Faculty News
Oct 03 2011
Capitalism at Risk: Rethinking the Role of Business
In Capitalism at Risk, Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that while governments must play a role, businesses should take the lead. For enterprising companies--whether large multinationals, established regional players, or small start-ups--the current threats to market capitalism present important opportunities.
Sep 01 2011
True North Groups A Powerful Path to Personal and Leadership Development 
All too often, we find ourselves forced to confront life's challenges on our own. What we need is an intimate group with whom we can examine our beliefs and share our lives. For the past thirty-five years, Bill George and Doug Baker have found the answer in True North Groups—small groups that gather regularly to explore members' greatest challenges.
Aug 14 2011
Culture Cycle, The: How to Shape the Unseen Force that Transforms Performance
In The Culture Cycle, James Heskett demonstrates how an effective culture can acount for up to half of the differential between organizations in the same business.
Aug 12 2011
Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance
This book is a collection of papers presented at a symposium convened by Harvard University's Joint Center for Housing Studies in February 2010 on the campus of Harvard Business School. The purpose of the symposium was to explore the roots of the crisis that caused credit markets to seize up in late 2008 and, more important, to focus on the way forward.
Aug 12 2011
The People's Republic of China at 60
This book is a collection of essays from an April 2009 conference organized by The Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University marking the sixtieth anniversary of the People's Republic of China.
Aug 09 2011
The Progress Principle: Using Small Wins To Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work
The authors explain how to foster progress and enhance people's "inner work life" every day—in the process boosting long-term creative productivity. The book shows how to remove common barriers to progress, such as meaningless tasks and toxic relationships, and emphasizes how these factors can disrupt employees' inner work lives.
Aug 03 2011
What to Ask the Person in the Mirror: Critical Questions for Becoming a More Effective Leader and Reaching Your Potential
Professor Robert Kaplan offers a guide to help executives improve their effectiveness as leaders. At the core of the book is a series of critical questions to help them lead their organization more successfully and take ownership of their career.
Aug 01 2011
The Innovative University: Changing the DNA of Higher Education from the Inside Out
Clayton Christensen and his co-author offer an analysis of the traditional university, exploring how and why universities must change to ensure future success.
Jul 19 2011
The Innovator's DNA: Mastering the Five Skills of Disruptive Innovators
The authors build on what we know about disruptive innovation to show how individuals can develop the skills necessary to move progressively from idea to impact. They also outline five discovery skills that distinguish innovative entrepreneurs and executives from ordinary managers.
Jun 14 2011
Flying Without a Net: Turn Fear of Change into Fuel for Success
Drawing on extensive research, DeLong explains how to draw strength from vulnerability. His analysis and examples look at the roots of high achievers' anxiety, destructive behaviors they adopt to relieve anxiety, and behaviors.
Jun 01 2011
Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors
The authors highlight the factors that have determined the impact of past policies, and suggest that effectively managed federal funding, strategies to increase customer demand, and the enabling of aggressive competition from new firms are important ingredients for policies that affect innovative activity.
May 27 2011
Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It
Leading business ethicists Max Bazerman and Ann Tenbrunsel examine the ways we overestimate our ability to do what is right and how we act unethically without meaning to. From the sales of the defective Ford Pinto years ago to the collapse of Enron, the authors investigate the nature of ethical failures in the business world and beyond.
Apr 01 2011
Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know
Joining a Nonprofit Board offers an important guide to the roles and responsibilities of a nonprofit board member. Based on more than ten years of research, F. Warren McFarlan and Marc J. Epstein explore the basic structure of a nonprofit, explain how to build and monitor a nonprofit's mission, and identifies how the board performs an effective assessment of a nonprofit.
Feb 01 2011
The Fund Industry: How Your Money Is Managed
Pozen and his coauthor provide an inside look at how mutual funds work—how they invest money, distribute their shares to the public, and provide service to fund shareholders—and why they have become the investment vehicle of choice for investors around the world.
Jan 11 2011
Being the Boss: The 3 Imperatives to Great Leadership
Professor Linda Hill and Kent Lineback explain why most managers get stuck along the way. Some are content with just getting by. But most stop making progress because they don't understand how to become a great boss, what great bosses actually do, or where they currently stand compared to where they should be.
Dec 08 2010
The Big Ditch: How America Took, Built, Ran, and Ultimately Gave Away the Panama Canal
The authors show that the Canal produced great economic dividends for the first quarter-century following its opening, despite massive cost overruns and delays. The Big Dig offers vital lessons about the impact of large-scale infrastructure projects.
