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- 2009
- Chapter
On the General Relativity of Fiscal Language
By: Jerry R. Green and Lawrence Kotlikoff
A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's reference point, specifically one's direction and speed of travel, making... View Details
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
Publications August 2013 pub Cannibalization and Option Value Effects of Secondary Markets: Evidence from the U.S. Concert Industry By: Bennett, Victor Manuel, Robert Seamans, and Feng Zhu Abstract—We examine how reducing search frictions in secondary markets affects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Cognitive Barriers to Environmental Action: Problems and Solutions
Keywords: by Lisa L.Shu & Max H. Bazerman
- 15 Mar 2024
- HBS Case
Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work
sensitive subjects. “If we don’t talk about anything that’s real, how can they do their jobs, and why would we follow them?” Many people go to great lengths to avoid broaching controversial topics at work, Wing says, partly because they fear a backlash or even... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 12 Sep 2023
- Book
Successful, But Still Feel Empty? A Happiness Scholar and Oprah Have Advice for You
our response. Big idea 2: Happy is an illusion The authors recommend charting a course toward “happier” rather than the mirage of constant bliss. The idea is that happiness comes with some unhappiness, from which we can learn and needn’t... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- Web
Middle East & North Africa - Global
Research Center, in collaboration with the HBS Club of GCC, hosted an alumni event in Dubai exploring the challenges faced by family businesses. Titled “Beyond the Façade: Transforming Communication in Family Businesses,” the session delved into breaking through the... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
false illusion of a post-racial society, where many people thought we had transcended issues of race,” he says. “But that was not the case at all.” It certainly wasn’t the experience for many of the black business executives included in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2009
- What Do You Think?
How Frank or Deceptive Should Leaders Be?
the authors, "how the economy really works" as opposed to the way that classical economics views it. They cite the importance of economists understanding the impact of such things as "confidence, fairness, corruption and antisocial behavior, money View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
immediate environment. We are in it together, and none of us forever. This knowledge gives you bulletproof criteria to assess who deserves to be entrusted with power: not those who give you the illusion of safety and self-esteem by... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
create the illusion of higher quality. I’ve always bought the cheapest vodka I could find, but my kids insist on the expensive brands. Great lesson in the realities of marketing! —Howard (Ted) Greene (MBA 1967) Back to top “Ant Financial”... View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t More Organizations Understand the Power of Diversity and Inclusion?
how is diversity defined, what traits are you looking at to be measured, and how are they shown to improve things?” Measures of diversity are legion, but what do they mean? Measures of inclusion, which could help explain why some organizations are able to retain... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- Person Page
Course Development
By: Debora L. Spar
Managing International Trade and Investment
Despite the ease with which it is often conducted, doing business across borders is not the same as doing it at home. Rather, it entails a whole new set of managerial challenges: re-assessing competitive... View Details
- Portrait Project
Lisandra Rickards
I'm in love with my island. I am inspired there, I know the people there, I want to raise a family there, I want to make a difference there. But life is hard there. An atmosphere of discontent hovers after decades of dashed hopes — leaving anger and violence in its... View Details
- Portrait Project
Sydney Williams
There’s nothing like having the illusion shattered that everything on your team and at your company is fine. But here I was bawling my eyes out in my car because there are no private spaces in a warehouse dealing with COVID, and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Desert Dust-Up
claims. “We are,” he declared, “living with an energy illusion of the highest order.” Simmons, who is writing a book on the subject and has spent the last two years researching Saudi technical data, has also called for more transparency... View Details
- Web
Introduction - The Product - The Human Factor – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
breakfast cereals. In the industrial photograph collection, business school students could study techniques of commercial photographers who exploited the dual nature of the medium: photographic realism (or the illusion of it) within a... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Research Brief: A $1.6 Trillion Rainy-Day Fund?
always sets the accurate worth of a company—that so-called misvaluation is merely an illusion perceived by managers. But to him that point is an academic one. “Ultimately,” he says, “company managers are making these [cash policy]... View Details
Keywords: Francis Storrs
- 26 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Learning from Failed Political Leadership
information for all companies striving to succeed in today's global economy. The book identifies two much-loved illusions that pervade today's mass media: a) the conviction that all of the world's economic systems, including China and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
to understand the real problem that needs to be solved. Some magicians spend a lot of time considering which illusion they want to accomplish before they start working on how to accomplish the trick. Too often, managers rush to develop... View Details
- 01 Feb 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Support for Small Business Misplaced?
2003. Another study, The Illusions of Entrepreneurship: The Costly Myths That Entrepreneurs, Investors, and Policy Makers Live By, by Scott Shane, found that while small businesses create more jobs than their larger counterparts, they... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett