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- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
is much needed, said the players. At best they have only a few years of earning power in professional football. And they don't work under guaranteed contracts—they are one nasty hit away from forced retirement. "Our window of... View Details
- 05 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 5
particularly useful for forecasting bond returns. We show that a significant decline in issuer quality is a more reliable signal of credit market overheating than rapid aggregate credit growth. We use these findings to investigate the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
(forthcoming) Abstract Researchers have documented many cases in which individuals rationalize their regrettable actions. Four experiments examine situations in which participants go beyond merely explaining away their misconduct to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
high as 50 percent at the start of the school year. Thomas was struck by the Philadelphia district's approach to recruitment and retention. First, Tomás Hanna, special assistant to the district CEO, assembled a task force in 2002 of... View Details
- 23 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
leads to the possibility of strategic delay by decision participants who differ in their preferences and are limited by the resources they can allocate to influence decisions. We focus on sources of delay caused by the strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2019
- Research Event
Women Pay a Higher Career Price in Today's Always-On Work Culture
Even so, the executives brought the issue to Harvard Business School Professor Robin J. Ely. Eighteen months and more than 100 employee interviews later, Ely’s research team reached a conclusion that challenged steadfast beliefs about the View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Management Review What to Do When Industry Disruption Threatens Your Career By: Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, and Whitney Johnson Abstract—This article discusses how to diagnose the risks that disruptive industry forces pose to individual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
encourage Shell Oil to test Smart-Pump, an automated device providing a two-minute fill while allowing the driver to remain in the car. It appears that we are well on our way to "drive through" refueling without stopping, a concept the Air View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
2011. Setting/Participants: Participants included 4,642 employees of a large hospital in Boston, MA, who were regular cafeteria patrons. Interventions: The first intervention was a traffic-light style color-coded labeling system... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
analyze the big picture (Just what is it that's changing?), help participants understand the "new agenda," and offer a good deal of practical advice on how to thrive in the coming years. Something important I've come to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
identified in the education and skill system, labor market incentives and flexibility, the ability to translate R&D outcomes into economic value creation, and in preparing the economy for the new realities of globalization. Maybe most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
signal to resolve the information asymmetry that exists. We provide evidence, however, that participants are much more likely to pursue a pooling outcome when such an outcome is available. This result is important for research and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
years. We argue that the current world economic conjuncture is the product of a large and unusual divergence or "wedge" between the returns on capital and the cost of capital. Globalization—in particular the integration of the massive Asian View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
capitalism. By market capitalism we mean a system where decisions about what to produce and at what price are made by private firms operating in free markets. We wanted to know in what ways forces within capitalism itself might create... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 01 Jul 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: Which Companies Are Transforming Work?
worker shortage, for three or four reasons. One is it reflects in part stagnation and actually decline of the workforce participation rate. We have a large number of prime working age adults, particularly males, who are neither in school,... View Details
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
a former assistant of his from setting up shop in the same town. But judges in the fifteenth century did not look favorably upon noncompetes, as the Bubonic plague had largely decimated the European labor supply. Legislation of the time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
mistrustful of exotic foods." He also determined that labor cost and availability was the key problem in the U.S. restaurant business and that eliminating the conventional kitchen could address that. From these fundamental... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
Abstract Theories of the firm have been dominated by a legacy of ideas from early industrialization that pose zero-sum opposition between capital and labor (or capital and nearly everything else), differentiating the economy from society... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 9
as the sector faced increased competition from foreign innovation hubs, was being reshaped by the growth of Multinational Corporations (MNCs) locating R&D centers in Israel, and had to contend with a vexing shortage of human capital and low View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne