Tragedy Of The Commons - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

"While the energy industry has been in the forefront of a demand for more information from a broad group of stakeholders, this demand is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

17 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission

organization ended up hiring a mix of social workers, sociologists, anthropologists, bankers, and economists. The idea was that these seasoned employees would complement each other with their disparate... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

Digital record-keeping is slowly but inevitably replacing paper records everywhere from the pilot's cockpit to the registry of motor vehicles. But if implemented without proper... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

going to prison,’ instead of pitching them on my company,” says Blakeman. Once you’ve told your story, connect the dots to the social problem that needs to be fixed. “This is a... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

10 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

encourage the continued patronage of customers. They allow retailers to gather data on customer behavior in order to decipher trends, appropriately reward loyalty, and influence shopping behavior. Loyalty... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

27 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured

It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

directors. This can serve to cut down on the clubby board atmosphere. Outside recruitment has grown more common in recent years, in part because of improved governance and in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

selling season. As common in practice, we assume the demand function contains unknown parameters, which must be learned from sales data. In the presence View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both

HBS professor David A. Thomas hates the word "mentor." In his opinion, it's as empty a buzzword as "coach." In fact, when Thomas spoke to an audience of around 100 administrative managers... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

them." Congestion: When Roth and his colleagues were invited to improve the way New Yorkers are matched with high schools, they recognized a problem of market congestion. This is a View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

25 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 25

PublicationsHeterogeneity and Graceful Technology Retreats: A New Perspective on Responding to Dominant Technological Threats Authors:Ron Adner and Daniel Snow Publication:Industrial and Corporate Change (forthcoming) Abstract We explore View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

September 2018 Strategy Science Applying Random Coefficient Models to Strategy Research: Identifying and Exploring Firm Heterogeneous Effects By: Alcácer, Juan, Wilbur Chung, Ashton Hawk, and Gonçalo Pacheco-de-Almeida Abstract—Strategy aims at understanding View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

stake in a number of portfolio companies at Fair Market Value. As they conside whether to exercise their option to purchase Bain Capital's stake in Artisan Entertainment, the company has an extremely... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Radical Change, Entrepreneurial Opportunity

publisher of Harvard Business School's NewBusiness, recently sat down with Tripsas to learn more about her research. Michael J. Roberts: How would you define the territory your work covers? Mary Tripsas:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

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 How does a team leader win the confidence... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

26 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

A Clear Eye for Innovation

The Roman god Janus had two sets of eyes—one pair focusing on what lay behind, the other on what lay ahead. General managers and corporate executives should be able to relate.... View Details

Keywords: by Charles A. O'Reilly III & Michael L. Tushman

18 Nov 2016
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Making a Fast Start on a New Job

Manager (Like Bill Belichick)? Few of us want to take less money to move to another organization, but research shows hooking up with the right manager—whether in sports or business—can quickly increase your... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Oct 2009
Research Event

HBS Past and Present

ever to the way the School thinks and operates. Key concepts include: Harvard Business School was founded on the idea of helping people make a... View Details

Keywords: & F. Warren McFarlan; Education

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

performance based on historical data that should help users to avoid a common mistake of overestimating the sustainability of strong (or poor)... View Details