Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

willing to serve." Boards also can make it feel safer for directors to give honest assessments by hiring an outsider to interview each board member individually and aggregate the information for both... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Control Your Inventory in a World of Lean Retailing

inventory by setting a single inventory policy for all SKUs at seven weeks. In the case of blazers, the inventory of the 43-regular is just about right, but there are too many 46-regulars and stockouts of 43-longs. The better approach, of... View Details

Keywords: by Frederick H. Abernathy, John T. Dunlop, Janice H. Hammond & David Weil; Consumer Products

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy

Why are people so drawn to social media? The question long haunted Mikolaj "Misiek" Piskorski and eventually led to his new book, A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media. Drawing from years of research dating back to before... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

a way to do it," with some cautions and advice about how to make such information available to all. For example, Praveen pointed out that, "It is essential to have a culture of mutual trust but we also need to have mutual... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

the structure of the industries in which their firms competed. Bogle and Kelleher died earlier this month, more than 40 years after each made their mark on the competitive landscape by leading organizations that provided both low cost... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

board and executive management team are in clear agreement on goals, strategy, and actions. Always involved in rapidly changing environments, nonprofits need to maintain... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

20 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

The Acquirers

were published in the paper, Financial vs. Strategic Buyers. The research team first scoured data of private equity firms in the United States that had set out to buy underperforming companies and turn them... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Can big companies ride the entrepreneurial tiger to transformation and renewal? Yes, said participants in the panel discussion "Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside" at the HBS Entrepreneurship Conference. But... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

where gender diversity is valued. This is presumably because this kind of context creates a safe environment for women to contribute their ideas freely and therefore encourage the flow and exchange of ideas,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Sep 2000
What Do You Think?

Whither the Information Economy?

some would claim geometrically) expanding universe of information of varying quality will become counterproductive? For years, managers have lamented the fact that they have too much data and too little information. But can an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Dec 2013
HBS Case

HBS Cases: What Warren Buffett Saw in Newspapers

Buffett's offer and wondered what he saw in the declining industry that others did not," notes Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor Benjamin C. Esty, the author, with senior case researcher Aldo Sesia,... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Journalism & News; Publishing

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

time, those patriarchal systems tend to diminish initiative and entrepreneurship, discouraging individuals to take different stands, go out and do different businesses or take... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

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

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

Like: Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray Empower Your Employees to Make Better Decisions Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

Uncertain Environment? Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change Following the adoption of a collective bargaining agreement in 2005, National Hockey League GMs had one month to absorb the new rules and put a View Details

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

in, and when they did, they saw a warm, welcoming city, with attractive facilities and convenient infrastructure. Team Great Britain also vastly exceeded expectations, earning... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

31 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories of 2012

Product Published: April 23, 2012 Upgrades to existing product lines make up a huge part of corporate research and development activity, and with every upgrade comes the decision of how to brand it. Harvard... View Details