Family Businesses - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Abstract No abstract is available at this time. Cases & Course MaterialsBayesian Estimation & Black-Litterman Harvard Business School Note 208-085 Describes a practical method for asset allocation that is more robust to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

discounts, stores are subsidizing high-value customers” “The use of this lever of discounts has been so high in many aspects, it is causing e-commerce companies to become unprofitable,” says Teixeira, the Lumry Family Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

02 Feb 2002
What Do You Think?

Will the Societal Effects of Enron Exceed Those of September 11?

you've got to believe that some good always accompanies the bad and vice-versa. For at least a period of several months, September 11 has united Americans and others against a common enemy, brought families together, and encouraged many... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Sep 2015
First Look

September 15, 2015

Territorial Competitiveness What Is Regional Strategy? Lessons from Business Strategy By: Ketels, Christian H.M. Abstract—Regional policy, especially in Europe, makes increasing reference to the notion of strategy, a conceptual tool... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

For-profit businesses have a common goal: create value for owners or shareholders by creating value for customers. It's a focus that must seem enviably straightforward from the perspective of nonprofit organizations and social enterprises... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

marketed its products as family food, targeting its messages to children as well as adults. Expanding slowly also gave Pujals the chance to work out and test his business model. He was able to determine... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

ladders up to unload our bags,” recalls McFarlan, the School’s Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, and a tactful bridge builder who has played a key role in launching and guiding several collaborative... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

focus on employees and more on business and profitability." Phil Clark posited that knowledge work that deals with intangible results and hard-to-pinpoint accomplishments "just isn't as satisfying" as work used to be. John... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Dec 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

actually enable the kind of economic growth that we generally measure and read about. It's reasonably obvious, for example, that growth in such things as the rule of law, so-called transparency, and ethical behavior foster trust in View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jan 2008
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories 2007

more so when your uncle, mother, or daughter is your business partner. Harvard Business School's John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra outline 5 ways to analyze and improve dealmaking and dispute resolution... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

family business structures are discussed in the context of how they shaped the business environment in pre-war China and continue to influence Chinese enterprise culture in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

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

virtual roller coaster of the financial markets. The findings are detailed in the paper How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel, co-authored by Marco Di Maggio, an assistant professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

Nicolas P. Retsinas is Senior Lecturer in Real Estate, Harvard Business School and former Federal Housing Commissioner. Rob Couch is Counsel, Bradley Arant Boult Cummings and former President of GNMA. Over six years ago, when the federal... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

real estate at Harvard Business School, and director emeritus of Harvard's Joint Center for Housing Studies. In addition, the American economy depends on consumers having access to credit. "The challenge is to avoid the temptation of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

"If men don't take the virus as seriously as women do, and they're not wearing masks and social distancing as much, that could help explain why they are suffering the consequences more," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

fierce business competition, your bargaining endowment can spell the difference between closing the deal and being shut out. A healthy bargaining endowment explains how Darren Rovell won a job on national television while other journalism... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

explains Michel Anteby, an associate professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who cowrote the paper with Filiz Garip of Harvard University, Paul V. Martorana of Wagner College, and Scott Lozanoff of the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

19 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

China’s Complicated Relationship With Mother Nature

projects that it will overtake the United States as the world's largest economy by the end of 2014. But as the Great Wall exemplifies the great feats of Chinese unity, so too does it reflect a tradition of environmental subjugation for national gain. Harvard View Details

Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Manufacturing

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

performing costly medical procedures. And that’s a problem, argues Senior Fellow Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. “It becomes obvious that you can make the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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