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- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
on an X-ray," says Quelch, who holds a joint appointment as Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. "Mental health conditions aren't so readily identifiable." It's clear from Quelch and... View Details
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
observationally result in the same thing—‘I don’t trust them’—but has very different policy implications and takeaways for practitioners.” IN BELIEF WE TRUST Minor says the overarching issue is what leads people to trust one group over... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
examine whether it was important that you made the decision to bring the bags as opposed to a store policy that requires it," says Karmarkar, noting that some stores obligate customers to bring their own bags; others charge customers... View Details
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
leaders, different policies and practices, a different form of organization. These are leaders with a congruent vision of critical tasks to be addressed as well as the culture, formal organization, and people with which to do it in... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
professor Bharat Anand give students an introduction to the book publishing business and the emerging landscape of e-readers before presenting them with the conundrums that face Random House CEO Markus Dohle (Dohle succeeded Olson in 2008): Should the company pursue a... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 22
potential impact of policies to manage systemic risk. Unravelling in Two-Sided Matching Markets and Similarity of Preferences Author:Hanna W. Halaburda Publication:Games and Economic Behavior (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
When In-House Research Isn’t Enough
knowledge inside an organization." Chesbrough then presented "snapshots" of three major corporations whose research policies have led them down different paths: "Although IBM continues to invest substantial sums in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
markets, which have had biosimilar competition since 2006. Using our own survey, we analyze how market features and public policies predict biosimilar entry, price, and penetration, finding significant heterogeneity across countries and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
two network surveys supported these hypotheses. Cases & Course MaterialsAFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Case 309-101 Richard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
inferences are formed as a function of what is chosen. Specifically, when observers encounter someone else's choice (e.g., of political candidate), they use the chosen option's attribute values (e.g., a candidate's specific stance on a View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- January 2001 (Revised May 2001)
- Background Note
State, The
By: Rawi E. Abdelal
Surveys approaches to understanding the state; highlights the relationships between the state, order, and property; and offers an analytical framework for how states vary from place to place and over time. View Details
Keywords: Business and Government Relations; Governance Compliance; Framework; Economic Sectors; Policy; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Entrepreneurship; Development Economics; Equality and Inequality
Abdelal, Rawi E. "State, The." Harvard Business School Background Note 701-077, January 2001. (Revised May 2001.)
- 14 Sep 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Google Engineer Deserved to be Fired by the CEO
Fellow at Harvard Business School, former Chair & CEO of Medtronic, and author of Discover Your True North. Related Reading: Why Employers Favor Men How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin? Taking the Fear out of Diversity View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 22 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
When Protestors Knock at Your Door
As globalization trends increase, so does the ability of non-governmental organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam International, and the World Wildlife Fund to shape public and corporate policy on everything from human rights to labor... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City
that can't be accessed from a distance. In Concert With Capitalism Porter also said he's concerned that agendas of economic and social policy are viewed increasingly as conflicting. "There's a growing sense that something is wrong... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Adjusting the Fit for Government
pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a health policy that deals with... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 May 2019
- Research Event
The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History
government’s policies to favor Muslim business over those of Armenian, Greek, and Jewish minorities. These new data sets and analytical techniques, enabled by new tools in computational data science, have potential to broaden and deepen... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
coaching. Linda Powell described several important elements of an effort to support inclusion this way: “Organizations must have clear policies on harassment, (then) insist on leadership that models appropriate behavior, effective... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
As the quantity of online content continues to proliferate—from cute cat videos to policy experts blogging on the Middle East—the consumer's expectation that online content should be free becomes more entrenched. To make money, websites... View Details
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
innovative design in the built environment. To create an environmentally sustainable built environment, design that focuses on maximizing natural resource efficiency, planning that fosters public health, business models that attract the capital to fund it, and public... View Details