Publications

Educators

2021
Book

The Engaged Scholar: Expanding the Impact of Academic Research in Today’s World

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

Society and democracy are ever threatened by the fall of fact. Rigorous analysis of facts, the hard boundary between truth and opinion, and fidelity to reputable sources of factual information are all in alarming decline. A 2018 report published by the RAND Corporation... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Information; Civil Society or Community

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

Perhaps no technology company outside of IBM has been able to keep on top of the industry as much as Microsoft. What's more, Bill Gates & Co. have achieved this success... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Apr 2017
News

Is Sears Going The Way Of The Wooly Mammoth?

15 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2021

forward to taking delayed vacations. HBS faculty members shared books they planned to read during their downtime, pulling from the worlds of technology, history, and science... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

04 Jan 2021
Blog Post

The First Alumni of the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

information on their backgrounds and their career aspirations in addition to their resumes. The resume book sparks conversations between students and alumni of similar... View Details

2017
Book

Democracy: A Case Study

By: David Moss

Democracy: A Case Study invites readers to experience American history anew and come away with a deeper understanding of the greatest strengths and vulnerabilities of the nation’s democracy as well as its resilience over time. The book adapts the case method to... View Details

Keywords: Democracy; Political Economy; Constitution; Productive Tension; Culture Of Democracy; E Pluribus Unum; United States; History; Government and Politics; Governance; Economic Systems; United States

2020
Book

Competing in the Age of AI: Strategy and Leadership When Algorithms and Networks Run the World

By: Marco Iansiti and Karim R. Lakhani

In industry after industry, data, analytics, and AI-driven processes are transforming the nature of work. While we often still treat AI as the domain of a specific skill, business function, or sector, we have entered a new era in which AI is challenging the very... View Details

Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Technological Innovation; Change; Competition; Strategy; Leadership; Business Processes; Organizational Change and Adaptation; AI and Machine Learning

23 Jan 2019
News

The Promise of Personalized Medicine

for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of... View Details

12 Feb 2019
News

A View of the Valley

success and cultural expectations, Nitasha Tiku writes in “Family Trust Shows Silicon Valley’s Secret Obsessions,” a recent article in Wired. But the book offers much more, according to Tiku: Family Trust is... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2014
Article

Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Zhike Lei

Psychological safety describes people's perceptions of the consequences of taking interpersonal risks in a particular context such as a workplace. First explored by pioneering organizational scholars in the 1960s, psychological safety experienced a renaissance starting... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Safety; Groups and Teams

08 Oct 2014
Working Paper Summaries

The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles

Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Banking; Legal Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Intellectual Underpinnings of Entrepreneurial Management

What are the roots of entrepreneurship as an academic field of interest? The term entrepreneur—literally, "undertaker"—has been around... View Details

Keywords: by Howard H. Stevenson & Teresa M. Amabile

2013
Case

Innovation and Development of China Machine Press in the New Century

By: F. Warren McFarlan, Ning Jia and Guo Jia

China Machine Press (CMP), founded in 1952, is a leading multi-field, multi-discipline and multimedia publishing group in China with large scale, comprehensive and specialized business that integrates paper media, audiovisual media and online media, and combines... View Details

Keywords: General Management; Organizational Structure; Strategy; China; China

2010
Book

The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics Are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance

By: Marshall Fisher and Ananth Raman

Retailers today are drowning in data but lacking in insight: They have huge volumes of information at their disposal. But they're unsure of how to sort through it and use it to make smart decisions. The result? They're struggling with profit-sapping supply chain... View Details

Keywords: Profit; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Logistics; Supply Chain Management; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry