Pay As You Go - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

How do real-world conditions and shifting personal priorities influence a young MBA's early career path—those first five to ten years that executives remember as being of such critical importance? To find out, Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

06 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?

off Massachusetts' coastline is the subject of HBS professor Richard Vietor's case study "Cape Wind: Offshore Wind Energy in the USA." The case highlights the challenges and opportunities that face green businesses as they attempt to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

31 Jan 2011
Research & Ideas

Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies

the Organizational Behavior Unit at HBS. "And as a result, the resulting policies are defensive in nature, and they don't tend to produce the high quality of relationships that you need across... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

where the supply of shares offered to the public is very small. Because only optimistic investors buy, and it is difficult for others to go short, many IPOs end up being overpriced. Q: What do you think... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

11 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Non-competes Push Talent Away

start-up firm in Silicon Valley when one of his employees decided to quit and go work for a direct competitor down the street. "I told him, 'Hey, you can't do that. Didn't we make View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

28 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Manufacturing Matters

diverged. Shih: I'll give you a historical example. In the semiconductor industry, outside of Intel and a few smaller players, most U.S. semiconductor manufacturing has moved offshore to places like Taiwan, Singapore, South Korea, and... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Manufacturing

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

Valentine's Day. For the first time, FedEx closed due to the storm and would not be able to deliver our flowers. In the flower business, you are given credit for making a marriage work, and you're also blamed for destroying a... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

challenges, because most projects involve binary "go/no-go" decisions. Esty uses the Euro Tunnel as an example: "You can't build the first 100 yards and learn anything about underlying demand for the tunnel. Instead, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

agreement is reached. That is, what is your Best Alternative To a Negotiated Agreement, or BATNA (Fisher and Ury 1981)? By thinking about this alternative, you can better assess your reservation price, or the point above or below which... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

14 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout

Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “You are losing hundreds of billions in raw economic activity each month—and that’s not even accounting for all the other forms of loss the pandemic has caused. So you can put a lot... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 Sep 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom

to break through those stereotypes to establish a nuanced understanding of what makes an MBA or a scientist tick. Q: How does the course accomplish that? A: We begin by going into some depth as to what... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education

20 Feb 2006
HBS Case

Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive

entrepreneurial tale, although she'd been written about every which way as a celebrity, as a star. But no one, to my knowledge, had told the business story of this phenomenally successful entrepreneur. And... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The World in Your Palm?

said. Men, on the other hand, "attach everything on the table—we call them Frankenberries." The watch industry might be a good analogy as to how devices will evolve, he said. For next to nothing, View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

for Refugees. Some forecasters expect the number of forcibly displaced migrants to climb to 1 billion as climate change makes more parts of the world uninhabitable. “They will affect you. They will affect me. They may be View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

19 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Podcast: Rupert Murdoch and the Wall Street Journal

three dozen voting members of the Bancroft family, who control 64 percent of the voting shares. The family is expected to vote July 23. Meanwhile, the Journal reported on July 18 that ad revenue for newspapers fell 4.8 percent in the first quarter year-over-year View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Journalism & News; Publishing

01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

prominent high-tech firms that say every immigrant creates jobs, claiming figures as high as six new American jobs for every immigrant hired," Kerr says. "On the opposite side View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

adaptation of the strategy map—perhaps done annually—and provides a central resource for implementing all five management processes to become a strategy-focused organization (the subject of our previous book): mobilize, translate, align, motivate, and sustain. Q: View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

skills. However, should you decide, as we did, that the leverage lies much deeper, in the BE component, be prepared to think differently about what development really means and how to View Details