Intelligent Community Visionary of the Year - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

generator for the shareholders. Basically you are managing to create an attractive annuity for shareholders. Lal: It's not just about eliminating the stores, but managing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

out of the rut we're currently in, both the suppliers and those demanding information have to be willing to consider radical ideas in terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

05 Apr 2021
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t More Leaders Teach?

(Image credit: Harvard Business School) Some years ago at Harvard Business School, on classroom and office walls we posted a motto: “We all teach, we all learn, for life.” It was intended for faculty as well as students and staff. It... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

year showed that the number of women and African-Americans saw little to no change from the year before. View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

communications readers used by Apple Pay unless consumer demand is high. First off, Apple must convince merchants to adopt its service, says Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

warm shareholders to the benefits of the risk management tools you suggest? A: Whenever the firm is undertaking new strategic directions,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

02 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity

Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

often leading to new patents and companies—and at the same time producing a rich dataset for research. Comparing the list of winners for 100 View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

How to be Extremely Productive

HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen is living proof of the adage "If you want to get something done, ask a busy person." Throughout a distinguished career that has included often-overlapping... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

04 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who spent five years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) before joining View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It

factors like chauvinism. They mostly failed. But in failing to find a quantifiable explanation, they succeeded to challenge a commonly held notion that the corporate gender gap can be attributed to observable, measurable, controllable... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Global Brands: Connecting With Consumers Across Boundaries

Wedgwood to Dell. Before leading a wide-ranging discussion that dipped into topics such as cultural literacy, the impact of the Internet, and the... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

huge deficits stretching back and forward for a decade,” according to Kautz. “I believe that an emerging disinflationary era, driven by more intelligent machines and continuing globalization, is why they are right. Most importantly for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Clayton M. Christensen, Acclaimed Author and Teacher, Dies At 67

BOSTON, MA—Clayton M. Christensen, Harvard Business School’s Kim B. Clark Professor of Business Administration, acclaimed author and teacher, and the world’s foremost authority on disruptive innovation, died... View Details

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

and hospitals are starting to learn these lessons, experimenting with new models of care that emphasize more talking up front. Kaplan mentions Oak Street Health, a network of clinics serving a poor, elderly... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health