Learning By Thinking - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Dec 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Grooming Next-Generation Leaders

and gain a broad understanding of the business, especially as it operates globally. In separate interviews, Sasser and Narayandas discussed talent identification, leadership in action, and what PLD does to help hundreds of executives grow. "Leadership View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Aug 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery

Keywords: by George Serafeim

20 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

escalating, high-profile campaign against Third World debt, poverty, war and disease. “Any CEO who thinks his or her job is about maximizing shareholder value is living in the past.” Koehn, a Harvard Business School historian who has... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

02 Apr 2024
What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

ambitious but not always assured. “Career planning provides an opportunity to think about 'enough,' especially in a given timeframe." Our late colleague at Harvard Business School, Clayton Christensen, provided inspiration for this kind... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

21 Nov 2023
Op-Ed

The Beauty Industry: Products for a Healthy Glow or a Compact for Harm?

In my recently published book Deeply Responsible Business, I write about business leaders since the 19th century who have acted responsibly, often by putting the welfare of their communities above the idea of maximizing profits. I make a sharp distinction between... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics

14 Jun 2023
Op-Ed

Every Company Should Have These Leaders—or Develop Them if They Don't

by shifting industry and market conditions. BTLs must be able to clearly identify the organization’s competitive advantage to create or contribute to effective strategy. Given these requirements, BTLs are developed to View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson

March 2019
Case

Wattpad

By: John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld

How to run a platform to match four million writers of stories to 75 million readers? Use data science. Make money by doing deals with television and filmmakers and book publishers. The case describes the challenges of matching readers to stories and of helping writers... View Details

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07 Jun 2023
HBS Case

3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

enough, then you are creating value not just for the company, but for the customer, or for employees and suppliers as well,” Karp says. Differentiation is key Many companies achieve a competitive advantage by differentiating themselves... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

31 Jan 2023
Research & Ideas

It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’

jobs that require a college degree pay roughly two-thirds more than jobs that don’t, a number that has doubled over the past 40 years, according to recent research coauthored by Letian (LT) Zhang, an assistant professor at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

18 Apr 2022
HBS Case

Dick’s Sporting Goods Followed Its Conscience on Guns—and It Paid Off

necessarily take the dramatic steps Stack and his colleagues took to rid their firm of most, though not all, gun sales. But Riedel, who teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) at HBS, says business leaders can still learn... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

20 Jun 2023
Research & Ideas

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

reform, Graeber says. “There is now a growing interest in understanding memory in economics,” Graeber says. “The question can be better understood as how people learn from qualitative information. If you View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

help people learn. They can learn either at the school of hard knocks or by coming to class and building an understanding. If you presume that the vast majority of our students are opportunity-driven and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

report by the American Association of University Professors showing that during the past three decades, academic employment in the US has shifted away from tenured positions—which tend to bring higher salaries and job security—toward... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education

27 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

John suggests that this methodology could help business practitioners learn about undesirable practices inside their companies. "If you were trying to find out the prevalence of employee theft, or any type of unsavory behavior, and... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

particular how we think about governments, because cyberspace is a realm that seems inherently to ignore traditional authorities. Cyberspace, in fact, is a truly global phenomenon, something that spans borders irrepressibly and... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Nov 2017
What Do You Think?

What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

Duke do when she becomes chairman of Wells Fargo on January 1?” What do you think? ORIGINAL COLUMN Case studies used in business schools portray dilemmas faced by managers. Students diagnose the problem and recommend actions. They are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

product and the competitive landscape. For example, if you have an OS competitor like Apache or the Free Software Foundation, you may not want to be so open. This is an interesting point to make, because usually people think if you face... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

14 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide

about Whole Foods customers, really angry customers, regularly encountering empty shelves at their favorite retailer. Then stories surfaced about Whole Foods employees crying over their new performance-driven working conditions imposed by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage

28 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation

submitted by drug developers, doctors, lawyers, and consumers. The analysis revealed no difference in the frequency of adverse events reported for BTD drugs versus similar drugs that lacked BTD status and took longer to gain approval. The... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Pharmaceutical

16 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Advice on Advice

realize that it involves skills that can be learned and refined, according to Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Joshua D. Margolis. Highly skilled advisers pay close attention to how they advise as much as what kind... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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