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- 06 Dec 2021
- News
New Wave
gets easier when you have diverse generation profiles,” says Weiss, who is working up a case study on a Moroccan energy project that blends wind and solar power. Marine energy also holds a special place... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled contributors. Recent internal company... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It wasn't recognition or awards that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Power of the Noncompete Clause
about the world of noncompetes before you embarked on this study. How did you get interested in studying them vis-à-vis inventor mobility? What gap in the research did you want to investigate? Matt Marx: You're right; this topic drew... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Getting Back on Course
Every entrepreneur's real control depends on the intensity of the business and the number and kinds of partners." HBS professors Linda A. Hill and Nancy F. Koehn led participants through two case View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
Finding Alignment to Make Impact: Layla Ramirez (MBA 2017)
to solve complex problems. “Being in the protagonist's seat, having access to all this information, and having to make sense of it is the practice that you need in order to be able to make sound judgments,” she said. Years removed from the classroom, Ramirez recalls... View Details
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
Professor Ryan Buell and doctoral student Moon Soo Choi caught my eye recently. Their study of a credit card offering to almost 400,000 customers of Commonwealth Bank, Australia’s largest, found that a typical promotion mentioning only... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
express a high-level set of principles that employees are expected to abide by, but what the court effectively said is, ‘This is akin to marketing material that people don’t take literally word-for-word.” So do company ethics codes have any value? In a recent View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
market. By early 1917, Ahmednagar held 1,169 civilians, mostly men in their mid-30s. Although the prisoners’ movements were restricted, they were treated fairly well. They were allowed to build tennis courts, for example. Many spent their days learning foreign... View Details
- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
how a truly free market will work as there are no truly free markets today Perhaps a proper study on how big money rigs and biases things in its own favour should be first carried out before deciding how this can be remedied." Ken... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
Gupta had access to just such data. Initially Gupta wrote a case study for his MBA second-year course on digital marketing about a major US bank that was deciding where to place its marketing dollars to... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
South Africa's Lucille Meyer: Shaping a Practical Presidency
and Zimbabwe, the SEP brings together Africans of all races to work and learn from one another. The networking opportunities are boundless, and new friendships are often continued upon completion of the program. Through team workshops, View Details
Keywords: Morgan Baker
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
James E. Burke, MBA 1949
killed. Industry analysts and advertising experts told us that Tylenol was finished." As several HBS case studies point out, Tylenol was the country's best-selling over-the-counter pain reliever at the time... View Details
- 03 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment
education leaders espouse when making the case for undergraduate education. A 2013 survey of executives commissioned by the Association of American Colleges & Universities, for instance, suggested that four out of five employers want... View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries
SOCIALIZATION LEAD TO CLUSTERING? In order to get a handle on how much this socialization leads to clustering, Kerr and Mandorff studied US census data on immigrant groups, using the degree of intermarriage within each group as a proxy... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Sink a Startup
best-selling book, The Founder's Dilemmas: Anticipating and Avoiding the Pitfalls That Can Sink a Startup, draws on data gleaned from nearly 4,000 high-potential startups and 10,000 founders, while incorporating case View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 04 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives
racism. Ask administrators to speak out about what’s happening in the US right now, in the foreground of many schools’ graduation ceremonies. Ask faculty to teach about racism instead of constantly relying on students of color to educate their classmates about their... View Details
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
question to economists," says Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr. "It's uncharted territory." Kerr's interest in the topic came from studies he's done on immigration issues—in particular, looking at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
where the village head was a woman, were much likely to say the police acted efficiently and the case was solved," says Iyer. In another survey that looked at people's perceptions of the police, respondents said they believed that... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
New Ways to Stay Connected
participate in the HBS curriculum. As members of a mock board of directors, alumni volunteers work with small teams of students who act as case protagonists and propose solutions to issues facing their company. MBA students and alumni... View Details