Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 May 2022
News

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

narrative and turn stressful moments into meaningful ones. Expect to do well How we think about an outcome influences our actual results. This insight has been demonstrated for years through the use of medical placebos. In one study,... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

01 Aug 2007
Op-Ed

Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments

African villages, store owners paint Coca-Cola signs on the sides of their tin shacks. These signs are not sanctioned or paid for by the company. They are seen by locals as a sign of credibility. Companies... View Details

Keywords: by Eric Werker

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Big Messages, Small Screens, Many Choices

comScore. Apps suck up the majority of that time. In fact, app usage alone comprises 52 percent of total digital media engagement, according to comScore. So how do companies profit from the fact that mobile users are more engaged than... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

customers and business partners). Q: Could you elaborate more on this point that firms might choose to follow the rules when they cross-list on a U.S. exchange not because they're concerned about repercussions, but because of the business reputational assets they gain... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

16 Feb 2024
Research & Ideas

As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers

becoming more important at all levels of the labor force as we move from a more mechanical engineering, manufacturing economy to a post-industrial society. Retaining and cultivating those skills as part of learning on the job is becoming... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Information Technology; Technology

18 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How Eliminating Non-Competes Could Reshape Tech

include them in the contracts of new and prospective employees, and most new employees are not in a position to negotiate against the inclusion of the non-compete term. When a state government does nothing, non-competes by default are... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology

30 May 2018
What Do You Think?

Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?

raises the questions: How hard should US trade negotiators seek to encourage such a change in Chinese policy? Does IP ownership belong in international trade deals? What do you think? Original Column Unusual attention currently is focused... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

24 Feb 2021
Lessons from the Classroom

What History's Biggest Wars Teach Us About Leading in Peace

Outside the classroom, Harvard Business School Professor Deepak Malhotra’s abiding interest is war and peace–how wars begin and end, how they could have been avoided, and what lessons can be learned from them. Along with studying wars,... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

businesses increasingly are conducting themselves on common ground in order to compete globally. They don't necessarily do business the same way—with identical processes, functions, and operations—while approaching this elevated stage;... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

08 Apr 2015
What Do You Think?

Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?

little of the policy issues, product discussions, and even general news coming out of the tech world. That's my problem. I need to fix it by doing what Jack Welch asked all of his senior colleagues at GE to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology

01 Jun 2021
What Do You Think?

Are Employers Ready for a Flood of 'New' Talent Seeking Work?

several when he said, “This isn’t something I’m comfortable with. I do not believe the workplace should be a forum for political discussion as it creates immediate division.” Quoting from a statement by the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

09 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Industry Self-Regulation: What’s Working (and What’s Not)?

workers do which activities? What is a living wage, and how does that vary by country and by urban or rural setting? These are questions for which we just don't have good... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

clarifying questions, and another made the judges feel uncomfortable by directing a passionate pitch toward just one dragon while ignoring the other four. “Employees should ask themselves: Is this a situation where expressing passion is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

13 Jun 2019
Blog Post

Expanding My Worldview Through FIELD Global Immersion

you get the chance to explore a foreign country – learn its business climate, history, culture, and politics – and work on a real project that enables a business to perform better? This is exactly what you get to View Details

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

SUMMING UP Are Computers and Tech-Driven Networks In Their Twilight Years? Issues raised by the ascendancy of network technology are many and varied, judging from responses to this month’s column based on Joshua Cooper Ramo’s book, The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2010

dispersed around the globe. But the one theme that has attracted the most HBS Working Knowledge readers over our 11-year history is how to improve personal leadership skills. A third of the articles on this page relate to improving work performance View Details

Keywords: by Staff

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

Harvard Business School professor Mihir A. Desai argues that investors and regulators are served poorly by the U.S. corporate financial reporting system, which allows companies to declare different profit figures to the IRS than they... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

08 Dec 2022
HBS Case

The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?

join the growing group of international corporations, including Renault, Volvo, Boeing, ExxonMobil, and Microsoft, that were pulling out of Russia to punish the country and pressure its leaders. Schneider weighed the good Nestlé could do... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

30 Sep 2019
Book

6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees

Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American... View Details