United Way - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

of Business Administration at HBS. “I’ve looked at questions like, Why is it that people often end up behaving in ways that are contrary to what they set out to do, despite their good intentions? Why is it that so many people are... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

transparency,” says Cullen, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. Meanwhile, the legal landscape has shifted in recent years toward transparency. Laws and policies that protect workers’ ability to discuss... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Web

Launching Tech Ventures | HBS Online

Co-Founders Paris Wallace, Ovia Health Co-Founder & former CEO Show Hide Details Concepts Experiments that Lead to Product-Market Fit Profit Formula Implications Squire’s Unit Economics Experimentation at Ovia Health Featured Exercises... View Details

27 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Dynamics of Standing Still: Firestone Tire & Rubber and the Radial Revolution

and within four years Sears was selling one million units per year.1 In the mid-1960s, B.F. Goodrich embraced radial technology as a means to win market share from its larger rivals, and the company introduced the first American-made... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation

28 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 28

Link between Non-financial and Financial Performance in One Space Authors: Robert G. Eccles, Jess Schulschenk, and George Serafeim Publication: In Making Investment Grade: The Future of Corporate Reporting, edited by Cornis van der Lugt and Daniel Malan, 43-48. View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

leadership.” With every relaunch, leaders must be ready to own the reality of the current circumstances, no matter how uncomfortable it may appear in the present moment. Leaders might initially be inclined to tune out the feelings that can get in the View Details

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

increased at an impressive pace in the early 2000s even though Internet sales in the United States grew dramatically. Retail sales advanced from $2.87 trillion to almost $4 trillion between 1999 and 2007. However, the current recession... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

Portrait Project

Josh Bronstein

organizations. The right to a rewarding career — one that engages the mind and fills the heart with joy — shouldn't be limited to just a privileged few; everyone has dreams. I want to fundamentally change the way the world views work, to... View Details

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

shrinking product lifecycles and rapidly changing technology are under pressure to bring new goods to market faster. Corporate spending on research and development (R&D) in the United States has also been outpacing inflation, raising... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

01 Sep 2006
News

Marketing Giant Ted Levitt Remembered

was 81 years old. Levitt taught thousands of HBS students during his tenure at the School from 1959 to 1990. A scholar of international renown, he changed the way marketing was studied and practiced in business. In the 1960 Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Mar 2018
News

Every Trick in the Book

bookstore; small, privately owned shops were the predominant model for bookselling throughout the United States in the early 1970s. That was the original model for Borders, which also opened in 1971 with a small stock of used books in a... View Details

Keywords: April White

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

open source software projects, raising millions of dollars for open source security in the last six years. Public interest in FOSS security has renewed in the past few years as government agencies in the United States push for deeper... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

01 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Kenneth Kimura & Marion Fourcad; Education

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

contention is with organizational units whose purpose it is to coordinate field and headquarters around issues such as regional promotions. At one time, Campbell Soup had eighty-eight regional promotion managers scattered across the... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

07 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis

perceiving a mismatch between these types of ads and the international mood. While some (42 percent) advised avoiding escapist fantasies based on the way life was before the crisis, such as creative that featured people gathering together... View Details

Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

rapidly leveraging new ways of doing things, both from an operational and commercial standpoint, quickly became a number one priority. Keeping up to date with the latest governmental information was a useful starting point for many, but... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

21 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now

uncertainty.” Foster community involvement. This can take two forms. One is for organizations themselves to join or create a community endeavor, and invite employees to participate. Many organizations sponsor United View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Robin Abrahams, and Katherine Connolly Baden

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

are processed through the same United States Bankruptcy Court system, and are overseen by the same pool of federal bankruptcy judges, who currently number about 350 only. The bankruptcy process also requires the active participation of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

Article

Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii

By: Michel Anteby, Filiz Garip, Paul V. Martorana and Scott Lozanoff

Background: Human cadavers are crucial to numerous aspects of health care, including initial and continuing training of medical doctors and advancement of medical research. Concerns have periodically been raised about the limited number of whole body... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Health Care and Treatment; Personal Characteristics; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Health Industry; Hawaii

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01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

an opportunity to create a fourth way that would lower the financial barrier to private-jet travel while guaranteeing high-quality service and aircraft through a partnership with NetJets. Allard and his partners, who also came with... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

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