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  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Faculty Books

as venture capital and buyouts but excluding hedge funds—has become a much larger, more influential part of the global economy over the past two decades. The authors—Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor... View Details
Keywords: Professor Amy C. Edmonson; Professor Boris Groysberg; Professor Josh Lerner; Teaching Fellow Ann Leamon; Professor Leslie A. Perlow; Professor of Management Practice Felda Hardymon;; social media; Finance
  • 23 Aug 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization

the Wallace Brett Donham Professor of Organizational Behavior, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. His multidisciplinary research, published in twenty five books and numerous articles, has dealt with the View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
  • 30 Jan 2023
  • HBS Seminar

Martine Haas, Wharton

  • 17 Oct 2016
  • HBS Seminar

Nicholas Bloom, Stanford University

  • November 2005 (Revised May 2007)
  • Case

Leading Change at Simmons (A)

By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Amy C. Edmondson, Stacy McManus and Kate Roloff
Explores the challenge of managing large-scale organizational change at Simmons, an old and established company that manufactures and distributes mattresses. The new CEO, Charlie Eitel, hired to turn the organization's performance around, considers whether to implement... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Leading Change; Employee Relationship Management; Manufacturing Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 10 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot

achieving the complete elimination of all waste in pursuit of the most efficient methods.” The system is based on two principles: automation with a human touch, and each... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Katherine Connolly Baden
  • December 2006 (Revised August 2008)
  • Case

Pervasis Therapeutics, Inc.

By: Robert F. Higgins and Virginia Fuller
In May 2005, Steve Bollinger was about to become president and chief operating officer of Pervasis Therapeutics, a small cell therapy start-up in Cambridge, Mass. If proven successful, Pervasis' product, Vascugel, could change the way vascular disease is treated and... View Details
Keywords: Business Startups; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Health Industry; Cambridge
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  • November 2013
  • Teaching Note

A.J. Washington: Retaining an NFL Star

By: Andrew Wasynczuk and Karen Huang
A.J. Washington explores the early phase of a contract negotiation between a professional football team and its star quarterback. This case illustrates the challenges associated with negotiation for human capital. Specifically, it explores the tension between... View Details
Keywords: Compensation; Human Capital; Negotiation; Sports; Compensation and Benefits; Sports Industry; United States
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  • Web

Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Risk-Bearing in an Economy Where Human Capital Is Not Tradeable." In Financial Aspects of the U.S. Pension System , edited by Zvi Bodie and John B. Shoven. Chicago, Ill.:... View Details
  • April–June 2014
  • Article

Firmes mondialisées et imaginaire de la beauté

By: G. Jones
This article highlights the role of business enterprises as influences on ideals of human beauty. The homogenization of such ideals has been one of the most noteworthy features of globalization over the last two centuries. This study suggests that firms were both... View Details
Keywords: American History; Economic History; Business History; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; History; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 18 Dec 2006
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

too, as CEOs take note of future stars. But medium-sized organizations have the most difficulty with talent identification because these companies often lack the infrastructure and human resources... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Adjusting National Accounting for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

By: Mark Egan, Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson
Many national accounts of economic output and prosperity, such as gross domestic product (GDP) or net domestic product (NDP), offer an incomplete picture by ignoring, for example, the value of leisure, home production, and the value of health. Previous discussed... View Details
Keywords: Health; Valuation; Accounting; United States
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  • 23 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 23

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=13-092.pdf Debating the Responsibility of Capitalism in Historical and Global Perspective By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This working paper examines the... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

out among community hospital systems in its pursuit of service rationalization, clinical quality improvement, and value-based delivery. Driven by determined leadership, ThedaCare began site-based service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Christopher A. Bartlett

    Professor Christopher A. Bartlett received an economics degree from the University of Queensland, Australia (1964), and both the masters and doctorate degrees in business administration from Harvard University (1971 and 1979). 

    As a practicing manager prior... View Details

    Keywords: consulting; health care; management consulting; manufacturing; medical supplies; wine
    • March 2020
    • Article

    Organizing Knowledge Production Teams Within Firms for Innovation

    By: Vikas A. Aggarwal, David H. Hsu and Andy Wu
    How should firms organize their pool of inventive human capital for firm-level innovation? While access to diverse knowledge may aid knowledge recombination, which can facilitate innovation, prior literature has focused primarily on one way of achieving that: diversity... View Details
    Keywords: Knowledge Recombination; Organization Design; Team Boundary; Innovation; Knowledge Sharing; Diversity; Innovation and Invention; Groups and Teams; Human Capital; Organizational Design
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    • May 2020
    • Article

    Negotiating a Better Future: How Interpersonal Skills Facilitate Inter-Generational Investment

    By: Nava Ashraf, Natalie Bau, Corinne Low and Kathleen McGinn
    Using a randomized control trial, we examine whether offering adolescent girls nonmaterial resources—specifically, negotiation skills—can improve educational outcomes in a low-income country. In so doing, we provide the first evidence on the effects of an intervention... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Competency and Skills; Training; Age; Gender; Education; Investment; Outcome or Result; Developing Countries and Economies
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      Lynn S. Paine

      Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

      • 19 Jul 2011
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Signaling to Partially Informed Investors in the Newsvendor Model

      Keywords: by Vishal Gaur, Richard Lai, Ananth Raman & William Schmidt

        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government