Directors - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

industry like taxicabs. It can fight hard to get the rules changed,” says Rosabeth Moss Kanter, the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and chair and director of the Harvard University... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

directors concentrating their attention on leadership behaviors that, at least in theory, should provide the basis for long-term performance rather than the behaviors exhibited by many leaders who are short-term optimizers and well... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

17 Feb 2015
HBS Case

HBS Cases: The Battle for San Francisco

says Rose, who grew up in the Bay Area. "People are afraid that this special culture in this special place could get lost." Wealth And Culture Rose tackles these tensions in a new case study, San Francisco, 2015 #tech #inequality, cowritten with HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

leadership. This week, Kanter sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss how these same reasons might hinder corporate adoption of Windows 8. 1. Loss of Control—Unsolicited change naturally meddles with autonomy, and the world's IT View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

Once upon a time, there were two kinds of businesses. On the one hand, there were public and privately owned companies such as those that existed in Western-style democracies, which had boards of directors and accountability to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

studies on companies including Microsoft, Sony, and Intel, and consults with consumer marketing companies in the area of innovation. She also serves on the board of directors of Avid Technology and the board of governors of the American... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

Integration, Not Intellectual Property The "great embarrassment" of twentieth-century medicine, despite its many strides, is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes, said Eric S. Lander, a leader of the Human Genome Project and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

23 Dec 2008
First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=909028 Insulting Andrew Harvard Business School Case 909-025 This case describes a compensation negotiation between a global HR director and a candidate for a high-level executive position. The situation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

successful," says Boris Groysberg, the Richard B. Chapman Professor of Business Administration at HBS, who cowrote the case with HBS Global Research Group associate director Kerry Herman and research associate Annelena Lobb. "It... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

opportunities. "We've always been in that three-legged race," said Ristau, a pregnant, working mother of two. She recently dropped down to part-time at EMC Corporation, where she works as director of channel operations and... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

02 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 2

organization, why men believe women are more emotionally intelligent, and the challenges female directors of corporations face in interacting with their male counterparts. 2006 pub Who Lives in the C-Suite? Organizational Structure and... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

companies do CSR in fits and starts” The problem? They lack a cohesive CSR strategy, says Rangan, who recently cowrote the working paper Why Every Company Needs a CSR Strategy and How to Build It with HBS research associate Lisa A. Chase and Sohel Karim (HBS DBA '88),... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Dec 2007
HBS Case

One Laptop per Child

Dell, and Lenovo. Such wide-ranging issues are the focus of the case, coauthored by HBS professor John Quelch and Carin-Isabel Knoop, executive director of the HBS Global Research Group. The first countries to give the thumbs-up for their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Computer

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

director Gustavo Herrero [HBS MBA '76] are the book's co-editors, with Research Associate Brooke Barton.) The 2005 conference was followed that spring by an MBA elective, Business and the Bottom of the Pyramid, taught by Rangan and Senior... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

19 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

case, product divisions). And just as obviously, no one likes to give up power. Leadership from the top, aimed at promoting a "one-company" mentality, is often the only way forward. One of Oosterveld's conditions for taking the job at Philips was that the... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

leading up to the restructuring played a central role in the success of this restructuring. The case protagonist is Rajath Shourie, Managing Director at Oaktree Capital Management. Shourie evaluates the opportunity to extend a $3 billion... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

10 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 10

http://hbr.org/search/212082-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-069 Generator Hostels: The Way Out Josh Wyatt, director of Patron Capital Partners, needs to make an exit decision for a successful investment in Generator Hostels.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Sloan Foundation Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, and the John E. Rovensky Fellowship Fund. He was interviewed by Laura Linard, the director of HBS Historical Collections.Linard: Can you describe your research interests... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

09 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Does Misery Love Companies? How Social Performance Pays Off

Recovery Act of 1981, Congress increased (from 5% to 10%) the allowable corporate tax deduction for charitable contributions (Mills & Gardner, 1984). And even as a majority of states were adopting "other constituency statutes," statutes that allow View Details

Keywords: by Joshua D. Margolis & James P. Walsh

12 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 12, 2006

breakthrough technology. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=606114 Adrian Ivinson at the Harvard Center for Neurodegeneration and Repair Harvard Business School Case 406-111 Adrian Ivinson is the View Details