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- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
consumers, who may end up paying higher prices. Restrictions on unskilled immigration might be particularly harmful for sectors like hospitality or agriculture, where immigrant labor cannot be easily replaced because US-born workers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
It's a common problem: A work team tackles a high-pressure project for a client, but along the way something goes wrong with team dynamics and the client ends up feeling shortchanged. Even though team members initially recognize and value... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
which some claim that strategy today confers only short-term competitive advantage. In her book, The End of Competitive Advantage, Rita Gunther McGrath argues that the management presumption that competitive advantage is sustainable... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
skeptics, a strategy to build a "winning coalition" behind a deal must thwart determined Iranian blockers who will act to prevent meaningful concessions. After six months of talks, there could easily be positive atmospherics but little real progress (as with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
and actual behavior, according to the authors. The rapidly developing field of behavioral ethics has described a decision-making process whereby we recognize what we should do—give equal weight to job candidates of all races, for example—but in the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated
comprehend and to defend are also on opposite ends of the spectrum. Learning requires openness, the willingness to fail and lose, to move into unknown territory. This is the very opposite of the drive to defend territory and status. Both... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
perks like bonuses, commissions, or stock options tied to hitting certain goals. But managers may not realize that these incentives could contribute to employee dissatisfaction, burnout, and personal problems at home. “The more our... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 10 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Are Prices So High Right Now—and Will They Ever Return to Normal?
sectors should eventually return to normal, Cavallo says. “The problem right now is that demand is increasing in a context of limited supply,” Cavallo says. “So, if there are no more supply disruptions, I don't see why we won't get back... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
All Those Zoom Meetings May Boost Connection and Curb Loneliness
Americans are lonelier than ever—a problem the COVID-19 pandemic may have exacerbated. Could interactions on platforms like Zoom and Twitch come close to replicating the real-life contact people crave? New research suggests that’s more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Life
who had such disparate beliefs. "But in the end I'm glad, because I think that the principles we discuss in this book are broadly applicable to people's lives. I hope that we've been able to frame them in a way that is accessible to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
beautiful things. “Most people are very happy right from that first morning,” Amabile says. The rocky self-reflection stage of retirement Yet, for many, that giddy glow starts to wear off within weeks or months, as they shuffle through a... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
has been working on entrepreneurial solutions to the problems of economic development for decades. Harvard Gazette: Why is the Chandrayaan-3 landing important? Tarun Khanna: It’s a part of the moon that has never been landed upon, and the... View Details
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
advances in what is called "credit risk transfer" technology have lowered the vulnerability of the international financial system to any individual bank crisis. There has been less discussion about where the transferred risk has View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
Oberholzer-Gee, the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration. “No wonder these businesses end up receiving rave reviews and loyal customers.” "If a US company that ranked 50th today jumped to 40th next year, its return on... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
Established companies historically have struggled when trying to create new markets. Success seems fleeting and unpredictable. Recent research indicates these problems are systemic. Most companies that are started fail. Of those that... View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Truck Driver Who Reinvented Shipping
a second-hand truck for $120. This purchase set McLean on his lifelong career in the transportation industry. McLean soon began hauling dirt, produce, and other odds and ends for the farming community in Maxton, where reliable... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
governance problem . The problem is that network governance is not taught in business schools or any other faculties." How can strategic planning be adapted to changing needs? What will it take? What do... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
entrepreneurship research while contributing to the literatures on innovation and competition through networks. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46977 Better Deals Through Level II Strategies: Advance Your Interests by Helping to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
COVID Tested Global Supply Chains. Here’s How They’ve Adapted
United States. But appearances can be deceiving. What may look to more casual observers like the end of globalization—or, at least, a major step back—is anything but, suggests a new working paper. Call it instead the “great reallocation,”... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 27 Jul 2021
- Op-Ed
What Pirates Can Teach Us About Leadership
running smoothly for months on end and discourage revolt, pirates voted on who should be captain, set limits on his power, and guaranteed crew members a say in the ship’s affairs. They also elected a quartermaster, who in addition to his... View Details
Keywords: by Francesca Gino