Free Will - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Jun 2022
Research & Ideas

In a Work-from-Anywhere World, How Remote Will Workers Go?

workers; it’s the buzz around the program and the quality-of-life perks it generates. Because Tulsa is generally affordable, workers have more disposable income to pour back into the economy. And without having to commute to work, people also have more View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

Department estimates that 99.9 percent of the criminal money presented for deposit in the United States is accepted into secure accounts. It's a sad fact, but American banks, under an umbrella of conflicting American laws and policies, View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

should business in America, the world's largest polluter, play in helping it catch up to or lead (depending on how you see it) other developed economies? What kind of incentives, if any, will the free market... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Tackling Climate Change Will Cost Less Than We Think

business model, and the transition from a world in which throwing CO2 up the chimney was free to one in which throwing away CO2 is a costly activity. This won't be easy, but it will be easier than we expect.... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy; Utilities

19 Nov 2020

Life at HBS Chat Series: MBA Students in the Free Enterprise Club

Join Josh Nelson, a member of the MBA Admissions Office, as he moderates a panel of current students who will share their backgrounds and how they have cultivated their personal and professional interests while at HBS through club... View Details

19 Sep 2023
HBS Case

How Will the Tech Titans Behind ChatGPT, Bard, and LLaMA Make Money?

The dizzying explosion of generative artificial intelligence platforms has been the big business story of the past year, but how they’ll make money and how smart companies can use them wisely are the questions that will dominate the next... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology; Information Technology

06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

Richard Stallman and the Free Software Foundation to have a free (as in freedom) operating system. According to Stallman, application software will never be truly View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?

manufacturers and service companies will seek permanently to diversify their supply chains radically going forward We might accept the lower financial results as the insurance premium we have to pay to remain more robust in the face of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 May 2019
News

Many assume salary transparency will benefit employees, but research suggests downsides, too

06 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?

an adviser too early before you’ve established a rapport and figured out how they can be helpful. There are a lot of bad actors out there just looking for free equity. External coach External coaches are objectively focused on... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

26 Jul 2016
Research & Ideas

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

Niantic or Nintendo will be able to take that a step further, not only tracking where you’ve been but seeing how you respond to various stimuli in going after these particular targets. They’ll have an immense pool of data that they can... View Details

Keywords: Re: Willy C. Shih; Video Game; Entertainment & Recreation

30 Jan 2019
What Do You Think?

Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?

criteria, who will measure up to these two? What do you think? References: Roger Hallowell, Dual Competitive Advantage in Labor-Dependent Services, Thesis (D.B.A.), Harvard University, Graduate School of Business Administration, 1997.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Air Transportation; Financial Services

29 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?

counterparts, but a woman in a senior leadership role who switches to a new firm can now expect a salary bump of 25 percent on average, whereas a man making a similar move will see 9 percent more pay, says Paul Healy, the James R.... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 May 2006
What Do You Think?

Who Will Cast a Longer Shadow on the 21st Century: Friedman or Galbraith?

Summing Up Like all good discussion topics, this month's issue split respondents nearly equally, with a slight nod to the notion that Milton Friedman's views will have a bigger impact on us in the twenty-first century than those of John... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Nov 2018
News

On Hold for 45 Minutes? It Might Be Your Secret Customer Score

09 Dec 2021
News

How to Save Major League Baseball from Itself

07 Dec 2017
HBS Seminar

Eric von Hippel, MIT Sloan School of Management

29 Feb 2024
HBS Case

Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent

Cultivating an influential brand Known for finding the net with improbable bending free kicks, Beckham rose from a working-class English background to captain the English national team and play in three FIFA World Cups. In 2007 at age 31,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports