Knowledge Practice - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

C-Suite and the CEO what internal and external stakeholders are thinking and how this may affect corporate image in terms of credibility, confidence, trust, relationship, and reputation. In short, the new CCO must understand both the science and the art of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017

higher quality employee-company matches. While centralized hiring can ensure that enough resources are invested in consistently hiring people aligned with company values, it can also neglect unit managers’ knowledge about which... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

learn demand at each price (“exploration" objective). Over time, the retailer can use this knowledge to set a price that maximizes revenue throughout the remainder of the selling season (“exploitation" objective). We propose a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

buying and maintaining technology hardware. "You've seen the cost of launching a new company go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million," comments MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Practice Joe Lassiter. "Since I... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

09 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times

long-term study of successful CEOs, some of them outlined in the August 2008 Harvard Business Review article, "The Uncompromising Leader," cowritten with Russell A. Eisenstat, Nathaniel Foote, Tobias Fredberg, and Flemming Norrgren. He also offers HBS Working... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2011
News

The Best-Laid Plans

go from $10 to $15 million down to $500,000 to $1 million,” comments MBA Class of 1954 Professor of Management Practice Joe Lassiter. “Since I came to the School in 1996 I’ve also seen more and more students who have already worked at... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Health, Social Assistance; Architectural, Engineering, and Related Services; Professional Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2010
News

Fair Trade

moral nuisance to a global brand-driven powerhouse offering products essential to daily life is one of the more intriguing stories in modern business history. The origins of beauty products lie primarily in local knowledge of the scents... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Chemical Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

10 Dec 2014
News

Front-Row Seat

calls and pounding the pavement with a pen, a legal pad, 3” x 5” cards, and what he describes as an “unlimited listening capacity” when questioning anyone—in this case, execs at the New York Times, the Huffington Post, Slate, Wired, and others—with special View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; digital media; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

01 Jun 2020
News

Prognosis

had to be licensed in the state in which that image was generated. But the easing of state-level licensure has largely allowed physicians who are licensed in one state to practice in another. The easing of that regulation has, in turn,... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; COVID-19; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

We corroborate this evidence by showing that target difficulty is more effective for carbon reduction projects requiring more novel knowledge and in high-pollution industries. We discuss limitations and suggest avenues for future... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2022
News

Onboarding

its benefits. And so, as time rolled on in the 2000s, we then started to see various kinds of good practice codes of corporate governance, or even legal mandates in some jurisdictions to increase diversity, particularly gender diversity... View Details

30 Sep 2016
News

Competing Against Luck

them. In order to get those two jobs done in the context of an MBA, it's actually quite hard, because we're organized to give them knowledge and we don't equip them to do these other jobs well. And then when I come home, what job do my... View Details

01 Dec 2009
News

The Fab Four

renewal process. I was surprised when Kent Bowen approached me about doing a case. We were just a small manufacturer. I didn’t think what I did would be relevant in the classroom. But there were actually quite a few students interested in the View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; contests; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services; Data Processing, Hosting, and Related Services; Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Fabricated Metal Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

03 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 3, 2009

requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 17

theoretical and practical implications of our research. Publisher's link: http://francescagino.com/#/motivation_research August 2013 Journal of Economics and Management Strategy Doing Well by Doing Good? Community Development Venture... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

multichannel, the challenges of crafting multichannel retailing strategies and opportunities for creating synergies across channels, key retail mix decisions facing multichannel retailers, and the dynamics of multichannel retailing. We synthesize current View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

railroad, the country could depend on a rapidly expanding population on which to build markets and scale corporations. Q: Having examined roughly 1,000 articles covering more than 150 years of business, what changes did you notice in the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

assets, including customer relationships; innovative products and services; high-quality and responsive operating processes; skills and knowledge of the workforce; the information technology that supports the workforce and links the firm... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

01 Mar 2014
News

The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria

trained in agronomy and business, dispenses advice on everything from best practices to business ethics, while keeping track of growth rates and other performance measures with a smartphone app. This process also de-risks the loans in the... View Details

Keywords: Francis Storrs; John H. Davis; Michael Halse; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock

In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details