Bottom Up Attention - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

"The fans don't realize the weaknesses existed even during the good times," he told an audience of Harvard Business School students and faculty members on Tuesday. "The team was never as good as it was made out to be in an View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Rethinking E-Leadership

you don't model the importance of sweating the details. Downturns expose the weaknesses in your internal systems, observes Chuang. Technical expertise—the ability to solve cash flow problems, interpret what customers are really saying, or set View Details

Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

Insights Team (BIT), which became the world’s first government organization dedicated to incorporating behavioral economics into policy. BIT saw the tax letter as an opportunity to test the value of behavioral interventions in a context that would affect the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

Summing Up How best is denial managed? Denial is endemic to management. It is a natural part of human nature, closely related to the survival instinct. It can be useful or disastrous. And it can be managed. That sums View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years, the mutual fund would shake up established norms of wealth creation and distribution in the United States. Indeed, it would help reshape America by uniting Wall Street and Main Street, two disparate worlds that previously had... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

08 Oct 2010
What Do You Think?

Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?

Summing Up The Dodd-Frank legislation provision requiring the publication of the ratio of CEO compensation to that of the average compensation level of all employees in public companies will have little or no impact on CEO compensation... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

consideration, both sensory and economic. On the sensory side: He has designed several eating utensils, including an espresso spoon that sports a hole in the middle so as not to break up the continuity of the crema on top. On the economic... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

14 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 14

fiscal and risk premium data for Brazil states between 1891 and 1930 to show that Brazilian states with natural endowments that were allowed to export commodities high in demand (e.g., rubber and coffee) ended up having higher revenues... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How Relationships are Building Biotech

career relationships help to build up organizations. The study of careers seems to act as a powerful lens for examining the birth of biotech. Higgins, who specializes in research, teaching, and course development surrounding the field of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

innovation and the opportunity to participate in the "white coat" economy and life sciences revolution of the 21st century. Writes a new social contract based on real family values, creating fair and flexible workplaces that are productive while also View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 5

attention would carry over to other new product endeavors. Students are presented with a number of new product concepts and the findings from both qualitative and quantitative market research. This allows for a rich discussion of how... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in a simpler time. The internet was not yet a major news source,... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

Thomke, who grew up in a Mercedes-Benz company town near Stuttgart, Germany, it comes down to the basics. "Rather than competing on the basis of discounts, U.S. carmakers need to get to the point where people want to buy their... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

estimated likelihood that they will flee and then offering incentives to a core group of customers at the top of the churn ranking. Gupta says these traditional methods are flawed. The two steps are not set up to maximize bottom-line... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?

would lessen the incentive for buying a home. Bottom line, the deduction remained, but with one change. Instead of being unlimited, it was capped at a million dollars. As we look back at what happened with the housing market implosion, I... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Real Estate

22 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

New Challenges in Leading Professional Services

their B players? A: These solid citizens are invaluable and underappreciated. Because they don't demand attention they often go unnoticed. The highfliers soak up all the sun. When leaders only have a finite... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Consulting; Accounting; Legal Services

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times the rate of inflation, in 2001.... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

businesses afloat—and even make sure they eventually thrive—is a critical question as the world economy freezes amid the COVID-19 pandemic. Small businesses employ some 70 percent of the workforce for the 35 countries that make up the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

these dynamics has been constrained by fragmentation within relevant management research. In this paper, we clarify and describe two narratives that have emerged within past and current research on growth and the internal organization. The first narrative draws View Details