• 01 Sep 2014
• News

All For One

and mix freely. It hummed with activity. On a tour that first day, she was struck by just how animated the animation studio was—with frank discussions and heated arguments in every corner. And yet, as she spent more time there, she began... View Details

Keywords: Michael Blanding; faculty; research; Market Research, Photo, Translation, Veterinary and Other Services; Professional Services

• 21 Mar 2019
• Working Paper Summaries

Advancing Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Research Through Open Innovation Competitions

Keywords: by Blasco, Andrea, Michael G. Endres, Rinat A. Sergeev, Anup Jonchhe, Max Macaluso, Rajiv Narayan, Ted Natoli, Jin H. Paik, Bryan Briney, Chunlei Wu, Andrew I. Su, Aravind Subramanian, and Karim R. Lakhani; Health

• 06 Jun 2005
• Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

If people smile, nod, and say "yes" at your company, maybe it's time to start an argument. According to HBS professor Michael Roberto, the lack of good conflict—constructive conflict—within an organization makes it that much... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 04 Aug 2017
• News

The negative side of positive thinking

• 01 Mar 2014
• News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

Photography by Jason Andrew Ibrahim Mustapha grows maize in Katsina Fulani, a village of mud-brick houses topped by rusted corrugated roofs in northern Nigeria. Like millions of farmers in his country,... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

• 31 Jul 2017
• HBS Case

It’s Hard to Fix the Family Business Without Offending the Family

Foundation Professor Leonard A. Schlesinger, who coauthored the case, Pho Hoa Dorchester, with 2017 MBA students Michael Raiche and Roger Zhu. Pho Hoa and Pho Linh, a smaller restaurant located in Quincy,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

• 28 May 2019
• News

Rise in Unruly Behavior on Planes Is Tied to Stress of Flying

• 11 Jun 2012
• Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

UCLA Anderson School, and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School. In the quest to discover whether competition breeds unethical behavior, the researchers examined the vehicle emissions testing program in New York State, one of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

• 01 Sep 2012
• News

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

Civilization (1933) and Roethlisberger’s Management and the Worker (1939) document. 1948 Research Center in Entrepreneurial History launched at HBS by Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter and Baker Librarian Arthur Cole. 1953 More than 30... 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

• 28 Feb 2020
• News

When It’s This Easy at the Top, It’s Harder for Everyone Else

• 09 Feb 2009
• Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

Economic difficulties need not mean that we lower our standards for leadership. If anything, we should raise our sights. New work by HBS professor Michael Beer and colleagues shows that there is still a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

• 26 Jul 2023
• Research & Ideas

STEM Needs More Women. Recruiters Often Keep Them Out

and Roberto M. Fernandez, Professor at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. To study how recruiters looked for candidates, the scholars examined initial calls and emails to 166,000 prospects from 2017 to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne