Observation - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Meet the HBS Jewish Student Association

awareness of religious and cultural observances from around the world to support future planning of the HBS calendar. External connections: Beyond campus borders, we are looking forward to partnering with a wide range of organizations to... View Details

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

How Toyota Turns Workers Into Problem Solvers

flexible production over time and broadly based across the system. It was from observations such as these that Kent and I started to form the impression that despite all the attention that had already been paid to Toyota, something... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

says—as important as that is. Beyond that, by examining companies that are tackling these problems, great cases can help leaders devise workable solutions that they can replicate. “Good case writers are like clinicians,” Bower explains. They can View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
News

Keeping Hourly Workers Focused on the Stock, Not the Clock

society, but that alterations to the regulation and taxation of ESOPs had made them less beneficial. When he became head of industrials for the global investment firm KKR in 2010, Stavros began experimenting with new approaches to broad-based ownership. “It is the... View Details

Keywords: April White; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

04 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

How a Juicy Brand Came Back to Life

price most observers found generous. The debacle cost both the chairman and president of Quaker their jobs and hastened the end of Quaker's independent existence (it's now a unit of PepsiCo). But that's not the end of the story. In... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Food & Beverage

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

industry or the biotechnology industry? Both industries share similarities with software, in that firms codify their intellectual property into libraries that can be reused and extended over time. But do we observe the same dynamics in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Charlotte MacDonald

calendar with too many formal commitments. Because I want this experience to be reflective, I need to leave myself some time, some freedom and mental energy." Her reflections are informed and reinforced by both her direct colleagues and the "virtual"... View Details

Keywords: Consulting

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

disadvantages of either approach are to be overcome. In an attempt to overcome these disadvantages, governments may search for the organizational approaches that combine most effectively the skills and resources of both the public and the private sectors. Indeed, we... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

02 Mar 2016
News

David Moss is Rewriting History

(secession, Selma), less well known (Harvard graduate Thomas Dorr’s 1842 rebel government in Rhode Island, a study of suffrage), and recent (Citizens United, Prop 8)—is consistently oversubscribed. Now as Moss explores the federal negative, a handful of View Details

Keywords: April White

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

we're not involved with, so it's an idea that is catching on. Actually, the idea is pretty old, but the first kidney exchanges were in this century. The point is, we started off observing that kidney exchange wasn't repugnant because... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

28 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Payout Policy

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa, Roni Michaely & Martin C. Schmalz

28 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Channels of Influence

Keywords: by Lauren Cohen, Umit G. Gurun & Christopher J. Malloy

01 Jun 2013
News

Mind Your Manners

Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012) As a newcomer to the Global A-list, some observers say China has a few things to learn about proper comportment in Western social settings. Etiquette is one of them, declares Sara Jane Ho (MBA 2012), a... View Details

Keywords: etiquette; Arts, Sports, Language, Driving, and Other Schools; Educational Services

29 Apr 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Comparing the Cash Policies of Public and Private Firms

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa

April 4, 2009
Article

The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid?

By: Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias

The global financial crisis of 2008-2009 has prompted many industrialized states worldwide to increase their stakes in private corporations. This wave of partial nationalizations has come amidst full-scale expropriations in developing countries such as Venezuela,... View Details

Keywords: History; Private Ownership; State Ownership; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations

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25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

Koehn discovered, Walker had lived an entrepreneurial life that was dramatic and deeply complex on many levels. "I think much of Walker's business model and her animating vision is a product of the constraints that she faced," View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

02 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

current thinking about negotiation. This model is primarily focused on the face-to-face tactical interplay "at the table." Extensive field observation and analysis has led us to codify the 3-D approach in which moves away from... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

While some lessons can be learned by watching—a parent’s reaction after touching a hot stove can be a good lesson for a youngster on dangers in the kitchen—other lessons are harder to learn through observation alone. No matter how many... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

18 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Career Planning and Development: Interview with Career Coach Wendi Zhang (MBA/MPP 2013)

I’ve observed that classmates and students who came to HBS with curiosity, an open mind to new perspectives, and a willingness to be vulnerable with themselves tend to grow the most from their HBS experience. View Details

16 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Does Competition Make Us More Creative?

2016.) “We tend to study innovation in terms of inputs like R&D spending or outcomes like patents,” says Gross, “but creativity is really about what happens in between. It’s really about this process of exploring new and untested ideas.” Peering inside that black... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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