Learning By Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

perceived by workers. Rouen set out to explore the factors at play. He obtained data from the US Bureau of Labor Statistics for 931 firms in the S&P 1500 between 2006 and 2013, including total employee compensation and the composition... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

31 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

today's difficult economic climate was the subject of a panel discussion at Harvard Business School recently. The discussion, part of a one-night event called "Entrepreneurship During an Uncertain Time," featured four highly successful executives. The event... View Details

Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

question—it’s clear.” Simply put, inefficiencies in the development of precision medicine can best be addressed by a business-analysis approach. With the mapping of the human genome completed 15 years ago, the sci-fi concept of using a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

I think one thing we have learned is to be careful when we try to generalize about the importance of institutions. Since the work of Nobel Prize winning economic historian Douglass North, the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

discussion about racial equality by having baristas write ‘Race Together’ on coffee cups.” And when chicken chain Chick-Fil-A President Dan Cathy spoke out against gay marriage in 2012, his statements sparked a great deal of backlash and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

auto market in the 1950s. The industry leader, unbothered by competition and looming threats, began to coast on its former glory, however, and bypass such areas as consumer preferences and industry innovation. View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

19 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

often deemed an affront to public morality, to the $330 billion global industry of today. Q: Why has this industry been so neglected by business school faculty? A: I think there are two reasons. First of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics

28 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India

these processes are unfolding not just in the mainstream business sector but in society writ large and even in politics and civil society," says Khanna. Khanna's book Billions of Entrepreneurs: How China and India Are Reshaping Their Futures and Yours will be... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

Pressure to not compete against men, rather than an innate preference for cooperation over competition, may keep women from earning what they're worth in the workplace, according to preliminary findings by three Harvard researchers. In... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

10 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation

Reading: Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal Lessons from the Lance Armstrong Cheating Scandal Creating a Global Business Code What do you think about this research? Have you been... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

negotiating set-up. Negotiators sometimes can discover hidden sources of value and then craft agreements to unlock that value and overcome barriers created by poor deal design. Now let's move to some errors in our most familiar first... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

18 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

How New Managers Become Great Managers

and lateral, internal and external to the organization). From these developmental relationships (e.g., mentors or sponsors), potential managers can better learn from their own experiences by receiving... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

CSOs are of critical importance in successful sustainability efforts, but ironically become less central as sustainability efforts blossom. Although often linked with environmental issues such as water and energy use, a growing number of companies are taking... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

space and development tools in the cloud and scale up as needed rather than purchasing their own expensive hardware and software. By comparing rates of investment before and after AWS was introduced in 2006, Nanda and his colleagues could... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Financial Services; Information Technology

06 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

India Needs to Encourage Trade with China

Everyone points out that China-India bilateral trade, at roughly $19 billion in 2005, is a far cry from the $2 billion in 1999. Indeed, the increase is to be celebrated. Chinese President Hu Jintao's current visit to New Delhi cements the diplomatic and economic... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

11 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

go into work, will I somehow miss a promotion or really important information at work.’ I think leaders would really benefit from acknowledging those emotions directly.” Zlatev suggests that managers encourage a sense of openness View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

thinks it could come in the form of a "Two Percent Solution" in which everyone would pay 2 percent of their income to be held by the Government for their healthcare, with "competition maintained through... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

22 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

they can sell. “At the same time, companies shouldn’t simply be saying, ‘You’re a great salesperson, and I’m sure you can manage.’ I do think sales managers must learn how to manage.” Setting up... View Details