meaning - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

be displayed. Making Niche Profitable Zhu's interest in how different revenue models affect content, consumers, and companies generates a number of interesting "what ifs." For example, what if a company, as a means of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

what extent does the job make the person rather than vice-versa? Can it be predicted? If so, what does this mean for management recruiting and development in the future? What do you think? References: Joshua M. Ackerman, Christopher C.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

Working PapersNone this week Cases & Course MaterialsCreating Meaning for the Customer: The Case of GMACI Harvard Business School Case 106-073 Excellence in exploiting customer information and leveraging its affiliation to the GM... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

incredibly intense competition," Stafford notes. "But students don't have much context to evaluate what that really means and to understand what types of frictions prevent markets from being competitive." "It's not so... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

24 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Linking the Globe: The Role of Media and Communications

more," he said. "With book printing, one single person could reach, at least theoretically, everybody. "Today, with the Internet, everybody can reach everybody any time at any place. The individual is a content provider and a content receiver at the same... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News; Media & Broadcasting

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

The State of the Markets

indices." Technology is a means to that end. Technology, Efficiency And An Aging Population From a macroeconomic perspective, Seifert pointed out, technologically advanced and efficient capital markets will play a key role as... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner

01 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

and more companies have adopted a service management view of the world, which means being locally responsive to customers. As a result, firms have to decentralize and encourage their frontline employees to make decisions on their own. To... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert Simons

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

question. Of course, all countries are "developing" in one way or another. What I mean by the phrase is that countries or regions of countries in which poverty—described by the World Bank as living on less than $1 a day—is... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

23 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out of View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business using debt and equity as a View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

It's that paradox—that struggle can be both something to overcome on the way to success and something to embrace for the meaning it gives our lives—that motivated Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco to take a closer look at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

forecasting; supply chain speed; inventory planning; and gathering accurate, available data. The following excerpt from their report in the Harvard Business Review shows how some of these companies are making the most of the data available to them to improve product... View Details

Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

state and local governments, balanced budget requirements force them to save up in advance or beg Congress for federal support.” Most states are required by law to carry balanced budgets and can only borrow to fund capital projects, such as infrastructure improvements.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

18 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?

impression that a private equity firm is unstable. That perception creates a wariness to invest, which means a PE firm often struggles in its attempts to raise the next fund. So in essence, founding partners are damaging their own firms,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

13 Apr 2016
Research Event

What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?

year showed that the number of women and African-Americans saw little to no change from the year before. The numbers were so bleak that in August 2015, President Obama called on the industry to try harder. “Trying harder, to some, means... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

02 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

This means the distribution shifted: There are more firms overall because of the policy, but there are proportionally more incorporated firms. These were new ventures that people were serious enough about that they were willing to take... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

13 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future

were the basis of a second proxy. When corporate income taxes decline, investment opportunities of the firms improve—fewer taxes means companies can keep a larger fraction of the profits they generate with their investments. A Surprising... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

10 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

expand its role as a parts supplier into a discerning acquirer of distressed companies in the U.S. While it saw acquisition as an exciting means for growth, company strategy at its Hangzhou, China headquarters also included vertical... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2007
Research & Ideas

Health Care Under a Research Microscope

Project Antares with colleagues at the Harvard School of Public Health. The effort aims to create a system for devising commercial incentives that provide affordable public health initiatives, such as delivering medicines at very low cost. A speedy organ transplant can... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Health; Biotechnology

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poured resources into hundreds of schemes to end poverty. The World Bank alone has dispersed about $550 billion since its founding in the 1940s, Chu said. Adding in contributions from the "alphabet soup" of other organizations with acronyms such as UNDP and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Publications