Core Business - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

In a recent Harvard Business Review article, professor Robert Simons wrote about how organizations can design jobs for maximum performance. In this excerpt, Simons discusses what he terms the four basic "spans" of a job—control,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Public Education Goes to School

Can the art and science of management help public schools improve student performance? In the fall of 2001, faculty and staff from the Harvard Business School (HBS) and the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) began to discuss how... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark; Education

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to manage advanced medical technology,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

01 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions

$3.94 billion in sales from its more than 3,000 retail stores and its online auction site. Even so, Goodwill’s core mission is to provide job training and placement to people with disabilities, criminal backgrounds, and other challenges... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

As is clear to anyone who pays medical insurance premiums or has undergone any kind of medical procedure, the business of health care is an expensive one. The technology is expensive. The research is expensive. The services are expensive.... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

higher prices," says Frank V. Cespedes, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent 12 years running a professional services firm. That's right. Higher prices, not lower. “Competing on price is ultimately a bet on your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

iterative manner. To learn more, read 7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19 Euvin Naidoo, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration. Tip: Protect the core business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and cross-divisional collaboration.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

01 Feb 2022
Book

Innovation Isn’t Just for Startups: How Big Companies Can Succeed

book Corporate Explorer: How Corporations Beat Startups at the Innovation Game. In fact, venture-minded managers in big corporations often have the tools and infrastructure to become more successful than their peers at startups, say authors Michael Tushman, a Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Web

Certificates, Credentials, & Credits | HBS Online

for more information. Credential of Readiness A Credential of Readiness (CORe) is granted to those who complete all three courses that comprise CORe— Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting —and pass a final... View Details

15 Nov 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

In some respects, developing strategy is the easy part. Executing that strategy in alignment with strategic priorities is where real mastery of management takes place. We asked Harvard Business School senior lecturer Frank V. Cespedes,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Lessons from a Nasty Trade Dispute

seems likely that Brazil will work with Canada to arrive at mutually agreeable financing packages to be used by each country. HBS professors Rawi Abdelal and Laura Alfaro recently co-wrote a business case with Brett Laschinger on the... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

but tightly interweaved sections, the book's chapters provide regional surveys of the practice of global history on all continents, review some of the research in four core fields of global history, and consider a number of problems that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

much can affect our relationships,” says Whillans, a Harvard Business School assistant professor. “I tried to put my professor face on but, really, I was devastated because my relationship was breaking up, and I realized: I wasn’t living... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

2024
Chapter

Corporations as the Central Institutions of Society

By: Joseph L. Badaracco

Mark Twain observed that, “Prediction is very difficult—particularly when it involves the future,” and he was right. One way to reduce the risk of becoming an infamous forecaster—like the experts who told us the Internet would quickly collapse, that Apple would never... View Details

Keywords: Trends; Business and Government Relations; Organizations; Power and Influence; Society

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30 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54546 Product Quality and Entering Through Tying: Experimental Evidence By: Kim, Hyunjin, and Michael Luca Abstract—Dominant platform businesses often develop products in adjacent markets to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2000
Research & Ideas

Strategic Alliances

Carolina. "Both organizations are deploying their core competencies," Austin points out, "and they have now moved into that third, integrative stage where they're combining those competencies to devise a unique approach to resource and... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

26 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

quixotic efforts to reshape the world into our own image. Q: For our business readers, what core concepts would you like to impart from Masters of Illusion? A: The most significant View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

or the matter of taking advantage of an unsophisticated seller. Examining cases like this exposes the core principles from which people reason and act. Q: The two books Getting to Yes and You Can Negotiate Anything tend to be the popular... View Details