by Loren Gary - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2019
News

Fostering an Innovation Culture: Talent, Discipline and Leadership

08 Mar 2016
News

Do Trade Agreements Kill Jobs?

12 Jul 2015
News

How Genzyme became a source of biotech executives

11 May 2011
News

Multinational manufacturers: Moving back to America

07 Nov 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United

case and how did it come together? Anita Elberse: I am particularly fascinated by companies and people in entertainment, media, and sports that have very strong track records over a long period of time. Sir Alex Ferguson is a manager who... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

habit-forming behavior, whether people recognized it as such, whether it was possible to induce the habit with experimental interventions, and whether the habit would continue after the interventions ceased. The field experiment was based on the theory of “rational... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Apr 2019
News

The DNA of Sustained Innovation

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

generated rich empirical data that in some cases confirms and in other cases contradicts many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines, says Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, who edited the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2007
What Do You Think?

How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?

for shareholders. However, there is a sense, expressed by John Ippolito, that there is a lack of perception in boards of directors of "what constitutes 'creating value' in the enterprise many boards are too ready to turn over the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

paper, he and fellow economists have found themselves handicapped by a problem just as real as any technological barrier or requirement of incentives and efficiency: the downright distaste that some people feel for particular... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Aug 2015
News

The Case for Teaching Ignorance

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

Business School and Hongyi Li (HBS PhDBE '11) of the MIT Sloan School. (An article in the forthcoming April issue of Harvard Business Review, cowritten by Wulf and Booz & Company Senior Vice President View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Nov 2009
News

Inventing a Better Patent System

31 Jan 2020
Video

Students Participate in January Short Intensive Programs

April 2012
Article

How Many Direct Reports?

By: Gary L. Neilson and Julie Wulf

If senior executives are feeling ever more pressed for time, why would they add more to their plates? It might sound counterintuitive, but research by Booz & Company's Gary L. Neilson and me shows that over the past 20 years the CEO's average span of control, measured... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles; Adaptation; Personal Development and Career; Cooperation; Management Teams

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21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

combined with more sophisticated methods of analyzing it, provide managers with powerful tools to help them isolate the effects of various marketing instruments. The framework developed by Gupta and Steenburgh helps managers think through... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Dec 2013
News

How to keep amazing cooking affordable

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By: Gary P. Pisano

Thought Leader: Gary Pisano

by Amy Bernstein, strategy+business, Summer 2007

A leading student of the biotech business describes the problems holding the industry back, and how it can overcome... View Details

04 Feb 2015
What Do You Think?

Is There a Stanford-Google-Silicon Valley School of Management?

the company cited in 2007 as one of three prime example firms demonstrating "the future of management" by thought leader Gary Hamel. Schmidt and Rosenberg describe a philosophy that is centered... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

of the OR” vs. the “genius of the AND” Only four of the 18 companies in their sample were based on the West Coast. But their point of view would be adopted by many startups in Silicon Valley and the venture capitalists funding them. The... View Details