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- 01 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
How Foundations Think: The Ford Foundation as a Dominating Institution in the Field of American Business Schools
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
annual Cyberposium conference held at Harvard Business School on November 19. As an industry, he suggested, venture capital has little to recommend it. "In the future, I see a median rate of return of zero or less," stated... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Accidental Innovator
do. In their recent working paper "Accident, Innovation, and Expectation in Innovation Process," authors Robert D. Austin and Lee Devin explore the concept of accidental innovation, how it works or doesn't, and how good accidents can be encouraged. Austin is... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
A recent conference at Harvard Business School addressed the on-the-ground reality of women leaders 50 years after the first women were admitted to the School's two-year MBA Program. And the reality is that women leaders are stuck—for... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation
Harvard economist N. Gregory Mankiw, Weinzierl coauthored the HBS working paper "The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution" [PDF]. The main framework economists use to think through tax... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Turning Point: Coming to Cambodia
director, and started small by simply updating the museum’s English-language entry on Wikipedia. That led to conducting strategy, management, and proposal-writing workshops for, among others, the National... View Details
- 16 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Turning One Thousand Customers into One Million
First 1,000 Customers, we explored how these two-sided platforms got their start and attracted a significant number of early adopters based on a Harvard Business School case that professor Teixeira wrote with Morgan Brown. “Airbnb... View Details
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
In a new book, Breakthrough International Negotiation: How Great Negotiators Transformed the World's Toughest Post-Cold War Conflicts, Harvard Business School professor Michael Watkins dissects the art of give-and-take. This excerpt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- Blog
How We Are Keeping HBS—and Our Program Participants—Healthy
safety precautions. At the heart of these efforts is a policy requiring masks indoors. We also have provided guidelines for social distancing, created procedures for holding on-campus meetings or events, and implemented regulations for work-related travel. But our work... View Details
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
job? A: The key lesson to boards is that, for compensation and incentive purposes, when management has high career concerns, sometimes less information is better. And, recent evidence suggests that high career concerns in View Details
- 15 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Infographic: Can I Please Speak to an Actual Person?
Based on the Working Paper, Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety through Access to Human Contact (pdf) by Michelle A. Shell and Ryan W. Buell. Shell is a doctoral student at Harvard Business School, and Buell is the UPS... View Details
- 27 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes
Harvard Business School professors often travel into the field to conduct business research, but it's a safe bet none have had the experience of Professor Robin Ely. She and coauthor Debra Meyerson of Stanford University took helicopter... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
generations. What doors are opening? Which remain closed? The book, written by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria, and Boston College's Laura G. Singleton, is the second in a trilogy... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
faculty, whose scholarship and teaching skills attract hundreds of Harvard MBA students to their classrooms each year. Among the latest books by HBS historians are publications View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
Professor Kash Rangan is one of the pioneers of Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative, now 15 years old. Back in 1993, most people took a "spray and pray" approach to philanthropy—writing checks to charities and... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in building processes that will... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
place.” None of it helps clean up a workplace mess. ADVERSITY TOOLKIT Managers can soup up resilience in themselves as well as their teams by making a shift in how they size up a challenge. Rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2022
- HBS Case
Building an 'ARMY' of Fans: Marketing Lessons from K-Pop Sensation BTS
What would it take to attract customers who are so loyal that they would not only buy your products, but would also lavish your distributors with flowers and purchase advertising to elevate your brand? Ask the minds behind K-pop sensation BTS. Created View Details
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
behaviors that other employees embrace. Others accomplish the same objective more positively. At Baptist Health Care, for example, managers constantly reinforce the culture by recognizing those whose actions... View Details