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- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
Democrat-Republican nonsense. They get elected to help people, but it's criminal those people in Washington don't work together, don't speak together." Likewise, Michael E. Porter, Bishop William Lawrence University Professor, and... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 23 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
One More Way the Startup World Hampers Women Entrepreneurs
and the Direction of Startup Innovation. “You’re missing out on information from a huge swath of the population,” says Rembrand Koning, an assistant professor in the Strategy Unit, who wrote the paper along with Sarofim-Rock View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
cats, or whatever,” says Andy Wu, assistant professor of business administration in the Strategy unit of Harvard Business School. “What’s overlooked is a comprehensive framework for how you mobilize the resources—such as financing,... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
Raffaelli, a professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. “All the ingredients were there for the independent sector to see the end of its days.” Something miraculous started happening in 2009, however. After... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
to recent research. Enter the era of “spray and pray,” where venture firms over the last decade have seeded more firms than previously, but with less upfront investment of time and money. As someone who teaches entrepreneurial finance, Harvard Business School View Details
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
at Harvard Business School, and Kate Barasz, an associate professor at ESADE Business School in Barcelona, asked participants in a recent study. Interestingly, 20 percent of participants wished for the larger, more serious tear. That’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
Marvin Bower Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “When people weren’t presented with a privacy notice, their purchase interest was about twice that of those who had been shown the privacy notice.”... View Details
- 2011
- Other Unpublished Work
International Air Transport Association Vision 2050
IATA asked 35 strategic thinkers to develop this vision for the next 40 years for the airline industry. The group benefited greatly by the inspirational and strategic leadership and wisdom of Singapore's Minister Mentor, Lee Kuan Yew. And Harvard University Professor... View Details
Porter, Michael E. "International Air Transport Association Vision 2050."
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
When Harvard Business School professor Vincent Pons went to Kenya to conduct research in advance of the 2013 national elections, he discovered surprising lessons about how the ethnic makeup of teams affects the work they do—now published... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
that employer’s name on their curriculum vitae? “You have this great name on your CV, and suddenly it goes from being an asset to a liability,” says George Serafeim, the Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
- 21 May 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals
As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic... View Details
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
three on their list of concerns. That’s the surprising finding in a new survey of boards of directors conducted by Harvard Business School professor Boris Groysberg and doctoral student Yo-Jud Cheng. “The concerns that ranked at the top... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
that waking fresh and clearheaded makes us better able to see decisions in a clearer light. “It’s somewhat like moving information from short-term to long-term storage” That’s certainly what Uma R. Karmarkar, an assistant professor in the... View Details
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
you are trying to do is create a sense of loyalty or trust in the firm,” says Tandon Family Professor Francesca Gino, a member of the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets unit at Harvard Business School. “But that can make people so... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
Professor at Harvard Business School. Scholars have studied how boards work, but very little is known about the decisions and performance of individual directors. Boards are black boxes, with debates going on behind closed doors that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
There is next to no evidence that CSR positively adds to a company's bottom line, according to Felix Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. "You cannot find a robust direct... View Details
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
It's that paradox—that struggle can be both something to overcome on the way to success and something to embrace for the meaning it gives our lives—that motivated Harvard Business School Professor Joseph Badaracco to take a closer look at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
if the ultimate enforcement mechanism seems so far-fetched? “By understanding why people make mistakes, it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these disputes” Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Hong Luo looks at... View Details