University Level - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Aug 2016
First Look

August 30, 2016

Rapidly Developed Patient-Centered Outcome Measures By: Shah, Kevin P., Tracy E. Spinks, and Thomas W. Feeley Abstract—In 2014, The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center created a streamlined process for developing measure sets... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

networking is beneficial to their careers, they often don't do it," says Francesca Gino, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study with Tiziana Casciaro (Rotman School, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

16 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Your Customers Have Changed. Here's How to Engage Them Again.

adjust their directional reality to one of three proposed growth strategies. The pace firms should use to adapt to this directional reality will be based on their level of demand, with those with decreasing demand required to urgently... View Details

Keywords: by Rohit Deshpandé, Ofer Mintz, and Imran S. Currim; Retail; Service

28 Jan 2020
Book

Advanced Leadership Requires More Than Outside-The-Box Thinking

entrepreneurs who think they can defy the rules and trample on communities and also lacking in command-and-control hierarchical types of officials. Like companies, universities can get stuck inside their buildings, too. My cofounders... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

possible—indeed, Friedman went further to say that any attempt to curb the free market was harmful to the good of society. This is the view Ramanna grapples with in a new working paper, Managers and Market Capitalism, cowritten with Rebecca M. Henderson, the John and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jun 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations

"Rather than discussing topics in the rarified air of investment banking, an industry foreign to many of our students, we wanted to be as universal as possible." Not that it is a simple situation emotionally. Stressed out over... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

equipment over time. The case details PEG’s business model, growth strategy, financial structure, and the landscape of investment capital in West Africa during the time of the case. Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/318003-PDF-ENG Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Nov 2022
Research & Ideas

A Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters

Columbia Business School, and Jee-Eun Shin, an assistant professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management. The paper urges managers to carefully consider “the spillover effects” when designing compensation contracts to... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

17 Feb 2022
Book

When Employees Feel a Sense of Purpose, Companies Succeed

success by focusing on delivering not only for their shareholders and customers but also for their employees, communities, and the environment. In the video below, I speak with Deepak Chopra, clinical professor of medicine at the View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

05 Oct 2020
Book

Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time

or free time and family? Soon after settling into her dream job, Whillans worked and traveled constantly, but her partner was miserable, with no job or friends nearby. During one work trip, the couple was fighting long distance, and Whillans barely made it to Cornell... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

12 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research

spending. “If more inventions are building on federal grants, it suggests that support is becoming more important to research generally.” Since then, corporate spending has continued to rise, while government funding has leveled off. By... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

accommodating an appropriate level of economic activity. Businesses have historically overcome this type of challenge through the introduction of risk-mitigating technologies, which in this pandemic include technologies, business... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

21 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

Do TV Debates Sway Voters?

assistant professor of business administration. “But we find that debates don’t have any effect on any group of voters.” Pons and co-author Caroline Le Pennec-Caldichoury, a doctoral candidate in economics at the University of California,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

12 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 12

Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Sep 2021
Office Hours

Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?

The global COVID-19 pandemic has shifted power dynamics not only within today’s historically tight job market, where workers have an unprecedented level of choice and control, but also within households, organizations, and society as a... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Jul 2011
What Do You Think?

So We Adapt. What’s the Downside?

levels, including that of the individual. We adapt by listening to and heeding customers. We adapt by delegating authority, often to teams operating at the lowest levels of the organization. We adapt by tracking, responding to, and even... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Nov 2021
Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

University, and Alice Lee-Yoon, a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Los Angeles. A worrisome pattern of work, work, work With three experiments, a survey, and a large dataset, the research team arrived at the same... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka

22 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Bringing ‘Lean’ Principles to Service Industries

division between the 'real world' and university research that you often encounter in the United States." Staats and Upton traveled to Wipro's offices in Bangalore on multiple occasions, interviewing employees at all View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Gender Changes the Negotiation

negotiations. After all, analysts in the investment management industry have highly portable skills and are frequently poached by competing firms. And though all of Park's employees were performing roughly the same work, they had differing View Details

Keywords: by Dina W. Pradel, Hannah Riley Bowles & Kathleen L. McGinn

23 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Three-Dimensional Strategy: Winning the Multisided Platform

Wright, an economics professor at the National University of Singapore, set out to clearly define MSPs, contrast them with traditional resellers and input suppliers, and address the strategic consideration of where firms "choose to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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