Business or Company Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

startup in govtech or a public sector group at a large company working on public sector cloud solutions, for example. Another reason is that people not in government, such as private View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

New research suggests that organizations wishing to avoid gender stereotyping in the hiring or promotion process-and employ the most productive person instead—should evaluate job candidates as a group, rather than one at a time. “The... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

25 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System

all aspects of China's economy and how it will affect future MBAs. "It's not just one country, it has multiple different economies, different types of businesses, and a whole range of opportunities," says Kirby. "Whether or not they go to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

said. Speakers lamented the various infrastructure problems in the United States—congested roads, crumbling bridges, chronic airport delays, spotty wireless connections—and criticized the lack of investment in transportation and infrastructure in the last decade View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

a company to develop new productivity software was a complete non-starter. No sane VC would or should fund a venture to compete with the Microsoft monopoly." Even though his project is in the early... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

10 Feb 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development

Harvard Business School researchers are offering unique insights into our workplaces and careers. In this world, taking a pay cut can help a career, promotions aren't always good things, and networking may send you to the nearest tub for... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

that they will disappear quickly from the public eye after having been seen by the intended recipients or after a short period of time. Disappearing selfies are seemingly the ideal solution for people who enjoy life on social media but... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

presentation given at the fifth U.S.-China Health Summit at Harvard Medical School in September by John A. Quelch, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

service programs provided by the government. The company had made significant progress, and Kai was a recognized leader in German business for his attention to and success in View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

permission. Most companies will not begin reinvesting until the Wall Street Journal or Ben Bernanke officially declare the recovery underway. Get ahead of the crowd. Craft your recovery plan now, and pull... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

"Investors should put more emphasis on how brand IP is managed in the environment rather than on the IP asset itself." Paul Jackson adds that "... it's got to be businesses (that defend IP)... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

have written this book when you were writing Market-Driven Health Care (1996) or Consumer-Driven Health Care (2004)? A: I think at the time of Market-Driven Health Care, people were still delirious about the prospects of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

02 Oct 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?

willing to admit it? Is leadership becoming an increasingly difficult balancing act? What do you think? To Read More: Jim Collins, Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap And Others Don't (New York: Harper-Collins, 2001) John P.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

and at best, opportunism." The long-term effects of strategies based solely on such practices appeared to some to be potentially counter-productive for their users. Sharika Kaul typified this view when she asked, "How many times can you copy? ... A copycat... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

in the United States and Europe. Within this new scenario, three groups play unique roles: policymakers who identify and use groups for support; companies that understand the interests of diffuse groups and tap them to reap larger profits... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

Rakesh Khurana and I argue is that you can't reward senior management for something over which they have limited control, and shareholder value is not something that most managers can totally control. The... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

on? Are they concentrated in a specific industry or business type? A: Inventors can file for patents in many technology fields, ranging from chemicals and drugs to computer software to agricultural... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

11 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Paradoxical Quest to Make Food Look 'Natural' With Artificial Dyes

Storie-Johnson “Today, we tend to view color as an ingredient,” says Ai Hisano, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow in Business History at Harvard Business School. Hisano is author of the HBS working paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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