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- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
course, are different, so living wages for community health workers and training costs would have to be established. Trelstad points to a recent column in Fortune from Panjabi and Mitchell B. Weiss, a professor and the Richard L. Menschel... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
Q: Your working paper uses the stories of three different companies—YesMail, TiVo and Clust.com—as a lens for examining consumer empowerment. YesMail is based on opt-in advertising, TiVo offers interactive TV services, and Clust, until it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Women Are Avoiding AI. Will Their Careers Suffer? | Working Knowledge
about 13 percent less likely to try the tool. The results show that access alone may not be enough to close the gap. “Even when the opportunity to use ChatGPT was equalized, women were less likely to engage with the tool, which we think is pretty shocking,” Koning... View Details
- 13 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Reinforcing Values: A Public Dressing Down
employees will actually listen to tough messages, question old assumptions, and consider new ways of working. This means taking a series of deliberate but subtle steps to recast employees' prevailing views and create a new context for action. Such a shaping process... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 18 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 3/5
not exempt from these dismissals. If they are unable to handle a conversation about race, they may intentionally redirect the class. You may go through a similar cost benefit analysis on whether to be a vocal ally on issues of race.... View Details
- 28 Oct 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 08 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged
employees’ long-term prospects via continuing education/development or ownership options may allow for a discount in pay. Sharply differentiate good performance from average and poor performance. This should be based on metrics that are... View Details
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Strength in Numbers
particular climate change. Responses to climate change pit energy providers and manufacturers—for whom the costs of adjustment are likely to be high—against the general public interest in restraining temperature increases. In this... View Details
Keywords: Re: Gunnar Trumbull
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace
Reconstruction of Male Identity,” is based on a study she conducted while living among crew members on an offshore oil platform, 130 miles off the coast of southern Louisiana. “I interviewed men involved in all aspects of the platform’s... View Details
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been intrigued by recent developments in the financial services industry. He notes that while the... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Administration at HBS, likes to look at this complicated new world in terms of what is changing and what is staying the same. A longtime observer of technology's impact on business, McFarlan has been in-trigued by recent developments in the financial services industry.... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
This Is What I Do
March, about a Kabul student whose business created jobs and hope for women in her neighborhood during the Taliban years. Growing up in Maryland, Lemmon was exposed to news and politics by her mother, who was active in local politics.... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
Business School Case 409-060 This case illustrates the leadership and management challenges of starting a new firm based on a new business model and how success creates pressures that challenge the work/life balance which was one of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
Increasingly, it seems, there are just two types of companies left in the world: dot-coms and "wanna-dots." The dot-coms, of course, are the pure Internet companies operating on-line businesses. Most of them are less than five years old, their View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
production. Importantly, firms are not the only entities to participate in the new ecosystems. The Internet and other social media have dramatically lowered the cost of communication and collective action, and thus users are increasingly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
do everything your way. Not to mention being best at every activity of your life, from tennis to cooking to managing your portfolio. For this kind of mix, maximization will not work as an operating paradigm. How can you maximize four... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
four facial features: eye, mouth, nose, and skin. Participants were then asked to gauge how alive the image looked based solely on the one visible facial feature. The results showed that all the nose and skin images received relatively... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
capital, shareholder losses, and, in the extreme, financial crises—at the end of the day the investors by their nature have some tolerance for risk. "In an aid organization, however, the costs of misgovernance are borne not by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
Social and Governance (ESG) issues into every aspect of GPIF’s portfolio. His efforts ranged from constructing new stock market indices based on ESG data, changing the compensation and incentives of active... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman