Basic Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?

book, Who Killed Health Care? We asked Herzlinger, the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration Chair at the Harvard Business School, to discuss her latest work and her more than 30 years of research in the health care... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health

06 Dec 2018
News

Source Code

the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once.” “I think as a small company, I’m coming to the conclusion that you can’t do both research and business development at once.”... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustrations by Daniel Hertzberg

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

often inadequate for scaling. SG&A (selling, general, and administrative) costs then rise faster than revenues, and resource-constrained ventures are forced to raise a dilutive round of capital, operate in small niches, or go out of business. Our View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1997
News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

financial functions. Bulletin: We spoke earlier of sophistication; this sounds like research based on very basic principles. Merton: In a way, yes. All of us, whether we live now or a hundred years from now,... View Details

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

investing in people even prior to the achievement of results. Context Using examples from sports and business, and responding to numerous listener questions, Professor Kanter discussed her research and conclusions from her most recent... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

management to the wrong kinds of tasks. As he put it, " in places where creative solutions are needed time management or micro management is a difficult concept to grasp." Francis Wade said that "Our research reveals that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

suggestions address the basic issues? How do we bring immigration policy into alignment with the reality of what is happening at borders and in work places globally? Are low-skilled workers a burden or an opportunity? What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 Mar 2018
News

Fueling the Future

said yes and immediately asked to also build an energy practice. “Oil prices were soaring, silicon prices were fluctuating, and solar and wind were huge topics at that time. I saw that as an opportunity,” she notes. “So I quickly got retail humming, built an energy and... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

post-secondary education to support and expand areas like career and technical training, and encouraging expansion of research and development in the US. There are a lot of areas of common ground. And there are a lot of opportunities to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 23, 2007

Working PapersFacts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China Authors:Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley Abstract Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]

many times in the past, it will prosper by creating a distinctly Japanese approach. If you have read my other work, you know that I believe that the U.S. is far from perfect. For example, many U.S. companies suffer from a short time horizon, and we are underinvesting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer

Web

Global Trade, Capital and National Institutions - Course Catalog

rate, and free capital mobility. Research has demonstrated that local conditions- political objectives, financial markets, firms, and institutions for effective- decisively influence the operation of these View Details

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), and the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (AMLF). Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709041... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Jul 2021
News

Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis

is considering launching a COVID relief van program to help carry oxygen and basic medicines to those in need. MAY 20 Students Fight COVID was started by 250+ MBA/MS 2023 admits from across the world, including HBS, with the aim to fight... View Details

01 Dec 2017
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2017

group that first voiced skepticism, demanded accountability, and catalyzed dissent. Andrew Zimbalist is the leading researcher on the hidden costs of hosting megaevents like the Olympics and the World Cup. They provide a blueprint for... View Details

01 Dec 2008
News

Back to the Future

term. So interested was the public in its findings and analysis, the book became a widely praised New York Times bestseller. It was also “a model of what university research and monograph writing on a major question of policy should be,”... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

school there, MIT, and I met a really great individual, Jonathan Fleming. Jonathan and I connected. He knew what I was about, Duchenne, and trying to save my brother and the boys like him. He suggested I meet with a researcher over at... View Details

15 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

Publication:Developmental Psychology 44, no. 5 (2008) Abstract The present research identifies an anomaly in sociocognitive development, whereby younger children (8 and 9 years) outperform their older counterparts (10 and 11 years) in a... View Details