class of 49 - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

Research. Kerr is the MBA Class of 1975 Professor of Entrepreneurial Management. “If your group is concentrated, you are making an extra premium over what others in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

identify your core customers and build a scalable platform for growth around them. That's the message from Frank V. Cespedes, the MBA Class of 1973 Senior Lecturer of Business... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Feb 2016
What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

the employment of “imposters,” a term, by the way, that was regarded as objectionable by many, most respondents implicitly rejected the notion. They pointed to the desirable qualities of imposters, people... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Oct 2000
What Do You Think?

What Lies Beyond NAFTA?

terrible thing. Not only does it create a new social class of underground activity in the U.S., but it also creates millions of broken homes ... in Mexico." He concludes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

A host of organizations — among them Lucent Technologies, the Boeing Company, and Southwest Airlines — have recently begun to ponder such intangibles in an effort to attract and maintain a motivated, performance-boosting workforce. Books... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

31 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?

re-read Khalil Gibran Muhammad’s The Condemnation of Blackness: Race, Crime, and the Making of Modern Urban America, which I assigned to a class a few years ago and had... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Information; Publishing

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

then at least in the fog” "We negotiate, if not in the dark, then at least in the fog," says Michael Wheeler, a senior fellow at Harvard Business School and retired MBA Class of 1952 Professor View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Founding CEO’s Dilemma: Stay or Go?

Noam Wasserman is an assistant professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow in the entrepreneurial management unit at Harvard Business School. His paper "Founder-CEO Succession and the Paradox View Details

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

academics and policymakers alike. Ready When Called Moss certainly didn’t research hundreds of years of financial history in order to weigh in on a future crash. “It’s hard to anticipate what ends up being... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

shift slightly in mindset to optimize for their work more often. Related Reading: Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All Why You Are Unhappy at Work What do you think?... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

think? Deshpandé: She made an impact on her industry in terms of being able to be successful in both parallel and mainstream cinema. These are two different audiences, an upper middle class intelligentsia... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration; Ramana Nanda, Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration; Abhiman... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America's economy, shaped the country's development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

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