by Joseph Hinsey - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2013
News

Booked: The Good Struggle

05 Jul 2021
News

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

24 Oct 2017
News

Harvard study: Employers making it harder to hire

01 Feb 2018
News

Going to university is more important than ever for young people

17 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

20 Feb 2019
Research & Ideas

Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?

space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson,... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Wallask; Aerospace; Tourism; Transportation

25 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker

days would call African Americans 'Aunt' or 'Uncle' or by their first name, Ben or Sarah or whatever. They would never address them by their surname." Although Breedlove's marriage to a newspaper... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Beauty & Cosmetics

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

ambitions, and my personal life. Books that are on my list to read are Shantaram: A Novel, by Gregory David Roberts, Things Fall Apart, by Chinua Achebe, A Daughter of Han, by... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jun 2007
Research & Ideas

Remembering Alfred Chandler

academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists such as Max Weber and Talcott... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2021
In Practice

What's the Role of Business in Confronting Climate Change?

The 26th annual United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties, also known as COP26, ended with a hard-fought pact that called on businesses and governments to meet their climate change goals faster. The event followed an August report by the Intergovernmental... View Details

Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Dina Gerdeman

06 Sep 2021
News

How to Make Sure Your New Work Policies Don’t Make People Want to Leave

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

us the background and how you think about innovation? Gary Pisano: Probably the greatest economist of the 20th century was Joseph Schumpeter. He was really the godfather of the economics of innovation. He described a process he termed... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Apr 2024
News

Classroom Culture and Norms Working Group Q+A

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

From the dawn of the U.S. transcontinental railroad in 1869 to the widespread embrace of consumer products like cell phones and iPods in our time, the story of American business is in constant motion, never at rest—or at ease. A new volume edited and narrated View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

22 Apr 2022
News

Why Many Employers Have Ditched Four-Year Degree Requirements

13 Nov 2014
News

'Middle skills' key to workforce development

30 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax

foreign direct investment and for sustainable economic growth? These questions and more are explored in a forthcoming business case coauthored by Alfaro along with HBS professor Rafael M. Di Tella, Executive Director of the HBS Europe... View Details