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- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
lover who played saxophone in high school, discussed what he learned from violinist Robertson in this interview with HBS Working Knowledge. Martha Lagace: What drew you to writing a business case that looks at the world of classical music? Robert Austin: Paul, in View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
pre-selection by a menu setter. We develop a model to study the relation between the ability of the menu setter and the size and quality of the menu. We show that when the cost of increasing the size of the menu is sufficiently small, a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
The World in Your Palm?
professor Alan MacCormack took on the question of future "form factors" at the 2005 Cyberposium conference at HBS on January 29th. The general consensus: It's more important for users to be able to easily move digital... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
The new book Retail Revolution: Will Your Brick-and-Mortar Store Survive? argues that traditional store-front retailing is at an inflection point, under tremendous pressure from ecommerce and the changing wants and needs of a new View Details
- 23 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 23, 2007
introducing a generation to the practice of personal computing and laying the foundation for the Information Age. Gates and Jobs turned their curiosity about electronics into a multi-billion dollar industry. From early experiments like... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
implementing aggressive changes without a clearer mandate. That should lead the Biden administration to consider areas like infrastructure spending, expanding domestic capacity in PPE and pharmaceuticals, steps to provide additional US... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Evaluation, a paper published in 2011. “We know racism and sexism exist. The question is what can we do about it?” Parsons has made a habit of asking surprising questions about economic issues, looking at situations where small factors have an unexpected effect on the... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
case was taught, the general consensus was that the economics of the business were very shaky. Q: How so? A: There were two parts to the economics. You could say there was the part of the business that ran in the digital world and there... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
Instead, NASA would send smaller spacecraft to the planet every two years, using information generated in each mission to improve the effectiveness of those to follow. While the objectives were admirable, the way NASA went about... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
controls in all three of the American companies we studied. GE's use of strategic planning systems became the model for companies worldwide, as did Procter & Gamble's use of clear policies and practices (the Procter way) and one-page... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
to do whatever was necessary to gain scale and capture market share. They discovered that they generally didn't have enough to fund all the businesses in which they were trying to compete. So they had to get out of some businesses or at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
that America had a special place in the world, that America was a model for the world in terms of our values and in terms of our contributions. Sadly, in the last few years, that's been questioned. In 2008, there will be a presidential... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial," published in the June 2011 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine. TIP #3- Fill your backpack with rocks. A research team from Harvard and the University of Central Florida tested the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
the General Management Program at Harvard Business School. In the discussion, conducted last August in Mumbai, Kapur reflects on some 50 years in the advertising industry, starting in the “Mad Men” era of the 1960s, experiencing the dawn... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Mountain Dew), and alcohol (Budweiser, Dos Equis, Captain Morgan, etc.). The team built a model relating the amount of entertainment a participant experienced with both their viewing interest and their intent to purchase a brand.... View Details
- 28 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates
current model is artificial and static, and far removed from everyday social interaction," says Jeana H. Frost, who along with Michael I. Norton and Dan Ariely is taking an academic look at online dating and how it can be improved.... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Grant, F. Gino, and D. A. Hoffman Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 12 (December 2010) Abstract The article discusses research that identified situations where introverts are more apt to be effective leaders than extroverts. Although it is View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
entrepreneurial enterprises. And yet they are subject to exactly the same rules and conditions as large companies. A second example. There has been a lot of discussion about stock options and expensing them through regulatory action and through passing new View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 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 Prizes are increasingly dangled in front of inventors as a way... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
aspects of developing globally competitive businesses. Much of their growth is driven by a wealth of smart, hard working, well-educated individuals. In other words, great human capital. However, they do not have fully formed financial markets and have not been able to... View Details