Ideas - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

they can answer it in Slack.” You Might Also Like: In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go? Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity? Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails Feedback or View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Feedback or ideas to share? Email the... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

17 May 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

You Probably Have a Bias for Making Bad Decisions. Here's Why.

audience of the day with the president, believing the last idea he hears is the one most likely to be chosen. If true, the president is no better or worse than most of us in allowing cognitive biases to cloud our thinking. We are, for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

HBS's Educational Technology Group. “The idea that you might offshore the reading of radiology films would have been unthinkable 25 years ago.” Each team assessed the potential offshorability of 20 occupations. (The positions of financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

15 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?

repercussions for failing to achieve a goal, such as committing to donating to a charity—perhaps even a cause the person disagrees with. “The idea is that to be self-controlled, you have to put aside activities you’d rather be doing,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

15 Aug 2005
HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

reading in a trade publication about Benihana's innovative and efficient use of labor and layout to lower costs and facilitate customer turnaround times, Professor Earl Sasser produced the Benihana case in 1972 with research associate John Klug (HBS MBA '72). Recalls... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

career counselors who meet with employees to discuss their futures and how to prepare to leave. Furthermore, the focus on voluntary attrition means Recruit always has room to hire fresh talent with new ideas and new skillsets. Build an... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

between measurable talent and its impact on wages. In part, Vallée and Célérier wanted to study talent to challenge the idea that bankers are paid according to how hard they work. "That's silly," says Vallée, who worked in investment... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

27 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

ideas, and one of these ideas was figuring out how [the Soconusco] could leverage Mexico's competitive advantage in export agriculture. So why not try coffee? Coffee for the masses had been a thing for a couple of decades at that point,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

the idea that it has to be one or the other. In the innovation literature, it's always about creativity versus discipline. Well Oldani shows that it's not versus, it's and. You talk to this guy and you think he's a production... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

may compete in the intraorganizational marketplace for influential ideas and the attention of decision makers. Specifically, as risk management becomes more tool-driven and toolmaking may become more prevalent, our study provides a more... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

24 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Want People to Save More? Send a Text

countries, this is a channel that can potentially reach millions of people and may be attractive to a wider and different population than the one that is willing to come together for regular meetings," the paper concludes. The ideas... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

energy and ideas our students bring to these challenges, and that we as a faculty help them develop the skills and capabilities needed to practice this kind of leadership." So even as the market system has created threats to its own... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

17 Jun 2008
First Look

First Look: June 17, 2008

challenge the idea that it was colonial institutions that sent Brazil, a civil law country, down a particular path of corporate governance and finance. Detailed archival research reveals significantly different patterns of corporate... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Aug 2002
Research & Ideas

‘Let the Buyer Beware’ Doesn’t Protect Investors

leading investment banker during the bubble. About him Forbes wrote: "...in Quattrone's shop research was expected to serve the bankers' interests. The Internet craze had led analysts at every investment bank to issue glowing reports on Internet companies that... View Details

Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

The Trick of Balancing Business and Government

Of Bounds As for the idea of funding institutions that seem benign at first glance—education, for example—business can exceed its bounds, Ottaway said. When a company adopts a school it can also destroy the educational responsibility of a... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?

Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image credit: HBSWK, with assets from AdobeStock/moofushi... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

27 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal? Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image: Unsplash/Alex Shuper View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua

16 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 16

more or less effective. We develop these ideas in a multi-method study of a hospital emergency department (ED) redesign. Before the redesign, people coordinated in ad-hoc groupings, which provided flexibility because any nurse could work... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Deregulation does not necessarily lead to lower prices to consumers.” Judging Foreign Startups Nataliya Langburd Wright, Rembrand Koning, and Tarun Khanna “Can accelerators and investors pick the most promising startup ideas no matter... View Details

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