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It’s Time to Make Business School Research More Relevant

Harvard Business

In an Academy of Management Journal editorial, we described two problems that contribute to this challenge. Researchers have found that managers tend to be unaware of research-supported management insights reported in academic journals, and that such insights are typically excluded in practitioner-oriented journals.

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How Self-Care Became So Much Work

Harvard Business

From these deep roots, the $11 billion self-improvement industry has grown. Today, like so much around us, that industry is heavily influenced by tech. Numerous studies support this — for example, the Journal of Consumer Research has published research showing that Americans associate busyness and stress with prestige and status.

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Subscription Businesses Are Booming. Here’s How to Value Them

Harvard Business

subscribers in 2017, and the industry as a whole has been growing at 200% annually since 2011. While the industry is growing rapidly, it is also highly volatile. A new methodology, which we call customer-based corporate valuation (CBCV), holds the answer to both of these – and other similarly critical – questions.