by HBS Working Knowledge - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

story. As a former HBS research fellow yourself, do you think there is enough attention paid by business historians to the business DNA of the enterprises they study? A: I agree. Business historians do not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Feb 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from My Success and From Others’ Failure: Evidence from Minimally Invasive Cardiac Surgery

Keywords: by KC Diwas, Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino; Health

10 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Top Scholars Say About Leadership

leadership in practice; and leadership development. Q: What are you working on next? A: Related to the study of leadership, the Dean and the HBS Division of Research generously funded two subsequent... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

01 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

The Big Influence of Small Countries in the United Nations Secretariat

years of the institution, it has been less of an indicator in more recent years, says Werker. Instead, the countries that seem to be overrepresented reflect a kind of "soft power," more adept at working behind the scenes in... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

02 May 2022
What Do You Think?

Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?

(Susan Young/Harvard Business School) “What do you think?” is a question that has graced case method discussions at the Harvard Business School for the past 100 years. The question reflects long-held beliefs by some members of the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

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... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Consumer Products; Advertising

28 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?

unique opportunity to study strategy in the making when she headed to the company's Denmark headquarters last year. The case study The LEGO Group: Envisioning Risks in Asia, coauthored with HBS research associate Dominique Hamel, vividly... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

issue of responsibility to the community and who you are as a person.” Written in 1458 in Italy by trade merchant Benedetto Cotrugli, The Book of the Art of Trade recently received its first English translation. Baker Library at View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Jan 2023
Book

Good Companies Commit Crimes, But Great Leaders Can Prevent Them

convicted Enron executives—he concluded that their crimes were seldom calculated, but rather inspired by gut feelings and a striking absence of empathy for the clients who lost their money. Soltes talked to View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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: Essentially I look at the creation... View Details

Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts; Technology

09 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity

own assumptions of other cultures—for example, by keeping a cultural journal in which they record their thoughts and observations. In the workplace, managers can create cultural "awareness moments," as HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Nov 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Entrepreneurship and Business Groups: An Evolutionary Perspective on the Growth of the Koç Group in Turkey

Keywords: by Asli M. Coplan & Geoffrey Jones

11 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

Mensah recently at Harvard Business School’s fourth annual Gender & Work Symposium. “Men talk to me all the time about wanting to be more effective (with women) in certain settings,” said Mensah, an adjunct faculty member at Baruch... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

territory, all of them are looking for guidance on how to make more rational consumption decisions. Those who know me will not be surprised to learn that I have strong opinions on these issues, many of them informed by research on... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

17 Oct 2023
HBS Case

With Subscription Fatigue Setting In, Companies Need to Think Hard About Fees

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Consumer Products; Information; Information Technology

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship

that there are many commonalities," he said. Together they developed a process model of relationship development, described in their working paper, "Building and Sustaining Buyer-Seller Relationships in Mature Industrial... View Details