SATs - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business of Babies

yet donors are paid according to the desirability of their physical and mental qualities—at least $2,500, but sometimes much more. Spar showed an ad that appeared in Ivy League campus newspapers that offered $50,000 to women who were at least 5' 10" with 1400... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

pencil-and-paper maze to each student, in which the goal was to help a trapped cartoon mouse find its way out. In some mazes, a picture of a piece of cheese sat outside the exit, next to a hole in the wall where the mouse could escape.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

through the confusion to identify the next peak that the company should be moving toward? When they're not sure where they're going, how can they guide and inspire others? Grove, author most recently of Swimming Across (Warner Books, 2001), View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

21 May 2001
Research & Ideas

From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership

future. Like the other people listening, I squirmed in anticipation of the usual cliches about audacious goals, working in teams, and putting customers first. "'Brains,' he said. 'You need brains.' And he sat down. "How unexpected. How... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

was developed by Tencent Holdings as a lightweight messaging platform. As it grew quickly to become the most popular messaging app in China, it added a range of products and services that sat on top that were designed to appeal to a broad... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

a path to the future.” Lassiter, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Management Practice in Environmental Management, has spent several years studying the intersection between entrepreneurial finance and environmental concerns. He recently View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

world. With Thomas H. Lee, MD, Bohmer authored the opinion piece "The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations," which appeared in the August 5, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Bohmer recently View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

were shrouded with more uncertainty. The authors found that the lower prospects of future US employment reduced the average SAT score of affected international applicants by about 1.5%, with effects being especially sharp among the very... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

quantity and quality. Performance data was always at the heart of those efforts, but it wasn't a leading factor. Q: What is your primary focus? Morino: Performance really starts with the leadership of the organization. I didn't set out to write a book, but in 2009 I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

29 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the ‘Flutie Effect’ on College Marketing

academic labor market. Students with lower-than-average SAT scores tended to have a stronger preference for schools known for athletic success, while students with higher SAT scores preferred institutions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education; Advertising; Sports

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

basically sat down together and brainstormed creepy questions to ask," John says. The experiments tested the idea that downplaying privacy concerns would increase the likelihood of disclosure. For example, the researchers set up laptop... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

social, cultural, and legal environment. Given the prospect for continued movement toward competition and the propagation of "best practice" management ideas on a global scale, is the question largely academic? What do you think? Original Article In recent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

quantity. Overall, athletic success has a significant long-term goodwill effect on future applications and quality. However, students with lower than average SAT scores tend to have a stronger preference for athletic success, while... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

This study may have been more difficult to conduct if the authors were reliant on government grant funding, as is the case in many public health and medical schools. “We’re encouraged to study problems we think are important to address,” Luca explains. “So when we... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

to lose much sleep over the question. For example, Shadrick Shaili commented “China’s motive is to make the best out of any economy they have an opportunity to trade or deal with so that the benefits manifest in its people at home ... In so doing, China seems to be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

management, and Professor Baldwin, an authority on finance, recently sat down for a discussion of their work. Kim Clark: We write in the book about a design becoming "truly modular." Let me begin by clarifying how we define... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

11 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 11, 2008

MaterialsMicrofinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case Harvard Business School Case 808-104 CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

and jeopardizing the next quarter's sales. Meanwhile, because the executives in different product groups and locations rarely sat in the same meetings, initiatives in their various areas were not coordinated. SKUs (stockkeeping units, or... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

pressure, other circumstances, and Grady's level of creativity. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808075 D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise Harvard Business School Case 808-006 In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder... View Details