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  • 21 Jun 2016
  • News

Two Black Members of Congress 'Condemn' Racism on Airbnb, Pressure CEO

  • 01 Nov 1999
  • Lessons from the Classroom

What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century

Indeed, many of the leaders we've celebrated over the last decade or two made their organizations competitive by instituting fairly linear improvements, such as reengineering, supply chain management, enhanced customer responsiveness, and... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

often comes with a dark side. This paper offers experimental evidence, specifically with regard to the relationship between creativity and unethical behavior. Research involving four experiments with university students was conducted by... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • February 2020 (Revised April 2021)
  • Case

StockX: The Stock Market of Things

By: Chiara Farronato, John J. Horton, Annelena Lobb and Julia Kelley
Founded in 2015 by Dan Gilbert, Josh Luber, and Greg Schwartz, StockX was an online platform where users could buy and sell unworn luxury and limited-edition sneakers. Sneaker resale prices often fluctuated over time based on supply and demand, creating a robust... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Auctions; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Analytics and Data Science; Market Design; Digital Platforms; Market Transactions; Marketplace Matching; Supply and Industry; Analysis; Price; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Fashion Industry; North and Central America; United States; Michigan; Detroit
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  • 20 Dec 2018
  • News

Using Fintech to Disrupt Eastern Bank from Within

  • 06 Nov 2019
  • News

It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask

  • 06 Jul 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?

The other is an article in this month's Harvard Business Review, "The End of Rational Economics," by Dan Ariely. It argues that theories, strategies, and actions based on assumptions of irrational... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why dot.coms Will Rise Again

McFarlan's high-spirited session, called "Global Internet and E-Commerce Strategies in the 21st Century," stressed the creative approaches four companies—Li & Fung, Cisco Systems, Charles Schwab & Co. Inc., and Merrill... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

economics and pop culture, particularly since the recent publication of popular books such as Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein's Nudge, Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational, and Daniel Kahneman's Thinking, Fast and Slow. Even so,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
  • October 2019 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Nehemiah Mfg. Co.: Providing a Second Chance

By: Michael Chu, Brian Trelstad and John Masko
In 2009, Dan Meyer and Richard Palmer, two veterans of the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) industry, founded Nehemiah Manufacturing to build FMCG brands while providing jobs to Cincinnati, Ohio’s beleaguered urban core. Two years later, the pair made their first... View Details
Keywords: Fast Moving Consumer Goods; Social Entrepreneurship; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Human Capital; Growth Management; Brands and Branding; Social Marketing; Mission and Purpose; Prejudice and Bias; City; Urban Scope; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Ohio; United States
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  • 12 Jan 2004
  • What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

this impact: the broad, shallow, positive impact on product prices versus the narrow, deep, negative impact on individuals." These quotes help sum up the nature of the thought-provoking debate stirred by this month's column. On the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

For Boston, whose history is better known for its midnight rides and tea parties with attitude, this was, by comparison, a low-key moment. On a slow July day in 1924 in the Hub's financial district, a new investment product was quietly... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services
  • 31 Jul 2014
  • Research & Ideas

A Scholarly Crowd Explores Crowdsourcing

Cox Pahnke, Dan Wang, and Benjamin Hallen. Ripe for study. In a plenary talk on crowdsourced contests and competitions, Lakhani outlined numerous areas in need of further study, which is made much easier by... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Apr 2012
  • News

What Class Divide? Rich and Poor, Red and Blue Agree on Wealth Distribution

  • 02 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2006

managers do can have great impact on their workers, says Professor Teresa Amabile. In this conversation with Professor Mike Roberts, she updates her ongoing research on creativity in the workplace by investigating how people's intense... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Dec 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?

harmed by our own worst instincts." Dan Wallace proposed: "I like 'nudge' solutions, and one approach here might be to provide a 100 percent mortgage interest deduction for people who put 20... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

world characterized by increasing complexity reconsidering profit as being the sole and superior criterion for business success, is the only rational approach to take." On the other hand, Dan Wallace... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett

    Working While Distancing

    Are you suddenly working from home? In this episode of HBR’s advice podcast, Dear HBR:, cohosts Alison Beard and Dan McGinn answer your questions with the help of View Details
    • 05 Aug 2015
    • What Do You Think?

    What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?

    per unit of energy consumed.”  Dan Wallace asked whether or not we have “the wrong expectations.”  As an example, he cited the sharing economy, where we achieve “better asset utilization and customer experience, but not necessarily... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer; Technology
    • 01 Oct 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Can the “Masks of Command” Coexist with Authentic Leadership?

    leadership? Those arguing that the two can coexist cite situations, generally involving adversity, in which the "greater good" is served by masking a leader's feelings. Frances Pratt argued that " we must be careful (and... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett