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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
Ahead of the Democratic National Convention, HBS Working Knowledge gathered insights from Harvard Business School faculty about what’s at stake for companies, and how the election might impact workplaces. They offer an assessment as the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
being achieved, thereby meeting the large companies' aspirations. There have been bumps, but it does appear that the partners are capable of learning and adjusting, and are well on their way to capturing the potential synergies. View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 16
variety of valuation approaches, from techniques widely used in practice to methods less frequently seen in practice today but likely to be increasingly important in the future years. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 8, 2007
using data from the recent redesign of the NYC High School match, which places approximately 90,000 students per year, we document that the extent of potential efficiency loss is substantial. Over 6,800 student applicants in the main... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2020
that eight of the 10 most-read HBS Working Knowledge stories of the year were COVID-focused. Readers sought insights from HBS faculty about everything from managing large-scale remote work to leading during... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
learn how to perform their jobs more safely and effectively. The latter required that workers engage in mutual expressions of vulnerability: they acknowledged their physical limitations, learned View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
need for Western managers to learn from the Japanese experience. Simply adopting Japanese management techniques is not a recipe for success, as the recent experience shows. The Japan case highlights the need... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
quality of the search service offered to consumers is more likely to be degraded (i.e. the probability that consumers find their favorite store in the first round of search is less than 1) when the intermediary derives higher revenues View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
and inadequate care. In short, health care in the United States appears to be broken. Enter Harvard Business School's Life Sciences & Health Care Initiative, which brings together faculty from diverse parts of HBS to both conduct... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking E-Leadership
by transforming" the existing business or creating a new one. An effective e-leader, Hargrove continues, must shift from "being a productivity and efficiency junkie to being an opportunity seeker and innovator who quests for... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
unmatched and unchecked culture of engineering ambition, of rote learning and educational experimentation, of sophisticated tastes along with basic concerns with food safety. It is a country that is at once cosmopolitan and confused about... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
one of two conditions. In the “similar” condition, they learned that the two widgets shared four out of five attributes in common; in the “dissimilar” condition, the widgets shared only one attribute. In both conditions, Jane always chose... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Mass Shootings Lead to Looser Gun Restrictions
More broadly, “The Impact of Mass Shootings on Gun Policy” raises the general question of what factors drive policy changes—and what factors don’t. “Our findings suggest that while much attention has been rightfully devoted to understanding the impact of policy, there... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey
layoffs, though, only one person among the six panelists had retreated to a traditional consultancy in 2001. The rest—who started everything from a women-centric financial services group to a natural products company that grew View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
asset-testing, and history-dependence, remain rare in practice. Where large gaps between theory and policy remain, the difficult question is whether policymakers need to learn more from theorists, or the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
energy intensive. This effect is quantitatively substantial: going from the 25th to the 75th percentile of management practices is associated with a 17.4% reduction in energy intensity. Better managed firms are also significantly more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
research is in particular about leaders who do things that nobody else would have done," Mukunda says. "Great leadership requires courage, and Cynthia was courageous. Every single lever you could pull to change an organization, she pulled it. View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
learn how to navigate a business world dominated by new technology. Thanks to even newer technologies that enable us to stream, store, and access everything digital, we now have at our disposal a new arsenal of techniques and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 28 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms
dropped by more than half. “As a marketplace, you get sophisticated investors interested in playing the game by giving them some information. They bring their capital, and you can even learn from them,”... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
virtuous cycles of exploitation and exploration by deliberately perturbing their own processes. We provide illustrations from Toyota and formulate testable hypotheses about the mechanisms of perturbation. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace