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  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

For some gig workers, losing the flexibility to set their own schedules is equivalent to taking a 17 percent pay cut, according to new research... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Products
  • 08 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?

particular traits and skills allowing them to maintain relevance. These include adaptability, a proclivity for collaboration and communication, a willingness to delegate tasks... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Evan M.S. Hecht, and Abhijit Naik; Sports
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

immigrants enabled the United States to control its debts, to pay for the Louisiana Purchase of 1803, and-barely-to fight the War of 1812, which preserved the nation's hard-won... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

moment of truth, and success breeds attention and willingness to implement. Ben Shapiro: Then look at incentives. Pricing to reflect value-adding performance while View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 2018
  • Article

Knowledge about Tuberculosis and Infection Prevention Behavior: A Nine City Longitudinal Study from India

By: Sophie Huddart, Thomas Bossuroy, Vincent Pons, Siddhartha Baral, Madhukar Pai and Clara Delavallade
Background
Improving patients’ tuberculosis (TB) knowledge is a salient component of TB control strategies. Patient knowledge of TB may encourage infection prevention behaviors and improve treatment adherence. The purpose of this study is to examine how... View Details
Keywords: Health Disorders; Knowledge Dissemination; Behavior; India
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  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 04 Mar 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

actually increase job openings through better service, higher sales, and more profits. Or it's a management that is sufficiently desperate for good headlines about its hiring and employment practices that it is willing to raise View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

can cascade into large accidents. Moreover, practices that conflate competence with toughness lead workers to ignore precautionary measures and take unnecessary risks. Thus, the costs of men's masculine striving are high, and both... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 07 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

most of their profit from fees paid by sellers; buyers don't pay fees. So although buyers are a necessary ingredient to the deal—no buyers, no sellers—their value is more difficult View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
  • 09 Jun 2015
  • Blog Post

Pursuing Meaning through an HBS/HKS Joint Degree

That was possible because we achieved a deep level of trust and familiarity with each other, we listened, we were respectful of different views, and we were open to changing our own opinion. A lot of that was due View Details
  • 07 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

book excerpt The Swing Of Things From Chapter 6, The Art of Negotiation: How to Improvise Agreement in a Chaotic World By Michael Wheeler Paying heed is one aspect of improvising. Comping is another. Being... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
  • 28 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 28, 2008

assessments when race was less relevant (Study 4). Practical and theoretical implications for interracial interaction are considered. Households' Willingness to Pay for Public... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • Blog Post

Harvard Business School’s Armed Forces Alumni Association

willingness to help, whether that's through career advice, networking, or simply being a shoulder to lean on. It’s an ethos deeply ingrained in those who've served—to always... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation

translates upstream to a company’s willingness to produce new products.” That could take the form of more diagnostic tests or other complementary technologies that would help... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 13 May 2013
  • Blog Post

Exploring in a Passion Safe Environment

& Professional Development Office has been a golden resource helping me frame and translate my experience and accomplishments. Lastly, every company that’s visited campus has been enthusiastic about my, and other veterans’, military experience. They’ve matched our... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?

just a few minutes actually affects body chemistry, increasing testosterone levels and decreasing cortisol levels. This leads to higher confidence, more willingness to take... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Consumer Products
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

Summing Up What Isn't Off Limits When it Comes to Transparency? The discussion of this month's column on corporate transparency to employees made it clear that we have reached a point at which disclosure of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

In fact, it makes it worse. Q: What if rating agencies were paid by investors rather than by bond issuers? Wouldn't that stop forum shopping? A: In theory, yes. The people who are being served by the rating agencies, the investors, should View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 23 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 23

for ideal pay ratios. Moreover, data from 16 countries reveals that people dramatically underestimate actual pay inequality. In the United States-where underestimation was particularly pronounced-the actual... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne