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- 07 Jul 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?
had risen to the highest rate in nine years. Economists assure us that productivity (the ratio of product and service outputs to labor and capital inputs) improvements are good for all of us, whether we are employed (and thus factored... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
such as Michael Jensen and Oliver Williamson began, in the 1970s, to develop a new theory of the firm that treated it not as a "black box" that converted inputs into outputs but rather as an institution requiring and rewarding... View Details
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
e-book market. New regulations have shaken up the e-book landscape in China, intensifying competition and prompting writers to work harder, according to research by Harvard Business School Professor Feng Zhu. Book contracts that give authors a share of sales rather... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 17 Dec 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Medical Tourism
the output or the input," explains Khanna. "Applying this idea to human health care sounds a bit crude, but the output is the patient, the input is the doctor. We used to move the input around, and... View Details
- 02 Aug 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Will Millennials Manage?
options. As the authors of a recent book, Managing the Generation Mix, put it, they demand "the immediate gratification of making an immediate impact by doing meaningful work immediately." In short, they are high maintenance, high risk, and often high View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
productivity when companies paid employees to contribute to Linux at work. “It’s not necessarily that the firms that contribute are more productive on the whole,” Nagle explains, “it’s that they get more in terms of productivity output... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Research Summary
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By: Vincent Pons
Professor Pons studies questions in political economy and development with the goal of understanding how democratic systems function, and how they can be improved.
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
He decomposes the electoral cycle into four essential steps: the factors affecting voter... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
youth. Q: Grove was also a prolific writer on the art and science of business management, including the books Only the Paranoid Survive and High Output Management. How does he stack up as a thinker in this area? Why do you think someone... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
communities are quantified by applying an ethnic-name database to individual patent records. International patent citations confirm knowledge diffuses through ethnic networks, and manufacturing output in foreign countries increases with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- Research Event
Venture Capital
increasingly being run as businesses, with associated questions of strategy and tactics coming to the forefront. What will be published or will there be other output from the colloquium? View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
ultimately hope to show the value of a product to investors? Is it trying to decide which product to introduce first to make the biggest splash with customers? Would offering a bonus differently boost employee output during a challenging... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 11 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 11
and the growth of shadow banking. While recognizing some of the benefits of professional asset management, we are skeptical about the marginal value of active asset management. We then raise concerns about whether the potential benefits of increased access to household... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
job quantity and quality is a function of growth and productivity. If growth occurs that is roughly equivalent to increased productivity, little change occurs in the number of jobs although the quality of those jobs (assuming that higher View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Minding the Muse: The Impact of Downsizing on Corporate Creativity
managers must understand the long-term impact on creative output and do everything possible to expedite the process and return the operation as soon as possible to a stable work environment. Second, while downsizing is under way, managers... View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
in the timing of individual examiners’ transition to WFA. We observe mixed results of WFA across experienced and new hires: for experienced hires, WFA results in a 3.9% increase in output and a 24% reduction in turnover, without affecting... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Oct 2015
- What Do You Think?
What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?
infusions (say, from the IMF) may actually backfire because they eventually lead to longer life expectancy, further population growth, greater consumption of output produced by the investment, and a return to the previous condition of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting
to its control. 3. A sound system of accountability has to compare benefits with costs over time. This is especially true when corporate activities concern factors where the output of actions is not felt until well into the future.... View Details
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
Abstract We study the relationship between different margins of information technology (IT) use and vertical integration using plant-level data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures. Focusing on the short-run decision of whether to allocate production View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel