Filter Results:
(452)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(680)
- News (154)
- Research (452)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (166)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(680)
- News (154)
- Research (452)
- Events (4)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (166)
Sort by
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
to the inaccuracy of barrel bombs to examine the effect of having one's home destroyed on political and community loyalties. We find that refugees who lose a home to barrel bombing, while more likely to feel threatened by the Assad regime, are less supportive of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
Vladimir Putin in 2000. Berevosky's opposition to Putin's plans to restore the authority of the Russian state led to his exile in Britain, where he reinvented himself as an opponent of authoritarianism. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
major things. One, there was a bit of a myth within his company that “we aren’t big, but we are very creative.” Somehow, being big and being creative were considered to be at the opposite ends of the spectrum. He challenged that... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
of work that differentiate a firm from its competitors, then meaning can be the foundation for sustainable competitive advantage. The causality can also run in the opposite direction; superior performance can enhance meaning insofar as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?
outside the United States. The cost to the American economy could be far greater than the cost of war.—John Quelch But now a deepening opposition to American foreign policy is threatening the long-term strength of these brands. And the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
precision of these estimates. The intuition behind one mechanism is slightly ironic: in trying to update optimally, Bayesian agents overweight information of which they overestimate the precision and underweight in the opposite case. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 May 2021
- What Do You Think?
Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?
(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for Americans and, by extension, their View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 23
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111085-PDF-ENG Ultimate Fighting Championship: License to Operate George Serafeim and Kyle WelchHarvard Business School Case 112-011 The case describes the challenges that Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC) faced as a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
Kramer, Mark R., and Marc W. Pfitzer Abstract—Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Meanwhile, Allstate continued to lose market share to GEICO and Progressive as it struggled to build its direct sales business in the face of opposition from its tied-agent distribution system. During the May 2011 Annual General Meeting... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
Scholz have a sequence of papers claiming that IRAs and 401(k)s displace existing savings without adding much new saving. Jim Poterba, Steven Venti, and David Wise have argued the opposite case. I don't think that the matter is totally... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
great. “We thought if the company was continuing to do well, we’d see managers finding ways to convey that—wink, wink,” says Froot, who held the André R. Jakurski Chair before retiring from HBS in 2013. “That’s when we found this surprising result in direct View Details
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
offer the same benefits. While use of social platforms has increased during the pandemic, with Facebook traffic rising by 50 percent in some countries, people don’t get a boost of oxytocin from these interactions. Seeing random photos of happy families or political... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
heterogeneity in contributors and their contributions, and, importantly, an overall trend towards less segregated conversations. A higher percentage of contributors have a tendency to edit articles with the opposite slant than articles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
violations. “When you get a report with the credibility of a true academic analysis, it changes the entire environment” “You would think that as [auditors] gain more experience they’d become better at identifying noncompliance, but Jodi explained that they found the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society
"Rediscovering the End Consumer, Over and Over Again" we show how most "new" business concepts are simply self-referring. They do not move beyond the rules of a certain way of doing capitalism, and therefore they cannot possibly alter the problems... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?
which nobody in the world can open, and devoted many years and a lot of resources to make sure that’s the case. Now, with the FBI request, Apple would have to put in a ton of Research and Development (R&D) to think exactly the View Details
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
divisiveness and elevate their stature, which will soften the opposition block. Biden and Harris have a secret weapon in the quest for unity: the idealism of young people. Let the young lead. National service programs can be used to bring... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
When the COVID-19 virus spread worldwide and normal life ground to a halt last year, we thought voluntary employee turnover would drop as well. But the opposite happened in one area: Lift outs—a group of workers who defect... View Details