Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2016
News

Ask the Expert: Barreling Ahead

(MBA 2002) BUECHLER: Our success starts with great products. We brew more than 100 new products we like to drink at our R&D facility every year. We couple that with an amazing team that loves to work hard and have fun. Finally, we love to... View Details

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

engineers—they love to build things, and they are very good at it. Their progress on infrastructure projects in the last couple of decades is remarkable, but in keeping with their natural strength and the will of a one-party government.... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

your customers value most, you must underperform on dimensions they value less. This means you must have the stomach to do some things badly. The concept can seem immoral at first blush. We recently did some work with a major health-care provider. The CEO wasn't able... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

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

start reassessing one's life and asking the big questions like 'Why am I here?' Coupled with this, you have many people looking for a renewed sense of community. They're searching for a sense of belonging." The "s" Word For... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

orientation around learning—instead of mere task completion—can create a space for debate, dissent, and deliberation. Such team processes are only achievable when there is a collective agreement on their value, coupled with support in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

O'Reilly, Amy Elliman Fenollosa, Adam Michael Kleinbaum, and Dan McGrath Periodical:Academy of Management Learning & Education (in press). (Special Issue: Challenges and Opportunities for Executive Education.) Abstract As professional schools, business schools... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

professional background. Her partner, Antje Danielson, was a PhD post-doc at Harvard. They had met at the nursery school where their children both went. I put a couple of lines in the case that Danielson was about six-months pregnant... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

04 Aug 2020
News

How Business Can Advance Racial Equity

there are a couple of other heroes, if you will, I think that will emerge as the story gets written. Owners of private companies—the Patagonia’s, the Dr. Bronner’s, the Ben & Jerry’s—who for decades have been slowly but steadily paving... View Details

05 May 2020
News

“Walking a Tightrope”

support because a lot of these small communities, they are not going to be able to fund it by themselves. April: Sheryl, you wrote this book in economic boom times. Unemployment rates were at 50-year lows and still many people were being left behind. Things have... View Details

06 Mar 2019
News

Making Sabbaticals Mainstream

foundations alike, and—as he tells associate editor Julia Hanna in this episode of Skydeck—the goal is to make a real change in the culture of work so more people can have the same kind of life-changing experience he had. READ MORE Julia Hanna: You've mentioned a View Details

08 Mar 2013
News

The Accidental Innovator

points over and over again to different kids, I should make videos of each lesson and put them on YouTube. I was skeptical. YouTube was for cats playing the piano, not serious mathematics! Then I got over the idea that it wasn’t my idea, and I made a View Details

02 Mar 2017
News

Such Great Heights

Texas, with Dell computer. And during my years at Dell-- I was there about eight years-- I worked in marketing and e-commerce. I had a couple of overseas assignments but always loved exploring. And in fact, living overseas a View Details

Keywords: mountain; climbing; adventure

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

to talk the talk before you walk the walk. But talk is often infuriatingly cheap.” Holmes said it’s irritating that some business leaders seem to equate hiring a couple minority employees with making sweeping changes to corporate hiring... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Nov 2014
HBS Case

Marketing Marijuana

effort to achieve early market share and economies of scale that would position them to be bought out later by national players. Unlike craft beer, marijuana would be inexpensive to transport across state lines to retail outlets across the country. "I think you'll... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

where to focus their efforts was an easy one. "It seemed natural for us to look at how the investment behavior of public and private firms differs," Farre-Mensa says. The fact that there were no similar studies, coupled with the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

10 Nov 2008
Research Event

Social Media Leads the Future of Technology

electronic device nearby, and married couples usually do not share cell phones. Innovation will serve people who want simplicity of technology usage. As the network gets larger it becomes less relevant to individuals, she said, so people... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

tightly coupled relationships with customers to engage in trials of different product concepts, producers and users can jointly learn about and make sense of the new technology. For instance, Surface Logix, a firm with highly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

of the hacker style of programming with the need to be more predictable and coordinated in managing software releases. Projects that are more closely coupled with commercial firms have experienced direct pressure from firms to communicate... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

22 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

at the same time there's a lot of household credit expansion it's a measure that you're in the Red-zone. We found that that is very predictive of crises. Generally, that and a couple of other papers that Sam Hanson and I have worked on... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

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