Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

would call near the frontier of human experience. Ordinarily I'd say near the frontier of business experience, but creative collaboration is very much relevant to business and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

29 May 2006
What Do You Think?

How Important Is the “Service Sector Effect” on Productivity?

motives, our paradigms, and what we are willing to accept and ignore to get what we think that we need." C. J. Cullinane was concerned that "This trend (service sector relative growth) will indeed... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

31 Oct 2006
HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

Director Masako Egawa (HBS MBA '86), working with research associates Chisato Toyama (HBS MBA '99) and Kim Eric Bettcher. This case challenges students to think about different systems View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics

25 Mar 2014
First Look

First Look: March 25

Capitalism: Volume 2. The Spread of Capitalism: From 1848 to the Present Firms and Global Capitalism By: Jones, Geoffrey Abstract—This chapter forms part of the two-volume... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

what shoppers do. This observational work is the bread and butter of Paco Underhill, a consultant whose market research firm, Envirosell (New York City), has been studying... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

couple of years ago with the lies about emissions testing— other companies that have been able to overcome something like this? George: Volkswagen hasn't fully overcome it. One of my students View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

25 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

industry also grew as the means out of poverty for many women who worked as sales consultants and in salons. Winning beauty contests became the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

primarily by the sale of the glasses themselves. VisionSpring is what organization scholars call a "hybrid" social venture, since it combines the social welfare logic of a nonprofit View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

said, "so we can begin to get the senators we want, vote in the presidents and politicians we want; so that we can vote with our wallet instead of pleading for change. For me that's going to be the most... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

Psychological Framework of Unethical Behavior at Work By: Moore, C., and F. Gino Abstract—Many of the scandalous organizational practices that... View Details

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

correlation between exposures. We find that more than 120,000 deaths per year and approximately 5%–8% of annual healthcare costs are associated with and may be attributable to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

Legislation is therefore a problematic way to achieve the golden mean in normative behavior." Edward Hare agrees, pointing out that "Corporate governance is a system that continues to fail us ... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

Kerr and Lincoln analyzed Current Population Survey data on that time period. Not surprisingly, growth in the H-1B program directly correlated with an uptick in the number of immigrants View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

04 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Should You Outsource Your Marketing?

comfortable and familiar with outsourcing arrangements, they've become willing to trust outside suppliers with business functions that, until recently, have not been outsourced. Q: What are you working on... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin

23 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

China’s 60-Year Road from Revolution to World Power

Yangzi region and Manchuria. Growth was slowed significantly in the 1930s by the global depression and by the financial policies of the Nationalist government, View Details

Keywords: by William C. Kirby

05 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

title is SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth and Social Good (Crown Business). Sean Silverthorne: What is a vanguard company? Rosabeth Moss Kanter: Vanguard means ahead View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

09 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Career Advancement Without Experience

work of high-tech contractors varies widely from job to job. People who are good at presenting their prior experience can narrow the gap between their past experience and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Motion Pictures & Video; Technology

04 Mar 2014
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

Applegate teaches "innovation is not an option." We've identified articles and working papers covering a wide range of thinking about innovation management to answer some... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

How Much Time Should CEOs Devote to Customers?

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing KnowHow, for Harvard Business. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Customers are the source of all cash... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

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