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- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
service provider has a license, their hiring decision is still more driven by price and online reviews than the quality assurance that comes with licensing. New research shows that tougher licensing requirements reduce the pool of... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Michael Morris and Paul Ingram at Columbia Business School, we surveyed Executive MBA students in Beijing, Shanghai, and New York, asking them detailed questions about their professional networks. These executives first identified... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2007
- Op-Ed
Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity
capital." Now modern-day trustbusters have again launched an investigation into collusion in financial services, this time focusing on private-equity firms. The Justice Department is concerned that private-equity firms are teaming up... View Details
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
learning and teaching about the assessment of opportunities, deal structuring, and incentives. (Metallization refers to a thin layer of metal that covers the CDs before information can be laid on them.) The entrepreneur who started Singulus—essentially founding a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
difficulty of maintaining these over time, and as circumstances changed. Salvaj: The mistakes provided opportunities for these pioneers to display their confidence and to project self-assurance. They have been able to withstand shocks and keep investing in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
little hesitant about opening their doors to researchers, but when [we] called up the CEO without ever having met him, he was extremely open to learning from the research and to our spending a great deal of time at the company—sitting in... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
Big Hits: The Best of the 2018 Super Bowl Ads
of two new products from Pepsico, Doritos Blaze snacks and Mountain Dew Ice soda. Each had an attention-getting star—Peter Dinklage of “Game of Thrones” fame and Morgan Freeman, respectively. Each had attention-holding content, with the... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
People might be more likely than ever to protest in reaction to a social problem or geopolitical crisis. But do such activist events, even large-scale demonstrations, change public opinion? New research shows that protests rarely change... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
The U.S. Army is one of the best training institutions in the world, says HBS professor Scott A. Snook, a retired Army colonel. How does the Army develop leaders? Snook discusses his new book, Making Sense of Officership: Developing a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-078.pdf Deep Dives: The Role of Top Management in Linking Relevant Capabilities to Core Activities Authors:Howard H. Yu and Joseph L. Bower Abstract The inability of established firms to make necessary and obvious changes has been a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
behemoth’s corporate culture as it collided with the #MeToo movement’s spotlight on sexual relationships and power in the workplace. And as new information about Easterbrook’s romantic relationship with other employees emerged, it became... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
in production and economies of scope in distribution. In some industries, Adam Smith's "invisible hand" was gradually tamed by what the historian Alfred D. Chandler Jr. has termed the "visible hand" of professional managers. By the late nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
middle class, and the fact that India's film industry sold 3.2 billion tickets in 2009. “Movie piracy in India is rampant—you can get one online the day after a release” Harvard Business School Associate Professor Lakshmi Iyer, a native of View Details
- 25 Jun 2001
- Lessons from the Classroom
Machiavelli, Morals, and You
they sort of coordinate their 'To Do' lists for the next day. There's a certain amount of bickering, but they do care about each other." At the end of the story, though, Stevens emerges as someone who poured everything into his career: he made that choice, and at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Financial Reporting Goes Global
their time considering the implications of a set of global standards. My work, and that of others in the area, shows that global differences in accounting have important economic impacts. For example, in my peer-reviewed research I have... View Details
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?
Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?
prior to coming to HBS in 2007. A member of the School’s Technology and Operations Management unit, Shih closely studies disruptive technology and technological strategy, and took time to analyze the Pokémon Go phenomenon below. Christian... View Details
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
executive at eBay. "We live in a world where entrepreneurship drives massive change in the private sector, and we feel that can be true in the social sector." The Leadership Challenge As is the case with venture capitalists, venture philanthropists are often... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
payment ... over and above the "normal" selling price?" Berglund answers his own question in suggesting that it depends on the extent to which the new (GE aircraft) engine (used in the hard-wiring example) differs from past... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Challenges for Women Leaders," a chapter in the forthcoming book Psychology of Leadership: Some New Approaches, edited by David Messick and Roderick Kramer (Lawrence Erlbaum Press). As influential experts on negotiation who examine... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace