Harvard Corporation - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

competitive with someone who is personally advising you, and at a fraction of the cost,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. Viceira explores... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

opting for the short-term benefits in spite of the risks?” "There is no doubt the transactions were very risky, as interest rates on these loans frequently exceeded 20 percent," says Boris Vallée, an assistant professor in the Finance unit at View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

reaction on capital markets. It was written by Harvard Business School assistant professors Gwen Yu and Francois Brochet, with MIT Sloan of Management doctoral student Patricia Naranjo. Although targeted at foreign executives, the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

point out possible misconceptions about job creation by small businesses off the mark? Do they miss the point? What do you think? Original Article In the late 1990s, a group of faculty at the Harvard Business School proposed a new... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

new research based on patent and trademark data by Harvard Business School professor William Kerr drills down to further identify the probable ethnic composition of U.S. inventors, the industries they influence, and the geographies they... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

nine member team. Workers assigned to better bosses are less likely to leave the firm. A separate normalization implies that the average boss is about 1.75 times as productive as the average worker. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49806... View Details

04 Apr 2019
Cold Call Podcast

Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?

started out as a dating site here at Harvard when he was a freshman and then he saw an opportunity to move to the West Coast to really expand Phenomenal success. There literally are millions of people who want to be the next Mark... View Details

20 Jan 2015
First Look

First Look: January 20

between the management scores of autonomous government schools and regular government schools is accounted for by differences in the principal's leadership and better governance. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/rsadun/Management_Schools_November2014.pdf... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

larger forces that, taken together, have helped fashion business and society today. Overarching themes of her book tackle the corporation writ large, the changing nature of work, and defining moments in technology. What can business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the authors, Harvard Business School professors Lakshmi Ramarajan and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

he's the exception. The man-of-action hero myth provides tremendous inspiration for the American economy, and also shapes how we do business. At Harvard Business School, we love to teach cases of renegades who pull the rug from underneath... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to gain widespread acceptance of new technologies. Their paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

12 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits

levers that politicians pull to spring the trap, including appointment of favored regulators, control of budget appropriations, and direct arm bending of regulators on behalf of companies they favor. In all these models, the cycle of influence always starts with a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands

What happens when giant multinational corporations acquire relatively small companies that enjoy iconic status as socially progressive brands? According to recent research out of Harvard Business School,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

Several conclusions arise than can help inform the design of care delivery platforms for HIV/AIDS. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-093.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAccenture's War for Talent in India Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

As makers of everything engage in an all-out features war to cram the most services, accessories, and functions into a single product, the real question for many is this: Does the consumer really want an all-in-one digital device? A panel of industry players moderated... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having worked for a living in a corner office of a corporate ivory... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

Beginning with the influential work of Professor Emeritus Robert N. Anthony in the 1960s and 1970s, Harvard Business School has given a prominent place to research and course development focusing on the intersection of strategy and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

26 Feb 2013
First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

Abstract Many scholars and practitioners have recently argued that corporate awards are a "free" way to motivate employees. We use field data from an attendance award program implemented at one of five industrial laundry plants... View Details