Filter Results:
(1,947)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,656)
- People (5)
- News (793)
- Research (1,947)
- Events (27)
- Multimedia (32)
- Faculty Publications (1,037)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,656)
- People (5)
- News (793)
- Research (1,947)
- Events (27)
- Multimedia (32)
- Faculty Publications (1,037)
Sort by
- 10 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice
some become more successful—but led others down the wrong path, says Rembrand Koning, the Mary V. and Mark A. Stevens Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. How much strategic insight and profit boost... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
these facilities on a single block." The New York State Department of Environmental Conservation provided the research team with the records of all 28 million OBD-II inspections View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sometimes Success Begins at Failure
to have any further potential. Once the project was sidelined, IBM decided to publish it on its AlphaWorks Web site, where outsiders could examine and download various IBM software. Soon thereafter, IBM managers noticed that this particular piece View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
"How do we survive? It's like many of the great companies who survive corruption in their own countries. For us, the challenge is how to conduct our business in the most ethical way and according to the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
When Stephen Kaufman took the helm at Arrow Electronics in 1982, it was de rigueur for CEOs to sit on the boards of several other companies in addition to running their own. Back then, serving as a board member didn't require much View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive social spillovers. We conduct a field experiment in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
here, it could be made to happen most anywhere. Imagine my delight then, when four years after we conducted our first experiment at BCG's Boston office, 86 percent of the consulting staff in the firm's... View Details
Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
and conducted in collaboration with John and doctoral candidate Tami Kim. Their research is detailed in their paper The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others’ Preferences, which will appear in a... View Details
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
improve the lives of the estimated two billion people who live on less than $2 a day by facilitating more secure, accessible, and reliable ways to store and transfer money than are currently available. The development View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
believe that with all of these positive cognitive effects, you might also get benefits for decision making,” says Karmarkar, who conducted the research with UMass Amherst psychology professor Rebecca Spencer... View Details
- 24 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
IPR: Protecting Your Technology Transfers
local economies where they do business. We asked Harvard Business School professor C. Fritz Foley to discuss the research, which he conducted with Lee Branstetter and Raymond Fisman, both of the Columbia... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
Publications August 2013 Delaware Journal of Corporate Law Delaware's Choice By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—This article first documents the shift to annual elections of all directors at most U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Kinney expressed the view that the Government’s recent success in employing hackers to break the phone’s code “relieves Apple of a somewhat alienating position. The time that it took to do it (and one might... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
The story behind Dean Kamen's Segway scooter, and his combustive meeting with the kingpins of Apple and Amazon. Excerpt from Code Name Ginger. 5. Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
many online marketplaces of the so-called sharing economy. “To facilitate trust, many online platforms like Airbnb encourage sellers to provide personal profiles and even to post pictures of themselves” says... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital: Hot Markets and Current Industry Trends
investment opportunity for Ann M. Bilyew, Principal, Advent International. She's also interested in medical devices, miniaturization of devices, and biotech. "We're thinking five, six, ten years out," she said. For example, she... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
those taken in the name of social responsibility. Corporate actions that encroach upon the role of government also include those that fall into the narrower realm of economic... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Homers: Secrets on the Factory Floor
alongside the official engine productions. Many craft industries, specifically metal industries, have traditions of homer making. In a recent survey conducted in France, 28 percent View Details