Place Making - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

tree placed in anticipation of a beaning. Or better yet, think of your own brilliant analogy. Inspiration below. Josh Lerner And Tom Nicholas: Blue-ribbon Innovation On the morning of October 4, 2004, the star-spangled fuselage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

consumerist revolution can take place with health care benefits—if companies are willing to give their employees substantially enhanced choice among health plans, much greater control over how much they spend for various health care... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger

21 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle

What was the genesis of the research that ended up as "Allocating Marketing Resources"? What was the problem that you were trying to answer? Sunil Gupta and Thomas Steenburgh: Our goal in writing this chapter was to ask how the academic literature might be useful to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Jul 2022
Book

Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?

transformative. “I feel like I have a superpower,” she told me. “I am my own boss. I make my own schedule. I can’t express how important this is. I now have time to take care of my son, and he is the reason I immigrated in the first... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Jul 2019
Research & Ideas

The Airbnb Lesson for Startups? Success Takes More Than Technology

it wasn’t hard for Airbnb to establish a toehold fast. Without the overhead of real estate and hotel staff, Airbnb has quickly expanded into related services, making it tougher for incumbents to compete, says Teixeira. After lobbying and... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Travel; Tourism

07 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity

for cadavers in medical training, in medical research, and for the development of new medical devices. Given the sometimes uneasy feelings around the topic, it's easy to understand how such entrepreneurial organizations (both for-profit and nonprofit) could View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

codification of such knowledge saved the team and the client one full year of work. Ernst & Young executives have invested a lot to make sure that the codification process works efficiently. The 250 people at the Center for Business... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

way to make systemic reforms in the system that would ultimately address social justice and policy issues here and in developing countries. Frustrating, But Worth It Given that education is such an attractive industry in terms of size and... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

of a sudden, at the age of 19, he and his college buddies sail away to a place they could not possibly have known much about. In retrospect, that still seems inexplicable, except in the sense that a rebellious 19-year-old is apt to do... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

08 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-096.pdf Is a VC Partnership Greater Than the Sum of Its Partners? Authors:Michael Ewens and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf Abstract Venture capital firms' ability to repeatedly make top performing investments... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 24, 2009

standard-setting authority to an international body. There is also evidence that the likelihood of IFRS adoption at first increases and then decreases in the quality of countries' domestic governance institutions, consistent with IFRS being adopted when governments are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

considered so basic that, regardless of culture, they are accepted as public responsibilities. However, for the low-income populations in developing countries, which constitute the majority of the world, access to these takes place... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Apr 2020
Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

filtration,” Macomber says. “That just doesn't make any sense. It's a cheap way to help people be healthier.” Together with co-author Joseph G. Allen, a professor at Harvard’s T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Macomber explores “nine... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

Summing Up Should CEO succession processes be certified? Respondents to this month's column agree that CEO succession is badly managed, perhaps accounting in large part for the fact that few "inside outsiders" ever make it into... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

19 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting School Ties and Stock Recommendations

placed on information acquisition and synthesis. Certain agents play key roles in revealing information into equity markets. A large part of an equity analyst's job is to research, produce, and then disclose reports forecasting aspects of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

governance. But in both cases regulatory oversight has little to do with the outcome. Professor Siegel recently participated in this Q&A. Ann Cullen: You make the case that the SEC has been unable to be the world's enforcement agency... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

Rangan brought together veterans of the retail world to share strategies for cashing in on what could be a new wave of organized retail in India. The discussion took place April 4 at the India Business Conference at HBS. Kishore Biyani... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to make decisions in the field... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

and other outlets that sold only cosmetics. Equally important, she thought most women would rather learn to make themselves more beautiful than pay expensive beauticians to do this. She thus eschewed the early selling strategies of... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

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