the Women's Initiative - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

that they may want to provide a lot of information initially to attract investors in the first place. Then as the platforms mature, they can scale back View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Banking; Financial Services

12 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer

funded initiatives by Land O' Lakes in some twenty-three poor countries. In Albania, for example, Land O' Lakes has organized 8,000 women into cooperatives for the production of dairy products, providing... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

opportunity for goods and services that offer new consumer concepts or new product qualities, but most Indians believe brands are more expensive—even when they're not. It can be difficult for a new product to get over that initial hump... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

28 May 2012
Research & Ideas

A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy

credit for any of it." Starting The Strategy The authors argue that every company should have a CSR strategy that unifies the diverse range of its philanthropic giving, supply... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

18 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

they tackle issues of funding and growth. In the meantime, they continue to share the initial results of what may be the largest quantitative... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Nov 2005
What Do You Think?

Is Less Becoming More?

consumers will determine which are successful and which are not." But just how is "less" achieved? As Martin Reveli points out, "To artificially restrict choice eliminates some elements of competition. . . . Long live View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Consumer Products

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

by other patients? Would I want to write a review of my psychiatrist that, to be thorough, might have to reveal my weaknesses? Wouldn't I benefit more from just paying for an initial visit to see if the... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

01 Apr 2019
What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

a confluence of factors that muddy the analysis” such as “the extremely deflationary push of technology,” one that is not measured correctly because of productivity increased by the greater capabilities of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

offering more ways of tracing and communicating such activities," says Healy. (He wrote an article article on such initiatives in the Harvard Business Review with HBS Associate Professor Karthik Ramanna.) If... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

undermine those foundations. Since 2007 when we carried out our initial research, we have experienced a global financial collapse that destroyed the economic position of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

09 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Got a New Strategy? Now Make it Happen

species' survival by triggering learning and adaptation; it can have the same effect on organizations. Businesses and the people inside them don't learn to change unless they have View Details

Keywords: by Michael Beer & Russell A. Eisenstat

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

dominant form of organization has been of a hierarchy. Now and in the future, Clark said, many more people in the organization will be responsible for taking action and View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

departments, simplification of strategic-planning and capital budgeting processes, and massive overhauls of corporate structures and processes—all in an effort both to shift initiative to those deep in the... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Turning High Potential into Real Reward

ultimate product that they can actually build. They move from that initial starting point to their ultimate objective with remarkable efficiency. These entrepreneurs understand both the ultimate mainstream... View Details

Keywords: Re: Joseph B. Lassiter; Consumer Products

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

Wagaroo. The initial iteration of Wagaroo was based entirely on trying to develop an effective matching algorithm. Prospective owners filled out surveys, indicating preferences about factors such as size,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

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... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

hears whispers of a more distant collective guidance. In the initial draft of my ethnography of HBS, I noted the School's relative silence on the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

13 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview

lessons learned from the initial research—namely, admitting fallibility rather than couching it. "I think people have a tendency not to say something negative about themselves because that makes them... View Details