Dec 01 2010
The Economics of Crime: Lessons For and From Latin America
Di Tella addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime. He also presents research from outside Latin America, illustrating the broad range of approaches that have been fruitful in studying crime in developed nations.
Nov 16 2010
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
In Seven Strategy Questions, Professor Simons presents seven key questions that will help you enable your company to "strategically" stay ahead of the pack. According to the author, this means channeling resources into the right efforts, striking a balance between innovation and control, and getting everyone pulling in the same direction.
Oct 28 2010
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System
The Squam Lake Report looks at at the critical holes in the existing regulatory framework for handling complex financial institutions, retirement savings, and credit default swaps. The authors offer ideas for new financial instruments designed to recapitalize banks without burdening taxpayers.
Oct 06 2010
Buy-In: Saving Your Good Idea from Getting Shot Down
In Buy-In, Professor John Kotter and Lorne A. Whitehead reveal how to protect good ideas and win the support needed to deliver valuable results. The key? Understand the unfair attack strategies that naysayers, nitpicker, and handwringers deploy with great success time and time again.
Oct 01 2010
Building World Class Universities in Asia
After discussing higher education's potential contribution to Asia's economic progress and the characteristics (and limitations) of a leading university, Professor Emeritus Daniel Quinn Mills lays out his recommendations for building a world-class university in Asia, including how to hire faculty, build a curriculum, attract and retain students, achieve top-quality research, ensure autonomy, and provide excellent teaching.
Oct 01 2010
The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development
In Comingled Code, Professor Josh Lerner and Mark Schankerman show that open source and proprietary software interact in sometimes unexpected ways, and they discuss the policy implications of these findings. The authors examine the ways in which software differs from other technologies in promoting economic development.
Aug 01 2010
Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership
Inspired by the writings of Charles Darwin, Paul Lawrence's new book, Driven to Lead: Good, Bad, and Misguided Leadership, offers managers an integrated understanding of the complex decision process at the heart of good and wise leadership.
Jul 01 2010
The Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America
The Economics of Crime addresses a variety of topics, including the impact of mandatory arrest laws, education in prisons, and the relationship between poverty and crime. The book also presents research from outside Latin America, illustrating the broad range of approaches that have been fruitful in studying crime in developed nations.
Jun 22 2010
The New Science of Retailing: How Analytics are Transforming the Supply Chain and Improving Performance
Drawing on cutting-edge retail analytics, Professor Ananth Raman and Marshall Fisher outline a practical approach to inventory management that leads to faster returns, fewer discounted offerings, and fatter profit margins. They also show that even small improvements in matching supply with demand can literally double a retailer's profit.
Jun 15 2010
International Differences in Entrepreneurship
Professor Josh Lerner looks at the growth of entrepreneurship in developing countries and how a institutional differences, cultural considerations, and personal characteristics can affect the role that entrepreneurs play in its economy.
May 09 2010
Chasing Stars: The Myth of Talent and the Portability of Performance
Associate Professor Boris Groysberg offers insights into the fundamental nature of star performers, examining whether one company's star performers can continue their success at another firm. He focuses on Wall Street analysts who change firms and suffer an immediate and lasting decline in performance. Groysberg also explores how some Wall Street research departments are successfully growing, retaining, and deploying their own stars.
Apr 28 2010
Winning in Emerging Markets: A Road Map for Strategy and Execution
In Winning in Emerging Markets, Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu outline a practical framework for developing emerging market strategies based not on broad categorical definitions like geography, but on a structural understanding of these markets. Their framework describes how "institutional voids"—the absence of intermediaries like market research firms and credit card systems to efficiently connect buyers and sellers—create daunting obstacles for companies trying to operate in emerging markets. Understanding these voids—and learning how to work with them in specific markets—is the key to success.
Apr 22 2010
Rethinking the MBA
In this landmark book, Professors Srikant Datar and David Garvin and Research Associate Patrick Cullen examine three broad trends shaping business education: the move away from traditional programs to more diverse offerings, increased questioning by employers of the value of the MBA degrees, and the resulting shifts in enrollment patterns.
Apr 06 2010
Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd
Professor Moon discusses the importance of companies' offering something that is meaningfully different from the competition. She asserts that over the past two decades, a disproportionate number of companies that achieved great success did so simply by figuring out a way to break away from the herd-to be radically and dramatically different from other firms. The book not only celebrates these mavericks; it deconstructs and demystifies what they've accomplished in a manner that makes their achievements understandable and accessible.
