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Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell

them. Ryan: At HBS, research literally meets practice. The questions we tackle arise from a deep understanding of both the extant theory and the real problems managers face. Michelle entered the doctoral... View Details

25 Feb 2020
News

How Artificial Intelligence is Changing Business

course—and buoyed by student interest—the professors are developing an MBA elective to be taught in fall 2021 and eventually through HBS Online. The new course will explore questions managers face when adopting AI with cases addressing... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2016
News

Faculty Q&A: Price Check

addition, online retailers have a vast amount of data at their fingertips; solving complex problems with data seemed like a natural fit. Tell me about the research you did with Rue La La. Rue La La is in the online flash sales industry,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Nonstore Retailers; Retail Trade

13 Dec 2017
News

Skydeck Live: What Really Motivates American Voters?

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on SoundCloud More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Late last summer Diane Hessan (MBA 1977) got a call from the Hillary Clinton campaign. Hessan's an entrepreneur and executive. And she previously founded the market View Details

19 Aug 2016
News

Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets

lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this... View Details

03 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts

flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

the ones that scare me." These comments raise the question of how much theory tells us about selecting for harder to measure characteristics such as possible behaviors under fire and motives as opposed to skills and past... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

29 Jun 2022
Blog Post

Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path

argues Timothy Butler, senior fellow and faculty advisor to Career and Professional Development Programs at Harvard Business School. His research focuses on career decision making. In this interview, Butler discusses his new book, The... View Details

01 Sep 2003
News

Rock Center Dedication

discussed digital networks, Clark Gilbert presented research on corporate innovation, and Stig Leschly shared insights on education reform. Rock then answered questions about his life and career, stressing... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

or vice versa? A: As a matter of academic rigor, we do not at this stage of the research make a causal statement on this. However, we believe that multimarket interaction in product, labor, and capital markets with the U.S. that results... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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A Jay Holmgren

assisted with his father’s care. “I had this gigantic binder of test results that I would have to fax to different specialists and providers,” he explains. “I thought to myself, ‘Why do I still have this physical folder? Why don’t we have better systems for doing... View Details

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

Tracking Study, Teixeira and colleagues question whether advertisers are striking the right balance between entertaining and promoting their brands. Could companies entertain less and get consumers to buy more? Teixeira's View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

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European Economic History & Philosophy | Baker Library

European Economic History & Philosophy Kress Collection of Business and Economics The Kress Collection is recognized as one of the largest collections of books, serials, pamphlets, broadsides, manuscripts, and prints in the world about business and economics. View Details

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Marketing Wine to the World

"The Changing Structure of the Global Wine Industry," won the Best Paper award at the 2003 European Applied Business Research Conference. Roberto recently shared his thoughts on wine for HBS Working Knowledge in an e-mail... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Food & Beverage

04 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions

After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes phoned convicted felon Bernie... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Mar 2005
What Do You Think?

Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?

Business Management a Profession?" In it, Harvard Business School colleagues Rakesh Khurana and Nitin Nohria and their research associate, Daniel Penrice, propose that it comes up short on several dimensions characteristic of other... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

10 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing

that the teleradiology industry views its product as a commodity—that is, two qualified radiologists are expected to read the same image in the same way. That situation provided the research team an opportunity to test three View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health

03 Feb 2020
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization Have Too Much 'Rebel Talent'?

organizations are, at once, on many right tracks and wrong tracks. “The right question is therefore not the amount of ‘rebel talent’ but how to focus it on the right causes.” David Wittenberg concurred. As he put it, “organizations should... View Details