New Beginning - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

Would-be innovators know that one of their biggest challenges is systematically identifying the innovations with the greatest likelihood of creating disruptive growth. Pick the wrong one, and squander a year or more of focus and investment. The good View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

17 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?

The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

variance in operative time, and operative time all decrease with surgeon experience. In-process statistical analyses may represent the beginning of a new paradigm in academic surgical quality and efficiency... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2014
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?

people buy high and sell low. “We can begin to learn which parts of the brain govern how we feel, how we respond to stimuli, and how we react to challenges” Brain scanning technology adds a new dimension to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

will require a new institution that can harness the capabilities of global corporations and, helped by loans from development agencies, directly attack the root causes of poverty. The need for corporate involvement in the fight against... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

safety in popular media increased nearly three-fold in a five-year period beginning in 2013. The presence of psychological safety, according to a number of research projects, favorably affects things such as employee engagement, employee... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2016
What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

This involved such things as reorganizing, delegating authority, increasing accountability, building trust among employees, and recognizing and rewarding desired behaviors. The authors conclude from this that “cultural change is what you get after you’ve put View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

knowledgeable salespeople with "deep expertise in the categories they served." Against Amazon and other online retailers, these advantages fade. Online retailers have appropriated the strengths of category killers, and can offer wider assortments than any store, have... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

09 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Speed Up Energy Innovation

Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

Superwoman Thanks to intense discussions over dinners with alumnae—the first of which was hosted by Welsh in New York—and to later conversations with faculty and other colleagues at HBS, Hart came up with a plan. The result is Charting... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots

becomes undeniable, they shift to blame—trying to sue new entrants, for instance, for not playing by the old rules. Third, they begin to take action, but only in the form of insignificant alterations. At... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

16 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

Transitions of Power Are Difficult. What Joe Biden and Other Incoming Leaders Need to Know.

losing teams have star players, but those players often play for themselves, for their own statistics and career, and don’t really care whether their team actually wins games, as I showed in my book Confidence: How Winning Streaks and Losing Streaks View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

involuntarily, since the recession began; but at least you're still in business. “Consumers are looking at your products and services through new lenses.” Now, you are waiting for the recovery, the chance to again have some fun and make... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

Substantive acts have a set form: Parties exchange positions at the beginning of the negotiation and proceed with a series of offers and counteroffers, with little discussion of underlying priorities. Procedurally, if there are multiple... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional managers. By the late nineteenth... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

even centuries. In contrast, the New World has a number of large, publicly held corporations that are beginning to play a substantial role in the marketplace. To put this in perspective, consider the fact... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

start tapering, it may get out of the quantitative easing business—give new life to the observation that if the Fed catches a cold, the world gets pneumonia. The formal announcement of Janet Yellen's appointment as the Fed's next chair... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

establishing the struggling young country's financial system. In The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy, Thomas McCraw, the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History Emeritus at... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

very large organizations. Several respondents commented on dangers to the Walmart business model. Benn Manning commented that "The real dangers for Walmart aren't competitors or new business models but are instead itself and how it... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

concerned about cash, and employees worry about their jobs. But a downturn is no time to stop spending on marketing. The key, says professor John Quelch, is to understand how the needs of your customers and partners change, and adapt your strategies to the View Details