Fitness - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

them."6 This may be true enough, but here Schumpeter extends the theme of cycles into something like a determinate paradigm. He attempts the hopeless task of fitting historical patterns of business booms and busts into predictable... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

26 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 26

that a model with feelings of guilt as a mediator, but not generalized negative affect, fits the data (Study 4). Finally, we examined the relative explanatory power of different appraisals and found that appraisals of illusory control... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

with beautiful pictures, upbeat music, or dramatic lighting. Finally, emotion-focused ads do this by appealing to consumers' emotional attachment to the brand by personally connecting the product to how it will fit into their lives. (See... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

discouraging further actions. "Through this back-and-forth, the would-be leader accumulates experiences that inform his or her sense of self as a leader, as well as feedback about his or her fit for taking up the leader role,"... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

01 Sep 2011
News

Extraordinary People

make a difference in her own community when then governor John Baldacci of Maine asked for help in creating new jobs to soften the economic impact of a local Navy base closure. Her 2009 Presidential appointment to the SBA was both a natural View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

Applied Corporate Finance When One Size Doesn't Fit All: Evolving Directions in the Research and Practice of Enterprise Risk Management By: Mikes, Anette, and Robert S. Kaplan Abstract—Enterprise risk management (ERM) has become a crucial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Business and the Global Poor

Are the world's poor, who individually have less than $5 a day in disposable income, a viable market for new goods and services? Consider the fact that there are four billion people around the globe that fit this description and you have... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

Similarly, senior management in any type of firm can consciously or unconsciously fail to utilize the formal mechanisms that facilitate speaking up. In fact, much of our research has been conducted in settings that don't fit the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

of these policies—and many others like them—operate in very similar ways, which is why a comparative perspective is so helpful. Once we understand that a great many seemingly unrelated policies all fit under the rubric of risk management,... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

and practices, or to product developments in complementary industries."14 However, another leading strategist, Igor Ansoff, argued that Levitt was asking companies to take unnecessary risks by investing in new products that might not View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

Motors, and Amazon, O'Reilly and Tushman illustrate how leaders can align their organization’s cultures to fit the needed strategy, and how ideation, incubation, and scaling approaches, when used altogether, can successfully develop new... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction

the New Competitive Landscape," brought together some 450 participants to focus on challenges arising from the current political and economic climate. Given the prominence of Fitzhugh's legacy throughout the weekend's events, it was a particularly View Details

Keywords: H Naylor Fitzhugh; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Immigrant Technologist: Studying Technology Transfer with China

picture of the micro-underpinnings of this phenomena. Q: What about multinational corporations? How do they fit into this scenario? A: One of the strongest trends of globalization is that U.S. multinationals are placing larger shares of... View Details

Keywords: Re: William R. Kerr; Technology; Computer

19 Apr 2016
Blog Post

First Minutes are Critical in New-Employee Orientation

message: Welcome. You should be proud to work here. Please fit in accordingly. But research suggests that employee orientation ought to be less about the company and more about the employee. In their paper "Breaking Them In or... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

motivated state, focusing on the deadline, the profitability goals," she says. "Ideally, they will still be passionate about the work, but it's important at that point to focus in and to make sure the details of implementation are right." Karim Lakhani:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

21 May 2018
HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

follow a general roadmap. The product needs to fit into a company's price hierarchy and also the rough price hierarchy of competitors and the market in general. And in the watch's case, the fact that it was a limited edition of only 100... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion

07 May 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts

the product assortment, without changing prices, and with minimal investment” Less intuitively, however, they argue that making discount items less prominent presents a wider range of products to customers, allowing them to find items that better View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

01 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

Two Decades Later, is the 'New Economy' Finally Here?

featuring less product-centered and more information-centered economic activity.” It highlighted opinions at the time that “Growing ratios of market-to-book value that resulting stock prices produce can be justified as the monetization of valuable information assets... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

Reconcile yourself to the fact that sometimes leaders have to “behave badly” to do good Recognize that leadership situations and the qualities they require are idiosyncratic—one size does not fit all Recognize that leadership is a matter... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

the world has many shades of gray." Over the past several decades, thousands of companies have been privatized in both the developed world and emerging markets. While every company in the former Soviet Union was once state-owned, now only several thousand businesses... View Details