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  • 17 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Blended Workforce May Be Key to Lasting Competitive Advantage

In recent years, companies have been anxious about the lack of skilled workers to fill pivotal jobs. But then came COVID-19 and a subsequent recession. The ensuing business turmoil and record-high unemployment may have temporarily distracted companies from their... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
  • 25 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

one study, more than half of all doctors in the US report feeling at least one symptom of burnout: emotional exhaustion, a feeling of detachment, or a diminished sense of personal accomplishment—twice the rate of the general working... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Has Listening Become a Lost Art?

recorded voice thanked me for cooperating and assured me that the poll would take only two minutes. The first question was, "On a scale of 1 (low) and 5 (high) how would you rate your overall experience?" I pressed the "1" on my phone.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

in the mid-1990s. I was paid a flat rate of $10 to hose down the dirt and debris in eight car wash bays with a high-pressure spray gun. It was an especially dirty job when the Jeeps and pickups came in after “mudding,” or driving off-road... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 12 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

key industry has shut down and the team needs to reevaluate how to continue delivering value under these new conditions The relaunch is also an opportunity to discuss how team members’ own perspectives on the team’s purpose may have changed. Given the scope and the... View Details
Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley
  • Web

Sexual Harassment - Race, Gender & Equity

to rate their workplaces on the prevalence of these masculinity contest norms, and found that the more a workplace endorsed these norms, the more likely alumnae were to have experienced verbal harassment, a result that holds true when... View Details
  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis. “Historically, the number one cause of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

neighborhoods. Communities with flourishing illicit cannabis markets suffer a host of associated problems, including high incarceration rates (often exacerbated by prosecutorial bias), violence as the primary means of dispute resolution... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

and get to ours. They will be here under highly tenuous circumstances. One misstep and the undocumented or illegal are deported. As a result, data from reputable sources suggest that they have much lower crime rates than we who are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
  • 29 Aug 2023
  • News

Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases

Americans have the option to opt into green energy through their utility provider. I don't know what current rates are today, but this is actually the next action that we're building into the app as well this month is guidance for... View Details
  • 2020
  • Chapter

Ethical Business, Corruption and Economic Development in Comparative Perspective

By: Janet Hunter and G. Jones
This chapter contextualises the drivers of corruption in Turkish business through comparisons with Japan and India in the late 19th century. It identifies the developmental state as a common driver of corruption. Catching up by using extensive state intervention had... View Details
Keywords: Corruption; Crime and Corruption; Economic Growth; Turkey; Middle East; Central Asia; Japan; India
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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

  • 03 May 2017
  • HBS Seminar

Seth Stephens-Davidowitz, The New York Times and Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

  • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Acelerex

By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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  • 09 Aug 2021
  • Research & Ideas

OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent

instruction, putting them significantly behind Hispanics (21 percent) and whites (38 percent). With significantly less support than white children, Black students go on to complete four-year programs at public institutions at a slower View Details
Keywords: by Rawi E. Abdelal, Katherine Connolly Baden, and Boris Groysberg
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the resulting needs. To... View Details
  • 01 Nov 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?

NCCs restrict movement of employees from one job to another. Those who can move tend to make more money than those who stay with one organization. In a study of Oregon’s plan, the rate of job mobility and pay for employees exempted from... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 04 Nov 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

data for 1988 through 1996. It includes ratings before and after an analyst's transfer from one investment bank to another as well as the results of extensive interviews over several years of study. Among other things, they found that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 25 Jul 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?

them to rate all the other people in the company in terms of how much they personally liked each one and how well each did his or her job. These two criteria—competence and likability—combine to produce four archetypes: the competent... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo