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- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
Patients are not actually the customers in the United States health care system, a fact largely to blame for the dearth of communication and data sharing between providers, according to experts at a recent Harvard Business School... View Details
- 06 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
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by" to further cull the results by Topic, Industry, and/or Region. Let us know what you think by clicking the "give us feedback" link at the top of our Advanced Browse pages. We encourage a discussion about the feature,... View Details
- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
discusses the case and his own research. Cynthia Churchwell: You have been studying the impact and workings of corruption for several years. What spurred your interest in this area? Rafael Di Tella: I was... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 17 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Who is Boss in the Sharing Economy?
similar on-demand companies Shyp, Washio, and Caviar. "I think it would be crazy to all of a sudden say that all Uber drivers are employees, because we would be effectively killing the business model" What... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
automated, where there are lots of basic numbers that are going to determine the decision,” Sunderam says. “With something like small business lending, it's much less automated and much more bespoke, it's natural to View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
correcting this largely leave us with a frustrating sense that there is every reason to think that the industry will continue to grow and prosper without significantly affecting the quality of leadership in... View Details
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
critical data point and a unique leg up in thinking about the issue. CTrip is one of many companies using experiments to guide decisions, according to Harvard Business School professor Michael Luca.... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
a natural member of this group. Tony's story strongly suggests that the most fundamental inner resource of leaders is a peculiar, negative skill. Leaders need the capacity to distance themselves from the pressures and seductions of... View Details
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov,... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
already so far on the wrong side of the issue that it might as well add the word "spammer" to its corporate mission statement. It's about offering its customers and prospects an identity that they find useful View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
impossible? These internal capital and product markets are growing in importance for these firms creating many opportunities and many obstacles. Our research shows that some firms are adapting quickly to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
visiting professor at HBS who teaches in the School’s FIELD (Field Immersion Experiences for Leadership Development) global immersion course, which sends groups of students all over the world to get first-hand experience doing business in an unfamiliar location. This... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
found, given, and transmitted from the past." Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish writer who named economics "the dismal science," famously declared for the other side: "The History of the world is but the Biography of great men." Our instincts... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
that they would otherwise have a hard time entering into. As one participant in a Group Gift transaction said in an interview: "If it wasn't for the eBay update from my friend that I saw on Facebook, I don't think I would ever know that... View Details
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
Harvard Business School. The experiment was typical of thinking in those days: If only we had better ways of communicating, especially better ways of tracking customer preferences and demand. Now we do.... View Details
- 08 Oct 2010
- What Do You Think?
Will Transparency in CEO Compensation Have Unintended Consequences?
assumption that a lower ratio of CEO to average compensation has a beneficial effect on an organization's performance. Presumably, the thinking is that greater equity in pay leads to a healthier culture (for example, in organizations like... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 28 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: The Good Struggle: Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World
unconventional way. We typically think of commitments as deep, abiding pledges that individuals and organizations will do absolutely all they can to make good on. In contrast, the kind of commitments that... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Badaracco
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
are perishable and you need to wait at home for them to be delivered. In that light, do you think there's a future for online grocery shopping? A: Home-delivered groceries? Never. Online communication,... View Details
- 22 Oct 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Motivate Me, Please
for what makes a productive employee, an effective leader, and an efficient team, may help people better calibrate their self-perceptions with reality. What do you think of this research? Share your insights... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne