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- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
In this uncertain economic climate, downsizing and layoffs are a sadly frequent occurrence. Although bad news is always painful to deliver and to hear, the process of conducting "necessary evils"—such as layoffs or firings—can... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Caves, Clusters, and Weak Ties: The Six Degrees World of Inventors
work in your lab and expecting her to spend her career there, you now hire more mid-career professionals who bring a deeper, richer human and social capital to your firm. It changes the question of how do I make my R&D lab more View Details
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
will emerge new kinds of collective actions that will address the contemporary issues of multinational workforces and globalized networks of trade and commerce." These comments raise several questions: Just what View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
Whistleblower complaints against federal contractors can help government agencies drive better deals with those companies—even when the allegations turn out to be unsubstantiated, according to new research. Under the burden of a... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- HBS Case
This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly
indebted.” AMCs in the country have traditionally used that sentiment to their advantage, putting the screws on debtors with a hard-sell tactics to squeeze as much payment out of them as possible. Start with the debtors Turkasset’s new... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
to numbers such as operating profit. This does not mitigate the argument against short-term incentives. Nor does it address the tendency of compensation committees to rely on numbers rather than judgment. Going even further, perhaps nonfinancial measures, such as those... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes
doing business in countries around the world, including those where they have paid bribes in the past. "Both companies acknowledge that there is clean business and dirty business in every country," says Healy. "Given their new tough... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
Remote work is giving companies new opportunities to tap additional markets and talent pools. However, a global workforce also brings a challenge: As some employees are getting up in the morning, others are winding down their workday.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
sector fully) with the system-wide benefits of crowding out private sector money creation. In other words, the government should keep issuing short-term bills as long as it has a comparative advantage over the private sector in the View Details
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
limit the success of these programs. Q: The news site Quartz published a chart showing the fastest-growing areas of startup investment since 2012: Bitcoin, photo sharing, storage, space travel, transportation, hospitality. What does that... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
their espoused strategy and management principles. Beer and Eisenstat began implementing the process ten years ago at Becton Dickinson and Company, a medical products and diagnostic systems supplier. "Ray Gilmartin, who was CEO at... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?
extent that taxes do not limit where companies keep their cash holdings and that companies have better uses for their cash here in the US than abroad, this can also have a positive effect on stock valuations. A third effect comes from the View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 11 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Board
out a report card, but also to help make a good CEO a great CEO.” Corporations can mitigate this issue in a couple of ways, he says. For starters, they can hire an outside recruiter to enlist new board members, so that the board includes... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
porous as possible.—Karim R. Lakhani The result has been a product that even academics regularly consult. In late 2005, the scientific journal Nature conducted a study comparing 42 science articles in Wikipedia with the online version of... View Details
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
"outsiders," such as Elizabeth Arden, created their own road to success, overcoming significant odds. The new book Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership explores the demographics of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
authors caution that results would undoubtedly differ from one group of customers and one product or service to another.] It brings to mind marketing campaigns in the United States for Progressive’s insurance products, in which the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
should be spending more money on search ads.” The most measurable form of online advertising are search ads—ads linked with results from search queries—which can translate directly into clicks and purchases by placing a product before... View Details
- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
case in China, adequate investment had been put into roads, bridges, and power plants, I suspect that a much larger fraction of the money coming into India would have been productively deployed into longer-term fixed assets, securing it... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 16 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity
When private equity (PE) firms buy a company, they typically follow a standard playbook to create value—streamlining operations, restructuring debt, changing management, and cutting costs. However, as digital technologies and artificial intelligence allow companies to... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
from investment opportunities in developed countries. Nari Kannan suggests that it is a product of "thoughtless consumerism ... (the thirst for cheap Chinese goods) ... and dependence on foreign oil," particularly in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett