Authority - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Jan 2017
News

A Harvard business professor explains a legal form of 'insider trading' in America

26 Jun 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

Keywords: by Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing; Financial Services; Banking

09 Mar 2017
Working Paper Summaries

Exploring the Relationship Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case

Keywords: by Robert Lagerström, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan

Article

After All Is Lost: Meeting the Material Needs of Adolescent Disaster Survivors

By: Jill G. Klein and Laura Huang

This research with teenage tsunami survivors finds that adolescents received little support from relief organizations in their desire to replace lost possessions. The authors suggest ways that marketers can help relief organizations identify the material needs of... View Details

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23 Jul 2021
News

The Cost of the Olympics’ ‘Runaway Arms Race’ and New Hope for Student Loan Borrowers in Bankruptcy

12 Oct 2020
News

4 Moments That Changed the Watch World

10 Apr 2019
News

Nancy Koehn's Tips For A Less Stressful Life

Nancy F. Koehn

Nancy F. Koehn is a historian at the Harvard Business School where she holds the James E. Robison chair of Business Administration. Koehn's research focuses on crisis leadership and how leaders and their teams rise to the challenges of high-stakes situations. Her... View Details

Keywords: beauty products; clothing; consumer products; entertainment; fashion; marketing industry; retailing; health care; advertising; media

12 Apr 2013
News

The Secret to Happiness at Work: Less Duration, More Intensity

20 Feb 2022
News

Hong Kong: A Case Study of Managing in Extreme Uncertainty

11 May 2021
News

President Biden Is Pitching An Expanded View Of Infrastructure. Is He Right?

07 Apr 2021
News

Harvard Business School Professor Details 'Why Startups Fail' in New Book

28 Dec 2020
News

Nine Leadership Lessons 2020 Gave Us

09 Apr 2020
News

All Hands On Deck: Tech Firms Become Lenders As Federal Aid To 26M Tiny Businesses Falters

Unlocking the Customer Value Chain

“Thales Teixeira brings a brilliant and incisive intellect—blending fundamental insights with practical guidance—to the urgent question of digital transformation. In the book, he gives us a roadmap for winning the right customers, and for keeping them, amidst... View Details

IDEO's Culture of Helping

In the highest-performing companies, it is a norm that colleagues support one another’s efforts to do the best work they can. After spending two years observing, interviewing people, and conducting surveys at one office of IDEO, the authors discovered four... View Details

06 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

John Kotter: Four Ways to Kill a Good Idea

Someone is out to shoot down your best ideas. Do you know how to defend yourself? In their new book, Buy-IN: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down, HBS professor emeritus John P. Kotter and University of British Columbia professor Lorne A. Whitehead teach how to... View Details

Keywords: by John Kotter & Lorne A. Whitehead

Michael E. Porter

Michael Porter is an economist, researcher, author, advisor, speaker and teacher. Throughout his career at Harvard Business School, he has brought economic theory and strategy concepts to bear on many of the most challenging problems facing corporations, economies... View Details

Keywords: biotechnology; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; internet; nonprofit industry; service industry; state government

Teresa M. Amabile

Teresa Amabile is the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. Originally educated and employed as a chemist, Teresa received her Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University. Her current research investigates how people approach and... View Details

2009
Chapter

Organizational Design: Balancing Search and Stability in Strategic Decision Making

By: Jan Rivkin and Nicolaj Siggelkow

Managers often must make decisions that depend on decisions in other parts of the organization. These interactions create a network of interdependent choices and make strategizing difficult. In this chapter, the authors explore the intersection between organizing and... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Strategy; Balance and Stability