IMF and World Bank Group - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Aug 2012
First Look

First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2012
What Do You Think?

Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?

well known for decades: general management. The old way, centered around cases involving the leadership of large corporations, was not working. (I can speak from experience, because I led one of the unsuccessful efforts.) Student interests had shifted to the View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day

Earth Day focuses the world's attention on the both the dangers and opportunities facing the planet. But sustainability and the intersection between business and the environment are issues that need to be addressed all the time, as cities grow, resources diminish, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Energy; Utilities

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

Measuring Social Impact Historically, economists and firms alike have banked on the theory that workers are motivated by earning financial incentives and boosting revenues.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Osaka, Japan. Trump said on Twitter last week that he would have an "extended meeting" with President Xi Jinping of China at the summit, a welcome development for rattled investors and other world... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

world. Countries have long used the spotlight the Olympics provide to celebrate their national pride and improve their international image. The first of these was in 1936, when Adolf Hitler used the Olympics in Berlin to try to show that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (New York: Harper Business, 2008) Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks (New York: Little Brown... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

The same group of people who had been working for an under-performing company can produce outstanding results if they have the right leader. Japan may be the first country in the world where companies can... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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