Best Practices Transfer - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Need a Say on Pay

says Ferri. There is the question of how to best align the interests of management and shareholders to incentivize long-term performance. Then there's the larger debate over the government's role in issuing limits on the huge pay... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

risks—including spending hours reading or watching the news. "This is such an impermanent state of affairs that we just have to do as best we can." Rather than ruminating on the virus and replaying possible future outcomes in our minds,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

16 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

Comparative Treatment of Business Method and Software Patents in the United States and European Union Harvard Business School Note 309-023 This note analyses and compares the legal definitions and practical applications of Business Method... View Details

23 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers

overall reduction in consumer welfare. The best things in life may be free, but price coherence isn't one of them. Sellers Pass Fees Onto Buyers "Although price coherence may seem to offer benefits at no cost, it actually raises prices... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Air Transportation; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

Chinese care about China, of course, but they are rooting for America as well” Management educators talk frequently about best practices and use case studies to illustrate by example. For more than a century... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

sustainability is more achievable "if the concept is integrated into the business model at inception." And as Laura Howard put it, "This works best in small companies who can design their entire business and brand around a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

this case is defined as patient outcomes per dollar spent; the goal is to achieve the best possible outcome at the lowest possible cost. In contrast, today's American health care system tends to emphasize billing for individual... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

09 Jan 2006
What Do You Think?

Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?

disclose selectively only the best of those grades to recruiters who might have the most interest in them, a practice that might be regarded as relatively harmless academic "spinning" of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 May 2000
What Do You Think?

Can You Hard-Wire Performance?

1970s, nearly all Xerox copiers were leased, with revenues dependent on per-copy royalties. If the machines malfunctioned, it was in Xerox's best interests to get there as fast as possible and keep the machines running as much as... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

the process is a long one, is it even practical to begin it in organizations with "continuity-challenged" leadership? Is there any real purpose served by academics in continuing to spread the word about upside down management... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

than from others' successes. We also find that individuals' prior successes and others' failures can help individuals overcome their inability to learn from their own failures. Together, these findings offer both theoretical and practical... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

30 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

useful insights about substantive themes in political science, from regimes and representation, to states and security, to social and economic development. In addition to methodological chapters with specific guidance about best View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

06 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

still contains many subsistence farmers or folks who are living off of meager agricultural incomes and transfers from the state or their relatives in the big cities. So to compete with all of those site-specific issues would be a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 26

overwhelming majority of people believe trying to calm down is the best way to cope with pre-performance anxiety. However, across several studies involving karaoke singing, public speaking, and math performance, I investigate an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

raise their chances of success by gathering data, studying customers and their industry, trying to assess likely competitor moves, and trying to understand where and how they can best focus their limited resources. At the same time,... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco

18 May 2009
Research & Ideas

The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth

country. Q: What are the practical policy or other implications from your work for public or private decision makers? Where do you see the research making a difference? A: Our paper provides a simple interpretation for the East Asian... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

"disrupting" is of course the goal of their business activities, panelists said, it is also no small trick to cut through the entrenched practices surrounding established incumbents. Nor is it simple to prevent others from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

information provided by office culture is gone. You could wear your best suit and have a two-hour meeting in the middle of the day with the C-suite of your firm’s biggest competitor without anyone being the wiser. Pause for a moment and... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

results also show that different Big Five personality factors may influence leadership in different organizational contexts. Practical implications-The study identifies personality factors related to leader performance in different types... View Details