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- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
The widespread use of pricing algorithms is reshaping the nature of competition in online markets and potentially driving up the prices of retail goods, according to recent research. These automated, price-adjusting software programs may... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
Recent research at Harvard Business School began with the premise that as a state's congressional delegation grew in stature and power in Washington, D.C., local businesses would benefit from the increased federal spending sure to come... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
leverage this source of demand to learn from these experiences and design and develop innovative products. What should GM do? It must aim to achieve a clear transition with the IPO View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
Asia and South America), gender diversity has little or even negative correlation with firm performance. Granted, we cannot make a causal claim because we do not have an identification strategy, but this study View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from... View Details
- 29 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers
Teixeira speculates that may be because the ads focus explicitly on getting viewers to click on a site, but don't give them particular reasons to make a purchase. Since more consumers were visiting, however, the net effect resulted in... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
ideas, empowering team members to make decisions, taking advice and implementing feedback, giving actionable feedback, and sharing credit for team success.” "There are... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 May 2016
- Op-Ed
World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics
recommendations but it is unlikely that these funds will ever be raised. National governments, deeply unimpressed by the WHO's inefficiencies and leadership deficit, will be reluctant to give more.... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer... View Details
- 06 Mar 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?
workplace—starting with job listings. What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?James Heskett's readers question the meaning of "gender equality" and ponder ways to give women... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries
In many emerging economies, the need to give people in poverty better access to financial services seems obvious. The mobile phone is a perfect vehicle, given their widespread adoption, even among the financially less well off. Designing... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
The sun was setting and a light snow falling, creating a thin white blanket that covered the winding two-lane country road stretching in front of Joshua Margolis, when he suddenly felt his 1992 Volvo give... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can the “Leadership Industry” Fulfill Its Promise?
industry in general fails in: (1) catering to customer desires for short courses that produce quick results, (2) emphasizing, and training for, ways of gaining self-knowledge, (3) providing laboratories for the application of passively... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
In Hiring, Should We Give Self-Confidence a Greater Weight Than Humility? Summing Up A respondent to this month’s column, Joel, provided the question for this summary. As he asked, "should we be focusing on hiring people who exude... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
it is self-limiting. It is chiefly a disease of caregivers for that very reason. In that regard, we must give the doctors and nurses on the front lines credit for being willing to take significant risks to... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
and marketing. Retailers, for instance, will be inclined to give bigger bets more shelf space, and we know that in itself is a key driver of sales. Q: If you were to pick a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ’Fortune Tellers’
predictions. Some forecasters built sales forces to travel from office to office in lower Manhattan or in Boston and Chicago. Others sent their representatives to Rotary Clubs and churches in smaller cities... View Details
Keywords: by Walter A. Friedman
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
members and their superiors, they found the opposite effect. When ethnicity was different, it raised the fraction of completed visits by 14 percent and led to meetings that were 69 percent longer. “If you... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs
those of the owners." Hall's research has led him to conclude that annual option arrangements such as "fixed value" and "fixed number" plans are typically preferable to one-time option grants. A fixed value... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
Coca-Cola put its collective mind to something, it got it done. Apparently, not so fast. Current and former Coca-Cola executives cited several factors that in 2010 began to erode the once-expanding proportion of Black executives View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett