Enhancing Work Life - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

The Business of Biotech

cancer and AIDS. Those working in the biotech trenches, however, point out that the real work has only just begun. Dr. Robert Tepper, chief scientific officer for Millennium Pharmaceuticals, Inc., put it... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

firms. This indicates to me that firms have to work at maintaining their status in the hierarchy, while legitimacy is a critical issue only in the early stages of firms' lives. Once a firm has become familiar to observers, it assumes a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

10 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 10

failed ventures, but also to allow managers of going concerns to divest stores in efforts to enhance performance and to change strategy. The operations literature has examined product liquidation, but retail store liquidation differs... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

No one knows how much it will cost to keep the risks of significant climate disruption to a reasonable level. One commonly cited estimate puts the cost at roughly 1 percent of world GDP a year, or about $840 billion. This is a large number, but it seems smaller when... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International Financial Reporting Standards... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat banks, violent slave... View Details

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

pretty clear that Harvard hadn't quite embraced women at that time." The 1990s proved frustrating for those working toward gender equality at HBS. In 1995, women made up only 28 percent of the MBA class—the lowest percentage since... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

firing the worst offenders and beefing up formal channels for complaint. Will that be enough to create positive work environments? I’m also concerned about lingering micro-insults that arrive in a less overtly sexual guise, often shrugged... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

27 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences

were active in providing courses and sometimes certification for suppliers, and they would often work with customers to help them run their businesses effectively, including giving them planning and project management tools. All three... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

thinking they are fine and find out they are too passive or too aggressive." Intense Emotions Can Work Students learn that it's important to keep their emotions in check in many cases, but at the same time, successful negotiations... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the oppression of apartheid and leading... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

best nurture and encourage their industries against foreign competitors." We asked Reinert to discuss his book and some of its central ideas. Sean Silverthorne: How did you get the idea for this book? I'm especially interested in how you hit on the format to hang... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

life sciences. The initiative was started in 1997 at the behest of Dean Kim Clark. We asked professor Gary P. Pisano, who heads up the initiative, to give HBS Working Knowledge a peek into the View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to share her latest thinking. Her new book, Clearing the Hurdles, co-written with Candida G. Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, and Patricia G. Greene, will be out in May 2004 from... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

"anything that substantially alters the way in which the work of management is carried out," including organizational forms. He distinguishes it from operational, product/service, or strategic innovation. Although he maintains... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

18 Apr 2005
Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

Here's a snapshot of department stores today: Regional brands have all but disappeared; larger players like Federated and May are merging their multi-brand companies, and consolidation continues. Meanwhile, all sorts of retailers from single-brand stores to big-box... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

their own work and family life strategy. Charting Your Course debuted in May 2000 when fifty alumnae, most of them from the MBA reunion classes of '81, '86 and '91, met on campus for two days. Hart, who like... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

much thinking on the importance of regions and the policies that should be designed towards them. But there is comparatively little work on what regional governments’ role should be in implementing these policies relative to that of other... View Details