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19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Business Review, Merton, a Nobel laureate, urges senior corporate executives and boards to view derivative applications not just as tactical measures but as strategic tools that convey competitive advantage.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

lasting impact. Reference checks need to be done as in normal hiring situations—recognizing that tracking down referees make take more time and effort. Using recruiters can be a double-edged sword,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

gender-related themes from media outlets including the Wall Street Journal and New York Times. This allowed them to trace how, when, and why the firm evolved in its focus on gender. They also created a time line to explore links between... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

22 Jan 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Why You Are Unhappy at Work

tampatra Some 71 percent of American workers are hunting for new jobs, and a hefty percentage feel they are not paid fairly or get enough recognition, according to the 2017 Mind the Workplace report. Time pressure, megalomaniacal... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

23 May 2011
Op-Ed

Leading and Lagging Countries in Contributing to a Sustainable Society

society in general. But it is a difficult question to answer, with standards just now emerging in the form of "integrated reports" that help companies disclose corporate sustainability efforts just as they do financial data. Are these... View Details

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & George Serafeim

10 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017

“Who are the world’s best negotiators? What makes them effective?” Inevitably Henry Kissinger’s name comes up as an elite, if controversial, negotiator from whom we can learn a great deal. At a time of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

Abstract—This article seeks to encourage scholars to conduct research that is more relevant to the decisions faced by managers and policymakers. I define relevant research papers as those whose research questions address problems found... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

complained of intense time and productivity pressures, these issues were seen as a barrier only for women, defined as "work/family conflict." Meanwhile, measures... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

imitate: The core-competency perspective focused attention on the importance of knowledge creation and building learning processes for competitive advantage. 2 But this approach, too, faced limits as companies recognized that their people... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

CEO, with the intention of using the specialist for a limited time only. The specialist, on the other hand, takes actions that benefit not only the firm but also inform future employers of his or her abilities View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

potential adverse event once the test-statistic crosses a stopping boundary. We employ asymptotic analysis that assumes a large number of observations in a given window of time to show how to compute the stopping boundary by solving a... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

merchandise categories or sub-categories online. Best Buy, for example, allots floor space only to higher-end televisions—commodity-level TVs are mostly merchandised online. Virtually all major retailers have rolled out or are experimenting with programs, such View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

finding homes for dogs and vice versa. The Wagaroo website describes the company as “a team of fun humans with years of dog experience and a desire to create a healthier, happier marketplace for matching dogs and people.” “We can help... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

interest of privacy, I have used pseudonyms for the participants.) Williams, an African-American, was born and raised in a middle-class neighborhood in Washington, DC. After earning his bachelor's degree at one of the nation's leading colleges, he began his career... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

collaboration rather than command and control as their basis for interaction.. “Over the long term, organizations filled with empowered employees who collaborate to serve customers will consistently outperform hierarchical organizations”... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

"Our message," says Margolis in this interview, "is that as business plays an increasingly important role in society, it is important to correct the drift away from social welfare and devote more research attention to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a consumer?" asks Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers

Twenty years has provided time to judge the success or failure of Theodore Levitt's predictions of a global economy populated by standardized products and marketing approaches. For the colloquium, a number of Harvard Business School and... View Details

Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors

19 Jan 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing the Economic Crisis

companies lose when they cut corporate giving? How Do I Lead In A Crisis? 7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm Leading in crisis requires a combination of skills and behaviors—personal and professional—that can be mastered, says HBS professor Bill George. A crisis,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

example, in a February 2012 survey by the Pew Research Center, 73 percent of 2,253 adult respondents answered they would not be OK with a search engine (such as Google) keeping track of their searches and using the results to personalize... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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