Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship in the Natural Food and Beauty Categories Before 2000: Global Visions and Local Expressions

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage

31 Jan 2007
HBS Case

When Good Teams Go Bad

What could better symbolize high-level business performance than an eight-oared crew team rowing in perfect unison, their boat powered by a selfless collaboration of strength, skill, and shared purpose? It's no wonder that advertisers... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Marketing a Country: Promotion as a Tool for Attracting Foreign Investment.

Investment Promotion Like some other activities financed by governments, investment promotion has certain characteristics of tasks typically carried out by the government but others that are normally... View Details

Keywords: by Louis T. Wells & Alvin G. Wint

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

not only changed how Yoffie designed the course, called Strategy and Technology, but it's also changing how managers in tech-intensive companies are dealing with this issue on the front lines. Yoffie begins the course by exploring the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

drain from the suburbs, and redefine demographics in many locations, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor at HBS. In The Changing Geography of Work: Priorities for Policy Makers, published recently by the Organisation for... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

11 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies

innovation of new business models. Can you talk about that a bit? A: Yes, even if your company is operating in an established market, some organizations have shown that it's possible to open up space in a crowded industry by thinking of a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Web Services

11 Jul 2016
HBS Case

Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

orientation. “Innovation is about finding ideas that are outside the normal parameters, and you don’t do that by slicing away everything that’s outside the normal parameters. Maybe it’s the parts of people... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

law aims to encourage. In the process, these liquidations ultimately shortchange creditors by billions of dollars a year, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Samuel B.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

Despite widespread investment in entrepreneurship in cities across America, venture capital-funded startups still tend to be founded by white men in Silicon Valley. In contrast, businesses led by women are... View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

14 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism

disagreement, but the fact that there was so much disagreement within Ukrainian society meant that, clearly, the Ukrainian government was doing the most reasonable thing it could do View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World

consider. “Business travel is still required,” says Choudhury, who wrote the study with Dany Bahar, an associate professor at Brown University; Do Yoon Kim, an assistant professor at Boston College; and Wesley Koo, an assistant professor... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Air Transportation

23 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness

remote work. “There’s a huge value to real interactions even if they are occurring virtually,” says Goldenberg, who is a psychologist by training and an assistant professor at HBS. To test online experiences, the group took advantage of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 May 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship’s Wild Ride

slightly different approach to research in this area by deciding that entrepreneurship should not be what we study, but rather, the entrepreneurial firm should be where we study. Q: What have been the main findings of the inquiry that has... View Details

Keywords: by William Mahoney

07 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

Supervisor of Sandwiches? More Companies Inflate Titles to Avoid Extra Pay

research out of Harvard Business School. In fact, these are just a handful of suspect titles companies are using to classify hourly workers as supervisors and avoid paying an estimated $4 billion in overtime a year, finds a study by... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

16 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their economic interest to do... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

07 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Whatever Happened to Caveat Emptor?

Many of us learned at an early age the expression caveat emptor, or let the buyer beware. The phrase conjured up an image of a roiling, rollicking market that consumers best entered equipped for battle and prepared for disappointment—or... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

05 Apr 2004
What Do You Think?

Should We Brace Ourselves for Another Era of M&A Value Destruction?

promoting the best managers from each organization, (6) timed their integration activities to avoid significant disclosure prior to regulatory approval of the acquisition while doing whatever necessary to "survive" a sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

An Organization Your Customers Understand

consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that functions report to the... View Details

Keywords: by Robert Simons

15 Mar 2024
HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

of “fake harmony” that has become popular in today’s workplace and learn how to speak up appropriately, she says. “What do you speak about with colleagues?” Wing asks. “Weather, food, sports, and sometimes... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

02 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'

and a former professional French-horn player, Brooks came to the subject of happiness by way of art. His early research focused on why people produce and consume art and beauty as well as the motives behind human generosity. He discovered... View Details

Keywords: by Dan Morrell

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