Learning By Doing - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

festival, or mela, for the millions of pilgrims. The Maha Kumbh Mela is happening right now. It's expected to draw close to 200 million people over almost eight weeks, and as many as 30 million in a single day. The Harvard team is here to View Details

Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

21 May 2024
Research & Ideas

What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year

see how many things [Denmark has] in place to redistribute income and wealth. I was curious to understand how we got to this point, and how do we build a society that can redistribute more and have such a robust safety net. This led me to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

04 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges

Keywords: by James Sebenius

14 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Getting Down to the Business of Creativity

backgrounds—the intersection where creativity is most likely to occur, according to The Medici Effect, a book by Frans Johansson (HBS MBA '00) that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile's... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Entertainment & Recreation

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

caution as having emerged from "new information" or "change in the knowledge base." Why, then, is the rediscovery of the lessons of the interwar years, apparently long forgotten or rejected, so frequently described as "learning"? And why has the European Commission... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

05 May 2022
HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

than 70 percent of Black, Latinx, and rural workers from landing jobs, even though they may have the actual skills to do the required work. Many companies rely on machine learning algorithms that... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

08 Sep 2008
HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

28 Nov 2023
Book

Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?

democracies, which are imperfect and messy, but endeavor to fundamentally protect the rights and safety of people.” Sean Silverthorne: In general, what do business leaders need to know about operating in authoritarian regimes? Meg... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

perspectives so students can understand everything that's happening. One of those cases was actually on financial fraud at Bausch & Lomb, a fraud uncovered by the press in a lot of detail. Another situation was Intel with their... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

share their mistakes as a team-building exercise to improve communication and collaboration. “You can motivate your team to work harder by doing this,” Brooks says. “I know I have felt that way seeing other... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

26 Sep 2024
HBS Case

If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?

John Stuart Mill, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old questions autonomous vehicles are now raising—in new and urgent ways—for businesses and their leaders. “And by genuine ethical decisions, I mean decisions about the rights of... View Details

Keywords: by Tom Quinn; Auto; Technology

02 May 2023
What Do You Think?

How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?

Do you want learning based on all the information, good and bad, in the world? Or should some sources be banned? And how about output? Should certain uses of the output be limited? Should disclaimers as to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Information Technology; Technology

27 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership

In the deep heat of an 18th-century summer, a crew of pirates was sailing off the Virginia coast when a lookout spotted a merchant ship to the south. Springing into action, the pirates launched an attack, rocking the merchant ship with a cascade of musket balls and... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

time because they do not distinguish between the two." Revising Expectations Ghosh notes that venture capitalists could help mitigate personal failures by allowing for the expectation of company growing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023

Ranjay Gulati talks to Tynan about her learning journey, and how she managed the risks of entrepreneurship while aiming to make a lasting impact. Saving BlackBerry: CEO John Chen Explains How to Make the Hard Calls John Chen was hired to... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

14 Feb 2023
HBS Case

Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis

of how difficult it’s going to be.” Spar says the Social Democrats “tried to do the right thing,” by welcoming migrants. “But there is a tacit consensus that they went faster and farther than the country... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

12 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

use the Internet to provide more detailed information of interest to specific stakeholders. Through Web 2.0 tools and technologies, a company can engage with all stakeholders in a meaningful dialogue that includes listening as well as simply reporting or talking. View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding

real-world challenges and anxieties faced by increasing numbers of Americans.” As HBS professor Anat Keinan explains, "Today, underdog brand biographies are being used by both large and small companies... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace