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02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

wondering whether they have anything to do with one another. The first is a news release from The Conference Board reporting that its most recent periodic poll showed that only 45 percent of workers in the U.S. were satisfied with their... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

A show of hands, please. "How many of you would be fifteen minutes late for an appointment with your CEO?" Gail McGovern, president of Fidelity Personal Investments, scanned the audience, but only a few hands wavered upwards.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

been to teach students and executives strategies for creating value, or integration. Many negotiation scholars and teachers go one step further, arguing that value creation has a positive impact on society in general. After all, if we can View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

05 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: January 5

that action is taken to address the problems, and (3) communicating about actions taken. Sixty-nine randomly selected hospitals, 20 of which were randomly selected to engage in the three activities for 18 months, participated in the experiment. Survey results View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

potentially serious drawback threatened to stand in the way of further progress. As HBS Dean Kim Clark, and his colleague, Professor Carliss Baldwin, write in their new book, Design Rules: The Power of Modularity, Volume I (The MIT... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

entrepreneurial venture. Both programs offered equal levels of financial reimbursement for transportation and cremation costs. The study shows that although the programs procured from a somewhat similar pool of donors, they also... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

09 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk

three into a simple "estimator" that we use to assess which of the options—A, B, or C—looks like the best for us. The most minimal form of this "estimator" uses only two alternatives for each of the three variables, and that's the one we View Details

Keywords: by Eileen C. Shapiro & Howard H. Stevenson

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

there. —Erik Stafford "Competition is at the heart of many of the concepts in finance," says Coval. "The problem you face in the classroom is that the setting is very static. You have a case and a blackboard to show how the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

17 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 17

a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display promotions in the short run, they can reallocate these promotions within their portfolio of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

television. He sponsored the famed, and infamous, quiz show The $64,000 Question in 1955. It is difficult, so many years later, to realize what a radical departure television advertising was for a man and a company which had flourished in... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow

03 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Is the Future of MBA Education?

do to train knowledgeable, principled, and skilled leaders. Against this backdrop of problems, business schools are poised to take advantage of exciting opportunities to cooperate and innovate, argue HBS professors Srikant M. Datar and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

survey data from India and Indonesia, we first show that financial literacy is a powerful predictor of demand for financial services. To test the relative importance of literacy and price, we implement a field experiment, offering... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

09 Apr 2009
Working Paper Summaries

The Economics of Structured Finance

Keywords: by Joshua D. Coval, Jakub Jurek & Erik Stafford

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

Moskowitz, and Annette Vissing-Jørgensen Abstract We provide new evidence on the success of long-run risks in asset pricing by focusing on the risks borne by stockholders. Exploiting micro-level household consumption data, we show that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jun 2024
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2024

As the vacation season looms, Harvard Business School faculty members share recommendations for a little light reading. Spoiler alert: Lessons in Chemistry tops two of their beach-read lists. For those whose brains can’t—or won’t—turn off, HBS faculty also suggest some... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Mind of the Market: Extending the Frontiers of Marketing Thought

"What is the nature of loyalty?" HBS Professor Gerald Zaltman asks. But it's not brand loyalty he's concerned with: rather, it's loyalty in its most fundamental sense. "What is the anatomy of loyalty?" he continues. "What is the meaning... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

Editor's note: Every year, HBS Professor Clayton Christensen teaches students that well-tested academic theories can help them succeed not just in business, but in life. He expounds upon those lessons in his forthcoming book, How Will You... View Details

2021
Book

Glass Half-Broken: Shattering the Barriers That Still Hold Women Back at Work

By: Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg

Why does the gender gap persist and how can we close it? For years women have made up the majority of college-educated workers in the United States. In 2019, the gap between the percentage of women and the percentage of men in the workforce was the smallest on record.... View Details

Keywords: Women; Career; Gender Gap; Glass Ceiling; Gender; Employment; Personal Development and Career; Equality and Inequality; Organizational Culture; Diversity; Management; Strategy

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June 2014
Article

The Capitalist's Dilemma

By: Clayton M. Christensen and Derek C. M. van Bever

Sixty months after the 2008 recession ended, the economy was still sputtering, producing disappointing growth and job numbers. Corporations seemed stuck: Despite low interest rates, they were sitting on massive piles of cash and failing to invest in new initiatives. In... View Details

Keywords: Capital Investments; Creating Markets; Evaluating Business Investments; Innovation; Emerging Markets; Investment; Economic Growth; Capital; Innovation and Invention