Open Office - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Code of Change

Dunlap sold off several businesses, retaining for the time being the core consumer products business. He moved the head office out of Scott's longtime corporate building and into a much smaller building near his home in Florida. The... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria

01 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

responsible for suppressing dissent: They're not fully listening, they're cutting people off, or they have a preconceived notion of where they're going. In fact, many times leaders prefer an orderly shop and aren't actually looking for dissent." From the Oval... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

03 Jan 2023
Book

Confront Workplace Inequity in 2023: Dig Deep, Build Bridges, Take Collective Action

women earned only 83 percent of what men earned, while Black and Latinx women earned only 64 percent and 57 percent, respectively. The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated challenges for women, particularly the many mothers who stepped back from careers amid school... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

particular field your venture intends to address, you may need a cofounder with domain specific expertise. Having domain expertise will not only inform the product strategy, but will also help the venture gain credibility in the market and potentially View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

04 May 2015
Research & Ideas

Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating

a mix of open floors, private spaces, and movable surfaces. "Architects have designed our workspaces flexibly so that we can change them and use them in different ways," Bernstein says. "But nobody has trained us on how to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Video Game; Web Services

20 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 20

on Cancer: Integrative Research Centers at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute Heidi K. Gardner, Edo Bedzra, and Shereef M. ElnahalHarvard Business School Case 412-029 Dr. Barrett Rollins, chief scientific officer of the Dana Farber Cancer... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Salesforce, which acquired the firm in 2021. Microsoft, meanwhile, was finally able to draw users to Teams, the free business communication platform it introduced in 2017 as part of Office 365. "Can these collaborative software platforms... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Birth of the American Salesman

and services that supported sales managers, including trade journals and popular magazines about salesmen and sales management. The creation of methods of sales management also opened up new branches of academic inquiry, such as... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

08 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

relationships and can leverage those. On the downside, the distance from colleagues and work friends is experienced as a possibly demotivating loss. Value collaboration and teamwork. There is also the issue that over the next 18 to 24 months some people will return to... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

23 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

Francisco. Among the findings: The opening of a Starbucks—and cafes more generally—is a leading indicator of gentrification, and is associated with an increase in local housing prices of .5 percent. Gentrifying neighborhoods tend to spawn... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

05 Feb 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

several arguments. Individual pay transparency would eliminate a source of distraction (Srishti Mehra) and "would do more to eliminate gender and racial pay inequity than any other action," according to Miki Saxon. Will Quandt added that "the practice of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

manufacturing and financial activities around the globe prior to WWI. The British trading companies played a significant role in opening new markets and developing new sources of supply in resources in the emerging global economy.... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones

27 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Recovering from the Need to Achieve

other, and whether he could open as many offices as the firm needed. "When I looked at my watch and realized that it was 10:00 p.m. and that I had been sitting on the bench for two hours, I knew... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

29 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

Harvard Business School Case 717-483 Reawakening the Magic: Bob Iger and the Walt Disney Company Mickey Mouse, Snow White, and Buzz Lightyear strolled down Main Street at the grand opening of Hong Kong Disney in the fall of 2005, pausing... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2018
Research & Ideas

Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?

thoughts and feelings. People varied considerably in whether they saw the open space of time before them as a blank canvas they were excited to paint—or a dark, scary void. “When you work, you are a kind of tenant in a really settled life... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Entertainment & Recreation

27 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’

can be challenging to navigate the boundaries between our workplace and personal lives, causing us to weigh whether to bring a plus-one to the office party or keep a family photo on our desk. But social media adds a whole new level of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

01 Sep 2021
What Do You Think?

Can We Train for Trust?

maintaining an open mind on the subject. As he put it, “Was the old way making your company great? We actually do have a fair bit of data on in-person management and most of it isn’t great.” According to Javier Vales, management from... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

Lack of Female Scientists Means Fewer Medical Treatments for Women

been produced by men and women equally, about 6,500 more female-focused inventions would have emerged. Opening the idea spigot The team also analyzed a vast library of biomedical research articles published between the years 2000 and... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

as far from the office as possible, fearing it would alienate some employees. But that doesn't mean his spiritual values have no place at work. He said he distills his Muslim beliefs into a set of ethics that help him guide the business.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition

lining is that many business leaders who have long been resistant to the idea of remote work may open their eyes for the first time to its benefits, including happier workers, less need for office space,... View Details