Value Of Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf

force of valued managers, when asked by senior management to conduct and analyze a worldwide employee survey, refused to do so. They simply did not want to be associated with what they perceived would be yet... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer, Russell Eisenstat & Derek Schrader

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

it this way, privacy has been losing ground rapidly with the ascendancy of big data and the Internet of things. The retreat of privacy has been... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

United States. Along with Jiao Luo and Stephan Meier, both of Columbia Business School, Oberholzer-Gee collected data on several thousand oil and chemical spills (most of them,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

Business History at HBS traces its roots back to 1927 when it was part of a course in business policy. But the golden age for this area of study at the School began with the arrival View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

Spindler and under (Gilbert) Amelio, neither of whom were marketers. They were both engineers' engineers, and they didn't have the kind of marketing sizzle that (John) Sculley had or that Jobs had before... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Choose the Best Deal

value to the table. For example, if two potential buyers have bid up the asking price of your house and then one drops out, the other offer shouldn't go down. In fact, if you sense that the remaining bidder... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

worried about students going into these culture industries only thinking in terms of traditional management styles and industry structures, bottom lines, and financial incentives, without thinking about what 'creative content' and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

decisions better. Now, finance—financial markets, asset prices—are just the aggregation of all these biases, mistakes and difficult and complex decisions. So, the more you understand those, the deeper you’re going to understand all... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

new ones by going for walks on the same route every day or designating certain nights to playing games. Preliminary data from a new study by Norton and HBS doctoral candidate Ximena Garcia-Rada shows more than half View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

unparalleled at teaching science and engineering. But to move the country forward in a global environment, Chinese parents, and to some extent government leaders, recognize the value of an American-style... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

strategic behavior by any party. In opening-up improvisations: Relational acts bring the parties together. The parties make positive value statements throughout the negotiation and typically assume mutual honesty. Substantive... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

giving them all the same data and preparation materials in negotiating the sale of a piece of property. Eyes are opened when Mohan shares the results and the students see how... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

utilize technology to ensure individual privacy. In this world, the system works in favor of privacy, not against it. The distributed imperative we describe recognizes that all value is located in individual... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

competitors can help grow the market for your products and services, thereby boosting your sales at a time when, with the U.S. slowdown entering its third year, new revenue is exceedingly hard to find. Moreover, the presence of a... View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

chick” and said she performed surgery “like a girl.” Jurors ultimately awarded her $168 million, the largest judgment for a single victim of workplace harassment in United States history. Years later, sexual harassment remains a problem... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs

Ruiqing "Sam" Cao. That reality is particularly problematic for female entrepreneurs, who are more likely to invent products that address the needs of female consumers. “You could imagine those products being discounted because the men on... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that hard-wiring performance is a winning... View Details