by Paul Novosad - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

American Idle: Workers Spend Too Much Time Waiting for Something to Do

Paul Bradbury American workers are usually a pretty busy bunch, yet their time spent idle costs employers an estimated $100 billion per year, according to a new study from Harvard Business School. “We suspected idle time might be more... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

"A world without surprises or bad news is utopian I often coach employees to expect the worst and prepare for it studies should focus on preparation rather than prevention." Paul McKay commented that "By having a clear,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Oct 2021
What Do You Think?

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

copy of an extensively researched recent book, Power, for All, by Professors Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro. The authors define power as “the ability to influence others’ behavior, be it through persuasion or coercion (through)... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers

jointly decide to donate their bodies to science after they die. In Individuals' Decision to Co-Donate or Donate Alone: An Archival Study of Married Whole Body Donors in Hawaii, published online by the Public Library of Science, the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

20 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening

the Washington Post headlined, If Howard Schultz runs for president, Starbucks will be on the ballot, too. Schultz’s political ambitions mark a growing wave of business leaders speaking out on social issues—termed “CEO activism” by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

10 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

John Kotter’s Plan to Accelerate Your Business

book, he follows how the accelerators are used by Paul Davidson, a top sales executive at a B2B tech firm, who was grappling with sales growth decline. Davidson shared four goals at the start of building the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

05 Sep 2008
What Do You Think?

Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?

Summing Up Is the case method gaining relevance over time? Case method instruction may not be perfect, but to paraphrase Winston Churchill's view of democracy (and Sameer Kamat's response to the column), it's better than the alternatives. At least that's the impression... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Education

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

by colleagues here at HBS (Amanda Cowen, Boris Groysberg, and Paul Healy) and elsewhere (Brad M. Barber, Reuven Lehavy, and Brett Trueman) confirms that brokerages without investment banking operations are... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

2022
Book

Private Equity

By: Paul A. Gompers and Steven N. Kaplan

This Advanced Introduction provides an illustrative guide to private equity, integrating insights from academic research with examples to derive practical recommendations. Paul Gompers and Steven Kaplan begin by reviewing the history of private equity then exploring... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Funds; Value Creation

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02 Dec 2010
What Do You Think?

Making Right Choices: Art or Science?

using art to sharpen the intuitiveness that goes into the moment of choice." Others maintained that choosing is neither an art nor a science. Laurence McKinney said, "We ultimately base our decisions on 'feelings'" and emotions, aided View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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

01 Jul 2020
News

20-30% of Small Businesses Will Fail Despite PPP

15 Apr 2020
News

Former SBA Head: Fintech Is Key To Aid Small Businesses

20 Oct 2010
Op-Ed

Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic

Editor's Note: Christian Ketels wrote this paper for the World Bank's Development Debate, "What Do We Mean by Export Competitiveness and How Do Countries Achieve it in an Uncertain World?" held March 29, 2010. Ketels is... View Details

Keywords: by Christian Ketels

26 Mar 2024
Research & Ideas

How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change

research with Ahmet Kaan Uğuralp and Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp of Turkey’s Bilkent University; L. A. Paul of Yale University; Joshua Tenenbaum of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology; and Tomer D. Ullman, an assistant professor in... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Why IT Does Matter

cost performance of IT technologies over the first forty years changed by roughly 107, and for the foreseeable future will continue to evolve at the same rate. That is in sharp contrast to a train, which after eighty years moved six times... View Details

Keywords: by F. Warren McFarlan & Richard L. Nolan

04 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

The Real Cost of Bribery

The World Bank estimates that the equivalent of $1 trillion is offered in bribes every year. In the age of globalization, it's easy to see how giving into bribery might be competitively advantageous. In fact, research by Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Mar 2018
What Do You Think?

What Should Mark Zuckerberg Do?

Facebook’s vision and mission statement.” Brendan Coffey led the way in proposing that “FB needs a much more active strategy to place the user in a position of control with respect to how their data is used.” Bhanu Ramenani suggested one way this could be done is View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Web Services; Information Technology

19 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?

journals. “Academic research can be helpful, but it tends to be overly complex, hard to digest, and not backed by real quantitative insights from customer populations or engagements,” says Neale-May, executive director of the Chief... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

Bloomberg: Harvard Case Studies Show ESG Can Also Generate Alpha

Harvard Business School Professor and former investment banker Vikram Gandhi discusses impact and sustainable investing. Hosted by Lisa Abramowicz and Paul Sweeney. View Details

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