Work From Home (WFH) - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

Work cultures will be stressed anyway, as the continuing COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty puts people on edge. Employee loyalty has waned and resistance grown. Leaders could suffer empathy fatigue and become less understanding, but leaders... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

comes home with something for a child and the child hates it, this good feeling can go out the window, and frustration can become the governing perception." Take time to extract meaning from data. Too... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) began to discuss how... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

remarkable transformation of both the economic performance and the social institution. Gooding oversaw a rise in revenues from £1 billion to more than £5 billion, and she and her team worked to reconfigure... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Business School finance professor Kenneth A. Froot in the April working paper What Do Measures of Real-Time Corporate Sales Tell Us about Earnings Surprises and Post-Announcement Returns? “It’s startling to find that managers are not even... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

04 Mar 2009
Op-Ed

Credit is Not the Bogey

commercials. From one vantage, the credit industry is to blame for our economic woes. The solutions have centered on tightening credit—loaning only to homebuyers who can make a 20 percent down payment, returning to the standards of 20... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas & Eric S. Belsky; Construction; Real Estate; Financial Services

19 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

targeted ads on the lockscreen and home screen, consumers clamored for an ad-free version. Amazon backtracked and extended its Special Offers program to the tablet, allowing consumers to opt out from the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups

and execute truly creative solutions. Perhaps the traditional image of the creative genius working alone to create great breakthroughs is not so accurate after all. To shatter conventional wisdom about group creativity is one purpose of... View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dubious Logic of Global Megamergers

Think of Maytag and Lloyd's Bank; both companies have prospered by focusing on their home markets of the United States and Great Britain, respectively. Telefónica de España, a midsize telecommunications company, has rejected the role of... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat & Fariborz Ghadar

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

in a "passionate craft," as I call it in the American Psychologist article. This is something where you can be really excited about what you're doing, where you almost can't keep yourself from View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

When Standard & Poor's Rating Services lowered its long-term sovereign credit rating on the United States from AAA to AA+ on August 5, it was a shot heard 'round the world. Stock markets plummeted, investors covered their eyes,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a new... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

his home on Kiraly Street on the Pest side of Budapest and he then had to endure a Soviet Communist regime from 1945, when the Russians forced the Germans out of Budapest after a lengthy and very destructive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

18 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands

home in Melbourne, showing the giraffe all packed up in a giant container and inviting the public to share their own photos of interesting containers. "The cost of running the campaign was under $100,000 which is a tiny budget, and they... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising

20 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 20

existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

"While the energy industry has been in the forefront of a demand for more information from a broad group of stakeholders, this demand is becoming more and more common across almost all firms. Thus, the oil companies are likely... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

identity crisis of sorts because their jobs and their family roles no longer allow for the authoritative (some would say patriarchal) roles of the past. To compensate for this felt emasculation on the work and View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

session called "Institutional Foundations," sometimes drawing in questions from among the approximately sixty audience members, mostly MBA students, who attended the March 8 conference. ...trying to build institutions is like... View Details