Filter Results:
(3,252)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,252)
- People (3)
- News (515)
- Research (2,420)
- Events (32)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (1,238)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(3,252)
- People (3)
- News (515)
- Research (2,420)
- Events (32)
- Multimedia (22)
- Faculty Publications (1,238)
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
pairwise industry and establishment level and measure agglomeration in a global and continuous metric space. These indices exhibit distinct advantages compared to traditional measures of agglomeration including the independence on the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2021
- Book
Launching a Career in the COVID Economy? Here Are 5 Tips.
manager isn’t clear on what or how, try asking them or a colleague what’s been tried before. Or look through internal files or the internet to find templates or examples. Compare the options, pick the one you like best, and then show the... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
(and/or an expensive college lifestyle) when more affordable quality options with comparable employment outcomes are available. Putting popular fixes like free tuition aside, the facts make clear that improving the economics of getting a... View Details
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
during the 2011-2012 flu season, compared to 46 percent of all adults nationwide. “They were a great partner,” Beshears says of Express Scripts. “But even they, who are so attuned to the importance of these preventive measures, didn’t... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
equity industry in light of its recent history. Compared to the U.S., Europe is a relative newcomer on the private equity stage. Europe saw a few private equity efforts in the 1940s but only really began in the early 1980s. During the... View Details
- 04 Dec 2000
- What Do You Think?
Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?
the California power industry, for example, she questioned the deregulation of wholesale markets first. Second, in response to consumer confusion, an anonymous respondent suggested that government could play a role in insuring that consumers have access to unbiased... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 May 2018
- News
Christopher B. Howard, MBA 2003
parents were both the first in their families to go to college. They met in high school, where his mother was the class valedictorian and his father was the salutatorian. “My narrative is the American narrative,” observes Howard, who often thinks about his own path as... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
prefer adopting an "agile" methodological approach instead. Compares and contrasts the CMM and agile methodologies, such as Kent Beck's eXtreme Programming. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
patents filed between 1977 and 2013, then compared the firms that received exemptions versus those that didn’t during the 1999 to 2003 shock. In the period when H1-B quotas were increased, they found a 4.5 percent increase in herbal... View Details
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
international competition as well as technological innovation. Now consider these facts: In the US, there are 10 non-governmental jobs in the service sector for every manufacturing job. The ratio is roughly comparable in Western Europe... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes: Minorities in the Executive Suite
building a network of mentors to support and advise them. To uncover the processes that promote the development and advancement of minority executives, Thomas and Gabarro embarked on a six-year study analyzing promotion data and then View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
paradox the result of an in-depth comparative analysis of two of the organizations in their sample. The two WISEs appeared to be extremely similar: Both operated in the recycling industry with similar work-training missions, and both had... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Aug 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Built for Global Competition from the Start
mainstream option for entrepreneurial companies, which was highlighted during a panel discussion in class that included a local venture capital investor and recent HBS entrepreneurs. Several students inquired how the VC viewed and evaluated founders of domestic-based... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
agrees, of course. Comparing the simplicity of (especially short-term) responses to the complexity of the pay-for-performance challenge, Ravindra Edirisoorlya went so far as to say that "Current P4P model(s) may lead to another... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
joining a bubble. In the recent paper, "Inexperienced Investors and Bubbles," Harvard Business School's Robin Greenwood and Stanford's Stefan Nagel compared the returns of young and older mutual fund managers during and after... View Details
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
What’s an Internet Business Model? Ask a Health Care Professional
when you compare [health care] to other industries, and ask what information is available to consumers that influences choice: choice of physician, choice of where to have procedures done, ability to access meaningful and useful... View Details
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
favorable news,” says Jordan. The truth matters Jordan says the findings have implications for social media users, including businesses: Truth is socially valued compared to misleading news. The results can be seen as reassuring,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
delivery system used to treat patients with Type II diabetes (not all of insulin’s use cases). It currently needs 100-175x the amount of active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) compared to insulin injection pens because the oral drug is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Happy Monday
Illustration by Fabio Consoli Illustration by Fabio Consoli The co-CEOs noticed it right away: Early in the pandemic, staffers at the online children’s clothing company Primary.com were struggling when they logged back into Zoom on Mondays. People were not recharging... View Details