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- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and creativity. While specific tactics vary by company, they share... View Details
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
profits when one side is subsidized in equilibrium. By contrast, if platforms make positive margins on both sides, the same investment has the regular, expected effects. Our analysis implies that the strategy space and the logic of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 7
Path-Breakers? Women's Electoral Success and Future Political Participation By: Bhalotra, Sonia, Irma Clots-Figueras, and Lakshmi Iyer Abstract—This paper investigates whether the event of a woman winning office in a competitive election... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
Environmental disasters like wildfires can ignite awareness of climate change and boost eco-friendly politicians’ careers. But do voters perceive a tradeoff between environmental policies and local economic growth? In Brazil, home to a majority of the Amazon tropical... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
assigned to one of 70 16-person networks, some of which were more interconnected—or "clustered," in academic parlance—in terms of who could share information with whom during the game. "In the most-clustered conditions,... View Details
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
recognize how the sum is greater than its parts. While each team member played a role in your efforts, it is almost always how the team worked together that led to where you are now. Schedule a couple hours to be together—ideally, face to face and out of the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 10 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Key to Doing Your Best at Work? Be Yourself
Frances X. Frei, UPS Foundation Professor of Service Management. Too often, people are advised or feel pressured to bury the special or quirky aspects of their personalities, recalibrate their speaking or personal styles, or think twice about View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
vertical chain and therefore come up with superior products. One tradeoff would therefore seem to be between large market share and high quality, of which the Microsoft/Apple comparison is a good illustration. Sony illustrates another... View Details
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the organization seeks to boost their relative share of the scarce resources. This competitive drive to excel others is the greatest source of the restless energy that people bring to the workplace. If this were the only drive in play, it... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 05 Feb 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
it works." On the other hand, Kamal Gupta cited problems regarding pay transparency in observing that, "Indian law had mandated public sharing of employee compensation for all those drawing above a certain limit employees... View Details
- 21 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?
self-sabotaging their companies by mistakenly adhering to practices on the list. When Thomke shares portions of the field manual with business executives in class, they tend to respond with a nervous chuckle. But then the room grows... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
Five Steps to Better Family Negotiations
for the business, family, and owners. In many cases, family members have multiple roles in the system, like father-owner-manager, daughter-employee, or aunt-owner. These multiple roles and ties can create more shared objectives and as a... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis and Deepak Malhotra
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
between firm payout policy and tax incentives. Analysis of a panel of firms matched with the tax characteristics of the clients of their institutional shareholders indicates that "dividend-averse" institutions are significantly less likely to hold View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
Silos That Work: How the Pandemic Changed the Way We Collaborate
Employers were so impressed with how smoothly their employees handled remote work during the dramatic lockdowns in the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic that many are going permanently remote, ditching expensive office leases and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
regulations needed to be based on hard science and engineering knowledge. To achieve this, collaboration with the Swedish government was seen as instrumental and joint R&D was regarded as a means to share knowledge and costs. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers Be Saved From Their Misguided Decisions?
resources officer choosing how to present health insurance options to employees, first determine the root cause of why poor selections are made. While you might think employees need more time to navigate through alternatives, the reality... View Details
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
for the US space agency’s Astrobee system in 2018. Entries proposed solutions to technical issues with a robotic arm for Astrobee, a free-flying robot that handles inventory, documents astronauts’ experiments, and moves cargo. Astrobee is... View Details
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Code of Change
Dunlap sold off several businesses, retaining for the time being the core consumer products business. He moved the head office out of Scott's longtime corporate building and into a much smaller building near his home in Florida. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Nitin Nohria
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
differentiator for some services. Linklaters’ clients, for example, derive comfort from knowing that the firm has the resources to work on large, high-stakes, complex matters. A 2007 analysis found that the firm’s average billing rate rose as more View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda