project work - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

starting graduate school I had worked as a research assistant to Karen Dynan at the Federal Reserve. In particular, I worked on several projects using data from the SCF. In... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

building a bedroom suburb or a freewheeling entrepreneurial hub. A competitive infrastructure is vital: Each of these projects put down a main trunk road of more than 20 kilometers, with room for mass transit in the median. Each invested... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

ambition, and become better job and wage negotiators while choosing a partner who can help share the load of a career. The work that Amy Cuddy has, as of this date, shared with more than 28 million viewers on TEDTalks provides nuts and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2006
What Do You Think?

Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?

Terry Ott commented, "I worked in a private company that went public. . . . Post-IPO, the company has continued to do well but the morale has seriously declined because employees feel pressure to have the business look good on a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

other research are you working on? A: Well, my primary focus is not on industry dynamics. The focus of my research is organizational decision-making processes. At the moment, I'm conducting a large research View Details

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

20 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

What’s Next for Japan

approach was not a universal panacea to competing in the global economy." Porter went on to suggest that even the profitable Japan had serious limitations. "Total quality management, lifetime employment, close relationships with suppliers . . . did View Details

Keywords: by Hilah Geer

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

“When Andreya started the project my initial reaction was, you’re going to find that everybody (wants to reduce their tax bill as much as possible)—and she didn’t. So I was thinking, maybe you’re doing something wrong. But it turns out... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

project that identifies and recognizes fast-growth inner city companies in America, which Porter's group began several years ago in collaboration with Inc. magazine. The hundred top companies are highlighted each spring in Inc.'s May... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

It is no secret that immigration has reshaped American innovation. Immigrants are the backbone of America’s most innovative industries, provide a quarter of our patent applications, and are numerous among our science and engineering superstars. Taken from World... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

last project was completed in the 1960s, when California had a much smaller population, with much smaller bank accounts. Woolf Farming & Processing—along with thousands of other farmers—relies on this aging infrastructure. Stuart... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

American Competitiveness site where resources, commentary, and solutions are showcased. Harvard Business School's US Competitiveness Project is another must-visit-site to better understand the complex problems facing the US. One good way... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

system in place projected a sure-thing return of 9 percent. The problem that we've seen in the past, and that we see in our current crisis, is the tendency to talk only about return and forget risk. Risk means risk, not just a wink and a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

21 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

operations has been occurring for decades, based on the assumption that moving grunt work overseas wouldn't affect US companies' competitive edge in the global marketplace. But this assumption is wrong, and the fallout has been... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

The results, written up in new working paper Effectiveness of Paid Search Advertising: Experimental Evidence, showed these restaurants enjoyed a significant spike in exposure, in actions such as map requests and calls to restaurants, and... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

grown to house a third of Microsoft's basic-science R&D researchers. More broadly, HBS assistant professor Fritz Foley and I are working on a research project that has found that U.S.-based ethnic... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

Working PapersThe Judgment-Decision Paradox in Experience-Based Decisions and the Contingent Recency Effect Authors:Greg Barron, Ido Erev, and Eldad Yechiam. Abstract The current paper explores a judgment-decision paradox in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

Working PapersNone this week. Cases & Course MaterialsArtisan Entertainment Inc. Harvard Business School Case 207-067 Geoff Rehnert and Marc Wolpow have left Bain Capital to launch Audax Group. As part of their separation, they... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 3

Lerner and Scott Stern, 483-502. University of Chicago Press, 2012 Abstract Software development occurs in a patchwork or "confederacy" of different types of institutions (universities, small start-ups, multinational enterprises, government agencies, etc.)... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music

joint venture between three television broadcasters, perhaps signal that other industries have learned from the music industry. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am working on a number of research View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Music

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