Journals and Magazines - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

the vendor of outsourced services can improve the efficiency and perhaps the quality of services delivered—particularly in health care, where outsourcing is on the rise. In research recently published in the View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

they just don't seem to get the front-page coverage. I got a call from someone from Wired magazine just the other day on what's happening as people go back to school. The story is that people are going to take the same old courses they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

08 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

You Won't Make It If You Fake It

through the hard steps of developing yourself from within. With the visible failures of leaders who tried to fake it, people have developed sensitive “sniff tests” and can quickly identify who is authentic View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts, was published in November 2019 in the journal Nature Human Behavior. We want to compromise In a series of experiments, Lees View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

question to Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Letian Zhang, who studies organizational theory and strategy with a focus on social inequalities and status hierarchies. He explores the issue in a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

Pick up most business magazines these days and you'll probably find an article on some venture capital transaction involving millions of dollars. From HBS Associate Professor Benjamin Esty's perspective,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

rivals — including radio and television stations, magazine and newspaper publishers, billboard and direct marketing firms — that compete for... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

thought. However, that wasn’t that case, according to the study, Creating Exercise Habits Using Incentives: The Trade-off Between Flexibility and Routinization, published by the journal Management Science in... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Internet Auctions" currently in press in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. Malhotra says the research carries lessons for business people who bid on everything from... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

SolStock As of this July, what do Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, and Associate Professor Ethan Bernstein have in common? They’ve all published in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B. Bernstein’s new paper, The Impact of the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

a short magazine article about Shouldice in 1982, and it nicely illustrated excellence in the delivery of a service," explains the case's author, HBS professor James Heskett. "I knew we had a good... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

30 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning

big bucks in the minds of most consumers. We see similar efforts by magazines that advertise their low per-issue prices or insurance companies that break the cost of their premiums down to a low, per-day cost. All these efforts are... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

April-May issue of the Journal of the European Economics Association. The paper addressed this central question: When does the certification provided by an SSO's endorsement sway users to adopt a standard? Lerner View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the... View Details