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08 May 2013
Research & Ideas

A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity

1991 and 2009, a period when the growing number of highly educated women in the workforce tested widely held understandings about gender and professional work, write the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting

05 Sep 2012
What Do You Think?

Will Business Management Save US Health Care?

research by Harvard colleagues claiming that the majority of malpractice lawsuits result primarily from poor attitude and failed personal relationships rather than medical mistakes.) Perhaps hiring for... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

15 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Infographic: Can I Please Speak to an Actual Person?

Based on the Working Paper, Mitigating the Negative Effects of Customer Anxiety through Access to Human Contact (pdf) by Michelle A. Shell and Ryan W. Buell. Shell is a doctoral student at View Details

Keywords: by Katherine Vizcardo and Danielle Kost; Service

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

Harvard Business School and coauthor (with Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics) of the paper Standard Essential Patents. "In the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

On film, few characters are more obviously villainous than the extremely bad boss. There's Star Wars' Darth Vader (who manages a disrespectful underling by strangling him with his mind), Katharine Parker in Working Girl (who shamelessly... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

establishments would go under. “We see that lower-rated restaurants generally go out of business at higher rates, so they already tend to be living closer to the edge,” says Michael Luca, an assistant professor at View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

23 May 2016
Research & Ideas

A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up

if the ultimate enforcement mechanism seems so far-fetched? “By understanding why people make mistakes, it may help you creatively design an approach to resolve these disputes” Harvard Business School... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Media & Broadcasting; Publishing

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

Harvard Business School professor Kristina Steffenson McElheran studies the effect of information technology on business process innovation. It's a topic, she is sometimes told, that is, well, less than... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

What Your Competition is Telling You

"You want to add something to the mix that makes you different." David B. Yoffie, Max & Doris Starr Professor of International Business Administration at Harvard Business School, agrees. View Details

Keywords: by David Stauffer

09 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools

engaged in education in ways that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak education system, and thoroughly inadequate to help strengthen the system," says View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

Ross to write the paper "Performance Pricing in Tough Times." Shapiro, an authority on marketing strategy and sales management, is the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing, Emeritus at View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

03 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Money Making Movies

What makes a movie click with an audience? How important is buzz in the success or failure of an entertainment product? Should worldwide releases of movies be done over time, or all at once? Those are the... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Entertainment & Recreation; Motion Pictures & Video

12 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs

the question Harvard Business School Associate Professor Julie Battilana and doctoral candidate Matthew Lee ask in a new working paper, How the Zebra Got Its Stripes:... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

Want to create a high-profit auction? One strategy is to create "auction fever" around your sale by generating lots of hype, having strict rather than flexible deadlines at the end of auctions, and making sure winners and losers... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

05 Feb 2009
Research & Ideas

In Praise of Marketing

just the domestic mass market, the global mass market. In his landmark 1983 article "The Globalization of Markets," Harvard Business School's Theodore Levitt wrote of... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Advertising

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

When Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria first moved from India to the United States more than 30 years ago, he was impressed with how well the highways and airports... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

thought was that globalization was making the world so similar that [location] didn't matter," says Christopher Marquis, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, who coauthored View Details