Archival - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Feb 2025
News

How to Judge Your Next Job

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Clay Christensen was a legendary professor and thinker and his “Jobs to Be Done” theory—this idea that customers buy products to solve problems—was one of his iconic intellectual contributions.... View Details

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

School. It is available on iTunes or wherever you get your favorite podcast. For more information or to find archived episodes, visit alumni.hbs.edu/skydeck. View Details

10 Mar 2017
News

The Business of Lego Batman

was, I mean very high score on Rotten Tomatoes. You know it was hard to follow up The Lego Movie. I think we did it well in our own way. And that's really satisfying. Skydeck is produced by the External Relations department at Harvard Business School and edited by... View Details

Keywords: LEGO; Lego

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

(most literature focuses on the August Thyssen-Hütte, the largest firm), suddenly I ended up in the headquarters of the Thyssen-Konzern. As my advisor once said: If you go into the archives and find just what you are looking for, you've... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2024
News

Solving the Underemployment Crisis

alumni podcast featuring interviews and insights from across the world of business. It’s produced by the External Relations Department at HBS. Our audio engineer is Craig McDonald. It is available on Apple, Spotify, and wherever you get your favorite podcasts. And if... View Details

18 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 18

professional service firm reshaped its activities and beliefs over nearly two decades as it adapted to shifts in the social discourse regarding gender and work. Analyzing archival data from the firm over eighteen years and representations... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

purpose and use. Anteby relies on observations at retirees' homes, archival data, interviews, and surveys to understand how plant workers and managers make sense of this tacit practice. He argues that when patrolled, gray zones like the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

of lower-level employees of a multiple identity organization. Using interview data, archival data, and longitudinal survey data, we detail the interplay between identities and identification in a non-profit organization, showing that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2019
News

The Fight Beyond

insignia Green had worn so proudly. Note: This story is based primarily on extensive records of the DAWES and HOUSEBOAT missions, including James Holt Green’s cables, preserved at the National Archives and Records Administration, and on... View Details

Keywords: April White; illustration by Wesley Allsbrook

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

management practices using an original survey and archival data obtained for nearly 500 facilities. We find support for these hypotheses. The Causes and Consequences of Industry Self-Policing Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel... View Details

07 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 7

Historically, assembling a dataset might involve delving through annual reports or archives that had not previously been organized into a format ready for research: in some cases, surveying stores, factories, consumers, or workers, or in... View Details