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- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
to have an HBS case written about them? Isn't it very unusual to be studied up-close in this fashion? Dessain: The Harvard Business School name is well known in Europe, but there are still a relatively small... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
communication flow. Environments where risk-taking is championed and visibly rewarded rather than punished, where leaders have good personal as well as technical skills, and where factors that create psychological distance between bosses... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
Porsche erected a small but substantial plant in Leipzig in eastern Germany. And unlike BMW or Daimler-Benz, Porsche did not move closer to the main U.S. market. The controversial Cayenne has turned out to be Porsche's best-selling... View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
Competition keeps you hungry. It forces you to continually find new and more cost-effective solutions to business problems. Although there's nothing new in this insight, recent research suggests some often-overlooked ways in which competitors can View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
ordinary—a two-parent household with kids—or it could be something much more exotic—they have a chronically ill child or spouse. An apogee group is what we call the “sandwich generation,” where they’re caring for dependent children, from... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
“While it may be tempting to include ominous soundtracks for entertainment value for instance, our research shows there is a potential cost to doing so.” And while this study focuses on sharks, the findings provide a general lesson about... View Details
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
effective cross-functional work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. I show that becoming a manager is a profound psychological adjustment—a true... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
Skilled improvisational musicians practice alone and with others for hours every day, year after year—notes, scales, chords, and progressions. After all of this practice comes a performance, and an improvisation begins. For musicians and audiences alike, the results... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
all well and good for people who were already in great financial shape. Interest rates and monthly payments went down for millions of prime borrowers, which was a tremendous boon to the overall economy, not to mention the simulative... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
previously developed solutions — as well as value propositions that helped him estimate how much money the client would save by implementing the system. Because Love reused this material, Ernst & Young won the project and closed the... View Details
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
and CEO Dan Schulman was especially vocal: “This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect,” he wrote in a statement. As the outcry... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
team diversity, for instance, will help generate more shots on goal although, on average, those shots will be less successful. But diversity also will increase the variance of the outcome, such that failures as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
Business History at Harvard Business School. Jones talked with us about the book. Sean Silverthorne: Given the growth of the Turkish economy and the country’s importance in geopolitical circles, it seems surprising that this book appears to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
one this step is based on, is figuring out how you will know when to go for Options B or C and call it quits on the current game. To do this, we first assess what our best option seems to be based on: our satisfaction to date with the... View Details
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
suffering incurred by the affected population. We use a political economy model of disaster prevention, supported by case studies and preliminary empirics to explain why some governments prepare well for disasters and others do not. We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
risks for physicians on innovation may be positive or negative, depending on the characteristics of the technology. Empirically, we find that, on average, laws that limit the liability exposure of healthcare providers are associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne