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12 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them

October. However, when the drug testing panel includes a proportionate share of Black participants, doctors are much more willing to write a prescription. Black patients, in turn, were more likely to trust a medicine when clinical trials... View Details

Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis; Pharmaceutical; Health

10 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

Why would a business school professor want to write a case study about a string quartet? The answer was easy for Robert Austin, a scholar with research expertise in the management of innovation. While attending an academic workshop near... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

talent to draw from, write the authors of a recent working paper titled Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups. This has important implications, says Shai Bernstein, an associate professor of business... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

course-development project in 1997. Writing cases on firms in China, Japan, Thailand, Argentina, Nigeria, and Russia, she focused on businesses indigenous to each culture as well as multinationals moving between cultures. In addition, she... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

Design and Identity Change at the Federal Bureau of Investigation Both the design and identity of the FBI changed greatly in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, write Ranjay Gulati, Ryan Raffaelli, and Jan Rivkin. Their... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?

reviews throughout the years indicated that overall product quality remained consistent post-merger. "Though goods become more similar, they do not consistently increase or decrease in quality level," Sheen writes in the paper,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

for nonprofit organizations and city planners, the researchers hope their study will provide a jumping-off point for broader discussion about the importance of location to organizational behavior. "The English language is expressive in this regard," they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

23 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier

patients finds the reality is much more complicated when it comes to languishing hospital bills. Canceling overdue medical debt on average does little or nothing to improve credit access, existing bill payment rates, or even mental health, researchers View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Making the Most of Government Upheaval

"increasingly act and look like world leaders in their respective industries," sometimes even taking "bold steps that surprise their 'first world' counterparts," Oliva and Suarez write in their working paper. For... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

twentieth century, orthodox in the middle, and heretical again at the end? The more I thought about the question, the more I realized that its answer must be fundamental to our understanding of the history of international capitalism. I decided to View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

believes that “all-remote scales even better than the traditional model the benefits of all-remote: writing down your processes, stimulating cross-company informal communication, they get more pronounced at scale.” Carmichael’s comment... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 May 2019
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The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud

the cost-plus contracts granted by approximately 14 percent in the eight quarters following the allegation, suggesting that fraud allegations have a significant impact on contract design, but not dollar volume,” write Heese and Perez... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Service; Construction

16 Apr 2012
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The Inner Workings of Corporate Headquarters

e-mail data that is sitting on almost every company's servers, and it is inexpensive to extract," says Stuart. "All it involves is someone to write a relatively simple set of scripts. It's a surprisingly small favor to supply... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

sellers, leaving people of color out of a crucial means of wealth building. The national dearth of minority loan officers is considerable. In 2019, just 15 percent of mortgage loan officers were minorities, compared to 39 percent of the total US population, View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

19 May 2020
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Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

phenomenon in a series of six experiments, testing whether it is possible to write one in such a way to make a customer feel more safe rather than less safe. In one experiment, for example, they presented online participants with the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

other hand, Joshua Kurlantzick, writing from Shanghai in The New Republic three weeks ago, paints another picture. His is of a China with a failed banking system with 50 percent of non-performing loans made to state-owned enterprises to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

book, Translating Empire: Emulation and the Origins of Political Economy, Harvard Business School historian Sophus A. Reinert unearths John Cary's An Essay on the State of England. Writing in 1695, Cary laid out a powerful case for how... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

order to increase dramatically their chances of ending up with high levels of both. However, I'm always looking for new cases and new examples of founders who were able to achieve both. In particular, I would love to write a case on a... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

11 Apr 2000
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Financial Services 24/7

them, and the notion of writing a check at the corner store to get money in a pinch suggests a scene from a Norman Rockwell painting. It is only a matter of time, online banking enthusiasts say, before the process of View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

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