Theory Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

alternative and undervalue the features that they are gaining in the new alternative. Compounding the problem is the fact that the developers of the new product don't realize this. They are, by their nature, evangelists for the new... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

01 Sep 2016
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2016

involving the development of a “Center and Museum of Tolerance,” to be housed at the University of Mississippi; and, most important and personal, Hope for a Cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease). Berman provides a blueprint for realizing... View Details

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

Consider two organizations with the same noble purpose: to solve the problem of poor eyesight in developing countries. The first, the Centre for Vision in the Developing World, follows a traditional... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

fixing this gap. For 40 years, economists have drawn from the well of Utilitarian theory—which has the goal of maximizing overall well-being in society—to help design tax systems in the United States and around the world. Although the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

24 Mar 2016
Blog Post

Learning to Code at Business School

class. So, there are actually right and wrong answers. ;) Sloan: It was different in a lot of ways: Instead of class participation and finals, the class was built mostly around the problem sets and final project (plus a midterm and final). It was very practical... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Porter Appointed to University Professorship

social issues, from the economic development of U.S. inner cities to environmental concerns. Michael E. Porter (MBA '71), the C. Roland Christensen Professor of Business Administration, whose prodigious research and course View Details

Keywords: Doug Gavel; University Professorship; C. Roland Christensen; Sumner H. Slichter

25 Aug 2014
News

Wendell P. Weeks, MBA 1987

Houghton once again called Weeks into his office, and the younger man braced himself to be demoted by his mentor. But Houghton, like Weeks, believes in learning from failure. “His basic theory was, ‘if you broke it, you fix it,’” says... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

19 Jun 2017
News

Can Neuroscience Find You the Perfect Job?

no one is unemployable. Dan Morrell: Frida, your company pymetrics employs a series of neuroscience tests that help determine personal traits and characteristics. I assume that you took these tests early on in the development of the... View Details

08 May 2015
News

A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details

29 Oct 2018
Research & Ideas

Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'

returns. Digital advertising provides marketers with renewed opportunity to measure advertising effectiveness. Economists draw on both existing theories of advertising and the tools of econometrics to test and evaluate advertising... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology; Education

08 Jul 2015
What Do You Think?

Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?

well as emotional and business factors) every organization has to find its own optimal solution neuroscience in the last 20 years has proven that current business theory which basically has been developed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

09 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 9

Authors:Diego Comin, Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu Abstract We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

profit for shareholders and directors. Pfeffer is also tired of seeing so-called leadership development services offered in a sanitized vacuum by a “leadership industry” under “brands” such as authentic leadership and servant leadership,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

October 1997
Case

Paula Morton

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Inna Feyns, Sean D. Keohane and Linda LaGorga

An MBA student is offered a job to turn around a publishing company with little chance of survival. The student is between her first and second year at Harvard Business School (HBS). The case describes both her management philosophy and the actions taken. The document... View Details

Keywords: Management; Information Publishing; Adoption; Leadership Development; Business or Company Management; Management Teams; Theory; Publishing Industry

Citation

Find at Harvard

01 Jun 2008
News

Faculty Books

and the social sciences. Bringing together leading scholars, the book is organized in four parts: Approaches and Debates; Forms of Business Organization; Functions of Enterprise; and Enterprise and Society. Capitalism, Democracy and View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management

26 May 2022
News

Bidding Up

working with consulting clients—Wilson was able to move on to his studies with Raiffa and others who were developing a new approach to using economic theory and mathematics to drive strategy and management... View Details

15 Nov 2020
News

Podcasts Engage New Audiences with HBS

among US millennials. Climate Change Challenges Facing the Real Estate Industry Arthur Segal and a Boston Properties EVP talk about the difficulty of financing development in coastal cities and the need to retrofit buildings to reduce... View Details

01 Sep 2012
News

An Intellectual Capital: Some Influential HBS Ideas, at a Glance

articulates the theory of disruptive innovation. 2009 For the first time, annual sales of HBS cases to outside institutions surpass 5 million units, a number exceeded every year since. Eighty percent of cases used in business schools... View Details

Keywords: Professor Elton Mayo: Professor Fritz Roethlisberger; George M. Moffett Professor of Agriculture and Business, Professor Emeritus Ray A. Goldberg; Professor Abraham Zaleznik; Professor Alfred Chandler; Professor Michael Porter; Professor Robert S. Kaplan; Professor Michael C. Jensen; Professor C. Roland Christensen; Professor Robert Menton; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Career Coach

Jill Huggett

Jill Huggett (Carroll '00), Principal, Bridgepath Career Advisors, is a certified professional career coach and certified professional resume writer. Jill combines professional coaching theory with her previous experience as a financial... View Details

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Curriculum | MBA

Also during Year 3, all students complete a year-long capstone exercise at HKS.Participants generally complement their required and elective studies with two summer internships: either a policy, international development or social... View Details

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