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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
Markt in 1997 (a creation of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, or Deutsche Börse), there is a new and receptive home for initial public offerings. To learn the practitioner's point of view, Lerner assembled a... View Details
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
painfully clear to me a number of years ago in Veraguas province, Panama, where I was working with students to help a radical bishop, Marcos McGrath, establish credit and marketing cooperatives. Local government experts who did not... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
rules so that they benefit your company or client at the expense of others. You have to decide whether to do what you’re asked or refuse, which can be costly to you and your group,” explains Hildreth,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still have problems with it. But deadlines, as they so often do, help us avoid View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen
involvement, they depend entirely on inquiry—assembling a large group of managers and asking them to define a direction. The result is often widespread frustration. Managers and employees look to leaders to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
to be published by Princeton University Press. In this recent interview conducted by e-mail, Lodge is hopeful that the World Development Corporation will be formed. He explains why nonprofits aren't the... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 27 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Politician's Investment Portfolio Might Tip Off Corruption Potential
OpenSecrets.org. Direct stock or bond holdings were straightforward to categorize as risky or not. For mutual funds Minor tapped investment industry experts to help him devise an algorithm to categorize the... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
of omission over harms of action," follows an organ-donation program that favors Option B. We asked Bazerman to discuss the research and its implications for policymakers. Manda Salls: Your description... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
Guess? Tommy's wireless device has GPS-like location-sensing capabilities.) Tommy's tempted, but he's running late to meet Jenny—and she wanted to go to a movie anyway. Still, it can't hurt to ask her. He pushes a button and calls Jenny.... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
independent oversight it is tough to write credible standards and subject them to internal monitoring and enforcement. A third competitive method, known as the Porter Hypothesis, after Harvard Business School professor and strategy View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Should business play a role in supporting public institutions, and perhaps addressing the world's social challenges? When Harvard Professor Rebecca Henderson asked her colleagues and business executives that... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
their dominance has lulled them into somnolence. Private insurers could compete by reducing the estimated waste in the health care system of $900 billion; experts estimate that... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
Evaluation, a paper published in 2011. “We know racism and sexism exist. The question is what can we do about it?” Parsons has made a habit of asking surprising questions about economic issues, looking at... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
privacy notice at checkout, with language drawn from actual notices used by Nordstrom and Macy’s; other’s didn’t. Asked to rate on a scale of 1 to 100 how likely they were to go through with the purchase,... View Details
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
back into Wiedeking's shoes at that moment in time. While students already know that the Cayenne turned the company around, we ask the students... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
the question is as important as the answer," Thomke says. When Apple Buys Your Company In teaching a case study about Apple, Thomke asks a thought-provoking question to... View Details
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
Essentially, subjects are shown dots on a screen representing 25 cities and asked to make a route that hits all of the cities and returns to their starting point. The goal:... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 25 Feb 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Starting a Business
and know who! How Can A Resource-challenged Start-up Grow? How Can Start-Ups Grow? For new ventures a lack of resources makes growth difficult to come by—just ask those nine out of ten fledgling firms that fail. Professor Mukti Khaire... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
asking their CEO what kind of an institution they are building. Does the CEO and the firm have a higher purpose? What is she or he doing to create a healthy institution that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
participants were randomly assigned to spend money on others rather than themselves. We asked Norton to elaborate in an email interview, an invitation to which he cheerfully agreed. Sarah Jane Gilbert: What prompted you to conduct this... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert