Observation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

He recalls when the specter of “Japan, Inc.,” was one of manufacturing’s looming concerns. “We’ve been through a cycle of lost competitiveness followed by renewal,” observes Jasinowski, who once worked on the Studebaker assembly line in... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

13 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales

observing subsequent sushi rolls that will be added to the conveyor belt later in the meal. Since customers are likely to purchase many sushi rolls over the course of a dinner, our results suggest that [all else being equal] customers may... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Fashion

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and cost (40 percent);... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

http://www.amacad.org/publications/Challenges.aspx Advertising, the Matchmaker Authors:Bharat N. Anand and Ron Shachar Publication:RAND Journal of Economics 42, no. 2 (summer 2011) Abstract We empirically study the informational role of advertising in matching... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity

employees, especially those in highly creative roles. Finally, it helps to keep work groups intact and informed of corrective procedures. "We were fortunate to have had the chance to observe and measure changes in a real workplace... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

simultaneously, and there are few templates for developing organizational processes and systems to help them do so. Internally, organizations often struggle to allocate resources toward these different goals and to deal with the trade-offs that they face. I have View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

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Making Difficult Decisions: The General Manager’s Role (MDD) - Course Catalog

context, with a protagonist who must determine what to do. Students will experiment, receive real-time feedback, and observe others, an effort to develop practical management skills. Practice and repetition are used to help students... View Details

24 Jul 2018
Op-Ed

4 Ways Managers Can Exercise Their 'Agency' to Change the World

harness the power of business to address some of society’s most significant problems, not as a separate part of employees’ lives—businessperson by day, volunteer by night—but as an integrated whole, working in a profitable company that also does the world good. That... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

06 Oct 2003
What Do You Think?

Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?

to identify disruptive ideas" which often result from observations of the circumstances in which potential customers "hire" products or services to achieve a result. The catch is that no organization, in the opinion of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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Teaching & The Case Method | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

material in the classroom. In his 1984 “Hints for Case Teaching,” HBS Professor Benson P. Shapiro observed that, “The case discussion process depends upon a delicate set of relationships: teacher-to-student, student-to-student, and... View Details

01 Jan 2012
News

Andrew H. Tisch, MBA 1977

as intelligently as they make it,” observes Tisch, who helped design and launch an HBS conference focused on helping participants make effective philanthropic decisions. As for his own philanthropic strategy, Tisch likes to go against the... View Details

16 Aug 2024
In Practice

Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?

credit analysts exhibit a sizable partisan gap in their economic outlook, with roughly two-thirds the size of the gap observed among households. This bias affects analysts’ decision to upgrade or downgrade corporate credit ratings,... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

19 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

error after observations they thought were unlikely. This paper develops a framework for assessing when a given error is likely to be discovered, in the sense that the error-maker will deem her mistaken theory implausible. The central... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

31 Mar 2023
News

How Can We Solve the Teacher Shortage Crisis?

shortage—which the National Education Association estimates to total some 300,000 vacancies. In this excerpt, Dwinal-Palisch discusses the problem set that the American education system is facing—and how she and Reach are tackling those challenges. READ MORE Joe... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

15 Jun 2021
News

The Path Ahead

heartened to see that many of our alumni are leading these efforts. In my own work, I have observed growing interest from boards of directors in tackling environmental issues as well as the tremendous social challenges of racial equity... View Details

01 Apr 2000
News

A Place in the Sun

"Adults have a great time at Club Med, but especially for kids, there simply is no better place." He further observes that as people spend more time on computers on the job and at home, the greater their need to break away. "The more the... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Garry Emmons

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

firsthand how swiftly places such as Chicago, Cincinnati, and Pittsburgh, were growing. In these and other cities, he could observe the effects of accelerating industrialization: the emergence of new enterprises and occupations, the... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

experience? In their book, the authors have undertaken the formidable task of describing judgment and how good judgments are formed and carried out, based on observations of successful and unsuccessful leaders. They assert that... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

this," Di Tella says. "In Latin America, you can observe things that you would not in a more stable environment." Gauging Beliefs The researchers asked survey questions to gauge the squatters' stance on beliefs common to a... View Details