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06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

with the convenience of an on-site facility, some busy Google employees found it difficult to stay active. Academic literature would suggest that they just needed the right cues and environment to help them establish a habit they would... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

02 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories

feel more regretful. One group was asked to consider their decision from the distance of 10 years in the future; the other group was asked to predict how they would feel about their purchase the following day. “We don't have to wait 40 years to learn from the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Ray A. Goldberg

response to events in Europe, from the cloning of Dolly to the recent spread of mad-cow disease, Goldberg founded an annual forum at the School where farmers, industry representatives, professors, scientists, public-policy leaders, and... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Agriculture & Agribusiness

31 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709410 Lapdesk Goes Global—Africa First Harvard Business School Case 809-066 Shane Immelman, founding CEO of the Lapdesk Company of South Africa, is facing a number of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

Cary's work became so influential in those times and places? And why did it lose that influence, especially with academics, in the modern era? A: At home, Cary became influential because he was an eloquent architect and popularizer of English imperial policies. In... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

Carpenter at Cake Financial Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alison Berkley WagonfeldHarvard Business School Case 811-041 After investing $9 million of venture capital, Cake Financial had failed to reach critical mass. In early 2010 Cake's assets were sold and the company was... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

stimulated by different ideas and perspectives. Importantly, these ideas do not necessarily come from the network members who are culturally different from you. Chua's experimental research found that cultural heterogeneity induced... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

10 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 83 percent of large company CFOs agreed that SOX had increased investor confidence, with 33 percent agreeing that it had reduced fraud. And yet—the financial crisis of 2008 still... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

US. A "commons" fosters the process-oriented innovation that in turn contributes to the vitality of the industrial sector and the health of the economy. Respondents to this month's column were somewhat pessimistic that such resources could be View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

16 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

envy and imitate. Unfortunately, that's no longer the case. Increasingly, outsiders view our political system as riven by politicians preoccupied with their own reelection, resulting in a tragic stalemate. Long before Occupy Wall Street pitched its tents, many... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

that "most high value employee(s), if they decide to leave an organization, will negotiate an equivalent sign-on bonus." JA said, "I have found the best investment to be a solid severance program." Frank Fabela pointed... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Accounting Information as Political Currency

expected the accounting effect on election outcomes to be minor. When we ran the tests, we found that even a one standard-deviation change in our measure of earnings management could affect election outcomes in some cases. Q: Were you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

The Money Connection—Understanding VC Networks

Most of us have experienced the power of networks. There's the job found through a friend's sister's boyfriend, or the lifelong partner met through a neighbor's cousin. But how do networks play into business—particularly the... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

02 Aug 2004
What Do You Think?

For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?

of the article. Richard Eckel opined that "A basic misconception is that Section 404 increases transparency afforded to stakeholders... What 404 does is require that corporate leadership demonstrate that the processes used to produce the required transparency are... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

A Latin American Vision: New HBS Research Center Opens

able to share in the intellectual capital they have created. "We believe that over time, the quality of the work being created throughout the region merits sharing and merits utilization." In the Center's early planning phases, noted Stevenson, the faculty... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Connections

entire team that enabled a firm to move toward profitability." In addition, Higgins and Gulati found that top management teams whose members' collective connections were wide ranging and complementary were most effective at... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

offshorability and wage level, where Blinder found no correlation. While Blinder found a slight wage penalty for the most offshorable jobs, the student data exhibited no evidence of wage depreciation from... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

accepting lower profit margins for other products, such as those from China. Overall, Cavallo and his colleagues found little difference between the impact on prices of affected and unaffected goods. The comparison indicates that many... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

18 Jul 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817107-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-034 edaixi (eWash): Digital Transformation of Laundry Services (A) Founded in 2013 as a laundry service featuring online ordering for home... View Details