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- 08 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy
individual businesses? In determining your firm's global advantage, the question is simply what advantage you seek to create or exploit by virtue of being an international player." For example, if it's easy for an organization to sell an... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Mar 2005
- What Do You Think?
Should Business Management Be Regarded as a Profession?
management relies on "a common body of knowledge resting on a well-developed, widely accepted theoretical base." Even if one believes that it meets this test, say the authors, it would also have to embody: 1) "a system for certifying that View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Incentives and Operational Excellence
selling it and breaking even. However, the incremental cost for studios to put an additional tape on the retailer's shelf is less than three dollars. Demand for an individual movie is highly uncertain and usually tapers off rapidly after... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
George C. Lodge
community as a whole has special and urgent needs that go beyond the needs of its individual members." A 1987 book with Harvard University professor Ezra F. Vogel, titled Ideology and National Competitiveness, looked at the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 16
exogenous variations in workers' origins and the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in large urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual characteristics, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
the making of the global world over the last two centuries. Individual entrepreneurs and managers invented new products and shaped consumer demand. Firms created and diffused technologies and products, alongside the values in which they... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
we show that the same behaviors produce more ethical condemnation when they happen to produce bad rather than good outcomes, even if the outcomes are largely determined by chance. Our studies show that individuals judge behaviors as less... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they consider workforce reductions; the other on the overall effects of layoffs. Case studies on View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works
individual tastes, they will migrate away from hit products. He thought companies should therefore stop relying on blockbusters and focus on the profits to be made from the "long tail"-niche offerings that cannot be offered... View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals. Ironically, part of the problem... View Details
- 17 Jan 2007
- Op-Ed
Learning from Private-Equity Boards
oversee the ongoing business. Private-equity directors typically spend more time with their companies after the buyout than many of their public company counterparts. Private-equity boards are typically small working groups composed of View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Corporate Governance Activists are Headed in the Wrong Direction
into account the legitimate interests of employees, creditors, communities, and other non-shareholder constituencies), which shareholder components are directors supposed to be representing and to which components are they supposed to be accountable: Institutional... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Hinsey
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
specifically about COVID-19 impacts and responses, we spoke with several Harvard Business School alumni committed to reducing the impact of mental illness and addiction on individuals and communities. Here are some examples of how they... View Details
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
recently as "technology has made it easier to build marketplaces for services and fine-tune the degree of control exerted over service provider-customer interactions." HourlyNerd allows consultants (typically MBA students) to hire themselves out View Details
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
the economy to organize production and innovation. We study individual contestant-level data from 2,796 contestants in 774 software algorithm design contests with random assignment. Precisely conforming to theory predictions, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
Sheikh extended this idea when he proposed that, "the number of work hours should be dictated by productivity—i.e., very productive individuals in an organization should be rewarded with greater time off (within) upper and lower... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
new information technology as a way of categorizing and accessing information in an attempt to streamline a process that already exists. Adopting these systems can have significant implications for how individuals in firms interact with... View Details
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
constitute the apex of competition by individuals and countries in hundreds of events (302 in London, to be exact), involving sports that may be very popular in one part of the world and virtually unfollowed in another. The common thread... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
are often natural and subconscious individual behaviors, making it easier for a person to make the right choice. The 2008 book Nudge, written by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, piqued their interest. (The book also inspired the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne