Design Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

for the phenomenon. Munyaradzi Mushato suggested that, "my experience in industry tells me that most jerks are created by the very systems that are designed to improve performance that is, about 70% of the jerks are bred! Most... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details

Keywords: Well-being; Judgment And Decision Making; Health; Prosocial Behavior

30 Oct 2007
First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

Harvard Business School Case 707-519 In response to a huge crisis in 2000, the new CEO of Procter & Gamble has to decide whether to continue with an unusual organizational design or to revert to the old matrix organization. Describes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

are designed by or center people with disabilities. With 1 in 4 Americans living with disabilities, it’s imperative that all companies center product inclusion at the beginning of the product development cycle. Rea Savla: Solara, my... View Details

01 Jun 2001
News

Alejandro Ramirez: A Very Good Time for Mexico

In 1996, Alejandro Ramirez (MBA 2001) was poised to accept one of two coveted spots in the U.N. Junior Professional Officer Program. For Ramirez, who had spent the previous fifteen months conducting research on economic and human... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; World Bank; United Nations; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

14 Jun 2023
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Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in East Asia

Starting last fall and continuing through the coming year, Dean Srikant Datar is traveling to meet with alumni around the world. On June 5 and 8, more than 300 alumni in East Asia gathered to celebrate and connect with each other at "An Evening with Dean Datar" events... View Details

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

balancing profit, growth and control. Difficulties encountered in the business are due to management's attempts to design and use formal control systems to achieve profit and performance goals. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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The Case Method Classroom | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content Exhibition Home Exhibition Business Education & The Case Method The General Shoe Company, 1921 Case Writing & Industry Expansion of the Case Method The Case Method Classroom Teaching & The Case Method Impact on View Details

23 Jun 2023
News

Highlights from the Spring 2023 Alumni Board Meeting

the Charles River, an Enterprise Research Campus that will include two lab buildings, a University conference center, a hotel, and two residential towers, is projected to come online by the end of the decade, according to Carl Rodrigues,... View Details

01 Mar 2024
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The Internet's Next Frontier

control/monetize their data Smart applications “The lab architecture is about supporting projects that crisscross between research and practitioner outreach and pedagogical design in a very rapid-fire way,”... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

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Attract additional Black talent to all parts of the HBS community. - Advancing Racial Equity

students at HBS. Toward these commitments, HBS has asked every faculty unit to redouble efforts to recruit outstanding Black and other underrepresented minority (URM) [2] faculty with a broad range of research interests. HBS also has... View Details

06 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

broadening our focus to understand how people can get other essential but taxing managerial tasks accomplished. Joshua is currently working on research designed to help managers and executives handle complex... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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A Tradition of Philanthropy - Alumni

Jr. makes a $5 million grant to build Aldrich Hall , which features horseshoe-shaped classrooms—a revolutionary design at the time—that facilitate case-based learning. 1950 The Kresge family makes a $2 million gift to construct a dining... View Details

24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

board performance even more difficult. Effective boards are those that take the initiative to design clear and focused forward-looking agendas, concentrating board energy on a company's specific value drivers, and then employing tools and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

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Connell House | About

Connell House William F. Connell (MBA 1963) Connell House (formerly Fowler House) is named for distinguished business leader and generous HBS benefactor William F. Connell (MBA 1963). The three-story, 5,600-square-foot Georgian Revival-style, stucco and brick building... View Details

January 2018
Case

Scaling Swagbucks (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Matthew G. Preble

In early 2014, Chuck Davis (HBS '86) has joined Swagbucks as its first professional CEO to scale a successful and profitable brand promotion and consumer research business. Davis came into the job while serving as a venture partner at TCV, a growth stage VC firm,... View Details

Keywords: Loyalty Management; Scaling; Scale; Entrepreneurship; Human Resources; Employees; Employee Relationship Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Leading Change; Growth Management; Religion; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Transition; Leadership; Web Services Industry; Technology Industry

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23 May 2018
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Claudio L. Haddad, OPM 12, 1987

Institute of Education and Research Claudio Haddad is a dreamer with a unique ability to temper his idealism with practicality. Having served as economics professor, government leader, and bank CEO, the modest Brazilian is now committed... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

16 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices-such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation-and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have trouble View Details