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- 20 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Seven Things That Surprise New CEOs
new CEOs. See a video interview with Porter.Most new chief executives are taken aback by the unexpected and unfamiliar new roles, the time and... View Details
- 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... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- October 1997 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Disney (D): The Mouse in Times Square
By: Michael A. Wheeler, Thomas Dretler and Georgia Levenson
Supplements the (C) case. View Details
Keywords: New York (city, NY)
Wheeler, Michael A., Thomas Dretler, and Georgia Levenson. "Disney (D): The Mouse in Times Square." Harvard Business School Case 898-021, October 1997. (Revised September 2000.)
- September 2015
- Case
Eco7: Launching a New Motor Oil
By: John Quelch and Sunru Yong
Aaron Jonnerson, vice president of marketing at the automotive division of Avellin, must make marketing mix decisions for the launch of Eco7, a new environmentally-friendly motor oil. The company's performance has been mediocre, shareholder pressure is increasing, and... View Details
Keywords: Distribution Channels; Environmental Sustainability; Product Launch; Transportation; Energy Sources; Auto Industry
Quelch, John, and Sunru Yong. "Eco7: Launching a New Motor Oil." Harvard Business School Brief Case 916-507, September 2015.
- Research Summary
Financing New Business Formation
By: Paul A. Gompers
New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Marketplace Institutions Related to the Timing of Transactions
Keywords: by Alvin E. Roth
- May 2010
- Article
Managing the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed
By: Richard Bohmer
Developing new models of primary care will demand a level of managerial expertise that few of today's primary care physicians possess. Yet medical schools continue to focus on the basic sciences, to the exclusion of such managerial topics as running effective teams.... View Details
Keywords: Higher Education; Health Care and Treatment; Management Skills; Managerial Roles; Service Delivery; Practice; Health Industry
Bohmer, Richard. "Managing the New Primary Care: The New Skills That Will Be Needed ." Health Affairs 29, no. 5 (May 2010): 1010–1014.
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
by Marc Hinterschweiger, The Global Outlook for Government Debt Over the Next 25 Years: Implications for the Economy and Public Policy (Washington, D. C.: Peterson Institute for International Economics, 2011) See also Gretchen Morgenson, U.S. Has Binged. Soon It'll Be... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- May 2025
- Article
The Diffusion of New Technologies
By: Aakash Kalyani, Marcela Carvalho, Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Hassan, Josh Lerner and Ahmed Tahoun
We identify phrases associated with novel technologies using textual analysis of patents,
job postings, and earnings calls, enabling us to identify four stylized facts on the diffusion of jobs
relating to new technologies. First, the development of economically... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Geography; Innovation; R＆D; Technological Innovation; Research and Development; Employment; Geographic Location
Kalyani, Aakash, Marcela Carvalho, Nicholas Bloom, Tarek Hassan, Josh Lerner, and Ahmed Tahoun. "The Diffusion of New Technologies." Quarterly Journal of Economics 140, no. 2 (May 2025): 1299–1365. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 28999 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 21-114. Related discussion published as “How Disruptive Technologies Diffuse,” VoxEU, 2021.)
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
focused on the issue, corporations are turning the tax function into a profit center, says Desai, an expert on international corporate and public finance. In this e-mail interview, he discusses new ways businesses are looking to shrink... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- January–February 2018
- Article
The New CEO Activists
By: Aaron K Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
Though corporations have been lobbying the government and making campaign donations for a long time now, in recent years a dramatic new trend has emerged in U.S. politics: CEOs are taking very public stands on thorny political issues that have nothing to do with their... View Details
Keywords: Government Policy; Rights; Leadership & Corporate Accountability; Sustainability; Leadership; Corporate Accountability; Policy; Social Issues; Communication Intention and Meaning; United States
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "The New CEO Activists." Harvard Business Review 96, no. 1 (January–February 2018): 78–89. (Winner of the 2019 HBR Warren Bennis Prize as best 2018 HBR article on leadership. Featured in the HBR Ideacast podcast and an HBR Webinar.)
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
should be practicing anyway. The only new element is that it has to be practiced in a different (remote) work environment. As David Wittenberg put it, “It might take a bit more time to connect with employees... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- April 2008
- Case
Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad
By: Michael Beer and Elizabeth Collins
In May 2007, the Engstrom Auto Mirrors plant, a relatively small supplier based in Indiana, faces a crisis. The business was in the second year of a downturn. Sales had started to decline in 2005; a year later, plant manager Ron Bent had been forced to lay off more... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Human Resource Management; Incentives; Motivation; Manufacturing; Leadership; Change Management; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Goals and Objectives; Manufacturing Industry; Indiana
Beer, Michael, and Elizabeth Collins. "Engstrom Auto Mirror Plant: Motivating in Good Times and Bad." Harvard Business School Brief Case 082-175, April 2008.
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
Done right, digital technology can be a tremendous opportunity for established players as demonstrated by Best Buy, New York Times, Weather Company, and others. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
time they bring the platform in competition with new competing platforms from previously separate industries. Managers should be clearly aware of the fundamental economic functions performed by their... View Details
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?
capital and incubators and other new ways of launching businesses. "The Internet has changed everyone forever. It not only made it an opportune time to experiment with an organizational structure,"... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
surprises for new CEOs arise from time and knowledge limitations—there is so much to do in complex new areas, with imperfect information and never enough time. Others stem from... View Details
- 16 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Now Is the Time for Entrepreneurs to Play Offense
roadmap. Engineers and product managers love it when they’re “left alone.” Take the time to do deeper customer discovery and requirements gathering. Customers might be more open to participating in beta tests, View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
Remote work is giving companies new opportunities to tap additional markets and talent pools. However, a global workforce also brings a challenge: As some employees are getting up in the morning, others are winding down their workday.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Feb 2022
- Book
When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career
a distance-learning program. But this detour didn’t derail the career of Arthur Brooks, now a Harvard Business School professor. Brooks explores his unlikely shift from budding musician to hard-charging head of a Washington, DC, thinktank and academic in his View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman