Year Up - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

along with his mother at Sainsbury’s in England. Back then, shoppers visited different counters to request various foods, paying for cheese at the cheese counter, fruit at the fruit counter, and so on. Years later, self-service became the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

Leadership: Advancing the Field By Scott A. Snook, Nitin Nohria, and Rakesh Khurana It has been more than twenty-five years since a handful of intrepid associates in West Point's Department of Behavioral Sciences and Leadership published... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

100 years. The situation may be due in large part to the role of university-based business education from the founding of the Wharton School in 1881 and continuing right up to the present. According to Khurana, the schools first... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

13 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

immigrants. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54963 Reverse the Curse of the Top-5 By: Kaplan, Robert S. Abstract—The past 40 years has seen a large increase in the number of articles submitted to... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

A company's internal deliberations and changing beliefs about women in the workplace over the course of two decades, particularly about their role as leaders, is the subject of a recent paper that traces how fundamental societal views can change an organization. The... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

and mentored a bevy of other scholars who explored and explained the coming of managerial capitalism through their research, writings, and course development. Thirteen years after Professor Chandler's retirement, that tradition of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

organizations involved. But Deflategate isn’t the only issue examined by the case. “What started essentially as an analytics exercise ended up as a much broader analysis of the data, the sport, the NFL, and how it’s organized and how it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

spent several years unlocking the power of school ties, studying how these social connections affect important decisions and, ultimately, help shape the economy. Their research shows that it's possible to make better stock picks simply by... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

easier, and reduced the influence of the integration stages. The courtship stage isn’t necessarily taking up more time during the pandemic—in fact, it may take less since recruits’ schedules are more flexible and there’s less expectation... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

15 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

Working PapersCompetition in Modular Clusters Authors:Carliss Y. Baldwin and C. Jason Woodard Abstract The last twenty years have witnessed the rise of disaggregated "clusters," "networks," or "ecosystems"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Nov 2016
First Look

November 8, 2016

diversified business groups in contemporary developed economies of Western Europe, North America, and Oceania. It aims to come up with a new theoretical understanding of diversified business groups and other comparable models of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

values or investment decisions. In other words, financing structure does not matter. Yet much of the empirical research in the field of corporate finance over the last twenty-five years has attempted to show that financing structures do,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

20 May 2013
Research & Ideas

The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness

day or two a week at a major corporations, receive mentorship, and are matched with a "work buddy." The model should be scaled up to include the state's other 14 community colleges, she said. Gregory Bialecki, secretary for the... View Details

Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette

23 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

On a continent with many challenges to development, no issue is more pressing in Africa than the heavy toll of the AIDS epidemic. In addition to the staggering costs in terms of social upheaval and human suffering, AIDS cuts down workers in their prime View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

media usage had declined among Americans less than 35 years old, and the only age group using Facebook more were people 55 or older, according to Edison Research.) As a marketing medium, online channels were cluttered and increasingly... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

“which is a fancy way of referring to all of the things you don’t have as a new company—products, knowledge, connections, resources.” The most common and effective way to make up for that lack is to find someone who can help you overcome... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

16 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation

transcripts, Yu says the team encountered plenty of bad calls, and it was "mind-boggling" how poorly some CEOs and CFOs communicated. Take the CFO of one of the largest retail banking groups in Europe, who was asked about a slide in the presentation. He... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

insufficient institutional checks and balances. At Enron at the end of 1999, the options that were vested were worth $2.4 billion. That is too much temptation to put in front of people—temptation to sell out secretly, "cooking the books" as necessary to hold... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

crescendo last March when insurance conglomerate AIG, kept on life support with up to $183 billion in taxpayers' cash, dished out bonuses totaling $165 million to 400 employees in the London office whose derivatives trading nearly... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

them opportunities to learn. In this paper, we investigate how these two strategies may bring different productivity benefits over time. For our empirical analyses, we use two-and-a-half years of transaction data from a Japanese bank's... View Details