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  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS MBA 2010) had been troubled... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don't evoke the outrage of multimillion-dollar paydays, curbing the risk-taking incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 14 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

Summers as the successor to Ben Bernanke. That saga left many people in business and finance concerned. If politicians in Washington, DC, are having an argument about something as do-or-die as the debt ceiling, they thought, what are the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 21 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

written by Lal with HBS colleague David Bell, was published in Quantitative Marketing and Economics last June. Lal discusses his findings with Manda Salls. Salls: Frequent shopper programs have become part of the shopper's landscape. What... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

necessarily the best strategy. "What you've got (to do is) be sure that you're into the first five or six: the guys that have a real chance of making it. And that means they're early to market, that they're ahead in their product... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services
  • 11 May 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure

Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

attributes such shortcomings to a prevailing "sense of entitlement" that's fostered in part by the absence of competitors. "You could make a good case that the very promise of job security is the first step in destroying... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
  • 11 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?

be a better person. Max disagreed, suggesting instead that loyalty has a dark side, since it causes people to make bad decisions.” In Hildreth’s view, a strong sense of loyalty within individuals makes them more ethical, by sparking more... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 11 Jun 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

UCLA Anderson School, and Michael W. Toffel of Harvard Business School. In the quest to discover whether competition breeds unethical behavior, the researchers examined the vehicle emissions testing program in New York State, one of several states required View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto
  • 29 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

At General Motors' Car Assembly Plant in Wilmington, DE, there is a film that managers like to show when times get tough. Dating to 1991, the film opens with a GM executive saying that the plant will be closed in three years. There is no possibility of appeal, no View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Wins Unleash Creativity

of creative productivity. "We found that of all the events that characterized the best inner work life days, by far the most prominent was making progress," Amabile says. "And of all the events that characterized the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Do You Have Change Fatigue?

Chances are you've got a story like Andrea Zintz's. Now president of Andrea Zintz & Associates, a consulting firm in Pennington, N.J., she was working for a health-care concern in 1997 when the firm's executive committee decided to... View Details
Keywords: by Nick Morgan
  • 12 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mention the words religion and business in one breath, and chances are good that someone will take offense. It's a common conviction within most Western societies that the two do not and should not be mixed—ever. Yet when Laura Nash and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 11 Aug 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Perfecting the Project Pitch

then there's not much chance that the audience will either. Passion and enthusiasm can be contagious in pitch situations, but so can a lack of those qualities, Steenburgh says. If the presenter appears bored or unsure, the audience will... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher
  • 09 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

most interesting one there is. And so the chance to write about him was an opportunity I didn't want to give up. Q: HBS is famous for field-based research where faculty members go out into the field and observe a company or workers or... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer
  • 02 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Success of Persistent Entrepreneurs

definition, starts a company that goes public) have a 34 percent chance of succeeding in their next venture. By contrast, first-time entrepreneurs have only a 22 percent chance... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 11 Jun 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Social Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs

Keywords: by Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu & Toby E. Stuart
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

4+2 = Sustained Business Success

research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies. Our findings took us quite by surprise. Most... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, William Joyce & Bruce Roberson
  • November 2013 (Revised June 2014)
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E-Cigarettes: Marketing Versus Public Health

By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) were heralded by some as a healthcare game changer, enabling smokers to switch to a new product which carried lower risk of cancer. However, there were concerns about the public health risk of e-cigarettes, particularly the chance... View Details
Keywords: Public Health; Tobacco; Smoking; Cigarettes; Electronic Cigarettes; Cancer; Lung; Lorillard; Philip Morris; Safety; Technological Innovation; Conflict of Interests; Market Entry and Exit; Marketing; Health; Advertising; Consumer Products Industry; Health Industry
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  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

venture capital world is basically comprised of numbers. You have somewhere between 50% and 90% failure rate in the venture capital world. That's how it works. You make bets. It's probability. "From the incubator side, we're really driven mainly View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
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