Conference Calls - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer

posted a 54 percent jump in sales and a 35 percent gain in second-quarter earnings. A new HBS case study on Embraer, presented in Buenos Aires (in a modified version of how such a case might be taught in a standard classroom setting), offered plenty of room for lively... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Manufacturing

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

On a larger scale, the U.S. Army is known for conducting After Action Reviews that enable participants to analyze, discuss, and learn from both the successes and failures of a variety of military initiatives. Similarly, hospitals use "Morbidity and Mortality"... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

13 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)

McDonald and others in academia call a cognitive referent. Simply put, a cognitive referent is the king of its category. More importantly, it enjoys all kinds of benefits over competitors further down the brand-recognition chain. The... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Aerospace; Food & Beverage; Retail

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

the bias belted tire, claiming that it conferred significant performance improvements and launched an advertising campaign questioning the benefits of radials. Firestone, Uniroyal and General Tire quickly followed Goodyear's lead and... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

08 Feb 2021
Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

back to your community? Share your insights in the comments below. Book Excerpt Better, Not Perfect: Preface By Max Bazerman In 1993, when I was on the faculty of Northwestern University, I gave a talk at a conference on behavioral... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting the Marketing Mix Right

says. "There has been some talk at conferences where there seems to be an understanding that these models are too restrictive." Widening The View So the professors created a new discrete choice model View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

business history conferences around the world, the touchstone of the profession is Alfred Chandler. What Max Weber and Emile Durkheim are to sociology, Chandler is to business history. He has decisively influenced scholarship around the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

which has been the focus of her research during her yearlong study at HBS. She’ll present some of her findings at a June 29 workshop called “Capitalism and the Senses,” which “brings together scholars from various disciplines, including... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Every night on the outskirts of Manila, thousands of people lie down to sleep amid acres of rotting food and industrial detritus in a vast urban dumping ground called Payatas. At dawn, they rise and swarm across a featureless landscape of... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

helping companies separate their accountability reporting into what in financial accounting is called "stocks" and "flows"; and (3) by helping companies develop technologies to clearly compare actions and outcomes in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

incorporating their qualitative and quantitative measures in central organizational planning, decision making, and accountability mechanisms. We call the experts that achieve such positions of influence "frame-makers." In the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

powerful than the normal academic method of doing research that I will never do that again." Whether it's called crowdsourcing or open innovation, the growth of methods for yoking together groups of experts in various fields to work... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Calderón: Economic Arguments Needed to Fight Climate Change

streamline efforts to combat climate change. "I think fixing climate change might be easier than reforming the United Nations," Henderson responded wryly. Henderson asked Calderón about the 2010 Climate Change Conference in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Free Trade Agreement, went about securing buy-in: "News might arrive that a representative who had been leaning toward yes had come out as a no…. When he heard the bad news, [Daley went into action].… 'Can we find the guy who can deliver the guy? We have... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Europe

Four European entrepreneurs joined HBS Professors Howard Stevenson and Walter Kuemmerle to explore these questions in the Global Alumni Conference breakout session "Entrepreneurship in Europe." Stevenson and Kuemmerle set the... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

and do. We have just created a not-for-profit organization called the TruePoint Center for High Commitment and High Performance. This will be a research and education institute intended to increase our understanding of these organizations... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Angels Face the Innovator’s Dilemma

The venture capital industry is ripe for disruption: just like other leading mainstream companies have been for years, according to HBS professor Clayton M. Christensen. As a keynote speaker at the conference and author of the managerial... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Greed, Fear, and The System Hinder Corporate Reform

agreed. There's been an incredible diffusion of what some people are calling the stealth-wealth pay system.— Rakesh Khurana One of the key points to remember in fixing the system, according to Khurana, is that most of the attempts to... View Details