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- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
and distancing from others. In April, 78 percent of women followed these rules, versus 72 percent of men. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/1PcxIp3RzSYTVXmU5wIc][/div] These gender differences persisted... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The New CEO’s Wrong Message
Bearing full responsibility for a company's success or failure, but being unable to control most of what will determine it. Having more authority than anyone else in the organization, but being unable to... View Details
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
Recession. Q: In the 1980s, Americans were concerned about the competitive challenge from Japan. Are current challenges different? JR: Today, we've got a far more diverse set of global competitors with capabilities that View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
entrepreneurs (like Waze or Uber) from open data sources—rather than being controlled by a central utility. Pricing can vary by demand or by user’s ability to pay. This provides an astonishing ability to improve how the existing... View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
how beliefs affect attitudes toward capitalism. In one, he notes that because the economies of poorer countries are often dependent on volatile resources such as oil and minerals (which are often controlled... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
people who start companies have to do. Many of our students are confronted for the first time with some very realistic problems. We then move on to managing relationships. Since an entrepreneur really doesn't own everything but tries to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
their actions (and possibly even their motives) will become known later. It appears that some organizations are shifting control of "need to know" policies out of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
Increased financial disclosure standards on such issues as executive compensation should provide more useful information for investors, policy makers, and regulators. But do the companies themselves benefit? What researchers are now discovering is that increasing... View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
adjustment I had to make was getting used to the case method. The quick pace and fluid discussion of case-based teaching was very different from lecturing. As some of the senior historians here at HBS had... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
According to Andrew S. Grove, chairman and co-founder of Intel, when a company's understanding of itself shifts, when it changes its strategic paradigm, it sets out on a journey akin to moving from one... View Details
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
results. Once we controlled for gender, the results were clean. I was surprised because we were very clear about the power manipulations. These people knew the other party had a really good alternative or a really bad alternative. And the... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 30 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Computer Security is For Managers, Too
Companies need to have smart technicians who stay abreast of emerging digital threats and defenses, of course, but the technicians shouldn't be calling the shots. General managers need to take the lead in... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
substantially between 2006, when AWS was introduced, and 2010, especially for those firms that could most take advantage of cloud services. For the control group of companies... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
more than 20 years, the devastation in meatpacking is just one example of how lax regulation can make a grave situation deadly. The lack of safety guidance from the US Occupational Health and Safety... View Details
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
An acclaimed author and expert on the development and commercialization of technological and business innovation, HBS professor Clayton Christensen has written a new book aimed at changing our national conversation about health care. In... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
Is there a single best investment allocation strategy for the long-term investor? Some theories favor a one-portfolio-for-all investors approach, emphasizing a best-mix-of-assets program. The more traditional approach, which developed out View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
School in 1963 I have been trying to find ways to teach about the political, social, economic, and cultural environment of business, the context that shapes corporate purpose, provides corporate legitimacy, and in many ways View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
individuals who control household investments do to make sure their holdings are in financial alignment with their goals, and who can they turn to for advice? Are traditional investment advisers equipped to handle these kinds View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 28 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Can LEGO Snap Together a Future in Asia?
uncertainty in global markets and a diminishing control in their environments generally. For companies to "break through the illusion of certainty," she says, they must embrace imaginative,... View Details
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
of managerial ability (measured by the head coach’s prior coaching record) and resource quality (measured by the number of MVP, Pro Bowl, and all-conference players on a team), with resource synchronization... View Details