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- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
You've done everything—endured diets, purged your freezer of Ben & Jerry's, and educated yourself on fat, sugar, and calories. Yet, you can't manage to lose weight. What's wrong with you? According to standard economic theory, which... View Details
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Faculty & Researchers - Managing the Future of Work
Professor of Business Administration Shane Greenstein is the Martin Marshall Professor of Business Administration. He teaches in the Technology, Operations and Management Unit. Shane’s research encompasses a... View Details
- 16 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters
develop those networks very quickly." The more surprising thing about the data, however, is just how quickly networks changed once someone moved from a corporate staff position to a line position or vice versa. The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- Article
Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration
By: Ethan S. Bernstein, Jesse Shore and David Lazer
In this article, we summarize our research on the value of intermittency for complex problem solving at work and give practical advice on how organizations can improve the rhythm of their people's collaboration. Executives have been counseled to be collaborative... View Details
Bernstein, Ethan S., Jesse Shore, and David Lazer. "Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration." MIT Sloan Management Review 61, no. 1 (Fall 2019).
- 06 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Art of American Advertising
compared with modern marketing techniques, the Reconstruction Era actually shared some advertising commonalities with the dot-com boom. "The rise of the Internet in the 1990s had an enormous impact on... View Details
- 2014
- Book
Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth
By: Regina M. Abrami, William C. Kirby and F. Warren McFarlan
At the time of the American Revolution, China was the strongest, richest, and most powerful civilization in the world. The Great Qing Empire ruled China and dominated East Asia by a combination of power and cultural prestige. China's economy was the world's largest.... View Details
Abrami, Regina M., William C. Kirby, and F. Warren McFarlan. Can China Lead? Reaching the Limits of Power and Growth. Harvard Business Review Press, 2014.
- 01 Apr 1996
- News
Stewards of the Seventh Generation
things to different people," says HBS assistant professor Forest L. Reinhardt, who teaches the MBA elective Business Management and the Natural Environment. "For example, many economists, in particular, take the view that harvesters View Details
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
"strategic service vision" companies must adopt. Leading a breakthrough service—one that alters the basis of competition in entire industries—is different. Those that have done it understand things... View Details
- September 2013
- Case
Vogue: Defining the Culture of Fashion
By: Anita Elberse, Joseph Ferrer, Elizabeth Gough and Victoria Katsarou
In March 2013, Susan Plagemann, vice president and publisher of Vogue—widely regarded as the world's most influential fashion magazine, and publishing conglomerate Condé Nast's marquee title—is seeking answers to two questions. First, how she can best approach the... View Details
Keywords: Creative Industries; Fashion; Publishing; Digital Technology; Entertainment; Product Portfolio Management; Magazines; Journals and Magazines; Internet and the Web; Change Management; Resource Allocation; Creativity; Media; Advertising; Fashion Industry; Publishing Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry
Elberse, Anita, Joseph Ferrer, Elizabeth Gough, and Victoria Katsarou. "Vogue: Defining the Culture of Fashion." Harvard Business School Case 514-036, September 2013.
- 08 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Death of the Global Manager
it required a huge amount of travel, with communications mailed and faxed around the world. Things are obviously different now, with the Internet, satellite phone connections, and video conference calls on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
plan materializes verbatim. Chris would say that things came out all right if his students learned something important." Christensen's discussion leadership seminar for HBS doctoral students, which began in the late 1960s, served as... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’
have been slower to that realization, and tend to view governance as something that the lawyers are driving. And therefore it is something that, at the attitude level, slows things down; it's a cost to the enterprise. It gets in the way... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”
Put differently, there appear to be fewer economies of scale in R&D than there used to be. The way companies define, measure, and reward excellent research has to change.—Henry Chesbrough So what specific View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
original employment—but that doesn't mean they don't dramatically shake up thousands of lives. "The one thing that's clear is that there's a lot more churn after the private equity guys come in,"... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
over time to draw meaningful conclusions, they ended up with a set of some 2,500 companies. The first thing that stuck out to the researchers was the lack of growth among most... View Details
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurship over the last six decades in industries including organic food, sustainable agriculture, natural cosmetics, the built environment, ecotourism, and waste recycling. Innovators in all these industries often had one thing in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2019
- Blog Post
The Many Facets of Becoming a Mother at HBS
little information was available to support moms. By engaging in deep and thoughtful conversations with the MBA administration and faculty, a lot of things have changed: SAS currently offers a specially... View Details
- Spring 2024
- Article
The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications
By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo
As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform the ongoing discussion of the appropriate regulatory response, we examine trends in the banking industry over the last twenty-five years. On the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Condition; Banking Industry
Hanson, Samuel Gregory, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam, and Daniel K. Tarullo. "The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Spring 2024): 343–389.
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
The Realities of the Refugee Crisis
suffering that they’d go through, over 62 percent say yes. They stand very firmly behind the desire to institute a more democratic and open system in Syria. Gunnar Trumbull: Seen from the perspective of receiving countries in Europe, two... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal
in your study, agree to these arrangements? A: Contracts are big, complicated things with lots of clauses, some of which get exercised rarely if at all. So it's sometimes hard... View Details