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- 22 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Companies Can Expand Their Talent Pool by Giving Ex-Convicts a Second Chance
12,000 jobs to workers who applied for employment via Wonolo’s on-demand job marketplace, the study reports. “The bottom line is that there’s a much bigger pool of talent out there waiting to be tapped,” says Cullen. Kim of Wonolo says... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
collection of innovative research and management insights that build upon the foundations of the first book but takes the study of brand relationships outside of traditional realms by applying new theoretical frameworks and considering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
which casts the profit-seeking incentives of firms as the main driver of technical change. In a series of influential writings, von Hippel and colleagues found empirical evidence that flatly contradicted the producer-centered model of innovation. Since then, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Investor Lawsuits Against Auditors Are Falling, and That's Bad News for Capital Markets
dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have declined,” conclude the authors of a new research paper. “Our study asks why.” The number of lawsuits specifically about Rule 10b-5, the antifraud regulation created under... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
discriminant validity from voice-related individual and organizational factors and their incremental predictive validity on workplace silence. Collectively, the results from the four View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Benchmarks Don’t Work
not a meaningful, let alone actionable, comparison. Similarly, although the cost of serving a customer who is purchasing clothing from a Wal-Mart store is likely far below the same cost for an Armani store, Armani would probably not benefit from View Details
- 11 Apr 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching a ‘Lean Startup’ Strategy
can be perceived as something thrown together with shoestring and bubblegum," Eisenmann says. "But through a series of MVPs, a lean startup can validate a specific and comprehensive set of hypotheses about what the business is,... View Details
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
automated driverless car.” The research results, detailed in “Multitasking While Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses,” were published in the June issue of International Journal of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- Web
Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online
Now Key Concepts Identify a business opportunity Evaluate an idea and assess the market Explore the risks and rewards of entrepreneurship Leverage experiments to validate concepts and refine your business strategy Discover the key... View Details
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
the right expectation and rhythm for execution, discovering and developing talent to their potential, to being responsible for every decision I make. What's next? Teresa: In the year ahead, I’m excited to continue customer interviews with product and accessibility... View Details
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
Emotional Benefits of Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Ashley V. Whillans, Adam M. Grant, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When does giving lead to happiness? Here, we present two studies demonstrating that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2019
- Book
What’s Really Disrupting Business? It’s Not Technology
similar amounts of technology. The common pattern was that the majority of customers in those markets had changing needs and wants, and their behavior was changing. Kost: Many of the companies you’ve studied gained a foothold in the... View Details
- 02 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity
hospital care. They focused on the mortality rates for heart attacks, an ailment that typically requires patients to seek hospital care, and where mortality is a validated measure of hospital quality. They found that in the late 1990s,... View Details
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
organizational studies, on the one hand, and Jewish studies, on the other. One addresses leadership but not the religious soul. The other speaks from its Jewish soul but is only secondarily engaged in the study of leadership. More Than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
into these questions, we studied four organizations selected to reflect a wide range of attributes—for-profit and nonprofit, large and small, North American and European. We asked people to indicate how often they had work-related... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
old and occur all over the world. For example, an English common law court in 1414 chose not to enforce such an agreement, claiming that it represented restraint of trade. A watershed 1711 case, Mitchel v. Reynolds, validated non-competes... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2024
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #15: Hilton Augustine III on Financing Climate Ventures
stakeholders to make both micro- and macro-level decisions today that will have net positive environmental and economic effects now and into the future” At the May 2023 “Accelerating Climate Solutions” conference at HBS, Hilton found View Details
- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
regional trade, CEPII Working Paper N° 2005-02, Paris: CEPII Research Center. Medina-Smith, Emilio J. (2001), Is the export-led growth hypothesis valid for developing countries? A case study of Costa Rica,... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. Using vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures, this study asks whether patient demand-side factors or physician... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
funded HIV clinic in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. Intervention: The study involved three arms. First, participants in the provider visit incentive (PVI) arm received $30 after attending each scheduled provider visit. Second, participants in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne