Leaning In - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

party offering starkly differing prescriptions for growth, it’s more important than ever to understand how political leanings shape the business, the workplace, and beyond. “Political homogeneity of executive teams View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

lean inventories and just in time deliveries, there is not a lot of slack in the system to act as a buffer. This disaster promises to be quite a test. Consider, for example,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

leaning elsewhere...he might not well prosper in that life, or would only get on with difficulty or remain stuck halfway with small profit to himself and without reaching his objective, which should be to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Mar 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?

What’s next in finance? Is bitcoin an inflation shield? What’s your favorite weightlifting exercise? Lauren Cohen, the L.E. Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, recently answered these and other... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

in lean and mean headquarters will be difficult for managers to let go of? A: Lean and mean will be hard to let go of, and to some extent that is appropriate. We found that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Dec 2015
What Do You Think?

What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?

make it happen? There are several kinds of responses to this question. The first is the “do it yourself” response, characterized by Sheryl Sandberg’s now-famous argument in her book, Lean In. Among other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Aug 2012
News

Scaling Is Hard. Here's How Akamai Did It.

17 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring

A year of COVID-19 limbo has turned the notion of self-care into a mainstream pursuit. After all, with the pandemic’s end on the distant horizon, we all just need to hang in there a little longer—even CEOs. Earlier this month, we looked... View Details

Keywords: by Gamze D. Yucaoglu, Robin Abrahams, and Boris Groysberg

25 Nov 2014
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Once in a Lifetime Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

effectively and efficiently measure the impact of Acumen’s portfolio companies. “We developed Lean Data as a smart way to listen to our customers and understand the impact of our products and services on their lives,” Kasia says. View Details

22 Apr 2021
News

Driving a Large Transformation with Leadership and Purpose – Lessons from the Turnaround at Best Buy

02 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

Salary Negotiations: A Catch-22 for Women

The higher a woman rises through a company’s ranks, the more backlash she faces if she negotiates her salary assertively—a phenomenon that contributes to the wide gender gap in the C-suite, new research suggests. By analyzing data from more than 2,500 negotiators,... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

September 2015 (Revised March 2016)
Case

Intuit: Turbo Tax PersonalPro - A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

By: Shikhar Ghosh, Joseph Fuller and Michael Roberts

The case provides a vehicle for teaching about both corporate intrapreneurship and the use of lean startup methods. It tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea for a new product that spans two of the company's existing business... View Details

Keywords: Business Units; Business or Company Management; Applications and Software; Accounting; Product Development; Financial Services Industry

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06 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical

Working Paper Summaries

Determinants of Early-Stage Startup Performance: Survey Results

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann

16 Feb 2021
News

Fostering Authenticity and Employee Engagement at John Deere

27 Jan 2012
News

Apple and Google as Creative Archetypes

15 Jun 2022
News

New Shipping Legislation Targets Supply Chain Bottleneck

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

potential cold calls, and understanding campus food options can feel overwhelming. Having the option to join a club that mirrors any facet of who you are helps greatly in the transition to life as an MBA student over the next two years.... View Details

10 Jul 2015
Blog Post

Can Entrepreneurship Be Taught?

Professor Jeffrey Bussgang has played a critical role in expanding Harvard Business School’s entrepreneurial offerings over the last few years. A Senior Lecturer at HBS and a General Partner at Flybridge Capital Partners, he is an expert... View Details

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