,000 tests per day. David A. Ricks, CEO of Eli Lilly. Under Ricks’ guidance, Lilly has teamed with AbCellera Biologics to find antibodies to disarm COVID-19.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George; Health

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

said Ely. "Some groups developed through these. We didn't see competing perspectives." In addition, she said, a strong individual could institute one or the other perspective. Only the third, however, was linked to sustained... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

likely to hear, "That's not my job," in a company where responsibility is not only accepted by individuals but also shared and delegated. Solid teamwork also becomes critical. In this more complex... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

That approach is obviously critical to an understanding of how businesses work, but equally important, as Professor Koehn has indicated, are the human beings who make the decisions that create and sustain enterprises. I wanted to use a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

how individuals with limited power and resources negotiate and collaborate with the largest of corporations. Community may not be exactly the right word to describe these... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

money when those shocks occur. “They should be less concerned about that, because they can ride out those waves,” says Viceira. Thus, for investors looking beyond a 10- to 20-year time frame—including individuals saving for retirement,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

30 Aug 2006
Op-Ed

The Compensation Game

Confronting greater media scrutiny and an ever-increasing number of shareholder resolutions focusing on executive pay, Corporate America continues to support current pay practices as a product of "the market." Not too long ago,... View Details

Keywords: by Lucian Bebchuk & Rakesh Khurana

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

consideration to how they deliver important information during earnings calls. Between The Lines The research team studied 11,436 conference call transcripts by 4,540 firms based in 41 different countries outside the United States between... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Jul 2019
What Do You Think?

Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?

explanations for the phenomenon and its success or failure. These included such things as the nature of the industry or product, the way such goals are implemented, and the size of the organization making... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

effort? If so, what kind of training would be required for those teaching "judgment"? To what degree could this supplement and perhaps accelerate a process of individual self-discovery in the real... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

overview of key issues that Lebowitz and his team must consider as they plan for the firm's growth—how to raise capital, how to gauge the optimal size for the company, and how... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

traumatic experiences and deep uncertainty about one's future erode or elevate the psychosocial benefits of work. Starting this winter, the team will compare how 1,000 Rohingya households at the Kutupalong... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

or wrong. (An increasing interest in behavioral approaches to morality in US social sciences underlines such an individual view of morality.) In my mind, the counter-intuitive pairing of terms evoking View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

radio—featuring recordings of actual calls for help. Whereas individual car makes and models were usually marketed separately, Huber's team wanted OnStar to have its own... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

Publications