Value Of Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Jul 2000
What Do You Think?

Where Is the Microsoft Board?

In his words, "As long as shareholder value maximization is the sole focus of Boards in a capitalistic context, objectivity in judgment is at risk: putting shareholders above all stakeholders is not a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jul 2004
What Do You Think?

Work-Life: Is Productivity in the Balance?

acknowledge the value of spending time with one's family, but I do not discount the overall advantage a society enjoys when its members are at the peak of their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

challenges, not on the hard work of winning hearts and minds, Shapiro ultimately lost his company. He was forced to sell Monsanto to Pharmacia-Upjohn, which bought it for its pharmaceutical division, valuing... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

prospects. After all, starting a company takes a lot of time, resources, and energy, and is a long-haul game. Conditions at the time of founding matter, so entrepreneurs may want to wait for better times and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

looking at. Increasingly, viewers are doubling up on entertainment with a second media device in their hand or on their lap to complement—and compete—with the television. In 2012, Nielsen found that close to 40 percent of smartphone and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

to their dismissal. A link between tenure and effectiveness We developed a simple model to analyze the relationship between coach tenure and effectiveness using NFL data from 2000 to 2015. The model used winning percentage as the outcome... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

automobiles; it was up to Huber to figure out what that meant. Primarily the GM leadership was looking to justify GM's earlier multibillion-dollar acquisitions of Hughes Aircraft (which included commercial satellites) and Electronic View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

24 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers

transfers by U.S. multinationals increased following reforms. Affiliates also increased their levels of R&D expenditures. These increases were concentrated among firms that one would expect to value IPR... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

entrepreneurs (like Waze or Uber) from open data sources—rather than being controlled by a central utility. Pricing can vary by demand or by user’s ability to pay. This provides an astonishing ability to improve how the existing... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

It’s Back to Business-Basics for Nonprofits

of The Bridgespan Group, a not-for-profit strategic consulting firm dedicated to nonprofits. Bradach spoke to an audience at Harvard Business School on January 21, 2004 as part of the Social Enterprise... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

We’re in the middle of a Great Resignation. This past April, 2.7 percent of Americans quit their jobs, the highest rate on record. And according to a study by Microsoft, more than 40 percent View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

21 Mar 2016
HBS Case

Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'

case of hotels, professionals tend to not be as well-regarded anymore. Why? Because they have different values of what they consider important than [the average consumer does].... View Details

Keywords: by Brian Kenny; Advertising; Travel

08 May 2020
In Practice

Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

community support. John J-H Kim: Rip up old plans and look ahead Nonprofit leaders should focus on new ways of delivering and meeting their core mission. A common mistake that all leaders make during a crisis is to make slow decisions.... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Nov 1999
Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

industries that can be anybody, anywhere. While some observers have dismissed the phenomenon as exclusive to "a few crazy Internet companies in California," the reality is this: the value of... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

lessons learned from the initial research—namely, admitting fallibility rather than couching it. "I think people have a tendency not to say something negative about themselves because that makes them vulnerable," she says. Since beginning the humblebrag research, Gino... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

and the smarts more shallow as they were passed down the line and across the world—but some value was always transmitted. You Don't Always Need To Be An Expert To Be A Knowledge Coach In 1967, a young graduate View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

at 6,630 or so. The US economy is in its longest economic expansion in history, albeit at growth rates that look anemic compared to other times in history. So that certainly reflects a huge success story, at least when it comes to stock prices and the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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