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- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company... 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
- 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
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
thoughts and feelings. People varied considerably in whether they saw the open space of time before them as a blank canvas they were excited to paint—or a dark, scary void. “When you work, you are a kind of tenant in a really settled life... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
remote work tech tools. Find a colleague who has used Slack and Zoom and set up a tutorial and get a sense of how to use these tools and what their functionality is like. Hopefully the virus will go away soon, but those tools will stay helpful even if you choose to go... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 18 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 18
U.S.-born parents, while the second includes mostly older, separated women with some college education, a relatively higher share of whom are foreign born and have foreign-born parents. Our results demonstrate the presence of additional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 01 Feb 2023
- What Do You Think?
Will Hybrid Work Strategies Pull Down Long-Term Performance?
that has emptied their offices and destroyed much of the daily face-to-face give and take coupled with pride in the organization that they enjoyed over the years? Will hybrid work strategies destroy much of this? Will they pull down... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 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
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
“Now that you’ve opened the door to adopting a remote work culture, it may be hard to go back,” Austin says. “My prediction is that there will be a higher demand for more remote-friendly software solutions, a lot of empty space in View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (B) Supplement to HBS No. 118-007, "Knowledge Sharing at REMA 1000 (A)." Chief Human Resources Officer Tore Høylie was proud of REMA... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs
"I've heard many war stories," says Harvard Business School associate professor Connie Bagley, reflecting on conversations with former students who have started business ventures. To prepare current students for the HBS Business Plan Contest, Bagley gives a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 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
- 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
- 03 Jan 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Would the Leadership Style of Girl Scouts' Frances Hesselbein Fare Today?
introduction to Ms. Hesselbein in 1988. Case preparation, appearances in my classes, and writing for her later publications then followed. "As Hesselbein put it, 'the power of language is so important in this job.'" Welch and Hesselbein View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
providing a real-time glimpse of changing neighborhoods, allowing policymakers to “forecast” where gentrification might be occurring and measure its effects. The team has worked closely with cities to explore gentrification, meeting with politicians, policymakers, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman