Reaching For Yield - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

capital investing has reached an all-time high. Although their background skills and experiences fall outside venture capital, they have identified a large investor and a number of smaller investors to back their small fund. They believe... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How to Profit from Scarcity

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.Marketers are trained to match supply to demand. Everything... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Advertising

15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

In the early 1990s, both Teradyne and Hewlett-Packard identified new technologies that had enormous potential to cause new-market disruptions. As with most disruptive innovations, these technologies offered to provide smaller and less expensive solutions View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable

like to think of themselves as truly indispensable—impact makers, history movers, culture changers—few reach the bar set by Steve Jobs, Napoleon, or Martin Luther King Jr., Mukunda says. (Even some people you might think would be shoo-ins... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Where Does Apple Go From Here?

songs since its April 2003 debut. No wonder then that Steve Jobs was a recent BusinessWeek cover boy. But for longtime Apple watcher David Yoffie, the Max and Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity

productivity. “What managers were seeing wasn't real. It was a show being put on for an audience” What's more, in a curious phenomenon dubbed the Transparency Paradox, he finds that watching your employees less closely at work might View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

history, HBS assistant professor Noel Maurer considers these questions and opens the door to other queries involving issues of economics and governance that reach well beyond the United States and its neighbor to the south. Mexico makes a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

30 Apr 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Brand Management

Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions To Be Answered Does branding work for business-to-business marketing? Can individuals... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Sports; Publishing; Auto

15 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Political Dysfunction Makes America Less Competitive

results of surveys of global business leaders and the general public, says the US is “failing the test of competitiveness.” Overall prosperity may be growing slowly—but only for a small slice of the population. Large companies and highly... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

18 Nov 2009
HBS Case

Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu

He's been called "the Salvador Dalí of the kitchen" for creations ranging from beetroot and yogurt ice-cream lollipops to a deconstructed Spanish omelet served in a parfait glass. Each year, some 2 million hopeful diners vie to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

08 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

particular traits and skills allowing them to maintain relevance. These include adaptability, a proclivity for collaboration and communication, a willingness to delegate tasks when appropriate, and a disposition View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

creditors for quality reporting. In contrast, the "opportunistic behavior" hypothesis posits that public equity firms, because their managers have a greater incentive to manage earnings, have lower earnings quality than their... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

31 May 2016
First Look

May 31, 2016

benefit of increasing equity risk declines. We show that there is an interior optimum and that it is reached at lower leverage for firms with high asset risk. Empirically, the risk anomaly tradeoff theory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Sep 2015
Op-Ed

The Real Duty of the Board of Directors

significant audiences for the corporation’s vitality and long-term success. This clearly includes shareholders, but it could include other stakeholders, such as employees. This is simply about transparency in the purpose the board sees... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans

29 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors

cave—if you have a collection of caves within reach of each other—know other members of other caves, and it's this combination of a tight, local clustering with an occasional weak, distant tie to other clusters, that is the essence of a... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Publishing

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

the Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Paul W. Marshall, the MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management Practice and course head for The Entrepreneurial Manager, and Richard G. Hamermesh, senior lecturer and instructor... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

practices. We agree with critics that corporate practices, which have significant consequences for society, risk being formulated beyond the reach of democratic accountability. We also concur that such... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

04 Oct 2016
First Look

October 4, 2016

yield lessons for the management of creative workers and for the implementation of competitive procurement mechanisms for innovation. Download... View Details

14 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

both heartening and disturbing. “We were looking for 'Generally Accepted Conduct Principles.'"—Rohit Deshpandé The good news is that the researchers found broad consensus among the employees of the four multinationals who were asked... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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