by Julie Battilana - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

The double-whammy of increased tariffs imposed by the United States on China and fallout from the coronavirus could make it even more difficult for American retailers to weather the storm in the coming months—or increase pressure on them... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future

and July 2014 to identify relationships among venture capitalists during a startup’s first round of funding. They concentrated on the first round because that relationship is crucial in setting the direction a startup will take. The team... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

09 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration

accessing valuable resources primarily controlled by White people, according to the study, Structuring Local Environments to Avoid Diversity: Anxiety Drives Whites’ Geographical and Institutional Self-Segregation Preferences, which will... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

in a business environment awakening to equity and inclusion. One of the first Black portfolio managers, Eddie Brown, founded the eponymous firm in 1983. It was only the second Black-founded investment firm in the US. Its performance in the decades since is enviable for... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

12 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

Crowded at the Top: The Rise of the Functional Manager

direct reports in 1986 to an average of 10 today. The growth is driven almost entirely by an increase in the number of C-level "functional" managers, rather than by an increase in general managers.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2017
News

The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change

25 Apr 2023
Op-Ed

How SHEIN and Temu Conquered Fast Fashion—and Forged a New Business Model

information technology to directly match consumer demand to dispersed production by a collection of factories in China. This method of reaching customers should inspire any business that provides products or services that come from many... View Details

Keywords: by John Deighton; Fashion; Retail; Consumer Products

04 Oct 2021
News

How Do We Make Sure the Right People End Up with Power in Organizations?

12 Apr 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

other images randomly assigned to each of them by the firm’s centralized queuing system. The analysis covered all 2,766,209 cases that the firm processed between July 2005 and December 2007. Because the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

online videos by simply turning away, opening another browser window, or chatting with someone. "It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even if you can't technically skip it," he says. “It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

21 Jun 2022
HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

Commission. A year later, in July 2021, Slack was acquired by Salesforce, the world’s largest customer-relations management software company. Butterfield and Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff shared the same goal:... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology

25 Nov 2019
Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

Research Summary

Divergent change in organizations

By: Julie Battilana

The first stream of research in Professor Battilana’s work aims to identify the conditions that enable individual actors to initiate divergent change within organizations as well as the conditions enabling successful implementation of such change. It combines... View Details

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

intense focus on software security updates, after a massive tech meltdown in July impacted millions of Microsoft Windows devices used by organizations worldwide, including airlines, hospitals, emergency call... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

or the Eiffel Tower instead of a picture of you. But if you have a photo of a dog where your face should be, it might deter people from renting your property." The researchers' data set consisted of all Airbnb New York rentals available on a randomly selected day in... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising

28 Mar 2012
What Do You Think?

Are Factory Jobs Important to the Economy?

in his recent book, some are less fungible than others. Germany was cited by Peter Sebregondi as a country that has pursued an enlightened strategy toward manufacturing, through its continued support of an apprentice system that provides... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

13 Jun 2016
Lessons from the Classroom

That's Classic: Modern-Day Business Lessons from Ancient Rome

What can MBAs learn from the Roman emperors Tiberius and Claudius? All Roads Lead to Rome, a one-off elective course team-taught by HBS professor Frances Frei and Harvard history and classics professor Emma Dench, juxtaposed ancient texts... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

March 27, 2017 Harvard Business Review How the Water Industry Learned to Embrace Data By: Cespedes, Frank V., and Amir Peleg Abstract—Most current talk about “big data” seems to assume the disintermediation or replacement of physical assets View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

and Julie Battilana Abstract—This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for... View Details