Code Of Conduct - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

major DRAM memory chip makers like Samsung and Hynix in Korea, and Powerchip in Taiwan have already stopped quoting prices until they can assess the impact of the earthquake on their supply chains. Anisotropic View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

both equity and fixed income claims increased significantly because of country risk premium. In the 2014 World Competitiveness Yearbook Ranking, conducted by the International Institute for Management... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

17 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos

that they will share it. "People watch a lot of things online that they would never share with anyone," Teixeira notes. To figure out what prompts viewers to share ads, Teixeira's team conducted an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

John Irving’s Lessons for Business

as well as how to nurture creativity, both in individuals and in organizations. Amabile interviewed John Irving in 1986, when he agreed to share memories of his childhood as part of a research project... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

together a task list of issues that, if addressed appropriately, would make for safer conditions. Tucker and Singer randomly selected 20 hospitals to conduct an MBWA-based program for 18 months, starting in... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

13 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Hiding Products From Customers May Ultimately Boost Sales

on rapid rotations. New research considers the wisdom of frequent assortment rotation in cases in which a retailer has many new varieties of a product to sell—nine different silver necklaces, say, or 17... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail; Fashion

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

and judicial environment (15 percent); "cluster" factors and so on. (A sense of an incumbent company's presence in the location should also be taken into consideration.) Once a shortlist of countries is... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

to prove that a new medication’s benefits merit a higher price if cheaper, similar drugs are available. The process rewards companies whose drugs are more novel or help patients more, while forcing manufacturers of equally or less... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

02 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Health Care Research and Prospects

and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild Swearingen; Health

18 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'

Cohly was skilled in Ayurveda, the ancient Indian practice of herbal medicine, and suggested they try using turmeric to heal the wound instead. The spice worked, and Das and Cohly later conducted Western... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Food & Beverage; Accounting

15 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience

that business disruptions are not just potential threats, but common occurrences that demand immediate attention from CEOs, C-suite teams, and boards. It's time for leaders to take stock of their companies’ operational resilience—their... View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch

02 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

cultural icons are built. Icons are the big winners of the culture share game. I conduct historical studies of brands like Volkswagen, Budweiser, Harley, Nike, and Mountain... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

misbehavior, yet failed to notice it. To explain such inaction, management scholars have been developing the area of behavioral ethics and the more specific topic of bounded ethicality—the systematic and... View Details

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

Miller, an HBS professor with expertise in financial communication, conducted in-depth research on whether and how the press digs up original information on accounting malfeasance—with surprising results. "The press is important in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

29 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying

team also conducted surveys in the summer and fall that haven't yet been analyzed. "We're all adjusting to the pandemic in a rapid way, and there's a lot of uncertainty about what will come next—whether... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

Credit: malerapaso For as much as American politicians and their constituents complain about taxes, the truth is that tax reform packages to address those complaints are rare—the last major reform of the tax View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

us now. Preliminary results of a study Gino conducted during the coronavirus crisis shows that people with a heightened sense of curiosity feel less stress and approach their... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

theme in the internal perspective. (See Figure 2-2.) For example, Mobil, in its Balanced Scorecard, included measures on environmental and safety performance, stressing the importance of being a good employer and a good citizen in every... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

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