School Models - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

Competition Between Differentiated Products with Demand for More Than One Variety Author: Andrei Hagiu Abstract We analyze the existence of pure strategy symmetric price equilibria in a generalized version of Salop's (1979) circular model... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

School Case 310-011 Acumen Fund is a global venture capital firm with a dual purpose: it looks for a return on its investments, and it also seeks entrepreneurial solutions to global poverty. This case examines Acumen's new projects in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

generated rich empirical data that in some cases confirms and in other cases contradicts many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines, says Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, who edited the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

14 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery

documents adopted by companies their compliance leaders admired, such as GE and Microsoft, they saw models that focused on specific steps employees should take when faced with difficult decisions. One result: Those examples inspired... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Can Obamacare Be Saved?

many carriers may have to develop a fundamentally different business model—the commercial segment model is not viable for the public exchanges.” INGREDIENTS FOR SUCCESS From consumers: Consumers need to learn how to make smarter choices... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch and Emily Boudreau; Insurance; Health

03 Apr 2013
What Do You Think?

Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?

women." Marlis Krichewsky presented an interesting hypothesis when she classified male and female managers in three groups: those who conform to the gender role model, those who imitate the role model of the other gender, and those... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care

After a cancer patient's first 30 days in the American medical system, the bills start stacking up—right next to the pile of paperwork explaining benefits. "It's very hard for patients to match these things up," says Dr. Thomas W. Feeley, who recently joined... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

letter actually getting to his friend—there were six referrals. This idea has passed into popular culture and urban folklore as the six degrees of separation. That's where it lay until a decade ago when a few researchers out of the Santa Fe Institute formalized the... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

31 May 2016
HBS Case

Who Owns Space?

government is so driven by short-term election cycles and fundraising. It makes doing visionary things very difficult. In some ways, NASA offloading some of the shorter-term development to companies like Blue, and reclaiming it’s longer-term pursuits, is a reversion to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Matthew C. Weinzierl; Aerospace

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

Haas School of Business; and Christopher Palmer, also an assistant professor at Haas. “While most researchers have learned about QE by studying the reaction of the asset prices,” says Di Maggio, “we were more interested in whether and how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

London’s School of Management, and Amirhossein Zohrehvand, assistant professor at Leiden University. Turing, meet Wade The Turing Test is an imitation game in which a person must guess whether they’re communicating with a machine or... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

Bumping up against accepted theories in process improvement, a new research paper from Harvard Business School questions the value of prioritizing problems identified by frontline employees. Citing a hospital safety improvement program... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

16 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

What Football Firings Teach Managers About Staying Relevant

idea with Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria. Nohria remembered that he and his HBS colleague, Rakesh Khurana, had noticed a similar effect in CEO data—that some chief executives had two distinct halves to their careers, a... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

the new president take aim at streamlining financial regulation, they should consider our six point Regulatory Action Plan, outlined in our Harvard Business School working paper released today, Small Business Lending: Innovation and... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

23 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’

Editor's note: As traditional hierarchical organizations flatten, new ways of thinking about internal communications must be developed—news no longer flows just from top to bottom. In Talk, Inc.: How Trusted Leaders Use Conversation to Power Their Organizations,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

competition." But as new research from Harvard Business School demonstrates, the customers you think are your best and most loyal are likely to be the first to cast you aside when a challenger to your service superiority barges into... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

the shortlist of America's most admired businesspeople, along with Steve Jobs, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. Brilliant, brave, and willing to defy conventional wisdom, Grove is, according to Harvard Business School professor Richard S.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

How Kayak Users Built a New Industry

and the sport of rodeo kayaking quickly emerged from the rapids. Harvard Business School professor Carliss Baldwin and her colleagues Christoph Hienerth and Eric von Hippel were drawn to the sport as well, but not to get their feet wet.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

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