Argus - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are more necessary than ever. Rangan says that when carefully planned... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2015
News

Ink

Rational Blueprint for Success, by William N. Thorndike Jr. (Photos: Harvard Business School) “The author, a practicing physician and professor at Harvard’s Medical School and School of Public Health, argues that end-of-life quality is an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne; Apple; Microsoft; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

listened as students discussed his historic success and his possibilities for expansion. They differed in opinion about whether he should open another D'O or a new, more accessible venture that took POP to a new level. Some argued that he... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy subject of climate change and how society... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

wage comparisons affect firm policies on executive pay? This paper explores that question using a 1992 SEC proxy disclosure rule that mandated increased disclosure of executive pay. We argue that this rule differentially increased wage... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

25 May 2021
Blog Post

The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work

Many people assume that nostalgia is purely entertainment, a feeling individuals enjoy because it takes them back to the more carefree days of their youth. Some view it as maladaptive fixation on the past, perhaps indicating a fear of change. I’ve heard business... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jun 2010
News

Rethinking the MBA

David Garvin and research associate Patrick Cullen. The title isn’t just a rhetorical flourish. Deans and executives alike take issue with what and how students are taught, revealing a number of shortcomings that the authors argue point... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-043.pdf When Smaller Menus Are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability Authors:David Goldreich and Hanna Hałaburda Abstract Are large menus better than small menus? Recent literature View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

13 Feb 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018

Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought By: Kapossy, Béla, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, eds. Abstract—When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

theory of domain-contingent inequality aversion to explain this finding: we argue that workers view salary and equity as two domains and are more inequality averse in the equity domain. Inequality in equity has a negative asymmetric... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2017
What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

with outspoken banking executives, argued that, “Silence may be both a more eloquent statement and a more intelligent one ” CEOs and other high-profile people “do a service by restraining their knee-jerks and shutting their mouths.” RCD... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

S&P 500 by 40 percent on a risk-adjusted basis. (There have been challenges, too. CEO Adam Nash stepped down in October, replaced by founder Andy Rachleff returning as CEO. Nash retained his seat on the board of directors.) But regardless of their growth, Viceira... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

31 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants

immigration in the United States. For example, even though advocates often use examples like Brin to argue for expanding the H-1B program, which is used for employment-based immigration by adults, the Google founder actually came to the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

25 Aug 2015
First Look

First Look Tuesday

involve the mutual processing of another's experience, built around discourse and analysis, and I argue that they lead to not only linear growth in individuals' knowledge, but also growth in their individual and relational capacity for... View Details

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

is currently working on a study of byzantine banking behavior toward individual investors. But in the case of structured loans, he argues that a borrower need not be a financial expert to realize the stakes. "They are not that complex,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

thought they had a great case as stewards of intellectual property, it wouldn't matter how many lawyers a target company had," argues Cohen. The most incriminating piece of information in the data concerns conglomerates—companies... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

saving the fish. You still have to spend any amount of money you can to protect it." It's easy to count the damages to the farmer, he added, but very difficult to value the damage caused by the extinction of the smelt. "The environmentalists View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

05 Nov 2007
What Do You Think?

Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?

were many theories about why this is the case as well as suggestions for how to fix the process. Some even argued that the idea of planned, orderly CEO succession has inherent flaws that can't be fixed. Both boards and their CEOs were... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

07 Sep 2007
What Do You Think?

Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?

were the results of two foundation-sponsored studies of management education in the 1950's that argued for greater emphasis on the development of measures and exploration of theories by means of quantitative analyses of various phenomena... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Let Customers Call the Shots

that would directly welcome empowerment, companies whose value proposition evolves around consumer control should expect a slow start and work on consumer education and reassurance. You could argue that adoption is more likely when the... View Details