by Paul Healy - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Dec 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Against the Grain

Rospil.info, coauthored with HBS professor Paul M. Healy and research associate Matthew Shaffer, focuses on the Russian anticorruption blogger Alexey Navalny, who advocates tech-savvy ways to expose and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

paper called, "Asset Allocation and Asset Location: Household Evidence from the Survey of Consumer Finances," published by the Journal of Public Economics in August, 2004. Using data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (SCF),... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Feb 2017
What Do You Think?

Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

have in manufacturing). Joan, while commenting that “the issue is multi-dimensional and complex,” observed that: “Things seem to be changing faster than we as humans can adapt ” Paul injected some humor into an ominous-sounding comment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Service

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

funded by Microsoft cofounder Paul Allen, had spent more than double that to produce the spaceship, but it was worth it, they said, for the bragging rights. “The prizes had a real impact" —Josh Lerner... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

20 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

approach to the presidency. Their insights follow. Real estate rarely a zero-sum game John D. Macomber, Senior lecturer of business administration You have to start by distinguishing between a branding operation that’s supported View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Sloan Foundation Program on the Corporation as a Social Institution, and the John E. Rovensky Fellowship Fund. He was interviewed by Laura Linard, the director of HBS Historical Collections.Linard: Can you describe your research interests... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

like to think we can gauge someone's sincerity and commitment by the look in her eyes or the firmness of her handshake. After all, a bargainer who yields to a demand is said to have "blinked." And if we reach agreement, it's... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

and context. By afternoon, 28 teams in the business and social venture tracks will be named semifinalists. A later round of judging will narrow the field to nine finalists, with the winners to be announced just over two weeks later. First... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

13 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down

the turnaround of Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center (BIDMC) in Boston. Paul Levy, who became CEO in early 2002, managed to bring the failing hospital back from the brink of ruin. We had ringside seats during the first six months of the... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto

October 1998 (Revised November 1998)
Case

Newman's Own, Inc.

By: James E. Austin

Describes the creation and evolution of this food marketing corporation. All its after-tax profits are donated to charity by Paul Newman, the distinguished actor and social entrepreneur. The company has grown into a $100 million enterprise and donated cumulatively $89... View Details

Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Food; Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Advantage; Food and Beverage Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

Caught in the Cogs: When Manufacturing and IT Meet

operations." Fair enough. But how can that actually be accomplished? With the help of Bart Blackburn (HBS MBA '97) of SupplierInsight, Paul Deninger (HBS MBA '84) of Broadview, and Ted Fischer of SCB Enterprise Solutions, Upton set... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

30 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Professional Networks in China and America

and the United States differ is to examine how managers from these two countries trust members of their network, an endeavor that Chua has undertaken with Columbia Business School professors Michael W. Morris and Paul Ingram. "The... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2005
What Do You Think?

Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?

Summing Up Paul Jackson sums up the thinking of most respondents to this month's column with the comment, " . . . nothing about CEO compensation seems to be 'efficient.'" Brad Millet adds, "The CEO market for... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

that we have invested in significantly to understand deeply I'll trust our predictions. And I'll trust the prediction more if it's (from) someone who has an unbiased 3rd party interest in the outcome." Paul Lepley added that... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 May 2009
What Do You Think?

Do Innovation and Entrepreneurship Have to Be Incompatible with Organization Size?

energy to priority areas for innovation." Amy Sauers added findings that suggest that large firms succeed that "attempted to 'get small' (through the vehicle of) 'lean, mean, heavyweight teams.'" Another ingredient suggested View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

20 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Gaps in the Historical Record: Development of the Electronics Industry

In a recently published book on current international research in business history, edited by Harvard Business School professor Geoffrey Jones, HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler Jr. contributed an essay on the opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Consumer Products

17 Nov 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

buyout raiders of the 1980s eventually morphed into the legitimate private equity business, greenmailers of a generation ago are now taken seriously as hard-nosed change agents who may be doing the right thing when they take on management View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

to the reality that race issues in major metropolitan cities had to be addressed. The third instance came in the 1990s when global opportunities arose for US-based companies to lead their respective industries through a sustained period of growth. This latest... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Mar 2012
First Look

First Look: March 6

establishments outperform those owned by public firms. We highlight implications for institutional theory, managers, and policymakers. Download the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1879248 The Stock Selection and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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