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29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

in which you don't or can't know the results in advance are common and consequential. All businesses face them. If you're not too narrow in what you're willing to call "management," you can manage... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

Presentation Round-Up

lay-out of supermarkets is more or less the same no matter where you go. Various web sites today may try to differentiate themselves by offering a different experience to the consumer, Papa said, "but we find that people want all TVs to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Kenneth Liss; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

thinking about where to hold them, specifically, inside or outside of tax-deferred accounts. "Getting this decision right can be pretty close to a free lunch," says Bergstresser, who with colleague James Poterba, a professor at... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

information on its product or services, skills, customers, and competition—and, if the results are encouraging, to proceed to the next stage of funding and operations. For a serial entrepreneur like Donna... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

28 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

HBS Celebrates Social Enterprise Initiative

What are the greatest challenges facing leaders of nonprofits today? A: One of the greatest complexities in managing social-purpose organizations or social undertakings by for-profit companies is measuring success. It is much more... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

that encourages innovation, problem-solving, and improvement. Yet, words were insufficient for describing and communicating such strategies. Statements such as "Delight the customer," "Offer superior service," or... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

female managers (at the level of the then-prevailing glass ceiling) was associated with a 1 percent nominal increase in ROA. "The results are pretty strong that even when you control for anything that's fixed about a company, it... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs

detailed their results four years ago in the Harvard Business Review article, "The Risky Business of Hiring Stars." Since launching his research into the war for talent, however, Groysberg has started to notice something quite... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

11 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

only to see the rates skyrocket when the crisis hit. Many mayors cried foul, insisting that they had been hoodwinked. But were the local politicians really unwitting fools? “The question is, Did local politicians get fooled into engaging in risky transactions, View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

what it was like to be a medical student, can that change the type of training that goes on in a medical context?" Zhang acknowledges that the rediscovery process might be uncomfortable for experts. But her research indicates that it can yield positive View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

11 May 2020
Op-Ed

Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

surprising to us. It is unclear whether this reveals a lack of knowledge or actual uneasiness about the policies themselves. American competitiveness at risk Either way, the stakes get higher in times of crisis: the recent H-1B visa... View Details

Keywords: by William R. Kerr

01 Aug 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

viral load more than 200 copies/ml despite ART. The sample sizes of the three groups were as follows: PVI, n=21; incentive choice, n=19; and passive control, n=70. Main outcome measure: Virologic suppression (plasma HIV-1 viral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of the world economy into recession. In the recent case "Kroll Bond Rating Agency," Bo... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services

24 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 24

S&P 500 index and are only marginally higher than the risk-free rate as of the end of 2008. The combined impression from these results is that the return experience of hedge fund investors is much worse than previously thought.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

considering JVs. Cynthia D. Churchwell: You and your colleagues found that companies are increasingly willing to "go it alone" without local partners. Did these results surprise you? Mihir Desai: Given the popular rhetoric on... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

08 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 8

findings. First, non-financial rewards are more effective at eliciting effort than either financial rewards or the volunteer contract and are also the most cost-effective of the four schemes. Second, non-financial rewards leverage... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

hit-driven business,” says McDonald. VC firms spread their wealth around to dozens of startups, hoping to hit that one jackpot that might be the next Facebook or Google. The problem comes when they have to choose between supporting one... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

05 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

The Changing Face of American Innovation

many research and policy questions on issues such as the appropriate quota for H1-B temporary visas, the possible crowding out of native students from the science and engineering fields, the brain-drain or brain-circulation effect on... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Technology

13 Nov 2007
Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Reinvigorating America

the public sector or nonprofit world, as well as in the business world. “When we start closing minds, we jeopardize our competitiveness.” I've been concerned about what has happened to the United States in the 21st century because we... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2018
Research & Ideas

Bargain Hunters Beware: A Store's 'Original Price' Might Not Be After All

results show that customers don’t see through the ruse. Even in outlet stores where they might expect some level of false discounting, they are still very influenced by these signals.” Homework needed Truly savvy customers may still be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Retail

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