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- 14 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 14
the right for guiding monetary policy into dangerous territory. Their criticisms echoed arguments Bernanke himself had made with regard to past downturns in Japan and Europe. Were the critics right, or was the Bernanke Fed charting a wise... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2013
- Op-Ed
Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking
With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details
- 07 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship
They limit the danger of political influence by establishing independent bodies to oversee the programs. In many cases, they have further reduced capture problems by passing the funds onto intermediaries such as venture capital funds that... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
because of a workplace accident, illness, unemployment, or old age. Government policymakers responded to this rapidly expanding problem of worker insecurity by constructing an elaborate social insurance system covering many of the most View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using dangerously large volumes of runnable short-term liabilities. Specifically, we make the case that the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
of the action. When participants do not "see" or feel responsible for the whole, a dynamic ecosystem can easily evolve into a state of dangerous instability, as in the financial crisis of 2008-09, or even collapse, as in the Internet bust... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
Here is an excerpt from the chapter, "The Dangers of Going for the Max." One of the most ironic aspects of the fiftieth anniversary of Sir Edmund Hillary's scaling of Mt. Everest was how ephemeral the standards of climbing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 14 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
5 Lessons I Hope Marketers Don’t Learn from Donald Trump
of the rest at 3. Its summary was, “There’s never been a presidential candidate like Donald Trump--someone so cavalier about the facts and so unwilling to ever admit error, even in the face of overwhelming evidence.” This then is the View Details
Keywords: by John A. Deighton
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
for everyone and also highlighted the important link between research, discovery, and cure." The GPP is a statewide prevention program aimed at reducing the use of dangerous drugs among teens and young adults through awareness campaigns,... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
can strike twice. The message is getting around that night clubs are crowded, loud, dark and dangerous places where security and safety are often shortchanged. Consumers need to beware, owners need to (be forced to) take more care. The... View Details
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation
Harvard Business School, discusses how businesses can sidestep the often prohibitive costs and time-consuming trials of experimentation by implementing new technologies. Wendy Guild: We've all heard the old saw, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." How View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
found the whole thing perplexing. “We show that people are prone to sharing more information in the very context in which it's more dangerous to share.” "I didn't understand why people were putting all this information out there," says... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 5
political economy more generally), there is a danger that historical inferences from theory may infect historical tests of theory. It is imperative, therefore, that historical tests always involve a vigorous search not only for confirming... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Here they outline the six danger signals that suggest a predictable surprise may be imminent. The Evolution of Financial Services Author:Niall Ferguson Publication:New York: Oliver Wyman, 2007 No abstract is available at this time. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
"make the numbers" every quarter? Is it dangerous or misleading to give too much emphasis to the idea that profits are a by-product of many other policies and practices? Is it wise to communicate this concept to all levels of an... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
and 350 supervisors, according to Last Mile Health’s 2017 annual report. Much of the model used for Ebola involved contactless testing for the community workers, so it eliminated some of the most dangerous risk with that virus. As a... View Details
- 02 Jul 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?
"Stereotyping leadership might be the greater danger here. Evolution neither begins nor ends with current crops of leaders. In all practical situations, one needs a mixture of different leadership styles to induce human energy "... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
responsibility, do you buy it when a CEO says, "I didn't know," about questionable practices? A: I think the strategy of deniability is a very dangerous one to allow to stand. A CEO should understand what's going on in the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
both the relatively short lifespan of shale wells (production, for example, has declined in wells in the Bakken fields in North Dakota by 85 percent in just three years, compared to 20-year terms in more traditional wells) and the environmental View Details