Writing - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Article Some of the more interesting writing that is relevant to management these days is found in out-of-the-way places in my local bookstore. In addition to the management and economics sections, you should check out neuroscience,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

profiles. They then write their own profiles, imagining their lives from the perspective of 10 years after graduation. “There is so much energy—but also angst—around those cases, I started to think about whether I should develop a course... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

primarily on American history, but increasingly moved into global business history. In his 70s and 80s, he still kept learning, kept writing about ever broader areas of the world. His curiosity and longevity were simply amazing. Walter A.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?

workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

01 Sep 2023
News

End Game

Illustration by James Steinberg In the 1960s and 1970s, as the environmental movement dawned in the United States, a new generation of activist-minded entrepreneurs appeared. Among them were companies like Body Shop, Aveda, Tom’s of Maine, and Whole Foods—all founded... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

respect the law of the land, whatever it may be.” Another strategy in rapidly changing situations is to write a “B case” that takes issues in the original case further. The Disney “B case” is writing itself... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Women Leaders and Organizational Change

leadership functions? A: We believe that for this kind of organizational change to occur, people must be open to changing themselves in the service of achieving their goals. [HBS Research Fellow] Warren Bennis and others write about this... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

24 Jan 2020
News

Clayton M. Christensen Dies at 67

students and colleagues,” says Dean Nitin Nohria. “His research and writings transformed the way aspiring MBAs, industries, and companies look at management. He was a beloved professor and role model whose brilliant teaching and wisdom... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

financial statement analysis, including ratio analysis and forecasting. To complete these exercises, participants should be comfortable writing basic spreadsheet formulas (i.e., formulas that reference multiple cells and use simple math... View Details

01 Apr 2020
Blog Post

The Product Design Sprint - 5 Things I Learned in Launch Lab 1

constrained time frame. We also practiced Jake’s principle of “separate then together” – we each brainstormed individually for a short, predetermined period of time, 5 minutes usually, and would draw or write ideas out on post-it notes.... View Details

21 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

What Machine Learning Teaches Us about CEO Leadership Style

stress those results are only illustrative. Their main purpose in writing the paper, they say, is as proof of concept in opening up the conception of what kind of data machine learning can effectively analyze. “There are so many new forms... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

When Silence Spells Trouble at Work

writing his weekly update reports on Wednesday, continuing to work on them when he had time on Thursday and Friday, working even into the weekend. On Monday morning, he would hand in his document to Matt. Jeff figured that a weekly update... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

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Recent Alumni - Alumni

Volunteer Recent Alumni OPPORTUNITIES FOR RECENT ALUMNI Recent alumni support the School and the global alumni community by volunteering in a wide range of important roles, from reunion planning to fundraising to writing Class Notes, as... View Details

15 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

The New Global Business Manager

companies to allocate and control financial capital, and now we've got to completely change them so they can develop and diffuse intellectual capital and manage human capital. That is what we're writing about now. I just interviewed Jack... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Introducing One-Step Photography - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

Land had reinvented photography, his company, and himself. Never was a birth so vividly recorded," writes Peter C. Wensberg, who later became Polaroid's senior vice president for marketing. 65 At this juncture, Polaroid Corporation still... View Details

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Frequently Asked Questions - Creating Emerging Markets

if I think of another way to use the interview videos? Please write to us at cem@hbs.edu so that we can share it with the broader community. If you see a clip in the longer videos that you would like to use, we can create a video clip for... View Details

09 Jun 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge

Model-Linker to the open source community to help the Linux community write software to connect Linux with Hewlett-Packard's RISC computer architecture. This strategy is similar to giving away the razor (the released code) to sell more... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Video Game; Web Services

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

to lift me up and help me achieve my desire in life." Ed Hare asks, " why doesn't anyone write on the subject of 'Followership'? Maybe aspiring 'leaders' would learn more if they understood how those they are charged to lead... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

Fast Answer

How Do I Cite Generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools?

including a general acknowledgment of AI if you use it as a tool to complete your writing or project work, even if you do not quote or paraphrase output: Interview questions used for the project... View Details

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

it, we can all learn about the potential merits and difficulties of reparations.” In addition to writing the case with independent researcher Suzanne Antoniou and HBS research associate Leanne Fan, Desai also partnered with HBS multimedia... View Details