Access To Care - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

or she will pay. The study, Consumer Protection In An Online World: An Analysis Of Occupational Licensing, is the first to look together at what consumers care about and the effects on demand and metrics of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

resources and regulatory effort goes into ensuring that the public has access to these financial opportunities; in fact, much of American social policy oriented toward the non-indigent operates through... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

access to new networks. Of course, there are associative risks for both partners in a deep and highly visible alliance. If one partner encounters difficulties that generate negative press, the other runs the... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

17 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance

highly local. This means that industrial commons can have a local character as well. As a result, companies located in some places have advantages over others by virtue of their access to the appropriate set... View Details

Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano & Willy C. Shih; Manufacturing

05 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017

students and the classroom teaching plan for instructors. Information on how to access and use these multimedia components is included in the Teaching Note. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

high-speed Internet access over a short distance of a few hundred feet. A portable computer or PDA equipped with a Wi-Fi card can tap into the hot spot and jump onto the Net for wireless surfing. Although the hot-spot phenomenon is big... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

27 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

The Potential Downside of Win-Win

shared second-choice dinner option, and movie E, their shared second-choice movie option. But these two professionals, both trained in value-creation negotiation, realize that Al cares much more about where they eat dinner, while Marie... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

12 May 2015
Research & Ideas

How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts

much dedication as the artistic process itself. "Democratizing access for art funding is a good thing," Nanda says. "In that sense, crowdfunding is best seen as a complement to governmental support. There's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ramana Nanda; Entertainment & Recreation

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

computer to access data stored on another and to interact with that information. As he publicized his innovation among his fellow employees and across the computing community,... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

30 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

Readers Ask: I Need Tips for Working at Home

coronavirus is changing everything we know about how to get work done. The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition Many parents are working and caring for kids at home. How can managers set expectations?... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

17 Nov 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

enables lower-level managers to make more decisions without consulting their superiors. By the same token, Computer-Assisted Design and Computer-Assisted Manufacturing software creates a situation in which the plant worker needs less... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

receive the new share for several months, at which point he can sell it. This system is the result of ownership being tracked on paper rather than electronically—it takes time to print out new share certificates. Because investors do not... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, and Erik J. Mayer and Ruidi Huang of Southern Methodist University. Closing the gap between white and minority loan officers may help change that pattern, the researchers find. That has big implications for minority View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

organizations, like Southwest Airlines, seek to minimize employee turnover and go to great lengths to avoid downsizing, concentrating instead on very View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

this month's column. Bruce Bockmann stated the case for the "flat-worlders" in reminding us that "it is the responsibility of government to support technology in its own country. If government does that, the capital and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

products and brand. Standardized, branded condiments, the entrepreneur realized, would be affordable to large numbers of urban Americans. These goods would also be appealing. As cities expanded, fewer households had View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

17 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

appeal. Think Coca-Cola and Disney. 2. A focus on a single product category. Think Nokia and Intel. 3. The company name is the brand name. All marketing dollars are concentrated on that one brand. Think GE and IBM. 4. Access View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto

04 Sep 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Getting Back on Course

not currently in the full-time workforce. Many of the women who chose to leave their professional careers had approached Clark during his recent visits with alumni groups. They told him they felt disconnected from business and from HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

friends—but employers seem hardly to notice the trend. Joseph Fuller discusses why companies should support them. Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?American President... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

change; be resilient; and make every decision based on whether or not it's good for the business." If you take the extra time to staff the best people rather than operate in the interests of expediency, you'll save yourself trouble... View Details