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- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
safety in popular media increased nearly three-fold in a five-year period beginning in 2013. The presence of psychological safety, according to a number of research projects, favorably affects things such as employee engagement, employee... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Everyday Creativity” is a call for managers and researchers to consider the following question: When ordinary people undertake creative endeavors in their work or their non-work lives, what is the nature of their everyday psychological experiences, and how do those... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30
production, foreign investment, and trade of both final and intermediate goods by multinational corporations. Research has sought to understand how foreign direct investment (FDI) affects host economies. This paper reviews the main... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates of about 20 percent, and mobile phone... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Department of Housing and Urban Development, the primary agency for dealing with affordable housing in this country, is about $35 billion. Realtors say the sky will fall if we end the mortgage interest deduction—that it would adversely View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com, which explored how restaurant reviews on Yelp affect their bottom lines.) Reviewing The Reviewers After spending some time on Yelp, Luca questioned whether the site's star-based rating system (five stars for... View Details
- 02 Jul 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?
commented, "Operationally, profit as a final goal is probably impossible because of principal/agent problems and lack of information and knowledge. This makes intermediate targets that affect profit important." Steve Brogan,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
to be a donor. Thus, the default that society imposes dramatically affects donor rates. As a result of the U.S. system, 6,000 people die each year who might not have, given a change in the default. Q: Your research shows that given a... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
basis of an MNC's competitive advantage, the authors argue. Panel: Globalization Of Markets And Information Technology IT is a powerful force for gaining competitive advantage, but how is it affecting the marketing function? Which... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
the ways in which real managers in real firms grapple with significant decisions affecting their businesses. We discuss cases that reflect a mix of professions as well as firms of different sizes and supplement them with additional... View Details
- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
a place where someone like me can enter and feel a strong affection and affinity? How do we signal that this is an institution that on its surface could be exclusionary but has resisted that impulse by taking intentional efforts to make... View Details
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Global - Global Activities 2020
facilitate research-related activities for Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, the Herman C. Krannert Professor of Business Administration, during a global research fellowship in Tokyo. He spent six months there exploring companies with innovative business models. While the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Books
and Privatization, by Willis Emmons, explores the impact of deregulation and privatization on company strategy in industries worldwide and shows how these dynamic processes shape the critical evolving relationship, or bargain, between governments and View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
elsewhere and then work with those countries to clean up their act. Most executives probably believe these problems don't affect them or their companies. Are they right? Assisting in the movement of tax-evading money is subtle and can... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Q&A: John Quelch
experience that takes full advantage of the richness of this international diversity in the classroom. You made reference to the impact of the events of September 11. How have they affected the School's international outreach? The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Way You See It
In response to a special Bulletin survey, hundreds of HBS alumni selected the people, products, and events that in their view have most affected business over the last 75 years. These intrepid respondents also did some crystal-ball... View Details
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
Abstract—Current academic and policy debates focus on the impact of tort reforms on physicians’ behavior and medical costs. This paper examines whether these reforms also affect incentives to develop new technologies. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
ESG issues tend to have the best future investment performance. Q: Why is that? A: If we have better information around ESG issues, and it is communicated and used more effectively, then that information will be incorporated into stock prices and View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- Profile
Ralph Johnson
for you? I’m going to work with McKinsey in Chicago as a generalist. Consulting gives me the flexibility to find where my skills work best and to discover what I’m most interested in. Long-term, I hope I can have an impact on education: maybe in politics? Perhaps... View Details
Keywords: Consulting
- 04 Feb 2014
- Blog Post
VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!
equity investing and fundraising to geography specific investment opportunities,” said Alex Kleiner, Harvard Business School MBA Class of 2014 and Co-President of the Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference. “We hope to initiate a broad range of debates about... View Details