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13 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores

Source: iStock If you’re stressed out because it feels like there are never enough hours in the day, here’s a solution: hire a housecleaner, order takeout, and pay the kid next door to mow the lawn. In other words, buy yourself more free time. New research finds that... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2011
News

Harvard Business School Professor Emeritus Abraham Zaleznik Dead at 87

08 Jun 2011
News

Fixing America's Economy: Nine Ideas from Around the World

10 Mar 2022
News

How to Kick Your Success Addiction and Love Your Work

16 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

billboard-shaped notices—about 10 percent of those who saw the ads were enticed to click on them. These surfers were taken to the sponsor's Web site, and a new age in advertising had begun. Today, advertising on the Internet is much... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

August 1995
Background Note

Managing in an Information Age: IT Challenges and Opportunities

By: Lynda M. Applegate

The co-evolution of technology, work, and the workforce over the past 30 years has dramatically influenced our concept of organizations and the industries within which they compete. No longer simply a tool to support "back-office" transactions, IT has become a... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Information Management; Restructuring; Technological Innovation; Corporate Strategy; Organizational Design; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology Industry

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17 Mar 2021
News

Shoshana Zuboff on why Big Tech is the biggest threat to democracy

03 Jul 2011
News

Exactly why are the kids coming home?

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

sporadic disruptive efforts by individual governments and their leaders, and wars. If predictions of the end of cheap oil are not accurate to the barrel or a certain date, they must be directionally right. This assumption raises questions about how the world will best... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Mar 2012
News

Romney's Medicare plan could create gap for seniors

06 Oct 2011
News

Steve Jobs's Career, Vision for Apple

Spring 2018
Article

The Next Phase of Business Sustainability

By: Andrew J. Hoffman

The era of corporations integrating sustainable practices is being surpassed by a new age of corporations actively transforming the market to make it more sustainable. View Details

Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Trends; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Corporate Disclosure

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27 Feb 2015
News

New Book by Harvard Professors Predicts Retail Revolution

09 Oct 2020
Blog Post

4 Things To Know About the MS/MBA Biotech

Since emigrating from Syria at the age of five, I have personally experienced the uphill battle of obtaining health care coverage as a non-US citizen. My family, along with many other immigrant and low-income families, are often forced to... View Details

2009
Working Paper

Can a Continuously-Liquidating Tontine (or Mutual Inheritance Fund) Succeed where Immediate Annuities Have Floundered?

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

A new instrument (the Mutual Inheritance Fund or MIF) is proposed whose purpose is to help people carry their savings forward from the moment they retire into their old age. Like annuities, this instrument requires an up-front payment before people receive any benefits... View Details

Keywords: Age; Annuities; Investment Return; Investment Funds; Saving; Retirement

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