Responsive Expectations - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

this ritualistic document filled with financial information, different types of narratives, and lots of pretty pictures. The amount of detail and the level of complexity in the financial section have grown considerably in response to the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

Toyota, for instance, groups countries by existing and expected free trade areas. At other times, however, such definitions will yield regions that aren't geographically compact. After making its first foreign investments in Spain, for... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Dec 2011
News

Li & Fung's Global Footprint

market. So the future of Li & Fung is selling to the Chinese market, not just sourcing manufactured exports from China to the West. In fact, we expect to expand into selling to India as well. Those are the new markets of the world. How do... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Wholesale Trade

30 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 30, 2015

strongly anti-inflationary monetary policy, while the decrease in bond risks after 2000 is attributed to a renewed focus on output fluctuations and a shift from transitory to persistent monetary policy shocks. Endogenous responses of bond... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

think, “How can we help each other?” You’d expect someone like this to be very transactional, with a very high sensitivity to perception of current events, with a very high sensitivity to perceived financial prices, if not the inner... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

production shifts to the South, Northern resources will be reallocated to R&D, driving an increase in the global rate of innovation. We test the model's predictions by analyzing responses of U.S.-based multinationals and domestic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

year, to $137 million. The increase resulted primarily from the arrival of students who had elected the deferral and leave options implemented in fiscal 2021 in response to the pandemic. Total enrollment in the MBA increased to 1,870... View Details

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

lower than expected revenues and earnings for the second quarter of 2012. In response to the announcement, its stock price fell 29% (its stock price had fallen from $77 to $11 in the past 18 months). The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2016
Blog Post

The Best Little Secret of the Harvard MBA

this is a business school). But there is always a story that goes with the numbers. Students are expected to read these cases (usually two to three a night, each 8-15 pages long) and do analysis so that they can take a position in the... View Details

07 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Steve Jobs Legacy

businesses and governments. Would you expect any less from a mighty prophet? Robert Higgins (Entrepreneurial Management) Steve Jobs will be remembered as the Great Innovator of our age. It is no wonder that he chose Walter Isaacson,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Computer; Technology

21 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Parable of the Bungled Baggage And the Unhappy Customer

had just come down, and I had expected the bags to be there when the first-class folks arrived. The standard would probably be that when first class arrives, have the bags there. Coach people came, no bags. Now we're all waiting, and it... View Details

Keywords: by W. Earl Sasser

25 Feb 2020
News

Q&A: William Kerr and Joseph Fuller

Workforce Transformation program. Then there are the many published reports that can be broadly shared and disseminated. JF: One publication getting significant traction that I’m excited about is The Caring Company, a first-of-its-kind study that looks at how... View Details

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

What can men learn from women leaders? What are the responsibilities of a leader today? What did you learn from the experience when you failed at something? What makes a good mentor? Whom do you admire in the business world? What career... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

relationships to attain the desired outcome. Of comparable importance is an understanding of why the other partner wishes to engage in the collaboration so that the participant can be responsive to those goals and needs. In thinking about... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

01 Sep 2006
News

Redefining Health Care

PORTER: Health care's zero-sum competition model adds costs and results in severe quality problems. University professor Michael Porter never planned to write a book on health-care reform. In fact, he expected brickbats in View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Health, Social Assistance

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

seniors—a parent, an in-law. Well over 50 percent of workers report they have some caregiving obligation. The question becomes: Do the terms and conditions of their employment and the nature of that obligation mesh? A lot of traditional View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

process culminated in competitive and consumer differentiation that ushered in innovation reinvestment and a period of substantive and sustained demand growth for mechanical watches. This paper contributes to research on technology cycles, cognition, and incumbent... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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HBS - Financials | From the CFO

in response to COVID-19. Total enrollment in the MBA Program decreased to 1,530 students from 1,847 students in the prior year. The occupancy rate of HBS dorms—90 to 95 percent in a typical year—was only 50 percent in FY21. For the second... View Details

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

opportunities and elicit strategic responses by focal firms. We develop theory and provide empirical evidence of how innovative activity changes in response to product recalls in the U.S. medical device... View Details