Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

most downloaded app on Apple and Google, and, by January, it had been installed 19 million times. Temu uses the software of its parent company to match China’s manufacturing capacity to consumer demand in the US, and soon it’ll View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products

13 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

Breaking Through the Self-Doubt That Keeps Talented Women from Leading

applying for job opportunities, particularly more advanced, higher-paying positions, because they’re concerned they aren’t qualified enough, whereas men don’t seem to worry about their skills matching the specific job requirements as much, according to research View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

13 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas

million—more value to companies than patented inventions developed without citing scientific research, says a paper co-authored by Harvard Business School professor Joshua Lev Krieger, University of Munster professor Martin Watzinger, and... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing

then you’ll read an interview where she says she always uses a $1,000 Guerlain cream. A celebrity putting their name on something isn’t really enough to draw me in by itself.” POLL Do you consider influencer... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Beauty & Cosmetics

06 Nov 2023
Research & Ideas

Did You Hear What I Said? How to Listen Better

paralinguistic signals of listening, by smiling and nodding and leaning forward,” Collins says. “People also rely upon these cues to feign their listening, and they’re doing it effectively.” How to listen... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

23 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative

need to get out there and create data." Collectively, these five discovery skills constitute what we call the innovator's DNA, the code for creating innovative business ideas. By mastering these discovery skills, you can View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons, Julia Hanna & Roger Thompson

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

individual patient. However, routine practice is itself a fertile source of innovations in care, in both what to do and how to do it. Medical knowledge and how to operationalize it can be View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

19 Oct 2016
Book

Three Critical Mistakes Digital Businesses Make With Content

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail; Music

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

The devastating Japanese earthquakes sent aftershocks of another kind to the economy: the potential disruption of the flow of goods from Japanese suppliers to US high-tech manufacturers. But the Obama administration and domestic companies View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams

"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

04 Mar 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar

tenure as head of OnStar, one of his former employees, now a second-year student at HBS, enrolled in a relatively new course called Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise, taught by Christensen. The final paper required that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

06 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

How Younger Immigrants Gain an Edge in American Business

For refugees fleeing troubled regions as disparate as Afghanistan and Ukraine, finding meaningful work in the United States is not only key to their own success, but also crucial for businesses navigating labor shortages. New research offers lessons for policymakers... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All

Measuring success from 5 million resumes The researchers focused on entrepreneurs backed by venture capitalists, but they faced a challenge right off the bat. How do you measure success for job holders in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Jul 2007
What Do You Think?

How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?

upside down." Could we learn more about leadership by studying followership? Is leadership really about followership? What do you think? Original Article The flood of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Employers Favor Men

men perform better on average at certain tasks, according to the research paper When Gender Discrimination Is Not About Gender. The paper was written by Katherine B. Coffman and Christine L. Exley, both assistant professors at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

And we've helped set up the New England Program for Kidney Exchange. And I'm the chair of a committee of the American Economic Association to recommend changes that we should make in the marketplace for new Ph.D. economists. As is the case with the study of contracts,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

22 Apr 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Immigrant Entrepreneurship in America: Evidence from the Survey of Business Owners 2007 & 2012

Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr and William R. Kerr

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