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- 20 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Activist CEOs Are Rising Up—and Their Customers Are Listening
When former Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced earlier this year he was thinking about running for president of the United States, it wasn’t a new idea. Past CEOs seeking the White House have included Carly Fiorina, Ross Perot, Herman Cain, Steve Forbes, Mitt... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility
researchers might be able to address such issues as "how corporate practices contribute to or detract from stable societal institutions or democratic processes, or how might companies advance individual learning and growth, or the... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 08 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?
Baseball, drawn from the 1969–1987 period, to estimate the impact of managerial quality on team and on individual players’ performance. Using a team’s winning percentage in a given year as the dependent... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
Christopher Poliquin. “It would take approximately 66 people dying in individual gun homicide incidents to have as much impact on bills introduced as each person who dies in a mass shooting” The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility
individual companies. The research team set out to examine whether these measures of CSR correlate to the languages spoken in each company's home country. Language Matters Their findings, contained in a new working paper titled "Speaking... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
restrictions risk losing out on the ability to collaborate with colleagues. Such interruptions in communication could negatively impact both job prospects for individual workers and the productivity of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
the question Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julie Battilana and doctoral candidate Matthew Lee ask in a new working paper, How the Zebra Got Its Stripes: Imprinting of Individuals and Hybrid Social Ventures. "It's much harder... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
group, if it existed today, could be. What would their key activities be in our current era? Bower and Paine: We see a new CED as a possible response to the challenge of scaling up the kinds of work by individual firms that we describe in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
their time considering the implications of a set of global standards. My work, and that of others in the area, shows that global differences in accounting have important economic impacts. For example, in my peer-reviewed research I have examined how global differences... View Details
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
investigate how changes in the management of the organ waiting list might impact the donation rate. We find that an organ allocation policy giving priority on waiting lists to those who previously registered as donors has a significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management
Sharpening Your Skills dives into the HBS Working Knowledge archives to bring together articles on ways to improve your business skills. Questions to be answered: Can "lean" productions methods improve service industries? How can a company's order management cycle... View Details
- 04 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Start to Measure Your E-commerce Success
measurement system will have little impact if the results are not fully discussed. Results should be monitored regularly and used to identify areas of weakness, address the plans and systems in place, and establish new initiatives to... View Details
Keywords: by Marc J. Epstein
- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
Source: Cecilie_Arcurs George Serafeim has a startling suggestion to fix the world’s biggest environmental, social, and governance (ESG) problems such as water pollution, deforestation, and wealth inequality: encourage companies within industries to do less competing... View Details
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25120&i=25122&cs=0b17ff7f3d16c64e4a6b72b71b876054 2013 pub Information and Subsidies: Complements or Substitutes? By: Ashraf, Nava, B. Kelsey Jack, and Emir Kamenica Abstract—Does providing... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Oberholzer-Gee. "It's important to have reasonable expectations about the consequences of that engagement, and hopefully that makes it more sustainable over time." In other words, while doing good may be its own reward, sometimes it may be the only reward. It's up to... View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
posed by greater decentralization not only in health care but in other settings as well. "Some services that we have thought of as commodities actually have subtle features that make them differentiated," he says. "Ultimately, the relationship between customers and the... View Details
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
intermediation and may have slowed employment gains in trade and services. Development lending goals were met, but these had no impact on the real economy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2000
- What Do You Think?
What Lies Beyond NAFTA?
largely from Mexican readers—not surprising in view of the central role that Vicente Fox, the president-elect of Mexico, is expected to play in upcoming discussions of NAFTA 2.0. There was little argument among respondents about the positive View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett