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- 10 Mar 2021
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books, Podcasts
the world’s biggest problem—CO2 and climate change—provides a quick and entertaining introduction to the science behind it. This concise primer is for anyone interested in how CO2 impacts our climate, but even knowledgeable readers will View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won independence from Britain. Buy the book:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
internal data with government to gain understanding into their employees—providing insight, for example, into health behavior of workers in different neighborhoods. “There is so much data now, it’s exhilarating—and frightening,” says... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Books
experimentation, the way their R&D organizations are structured, and their preconceptions about the relationship between experimentation and learning. The principles establish the rationale for frequent and early experimentation, outline proven innovation strategies,... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
working paper, published this year, titled "Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education." Mallory Stark: How does the PELP program operate? Stacey Childress and Allen Grossman: PELP operates as a learning laboratory... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
month, reviewing the numbers. I learned a lot about medicine that way. Wasn't your husband also in the health-care industry at the time? Yes. Under a push for funding from President Nixon, there had started to be more research and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
They Call Him Mr. China
began to improve almost immediately,” he recalls. Looking back, Perkowski maintains that not speaking Chinese hasn’t hindered his ability to work in China. “Not knowing the language forced me to rely on others and learn who I could... View Details
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
behavior and practices led Enron down the path from truly innovative to fraudulent management? How could Enron’s board of directors have failed to detect the business, ethical, and legal risks embedded in the company’s aggressive... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
experiences. Over the past year, Gordon has built relationships with Cuban entrepreneurs—the guides, the musicians, the restaurateurs, the vintage-car tour operators—who help provide these experiences to visitors. “It means taking the time to understand and View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
let the incumbent's actual development plans leak out and allow the entrant to wait and learn these plans prior to setting an R&D level. We identify conditions for the entrant to postpone development despite the risk of being late to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2019
- News
After the Storm
inappropriate behavior and misconduct with Noble alumni, and the board appointed Jones as his replacement. Now a year into the role, Jones talks to Associate Editor Jen Flint about how she faced the challenge of taking over an... View Details
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large... View Details
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
the Organizational Behavior unit at Harvard Business School, who spent five years as a management consultant at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) before joining the HBS faculty. “And so we have this sort of binge diet kind of process of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
holding across a wide range of industries and controlling for factors such as productivity and related technological capabilities. The results are explicated by a framework I develop for understanding the drivers of this behavior and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
the doctor did a bad job. But with evidence on outcomes and true risks, the burden of proof to sue a doctor will rise. Doctors will learn to be happier in a world where they are measuring results more than they are today. We take the... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
identified four different approaches people used to perform necessary evils effectively, so that the task got done and the victims were treated with decency and respect.” Margolis, an associate professor of business administration in the Organizational View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
that is ultimately deadly. “I’m really sad that some of these [drugs] are in the songs we listen to,” one girl muses. They’re opening up, thinking about what they’re learning with the sort of fresh perspective that comes with youth and... View Details
- Blog
Two-Year Action Plan Update: Q+A with Terrill Drake, Chief Diversity and Inclusion Officer at Harvard Business School
director of strategic initiatives. Alicia Thomas, who is on our team as well as the MBA and Doctoral programs team, is the director of diversity and inclusion for the MBA and Doctoral programs and is the direct link to the student experience. Our core team now has... View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
effects of the economic shutdown and the ways in which small businesses are adjusting both their behaviors and expectations as the situation unfolds, the researchers aim to help shape potential policy responses. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS... View Details