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- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
scenarios through the lens of two factors: fulfillment and contribution. “The way psychologists have typically studied the importance of meaningfulness is to ask people how meaningful their life is, but this doesn’t allow us to understand... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
adhering or not adhering. And reason it's so politicized So yes, this is not a political science discussion, but this has become a political scenario instead of a global health emergency that we need to manage. Frazier: Yes, we need... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
vendors could disrupt supply chains, further hurting the business and destroying value. This potential problem is troubling to a number of bankruptcy scholars, including my colleague Mark Roe at Harvard Law School. So, is this bleak View Details
- 08 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Decision Rights: Who Gives the Green Light?
for executives there to absorb and react to it, reduced the company's ability to respond to bid requests on a timely basis. Alert to this change, a European rival added a 24-hour limit to its competing bids, forcing quick decisions from clients—and winning new business... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
- 16 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the ‘Want’ vs. ’Should’ Decision
how time-to-implementation from the moment of decision affects preferences for should options. We looked at scenarios that involved want-should conflict like support for a policy that would benefit one's employer but would be costly to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bundle?
scenario where such a bundle was not offered. Total hardware sales were higher by approximately 100,000 units when bundles were offered. Much more surprising, the sales of software video games jumped by over a million units. The company... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
likely to trust coworkers who had acknowledged their emotions, particularly when the emotions were negative, the findings showed. Ignoring emotions lessens trust: In five subsequent studies, the researchers asked participants to either imagine themselves in a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
checks, taking their pictures, and having them sign a waiver. Employees use a simulation to practice enforcing the protocols at peak times. Another scenario helps them manage noncompliant customers. Even the richest and most famous... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
- 30 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations
figure out how to respond in various scenarios to maximize one's own value. Research beginning in the '90s, however, found that negotiators rarely acted rationally, instead taking into account what they felt they deserved from the other... View Details
- 09 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
War in Ukraine: Soaring Gas Prices and the Return of Stagflation?
scenarios with the geopolitics. Do we think we are on the verge of further escalation of tensions, in which case we should expect these indirect effects on consumers? Or do we think a solution to de-escalate is in sight? Then maybe we are... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
connections within an industry, and know how to steer a venture to a promising opportunity. On the other hand, a more diverse investor group might give founders more leeway in decision-making. In either case, founders should understand the pros and cons of each View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty
like "shaker," "with," and "ship.") Moreover, participants in the intentional professional networking scenario tended toward cleansing words more than those in the intentional personal networking scenario. In the second experiment, held... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 2012
- Discussion Paper
Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades
By: Koji Nomura and Tomomichi Amano
Labor productivity growth in Singapore that has grown at a rate of over 3.0 percent per year since 1970s considerably slowed down to 0.5 percent on average per annum in the latter half of the 2000s. The purpose of this paper is to ask, first, to what extent Singapore’s... View Details
Nomura, Koji, and Tomomichi Amano. "Labor Productivity and Quality Change in Singapore: Achievements in 1974-2011 and Prospects for the Next Two Decades." Discussion Paper, Keio Economic Observatory, 2012.
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
cost of evacuations or be wider to ensure every possible scenario is taken into account. In business, that could mean weighing the cost of not having enough stock to meet demand versus carrying excess stock. “That’s a tradeoff, and the... View Details
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
a family member doesn't know what his or her interests really are, a supportive family can encourage the family member to talk about possible scenarios and gradually uncover his or her true interests. This process requires patience and a... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 03 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Transforming Manufacturing Waste into Profit
It's been said that "one man's trash is another man's treasure." HBS Assistant Professor Deishin Lee, however, has taken that old adage a step further in her recent working paper Turning Waste into By-Product by showing how it's possible for companies to turn... View Details
- 11 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Mixing Open Source and Proprietary Software Strategies
software code. In their working paper "Mixed Source," HBS associate professor Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and postdoctoral fellow Gaston Llanes consider scenarios in which theoretical software firms compete through different business models... View Details
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
department. If every intern would receive an offer, 18 percent chose to work only with men. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/SEi2B3ULIyrEzqL6Rxbz][/div] The researchers invited 278 Black participants to consider the same scenario but... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
interesting scenarios occur when there are asymmetries—important differences of motivation or skills. Asymmetries of motivation occur when one firm wants to do something that another firm specifically does not want to do. Asymmetries of... View Details