Time Stress - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2019
What Do You Think?

Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

ease of use by instructors, and even useability in an age of “fake facts.” The most negative views came from those experiencing problems arising largely from the way cases were being taught or used. Those utilizing the method in their teaching View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

shrink the pie we all share, and at the end we all lose. This is even truer if other countries follow in the path of the US. I also want to stress that we should not be surprised by the executive order. The current president campaigned... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

22 Apr 2002
Lessons from the Classroom

Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught

you'll find that very few actually wind up in the industrial sector, which had been the focus of the long-standing Business Policy course. When Kim Clark became Dean, he stressed that entrepreneurship—the pursuit of opportunity beyond the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Nov 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?

already stressed in the health care system.” Quelch argued, on the other hand, that it was fun to get those test results, and he hadn’t heard of anyone who took the test and immediately sought major unnecessary medical interventions. “I’m... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

African people, businesses, and nations are becoming increasingly stressed by climate-related perils like droughts, river flooding, extreme heat, and rising sea levels. This is leading not only to the destruction of assets but also... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

alternatives to coal-fired power to the developing world, particularly Asia. We need an energy source that is cheaper than and as deployable as coal. That energy source needs to be available and acceptable to the public everywhere in the world very, very soon if we are... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

23 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019

effective cross-functional work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. I show that becoming a manager is a profound... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

Paul R. Lawrence Conference: Connecting Rigor and Relevance in Institutional Analysis honored the memory of a prolific scholar and longtime HBS faculty member who, at the time of his death in 2011, was the Wallace Brent Donham Professor... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

measures used by banks, insurance companies, and asset management pools to describe the risk differences among assets. It measures how much the asset value could decline within a specified future time period and within a certain... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

hammered home the need for companies to return to stressing the basics: hiring good people, producing a good product, delivering it and supporting it. For the first time in history, he said, companies have... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that friction in the market between what the price is and what it should be, Cohen and Malloy stress the importance of identifying a "catalyst" that will cause the market to catch up. "It's one thing to say I am going to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

17 Apr 2013
Research Event

Conference Challenges Gender Conventions

difference, stereotypes, organizational change, and work/family. In her presentation on difference, Dartmouth's Ella Bell stressed the importance of multicultural gender studies. "It's not just about white women," she said,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

22 Dec 2009
First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

suddenly erupt in a full-blown crisis. The CCA approach is well-suited to capturing such "non-linearities" and to quantifying the effects of asset-liability mismatches within and across institutions. Risk adjusted CCA balance sheets facilitate simulations and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Feb 2007
First Look

First Look: February 13, 2007

contribute to longer term complementary effects which work to overcome the losses from cannibalization. Our results are based on both interrupted time series analysis and a difference-in-differences analysis of six years of proprietary... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.

and, by the time any relief arrives, the CO2 from those fossil fuels will be in our air and in our oceans for hundreds of years. The Chinese choice tells that they believe that the certain better life today offered by low-cost energy is... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

several years ago in Asian Business magazine's annual most admired companies survey, Siam Cement Group (SCG) was one of the first firms in Thailand to develop its own written code of ethics. SCG's philosophy is rooted in the Buddhist concept of fairness and also View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

Freedom to use vacation time to attend celebrations with family and friends helps improve performance for employees who work far away from their hometowns, new research by Prithwiraj Choudhury suggests. When employees move away from their... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

That being said, I feel very fortunate to have had an exercise and diet regime going into the interview process. One of the most stressful aspects of the job market is the lack of control. We spend five or six years getting to this one... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

easier, and reduced the influence of the integration stages. The courtship stage isn’t necessarily taking up more time during the pandemic—in fact, it may take less since recruits’ schedules are more flexible and there’s less expectation... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

19 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 19, 2008

survey. We find that the end-of-month inventory significantly increased in four of the six retail segments studied and that, after controlling for sales and macroeconomic factors, the positive time trends for the end-of-month inventory... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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