Interviewing - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview (25,829) While humblebragging runs rampant on Twitter, it's a lousy self-promotion tactic that usually backfires according to recent research by Ovul Sezer, Francesca Gino, and Michael Norton. How... View Details

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

Nobody understands the power of Twitter better than Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. In a now-infamous television interview in January after a National Football League playoff game, Sherman briefly ranted against rival Michael... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

22 Nov 2011
First Look

First Look: November 22

Later known as K-Dow Petrochemicals, it would be one of the largest manufacturers of chemicals and plastics in the world. Analysts widely hailed the planned joint venture as a game-changing deal for both companies. Shortly after the announcement, cable network CNBC... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing

additional features like a video interview with the author? An e-book can be a much richer and deeper experience than anything we've seen before." Students were also intrigued by the concept of dynamic pricing, or charging varying... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Entertainment & Recreation

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games

Markets don't just determine prices, they also determine who gets what. For commodities, the price does most of the work, but many markets, like labor markets, don't clear by price alone. You don't hire just anyone who is willing to work at a given wage, you View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

Change: The Expansion of Primary Education in India By: Mangla, Akshay Abstract—This article analyzes India’s recent enactment of universal primary education. This programmatic policy change is puzzling given the clientelistic features of Indian democracy. Drawing on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

people-oriented industry, attrition has special import. DeLong and Gabarro, of Harvard Business School, along with former Morgan Stanley and Ernst & Young executive Lees, argue that a PSF can gain a much-needed competitive edge by renewing its focus on mentoring.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
Case

Hot Chicken Takeover

By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull

By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details

Citation

Educators

Purchase

09 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

performance and succession, corporate strategy, and executive compensation. In a recent interview at Harvard Business School, governance expert Jay Lorsch, the School's Louis Kirstein Professor of Human Relations, offered his insights.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

role is appropriate for the board? And how can the directors understand enough about the company to meet their responsibilities effectively? In this excerpt Lorsch looks at how directors are rethinking their roles. (For more about the book, see our View Details

Keywords: by Jay Lorsch

11 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Four Ways to Create Lasting Change

DNA." Roberto and Levesque joined forces for the following e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: As you write in your working paper, conventional management wisdom says the first step in a change initiative is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs

the world Sixteen years ago, Elkins completed a dissertation on colonial-era Africa, which earned her a PhD in history from Harvard and ended up making history in the world. Based on years of extensive interviews with elderly Kenyans and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

firm that discreetly interviews (not for attribution) a number of employees who interact with the senior executives being reviewed. I have directly observed this board-directed process in several situations and, in my experience, it has... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

08 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

the research in an e-mail interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: Are you and Professor Mankiw really serious? Could you give us a brief background for your idea of taxing according to personal characteristics such as height?... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores

mature industries, such as Swiss watchmakers and pencil makers, that have been able to reinvent themselves in the wake of radical technological change. He calls this phenomenon “technology reemergence.” Over the past eight years, he has visited bookstores in 26 states,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

The Kraft team is conducting interviews to evaluate models at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation (philanthropy); at Stanford’s StartX and MIT’s Sandbox (incubator); and at Breakout Labs and Root Capital (venture philanthropy). “We’re... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

communal, but rather personal and private. “One woman wrote about gathering all the pictures of her and her ex-boyfriend, taking them to the park were they met, and tearing them up,” Norton recalled in an interview with Working Knowledge.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

top management level." Mikes began her research in 2005 in England, where she earned her PhD from the London School of Economics. (Hall and Millo are both employed there.) Within five years, she had interviewed 60 risk management... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

01 Oct 2009
What Do You Think?

Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

accepting full responsibility for outcomes and holding others accountable for their performance." Having established a framework for authentic leadership, George and his coauthor then personally interviewed 125 leaders they identify... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

02 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 2, 2009

experience—time spent onsite observing the people, places, and norms of a distant locale—is crucial in globally distributed collaboration, how such experience actually affects interpersonal dynamics is poorly understood. Based on 47 semi-structured View Details