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- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
if predictions have to be made, he wants them made by people with "skin in the game." In the future, will predictions improve as we develop new methods to sort out the noise from the signal? Or will the growth of Big Data... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
congressional votes are a matter of public record, careful observers can create a virtual crystal ball of sorts by taking note of where politicians went to college, along with their respective voting records. "You can use that information... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
all, if the government charges the right price for bearing the credit risk of its guarantee, the effect on mortgage rates is likely to be small. Second, the government guarantee proposals that involve private financial firms are likely to suffer from the same View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
commission on every sale. (E-book editions of most new fiction and nonfiction releases will cost between $12.99 and $14.99.) "Publishers are worried that more and more customers are going to get used to the sort of cheap prices that... View Details
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
principles of this sort not only speak to high standards of conduct but also stretch the enterprise beyond its own formal boundaries to include the extended family of customers, suppliers, distributors, business partners, financial... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management
analyze the complexities of disease management and check all avenues for potential business opportunities. The participants, almost all of them health professionals, sorted through the risks and benefits of disease management for... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance
utilitarian connection in the purely-altruistic and idealist actor Before undertaking any sort of substantial motivation analysis, it is worthwhile to focus on two different but related questions: what drives organizations to engage in... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
a mess. [S]he acknowledged: "I probably should have done more research. The core business wasn't making any money. The customer service was poor. In my first few weeks, three or four of the senior managers came in and said, 'Oh, we're glad you've come because this will... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
to John, the research supports the hypothesis that people often don't even think about privacy unless reminded to do so. Ironically, professionalism seemed to remind participants that airing their affairs might have negative consequences. "When you're on a very... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
access to the top jobs. In the tournament for whites, contenders are sorted early on, and only those deemed most promising proceed to future competition. In the tournament for minorities, the screening process for the best jobs occurs... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 30 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism
Adds Paine: "Of course we recognize that there are serious obstacles to the view we recommend," including a lack of structure, tools, and incentives within businesses to do the sort of work that's needed, and a lack of skills and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Azmi, famous actress and political activist; Shinta Kamdani, CEO of Indonesia’s Sintesa Group; and Dr. Manu Chandaria, chair and CEO of the Kenyan-based steel and aluminum group Comcraft. Young Indian woman sorting red chilli peppers,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind down a financial firm without... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
always the potential of a sort of death spiral taking place with these instruments if the market they're in turns sour? A: What I find more amazing is the extraordinary global progress that has been made over the past twenty-five years in... View Details
- 09 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Warring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
all sorts of elements of the digital marketplace that our existing legal frameworks are not particularly well-suited to deal with.” About the Author Kristen Senz is a writer and social media editor for Harvard Business School Working... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
not yet diffused through the entire population—the second mover can try to influence new users rather than get the small installed base to switch over. The second mover has to have some sort of asymmetric advantage, such as control over... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
plants, cities for the workers, and so on. Massive investment — rather than consumption — drove the economy. Consumption in China is still only about a third of GDP versus some 70-odd percent in the developed markets. China kept buying all View Details
- 17 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Broadband: Remaking the Advertising Industry
something on the screen and get information about it. I suspect we're just on the beginning of these sorts of changes. Sites like YouTube and MySpace are now owned by major media companies—Google and News Corp., respectively. The media... View Details