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01 Sep 2003
What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

if anything, would the courts have to say about it in response to potential shareholder lawsuits? As it turns out, the two final bids involved two news organizations, one with a stellar journalistic reputation willing to pay 20 percent... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 May 2015
Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

08 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking

04 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage

Mature companies understand that to compete today they need to innovate. But finding sources of innovation while still paying attention to the current business can be a struggle. The good news, says Harvard Business School professor Lynda... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

22 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Negotiation is Like Jazz

within an information exchange, paying attention to selected information, and responding to it appropriately. The sales rep aced this performance, steering the negotiation toward a mutually beneficial agreement. Composing The Piece At the... View Details

Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn

20 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998) in that its assumptions ensure that there is an equilibrium where all firms... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

along with his mother at Sainsbury’s in England. Back then, shoppers visited different counters to request various foods, paying for cheese at the cheese counter, fruit at the fruit counter, and so on. Years later, self-service became the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

27 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015

US Health Care? (18,291) Jim Heskett asks, are we addressing health care cost issues with the creativity they deserve? What do YOU think? How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance? (18,284) Jim Heskett sums up 98 reader responses from... View Details

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

their hypothetical choices were organic milk and vegetables. "We could support some of the story but not all of it yet," Karmarkar says. And so she and Bollinger conducted a second experiment, in which participants reported how much they'd be willing to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

24 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Be an Angel Investor

the big Internet wins of the late 1990s, you may not know a thing about early-stage investing. By the same token, if you had 10 failures in multiple industries, you might not know anything either. But you will if you keep paying... View Details

Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

patients during visits, plus more accurate visit notes. However, clinicians’ well-being is unfortunately not always the top priority for hospital executives. Currently, most US hospitals generate revenue based on “fee-for-service" payment models, which View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

(New York: HarperCollins, 2001) Amy C. Edmondson, The Fearless Organization: Creating Psychological Safety in the Workplace for Learning, Innovation, and Growth (Hoboken, N.J.: Wiley & Sons, 2019) Francesca Gino, Rebel Talent: Why It View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

mechanisms by which multinational activity might create positive effects and externalities to countries and the role of complementary local conditions, also known as “absorptive capacities,” that allow a country to reap the benefits of FDI View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Jun 2015
What Do You Think?

Is the Time Right for Self-Management?

values and pay them fairly, it seems an interesting proposal for both the company and the individual." Juan Manuel Salas Guevara commented that the challenge in Holacracy "is a strong communication process from the top level of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

In recent years, business schools and investors alike have been paying more attention to social entrepreneurs, those who create ventures with the primary goal of achieving positive social change. But most people encounter the field only... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Jun 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits

Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

02 Dec 2009
What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

employed along borders to deter illegal immigration. According to a second Cato Institute study produced in Australia, such a strategy could even benefit from a "visa tax" that otherwise illegal immigrants would be able to pay... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

30 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Looking Behind Bad Decisions

receive a 5 percent pay increase, and want to know whether to be happy or not, you find out the increases of your colleagues to create meaning of the 5 percent. People do not choose less for themselves. If I ask people whether they would... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

06 Sep 2016
First Look

September 6, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51553 September 2016 Harvard Business Review The Scandal Effect By: Groysberg, Boris, Eric Lin, George Serafeim, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Executives with scandal-tainted companies on their résumés View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

II, hundreds of billions of federal dollars flowed through agencies like the National Science Foundation, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and NASA to pay for the basic and applied research that spawned the... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

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