Feb 08 2012
Faculty in the News
U.S. News & World Report
Jason Riis
"We know that restaurant meals have grown in size in the last 20 years, and we had some evidence that many restaurant goers thought that restaurant meals were too large," said researcher Jason Riis, an assistant professor of business administration at the Harvard Business School in Boston. Permalink
Feb 08 2012
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Reuters
Adi Sunderam
One reason could be that the big managers are seen as best able to back their funds in a time of crisis, said Adi Sunderam, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. The flow patterns "are consistent with investors preferring large funds because they have the ability to provide support in case of a run," Sunderam said. Permalink
Feb 07 2012
Faculty in the News
Inc.com
Robert Steven Kaplan
Harvard Business School professor Robert S. Kaplan explains his questions for effective leadership, and identifying the impact you want to make. Permalink
Feb 06 2012
Faculty in the News
The Huffington Post
Regina E. Herzlinger
It's the sheer force of boomers' numbers that will demand these and other changes, says Regina Herzlinger, chaired professor at Harvard Business School. Dubbed the "godmother" of consumer-driven health care by Money magazine, Herzlinger notes that boomers as a generation are busier and better educated than previous generations and not shy about voicing their unhappiness. Permalink
Feb 06 2012
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Boston Globe
John A. Deighton
John Deighton, a Harvard Business School professor who specializes in online marketing, said he believes Facebook ads don't work well even in wealthy countries, much less the developing world.
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Feb 04 2012
Faculty in the News
WGBH Innovation Hub
Julie Battilana, Robert F. Higgins
In 2006, a social entrepreneur named Muhammad Yunus, the so-called “banker to the poor” who pioneered microfinance, won a Nobel Peace Prize. And ever since, the concept of doing good — while still making a profit — has been a hot topic in business schools and industry.
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Feb 03 2012
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Greater Boston - WGBH
Rajiv Lal
With a new logo and a new model of a "sale" J.C. Penney – one of the oldest department stores in the nation – has become the latest business to reinvent itself for the 21st century.
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Feb 03 2012
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Boston Globe
Benjamin G. Edelman
"Google absolutely knows that I want to buy a home," said Benjamin Edelman, a privacy researcher and assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "And furthermore, Google can show me ads that are relevant. Google uses the information that you give it right that moment relative to your interests."
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Feb 02 2012
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CBS Local
Michael I. Norton
More startling, Michael Norton, associate professor at the Harvard Business School, said that Americans have no idea how poor they actually are.
His research at the Harvard Business School shows the bottom 40 percent of Americans have no net wealth — none.
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Feb 02 2012
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CNBC
Belen Villalonga
In 2004, Harvard Business School professor Belen Villalonga and Wharton School professor Raphael Amit published "How Do Family, Ownership, Control, and Management Affect Firm Value?" They looked at proxy filings between 1994 and 2000.
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Feb 02 2012
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Financial Times
Josh Lerner
The outsized rewards are a reflection of the historic "hit-driven" nature of start-up financing, though they highlight an even greater concentration of profits from a small number of successful investments over the past decade, says Josh Lerner, a finance professor at Harvard Business School. Permalink
Feb 01 2012
Faculty in the News
Emily Rooney Show
Stefan H. Thomke
From amazing feats like pulling a rabbit out of a hat – or bending spoons using telepathy to groundbreaking iPhone apps like the music-identifier Shazam, magic and innovation have a lot more in common that you might think. Magicians continually ask themselves, how can I make this better? More intriguing? More surprising? Today, we look at magic, creativity, and the wow factor. Permalink
Feb 01 2012
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The Globe and Mail
Tarun Khanna
Commercial entities in developing nations may be seen as having more responsibility for a social contract with citizens, says Tarun Khanna Permalink
Jan 31 2012
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Marketplace
Teresa M. Amabile
Teresa Amabile: The list might make you conclude that the best workplaces have fantastic perks and lots of fun every day. Sure, the techies at Google love the free gourmet food, and Zappos employees get a kick out of playing Nerf Dart war. But all of that misses the most important element of employee engagement: helping them succeed at work that matters. Permalink
Jan 31 2012
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Wall Street Journal
Julie M. Wulf
HBS's Ms. Wulf says there may be implications for midlevel managers looking to advance their careers, as corporate succession plans might favor functional experts with managerial capabilities, or at least general managers who are willing to cooperate more with their highly specialized suite-mates. Permalink
Jan 30 2012
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BBC Radio
Nancy F. Koehn
In the Balance goes right back to basics and asks asking whether the economic system on which the entire world economy is based is not working.
Has capitalism broken down and if so - do we need to get under its bonnet? Permalink
Jan 30 2012
Faculty in the News
BBC Radio
Nancy F. Koehn
In the Balance goes right back to basics and asks asking whether the economic system on which the entire world economy is based is not working.
Has capitalism broken down and if so - do we need to get under its bonnet? Permalink
Jan 30 2012
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CFO World
Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Julie M. Wulf
And while previous literature on the relationship between incentive pay and earnings manipulation has focused largely on CEOs, a yet-to-be-published paper by Harvard Business School's Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Julie Wulf takes this focus to the level of CFOs and division managers as well. And it finds that high chief financial officer pay levels may deserve special scrutiny by companies. Permalink
Jan 27 2012
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Marketplace
Nancy F. Koehn
Koehn: In session after session here, the question being asked is: what kind of capitalism? How do we get the best of what it can do around creating jobs and possibilities for people around the world, but make it better and fairer and much more sustainable -- not only to humans, but to our planet and to all the creatures that inhabit it... Permalink
Jan 27 2012
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New York Times
Thomas R. Eisenmann, Tom Nicholas
The same Internet-era tools enable crowd-sourced collaboration, as well as the rapid testing of product ideas — the essence of the lean start-up method so popular in Silicon Valley and elsewhere. "These are business and management innovations lubricated by technology," said Thomas R. Eisenmann, a professor at the Harvard Business School. Permalink
Jan 26 2012
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WSJ Blogs
Michael E. Porter
The survey included 10,000 of the school's 78,000 graduates. Respondents said they had been involved in more than 500 decisions to move facilities now located inside the U.S. to other countries in recent years, but only 70 decisions to move facilities outside the country back in. Permalink
Jan 25 2012
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New York Times-Online
Josh Lerner
As for employees, again the evidence is uncertain. But the most important paper on this issue was made public in 2008, and revised late last year. The authors — Steven J. Davis of the University of Chicago, John Haltiwanger of the University of Maryland, Josh Lerner of Harvard Business School and Ron S. Jarmin and Javier Miranda of the Census Bureau — found that after a private equity acquisition, a company's work force shrank by more than 6 percent on average. Permalink
Jan 25 2012
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Boston Globe
Alnoor S. Ebrahim
Businesses such as iCater are popping up more and more as nonprofits look for new ways to help pay for their programs, said Alnoor Ebrahim, a professor at Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. DC Central Kitchen, a Washington meal service and job training program for the poor, also runs a catering business. Catholic Charities in New Orleans operates a restaurant Permalink
Jan 24 2012
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New York Times
Michael E. Porter, Jan W. Rivkin
As a survey of nearly 10,000 Harvard Business School grads by Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin makes clear, to get companies to locate their plants in the U.S., Obama is going to have to simplify the tax code, cut corporate rates, streamline regulations, make immigration policy more flexible and balance the budget over the long term. Permalink
Jan 23 2012
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The Callie Crossley Show
Nancy F. Koehn
We're talking about leadership, with a look at what today's CEO's, politicians, and military officials can learn from explorer Sir Ernest Shackleton. In 1914, Shackleton and his crew set out on an Antarctic crossing that faced one disaster after the next. Permalink
Jan 23 2012
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Business Standard
Thomas J. DeLong
Anxiety is possibly the single largest inhibitor of growth both for an individual and for a corporation, says Thomas J DeLong, Philip J Stomberg Professor of Management Practice, Harvard Business School. He says the best way to deal with workplace anxiety is to accept failure and treat it as an unavoidable aspect of being creative and successful. Permalink
Jan 23 2012
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New York Times
Michael E. Porter
On a bitter evening in mid-January, a group of bankers and book publishers gathered on the 42nd floor of Goldman Sachs's global headquarters here. The setting could not have been more New York — skyscrapers twinkled out the windows to the north and a jazz ensemble played softly in the corner. Permalink
Jan 22 2012
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Wall Street Journal
Rohit Deshpande
"The rougher the economy, the greater the stress," said Rohit Deshpande, a marketing professor at Harvard Business School. "And the greater the stress, the greater the need for the socially acceptable stress-relieving chemical dopamine in chocolate." Permalink
Jan 22 2012
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Livemint.com
Thomas J. DeLong
Growth is the only sign of life," says Thomas J. DeLong, author and professor at the Harvard Business School, US. But growth and change bring with them painful challenges, throwing you into unknown territory. Even the most successful achievers live with the fear of change and cope with it in ways that affect not only the individual but also the organization in the long run. Permalink
Jan 21 2012
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The Economist
Michael E. Porter
The survey is from Harvard Business School, which in October persuaded nearly 10,000 of its 78,000 alumni to complete a questionnaire. Two-thirds were based in America; the remainder were spread across 121 countries. Some 91% had worked during the past year (over half in manufacturing, finance or professional services). This being Harvard, more than a quarter described themselves as a chief executive, chairman, founder, owner or something equally exalted. Permalink
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