Coupling - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Don’t Listen to “Yes”

pernicious unintended consequence. Agenda overload, coupled with the quest for efficiency, often works against a leader's best efforts to stimulate debate. Why does efficiency crowd out debate? For some dissenters, it takes some time to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states, such as anger or suicidal impulses,” Malhotra says. “Giving... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential

reporting requirements for US senators and representatives mandate the disclosure of all financial transactions in a given year, which allowed Minor to construct their risk preferences. Coupled with no shortage of examples of misconduct,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

04 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

written a couple of chapters in other books on just this topic. Businesses can be powerful generators of social value because of their distinctive sets of competencies and resources. A major challenge facing business leaders is how to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Cross-Sector Collaboration: Lessons from the International Trachoma Initiative

Luff, Manager, Corporate Philanthropy Programs at Pfizer, Inc.] and Dr. Cook [Joe Cook, head of the Program for Tropical Disease Research at the Clark Foundation] was facilitated by a personal connection that helped to initiate the relationship. Ms. Luff recounted:... View Details

Keywords: by Diana Barrett, James Austin & Sheila McCarthy

18 May 2017
News

Pioneer Spirit

liquid hydrogen rocket engine that was subsequently used in many of the major space exploration programs, and Fern taught in the first public high school in Palm Beach County to be integrated.” One of the goals the couple had when they... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Dec 2002
News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

with almost every market — public and private equities, fixed income, real estate — going up everywhere in the world, investors became overly confident and not in tune with how much risk they were embedding into their portfolios. What we've been seeing during the last... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

16 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

research. Dorothy Leonard: There are two streams of research that are coming together here. One stream is the research that Brian and I started a couple of years ago: the use of technology in aiding learning processes both face-to-face... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 1999
News

Spirit at Work

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 many people, work and spirituality call for such different -and sometimes... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso

07 Sep 2021
News

Immelt in the Hot Seat: Episode 2

crisis. So I was exhausted. And, I felt like I'd let everybody down. And just the endless criticism. You know, there are a couple reasons why I fired people when I fired them. And one is when they lost their confidence, right? When they... View Details

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

17 Jan 2025
News

Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff

got out of business school when I was 23 and went to work for TWA for a couple years, and then went in the Army in the interim and then went to work for Easton for a year. But we were, on the lee here is Bob Carney, also a member of the... View Details

04 Dec 2019
News

Skydeck Live: The Case for Funding Female Founders

I'm going to a conference in Berlin in a couple of months called the Falling Wall Conference. So there's 25 companies that are coming from all around the world focused really on innovation, like the latest, greatest stuff in agriculture,... View Details

02 Mar 2016
News

On Credit

on them. Is in very comfortable circumstances & increasing his property daily.” Six additional reports tell more of the same: “is rich & good.” Then, in 1865, a few months after the end of the Civil War, a much briefer verdict: “Out of business.” Miller bounces back a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

11 Aug 2014
HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

14 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove on the Confident Leader

well understand that you don't know what you're doing. Christensen: If you look back in history at companies that have successfully launched new disruptive-growth businesses, with only a couple of exceptions they were run by the founder.... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kiechel; Technology

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

historians can use for a number of purposes. I am also planning on writing a couple of journal articles related to the book. In addition, I am beginning a comparative examination of savings institutions in collaboration with Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

01 Mar 2006
News

Drive-In Nation

government-funded pensions and health insurance). And Detroit’s troubles magnify — and perhaps exacerbate — the fact that across industries, traditional understandings and loyalties between employers and employees are breaking down. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

note discusses the significant impact venture philanthropy has had on the nonprofit sector despite its small size relative to total philanthropic giving. Venture philanthropists make large, multi-year, unrestricted grants coupled with... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 Jan 2021
News

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar

agenda for the next few years. One of the ways I have spent my last couple of months is to talk to a large number of individuals—faculty, staff, students, alumni—and just trying to absorb ideas about different things we might do. I first... View Details

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