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- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
good thing?" Tabellini asks. "Or is it something that eventually might, because of this multiplier effect, harm the local labor market even more, slowing down its recovery relative to what would have happened?" Tabellini, who specializes... View Details
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
neutral, or even harmful to minting winning ideas. Testing for personality Koning and Hasan detail their findings in the paper Conversations and Idea Generation: Evidence from a Field Experiment, to be published in Research Policy this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
(1) in the context of denying harm to the environment than in the context of claiming to help the environment, and (2) in situations where behaviors are evaluated subjectively than in situations where behaviors are evaluated more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
A New Model for Business: The Museum
curation—showing competitors' prices—than would a company whose products and services are easier to evaluate. Call it enlightened self-interest. I don't think we can expect manufacturers and retailers to change in ways that will harm... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Four Ways to Create Lasting Change
change initiative more recently? What were the main customer service problems that were harming the company? And what did the "Mystery Shopper" component reveal? A: In the late 1990s, the company's comparable-store sales gains... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 12, 2008
the same way at every school—single tie breaking—in a student-proposing deferred acceptance mechanism. Any inefficiency associated with a realized tie breaking cannot be removed without harming student incentives. Finally, we empirically... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
for customers? Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution? Millions of people have been harmed by cigarettes, defective merchandise, pollution, addiction and other business by-products. now,... View Details
- 28 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing
safety of the employees who make the goods that the retailer sells? No need to feel awkward if your answer is no. Most people do not think about the harms created by indirect actions, that is, behaviors that hurt others indirectly, such... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
wild." Key concepts include: The harmful side effects of goal setting are far more serious and systematic than prior work has acknowledged. Goal setting harms organizations in systematic and predictable... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
ensure that, except during downturns, when new fiscal stimulus is required, new spending and tax cuts do not add to the deficit The risks associated with high debt levels are small relative to the harm cutting deficits would do.” Have we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
eliminate more than 70 percent of fraud without decreasing profit. As he explained in his blog: "By delaying payments, a merchant or network differentially harms bad affiliates (who rightly worry they may get caught) without unduly... View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation
to remedy the information-sharing glut that is slowing health care innovation and harming patient care, according to panelists discussing "Digital Health: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation" at the Digital Initiative Summit held... View Details
- 08 Sep 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Capitalism Works Better When I Can See What You're Doing
Internal and External Responsibility Initiatives Influences Consumer ChoiceThree studies examined how firms can use transparency into social and environmental responsibility initiatives to differentiate themselves in the consumer market. Complex DisclosureCompanies... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
access the results of that study, she may be less inclined to repeat it," he says. "This reduction in duplication can lead to lower costs without harming quality." Productivity losses are not inevitable, and not every small practice will... View Details
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
that this policy was doing more harm than good and driving capital from the state. With the governor pushing for action, it was up to the state legislature to decide how to proceed. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Company Town: Fixing Corrupt Governments
kickbacks. A corruption scandal in Lagos could harm KPMG's reputation in New York or Shanghai. Moreover, foreign firms are bound by many laws of their home country and by international laws, notably the antibribery convention of the... View Details
Keywords: by Eric Werker
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
emotional state, which the authors call competitive arousal, often leads to bad decisions. Managers can minimize the potential for competitive arousal and the harm it can inflict by avoiding certain types of interaction and targeting the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
antecedent of successful problem solving may harm the other. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-075.pdf Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 814-100 Clef Company: Turnover... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiations be secret or open, separate or collective? How can you avoid being harmed by the sequencing tactics of others? Here's some advice: Study Patterns Of Influence And Deference Would-be coalition builders learn quickly that... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
and Max H. Bazerman Abstract When powerful people cause harm, they often do so indirectly through other people. Are harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace