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23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

development of the U.S. railroad industry in the latter half of the 19th century. Al went straight to the sources and expanded upon them in a series of important articles in the Business History Review. That work developed into his pathbreaking book Strategy and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

16 Sep 2015
Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

ownership of modern corporations is a central point of our new paper, Materiality in Corporate Governance: The Statement of Significant Audiences and Materiality. Aiming to improve corporations’ public disclosures, we argue that the board should View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

14 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 14, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=409002 OppenheimerFunds and Take-Two Interactive (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-074 Describes the dilemma faced by Emmanuel Ferreira, a fund manager at OppenheimerFunds. As the largest shareholder and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities

phase." A month after becoming the governor of the Reserve Bank of India, Rajan came to HBS to deliver the 2013 Leatherbee Lecture, "India: The Opportunities and Challenges Ahead." In addition to running India's central bank, Rajan is a prolific author,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

might go unrealized. Thus, enabling those matches through search diversion may, to a certain extent, provide a net benefit to society. Turns out, there are benefits which go beyond that. A recent and thought-provoking Science article ("Electronic View Details

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Academic business research typically travels one-way. From government agencies, scholars gather and process data—say on workplace safety or environmental pollution—perform analysis, and publish the results. Rarely, however, do they take... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

librarians. Using journal impact factors to infer the quality of a faculty members’ publications incurs a high incidence of both Type 1 errors, when we conclude incorrectly that a paper published in a top-5 journal is a high-impact paper,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial," published in the June 2011 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine. TIP #3- Fill your backpack with rocks. A research team from Harvard and the University of Central Florida tested the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

March 2008 (Revised November 2008)
Case

Sony Digital Entertainment, Japan

By: Anita Elberse

It is late 2007. So-called cell phone ("keitai") novels have turned into an extremely popular form of entertainment-on-the- go in Japan, in particular among young, female readers. In fact, consisting mostly of love stories written by amateurs in short sentences and... View Details

Keywords: Books; Marketing Strategy; Open Source Distribution; Competition; Mobile Technology; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Japan

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11 Jan 2011
First Look

First Look: Jan. 11

the most daunting challenges of leadership. Publisher Link: http://hbr.org/product/being-the-boss-the-3-imperatives-for-becoming-a-gr/an/12285-HBK-ENG Building World Class Universities in Asia Author:D. Quinn Mills... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through a Growth Stall

increases," write the authors of How to Identify the Best Customers for Your Business, published in the Winter 2013 issue of the MIT Sloan Management Review. “Ineffective opportunity management eventually leads to loss of money,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020

to owners on the brink of ruin. Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness The pandemic has challenged managers as never before, but one powerful leadership strategy is being overlooked, say Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson: Be kind. The 5 most-downloaded research papers... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience edited by Laura Morgan Roberts, Anthony J. Mayo, and David A. Thomas. Copyright 2019 Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation. All rights reserved. View Details

Keywords: Re: Andi Wang

27 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie

encourages people to take more risks when they decide to post. So the impression from those posts can linger in the mind of an observer, say, a colleague or employer, and “come back to haunt,” according to new research published in a... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

10 Oct 2005
Research & Ideas

Corporate Responsibility and the Environment: What is the Right Thing To Do?

been published in a new book: Environmental Protection and the Social Responsibility of Firms: Perspectives from Law, Economics, and Business. The coauthors are Bruce L. Hay, Harvard Law School; Robert N. Stavins, John F. Kennedy School... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Clinkscales founded Vanguarde Media, Inc., publisher of Heart & Soul, HONEY, SAVOY, and impact! magazines. "The marketplace today has recognized that without brown people, you can't win," he stated. L. Londell McMillan,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Feb 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?

things done in real life or not. The authors of a recently published book, Execution, perhaps unintentionally suggest the nature of the challenge. Larry Bossidy and Ram Charan converse about a treatise based on their many years of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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By: John A. Deighton

I teach about the ecosystem of big data, the role of data in advertising and creative industries, and customer management and personal privacy in an era of individual addressability. View Details

Keywords: Digital Marketing; Database Marketing; Social Media; Data Analytics; Information; Advertising; Marketing; Media; Technology; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry; Publishing Industry

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

published his two-volume, 1,095-page tome, Business Cycles, after more than seven years of concentrated research. He was fifty-six years old at the time and had been a professor at Harvard since 1932. He was well known throughout the... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS research associate Melissa Ouellet. The study began by asking... View Details