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- 04 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Inside CEOs' Pandemic Worries: Uncertainty, Employees, and Kids
parents. The increased difficulty and risks of traveling separated some CEOs from family. One had to make the difficult decision to “move to a different city to be closer to the employees, [leaving] the family behind.” None in our sample... View Details
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of collective field experiences, the View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
these dollars to a particular policy, and even though they want to do everything, they have to make tough choices,” Cavallo says. In the end, Cavallo hopes, “The insights obtained with these tracker-type datasets are going to be useful to make better policy View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
Geen, and HBS Professor Max H. Bazerman. "This project integrates my prior work on using joint decision-making to create more ethical decisions with Iris's long-standing expertise in developing strategies to promote gender... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
services. Health plans will eliminate their restrictive networks, allowing members to choose in a competitive (and regional or even national) marketplace the providers that offer the best value for their condition. Plans will help patients make the best View Details
- 22 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 22, 2006
Reviews John Moran's 25-year career in the orthopedic industry and his current decision whether to start a hand and foot surgery company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=805026 Molecular... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
most state and city government balance sheets had just barely recovered from that shock when the pandemic hit. Green says it remains unclear whether climbing back from this new recession will take as long. Government leaders must make critical View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
their research, public firms invest less than half as much as private firms of similar size and industry—and private firms are 3.5 times more responsive to changes in investment opportunities. The authors argue that this is largely due to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
PublicationsAdverse Selection in Online 'Trust' Certifications and Search Results Author:Benjamin G. Edelman Publication:Electronic Commerce Research and Applications (June 2010) Abstract Widely used online "trust" authorities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
insurance premiums for the average plan are expected to rise by 9 percent in 2017. Aetna’s decision prompted commentary from both sides of the political spectrum. Republicans see it as proof that the public exchanges simply won’t work,... View Details
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
government, and not-for-profits. To war against COVID To aid the fight against COVID-19, here are seven key frameworks and approaches with roots in military strategy that are taught in leading Agile and strategy programs. They can help your organization adapt quickly... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
PTCA going up against an established and effective procedure known as coronary-artery bypass grafting (CABG), but also against the surgeons and other interests in hospitals invested in the older procedure. The authors found that "in... View Details
- 24 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 24
Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of search engines' own services and effects on users' choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
about baseball and race, he's explored questions such as how much money motivates ministers, and how much financial journalists affect the stock market. "I am interested in what motivates people," he says, "and what causes them to make the View Details
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
organization. What the authors also found was that managers' behavior dramatically affects the tenor of employees' inner work lives. So what makes a difference to inner work life? When the authors compared... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
to the point where analysts can “fingerprint” particular authors by the probability of how they use connecting words like “the,” “and,” and “that.” More recently, machine learning has moved into the realm of detecting emotion by examining... View Details
- 15 Mar 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: What's the Next 'Big Thing' in Finance?
Question: What is your favorite podcast on finance and why? Cohen: NPR’s Hidden Brain. Look, this is not a podcast about finance, or specifically about finance. It’s a podcast more about decision-making and all the errors and wonky View Details
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
members' separate slices of genius into a single work of collective genius," the authors write. Or, as Hill puts it, "Conventional leadership won't get you to innovation." Book Excerpt Collective Genius: The Art of Practice of Leading... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
creativity, its measurement, its investigation, its development, and its importance to society. The authors are the 24 psychological scientists who are most frequently cited in the four major textbooks on creativity, and they can thus be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman