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28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

slice of the consumer-lending business over the last decade. In 2016, these loans represented a third of unsecured consumer loan volume in the United States. And their revenues... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

awareness of cybersecurity issues. Combined with the ability to block ads, the growing costs of acquiring customers online, the experience of “Zoombombing,” and controls on... View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

focus on professional identity—the BE component—we turned to the literature on adolescent and adult identity development. Our work was grounded in the constructive-developmental theory of Harvard psychologist Robert Kegan (The Evolving... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

organizational level, you make the point that special interest groups can really interfere with efforts to avert a predictable surprise. What is the power of special interest... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good

direction. I was pleasantly surprised by her incredibly active voice and that she was reflective not only about her career but about politics, civil society, gender, and religion. She not only reflected on these topics, she had extremely View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Motion Pictures & Video

04 Oct 2004
What Do You Think?

Does Speed Trump Intellectual Property?

create more interesting program choices for audiences." Azeem suggests a more appropriate response, saying, "Speed can trump IP, especially in technology industries. In the time it takes to secure a patent, you ought to have... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 May 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Denial Endemic to Management?

"denial is avoidable and leads to failure," such as Henry Ford's presumption that consumers would continue to want black autos in the face of evidence that they were becoming more View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm

personality test, which rates them on five dimensions of personality. The researchers were particularly interested in two measures: The first, openness, measures how open a person is to new experiences.... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

recommendations ." Gerald Nanninga posed an interesting question: "Today's workforce is evolving ever more closely to a 'contract employee' model . So, if you think of yourself as your boss and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

31 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss

employment slowly recovered to pre-recession levels. Now, despite an initial round of federal aid dispersed to cities and states in March, and a considerable bounce-back of View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

The recent twin economic and pandemic calamities should cause us to rethink the status quo for health insurance compensation. Must General Motors be a benefits company that happens to make cars? Is it in the best interest View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

11 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

How Do You Grade Out as a Negotiator?

of others and spotting problem-solving capabilities, you are less confident about asserting your own interests and maximizing your share. Assertive Value-Claimer (10 percent): You are confident about... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

February 2022 (Revised September 2022)
Case

Lilium: Preparing for Takeoff

By: Navid Mojir, Vincent Dessain, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney

Lilium is a German company focused on developing electric vertical takeoff and landing vehicles (eVTOLs) that can be used to offer air taxi services. The company went public in September 2021 through a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC) deal, raising more than... View Details

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01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

of their biggest research challenges was how to determine whether a manager’s guidance was on target or misleading. They did so by constructing their own estimates of how a company was doing in real time by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

19 Feb 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Amazoned: Is Any Industry Safe?

Today, Amazon participates in so many industries that it takes a small army of researchers at HBS to track them all: retailing, cloud computing, book stores, grocery stores, digital consumer products,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

20 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

of being able to characterize their income separately depending on the audience. Something as simple as interest expense can be engineered to be an expense for tax authorities and a dividend for capital... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Professors Introduce Valuation Software

likely users of the product? Could you provide a scenario or two of how it would be used? A: The model is valuable for professional investors (money managers, financial analysts, hedge fund managers), for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

advertisers. Nor are they the World Cup—the quadrennial single-sport, multi-week championship of professional soccer that commands vast attention in much of the world, but limited View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

17 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Can China Maintain Its Economic Power?

business leaders you talk with offer opinions about what should be done to reverse the current downturn? A: There’s a lot of interest in finding ways to develop internal View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

or wrong. (An increasing interest in behavioral approaches to morality in US social sciences underlines such an individual view of morality.) In my mind, the counter-intuitive pairing View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

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