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20 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2018

blues, and a job set up for failure. If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer Researcher Ethan Rouen discovers that rank-and-file employees understand the boss deserves a big salary, but only when the number is fully explained.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

to spearhead such growth. But not everyone on the cross-disciplinary panel shared that assumption. And so the discussion was guided by a question of sovereignty: Who should be in charge of building, managing, and controlling the cities of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

shows. Partisan divides exist even within specific professions. Democrats accounted for more than 50 percent of chief or general legal officers at firms, but Democrats made up only 27 percent of chief financial officers. Similar fissures... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Center Focuses on Europe

here. In 2004, we also expect mergers and acquisitions activity to heat up as many industries are consolidating on a European or global basis. Industries that we are watching include airlines, pharma, and financial services. Q: What roles do you see the ERC View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

16 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

Excerpt from Defense Acquisition Reform 1960-2009: An Elusive Goal. Major Weapon Systems Since World War II military research and development (R&D) has constituted a large share of the total federal R&D effort. In 1960, for... View Details

Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service

09 Aug 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

Productivity Studies show that workers are more productive on rainy days than on sunny ones. Does your office take advantage? Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating Organizations spend a lot of money enabling employees... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?

office or leading the family are less likely to foster a culture of growth, risk taking, and wealth creation. According to Jeremy Dean, a researcher at University College London, optimists prefer to think about how they and others can... View Details

02 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Leading Professional Service Firms

problem—and everyone wants to talk about it and share experiences and solutions. Bringing together a diverse group of professionals creates a powerful learning environment precisely because we can draw on a wide range of professional,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Jay W. Lorsch; Service; Consulting; Accounting

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

information provided by office culture is gone. You could wear your best suit and have a two-hour meeting in the middle of the day with the C-suite of your firm’s biggest competitor without anyone being the wiser. Pause for a moment and... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

03 Sep 2020
Op-Ed

Why American Health Care Needs Its Own SEC

Related Reading Medicare for All or Public Option: Can Either Heal Health Care? It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees Love in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs. Share your... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger; Health

30 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 30

multinational firms. The results indicate that increases in the share of a firm's innovation performed by inventors of a particular ethnicity are associated with increases in the share of that firm's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

Herrero. HBS Professor Howard H. Stevenson, chair of the HBS Latin America Initiative, noted that the entire project was sparked by an idea of Dean Kim Clark's two years ago. The Latin America Research Center has been a key element of the School's Globalization... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

Desktop Search and Revenue Streams

information…(but) the problem is at the end of the day, the user wants an answer—he doesn't want more and more of them." Herve Gellaire, chief technology officer of Xerox and president of Xerox Innovation Group, said, "I... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

reached the executive level at his organization. Why did he make it when so many other minorities plateaued in middle management? First, Williams had the good fortune to be hired by Nathan Barrett, a white manager who continually expanded Williams's responsibilities... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

researchers use a complex mathematical model to get to the bottom of just why enemies might decide to share a locker. It boils down to a difference in how they make their money. "Even though both [companies] make money from hardware and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

12 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

but all share a belief in the importance of understanding change over time. Publisher's site: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/History/ The Effect of Macro Information Environment Change on the Quality of Management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

allows many people to search for and retrieve codified knowledge without having to contact the person who originally developed it. That opens up the possibility of achieving scale in knowledge reuse and thus of growing the business. Take the example of Randall Love, a... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

and senior officers of firms, we test the hypothesis that analysts' school ties to senior officers impart comparative information advantages in the production of analyst research. We find evidence that... View Details