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27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate... View Details

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

Lynda Clarizio Every woman who works and has a life confronts unique challenges, from finding reliable and caring childcare to making time to nurture the relationship with... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

21 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

Making Credibility Your Strongest Asset

was careful to build and test a prototype. His college radio show was small potatoes in terms of listeners, but he proved his ability to pull off the new concept. Finally, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

12 Apr 2004
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What Great American Leaders Teach Us

and study of the Great American Business Leaders database. The project identified and analyzed the accomplishments of some 860 top executives in the 20th century, and results are now starting to emerge. A portion of the database is free... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

households had at least $25,000 in both a taxable and a tax-deferred account. And while about two-thirds of those households held tax-efficient portfolios, most of the remaining third could reduce their taxes by relocating heavily taxed fixed income assets View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

Summing Up Can managers acquire ways of thinking or ways of learning from doctors? Managers can learn from an understanding of how doctors think. But whether the lessons are profound or even totally applicable was a matter of discussion among respondents View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

simplified access to the online world, transforming the Internet from a communications vehicle for academics into a mass consumer phenomenon. At the same time, the growing usefulness of the Internet drove... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

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

06 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Winners and Losers at the Olympics

Miller. Here was the number one male skier in the world making it clear to one and all that he just didn't care or worse, was doing his best to do badly. That really hurts. He... View Details

Keywords: Re: Stephen A. Greyser; Consumer Products; Entertainment & Recreation; Sports

14 Apr 2014
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Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

obligated to take care of each other in the workplace—more so than men are obligated to take care of female employees. Anecdotally, she noted the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”

Regardless of the degree to which we feel leaders are made rather than born, the concept of the crucible of leadership raises a number of questions for us, some of which are posed by the authors of Geeks and Geezers. If crucibles of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Apr 2012
What Do You Think?

How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?

Summing Up: Will Access To Big Data Further Enable Fact-based Decision Making Or Analysis Paralysis? "To T. S. Eliot's prescient words 'Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

29 May 2006
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Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

one of America's best-managed companies. By the 1990s, GE's Appliance and Lighting businesses required careful attention to costs given mature industries and highly unionized labor forces. Its Aircraft... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

11 Nov 2002
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Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

life between the ages of five and eighteen is the "financial apprenticeship" stage of life, said Godfrey, of Independent Means, Inc. Ninety percent of women will need to take care of themselves... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine

Novelty is a core requirement for patentability, but patent officers, failing to realize that these herbs are far from novel, go ahead and issue the patents. “When a Western firm goes to a Western exchange,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Legal Services; Biotechnology

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

accessible to companies of all sizes. In fact, small companies typically have less of a "not invented here" attitude, so they can absorb a good university project faster than a large company with... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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

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

17 Mar 2022
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Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’

CEO Corie Barry, who says that making money is the company’s business imperative, not its purpose. Barry explains how the company manages to balance pursuing its mission of enriching people’s lives through technology while also focusing... View Details

Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati

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