Materiality - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

reflect on the material and ideas discussed in class and apply it to their own situations. This is a rich opportunity for sharing information in an informal atmosphere in which participants can build relationships with each other that... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

accidents and their radiological health impacts. We can develop new tools and techniques for managing and securing radioactive materials as well as slashing storage requirements by burning waste in specialized reactors. But we’re under a... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

encountered business leaders who were more willing to speak about their strategies on camera. At the same time, we began to understand that video material could be a wonderful means to facilitate the teaching of business in emerging... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

wave" of new material on leadership at this time, one that threatens to overwhelm the manager who tries to absorb and, heaven forbid, apply it all? Is it a natural result of a downturn in the economy, uncertainties in the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

Participants within a business market assume one or more of four primary roles to carry out these value-creating activities: Suppliers create component products or provide services, raw materials or talent. Producers design and build... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

significant investment in materials and personnel. "There are some managers who believe that if you keep projects resource-poor, it will enhance creativity," Amabile says. "But that just makes the employees use their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

Berkeley. Its unique materials technology has been exploited for 10 years, but the company needs a new business model. The company concept required the invention of hardware and software to do high throughput View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

survival) to "flee" too often from threats that weren't really there than to not flee the one time there was a significant risk. So, we've inherited emotional and cognitive mechanisms that motivate us to avoid perceived risks to our psychological and View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

29 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 29

possibility, in light of the lessons of the Kursk submarine rescue failure. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-003_f69cf9de-5517-4355-95c4-5555674a37ee.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

beliefs that people hold. Important research has been done to demonstrate the material effects of property ownership, like increased access to credit. "However, I've been more interested in looking at the immaterial effects of how... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

customize classes so that students received the lessons they needed without reviewing material they already knew? That is the idea behind School of One, an approach to learning piloted by New York City Department of Education, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

06 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

community service. In the other 24, the material emphasized career advancement. The campaigns drew two distinct groups of candidates. While the career advancement campaign attracted a group that had more qualifications and was more... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

needs at any particular moment." She also posed the problem of finding insider "CEO material willing to wait in the sidelines." Andrew Campbell commented that "you often have to reassess your succession plan when the... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

boundaries around their workday. “When people typically arrive home from work, they often have a corner or a mudroom where they drop their stuff,” Norton says. “Now many people have work all over the place.” He advises storing laptops and work-related View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2444741 Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 614-058 Hospital Clínic de Barcelona No abstract available. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Aug 2015
What Do You Think?

What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

in the field of analytics are focused on improved utilization of productive equipment and materials It is hard to get much GDP growth or wage growth this way, but corporate profits are certainly going up. Perhaps that is a better way to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

decisions were discussed and made. Then she moved to expand her risk management process throughout the bank. She handed out 10,000 booklets that presented the department's view and expertise in areas including market risk, credit risk, and operational risk. All the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

build a scholarly community that reflects what is happening in the broader world while creating new learning materials for students and practitioners." Iansiti and Lakhani's MBA elective course Digital Innovation and Transformation... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

Participant-Centered Learning, it was a program for 60 Latin American academics on case-method teaching, field-based research and case writing, especially with an eye to tailoring materials for unique management issues of Latin America.)... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Then, students view alternative ways of making each call. The materials are intended to build skills and awareness relevant to personal selling and, in particular, to the role and importance of “up-front contracts” in structuring... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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