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- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
force of valued managers, when asked by senior management to conduct and analyze a worldwide employee survey, refused to do so. They simply did not want to be associated with what they perceived would be yet... View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
to an orthodoxy of capital controls in 1944 and then back again by 1994? How have such standards of appropriate behavior been codified and transmitted internationally? Contrary... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
companies have room to grow—and yet will still maintain slack in their total borrowing capacity. “I knew that [small] firms have to be cautious in the way they finance,” Kim says. “I was just surprised by how much. The level of... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
services that are friendly to the environment (a 1993 US executive order) and to "stimulate the use of green standards in private procurement" (a 2008 communication from the Commission View Details
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
Science at Harvard (LISH) has a long history of working together with Harvard Catalyst at Harvard Medical School to identify interesting innovation and process problems in translational biomedical areas. We have View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
up the Internet's impact now and in the future, McFarlan told the group, "The gold standard has moved. What is in fact acceptable infrastructure, what is acceptable customer service, has changed—completely and powerfully and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
expected to look for some objective standard of reasonable care before they will concur that indoor environments are reasonably safe. There are likely to be do-it-yourselfers, top shelf evaluators—and... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
from the human CEO over those they attributed to AI, suggesting a deep mistrust of algorithms. To explore this phenomenon further, Choudhury and his team conducted a second study that aimed to control for... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
startups because of Sequoia specifically? To test if the name of a top investor makes a difference in luring applicants, the researchers collaborated with AngelList Talent, an online recruitment platform, to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
leaders who inspire in these roles. They should work alongside their employees, doing more than their fair share of the most challenging aspects of the work. Their leadership role is to champion the... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
itself from selling to a portion of the market. In addition, we show that contrary to standard results on double marginalization and pricing of complementary goods, a platform... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?
Watch out. Apple hopes to claim a new frontier on your wrist. The company announced its new Apple Watch on Tuesday, sending journalists and a bevy of other observers, online and off, into a flurry of... View Details
- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
feeling! I internalized these standards and began to believe that academic metrics and accomplishments would be critical in determining where I could go to college and the kinds of jobs I would be able to... View Details
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
associated with short-term shareholder value." Critics of the study have suggested that it was conducted too soon after adoption of the Statement. For example, Salesforce CEO... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
experience. Moreover, we should not forget that one of the coauthors of the famous Hawthorne Studies (Harold Wright) was also chief of personnel at the Western Electric Company... View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
- Research & Ideas
When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong
and conducted in collaboration with John and doctoral candidate Tami Kim. Their research is detailed in their paper The Role of (Dis)similarity in (Mis)predicting Others’ Preferences, which will appear in a... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
Entrepreneurs aren’t short on ideas for exciting new products or companies, but they are often short-sighted when it comes to finding ways to fund and build those projects. “There is a huge amount of discussion about how you come up with... View Details
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
believe that with all of these positive cognitive effects, you might also get benefits for decision making,” says Karmarkar, who conducted the research with UMass Amherst psychology professor Rebecca Spencer... View Details
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
results of a salary survey conducted by the French Engineering and Scientist Council, a network of alumni organizations that includes 144 of the... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
States, women’s share of board seats on the S&P 500 is 19.2 percent.) In other words, inasmuch as the gender gap is intractable in Sweden, it’s probably more so in most other countries. It is standard... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel