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- 14 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing
Updated to clarify a failure rate figure included in an earlier version. When planning new products, companies often start by segmenting their markets and positioning their merchandise accordingly. This segmentation involves either... View Details
- 12 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia
research post-tenure. Encouraging researchers to take more risks The researchers also questioned professors’ personal appetites for risk-taking, hoping to gain answers to the age-old question: How do you get scientists to take more risks? They asked the professors to... View Details
- 04 Mar 2024
- What Do You Think?
Do People Want to Work Anymore?
selection is less important, training is reduced, along with compensation, and as a result, there is a high rate of turnover with more time spent on recruiting (but not necessarily training). Within weeks of the publication of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
makes up 33% of Lan's overall revenues (markedly different from many U.S. legacy carriers that derive 3% to 4% of revenues from cargo). Since a change of ownership in 1994, Lan has grown steadily and quickly at a compound annual growth View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers
Ostensibly, Shah was trying to refocus employees. New research from Harvard Business School Professor Joseph B. Fuller offers a different take. When workers feel tension between their work and private lives, they’re likely to quit or be... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
- 25 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Rapport: The Hidden Advantage That Women Managers Bring to Teams
management of women, although those stores didn’t perform quite as well as stores with managers and workers of the same gender. “It’s fascinating and points to differences in the instincts and baseline soft skills of men and women when... View Details
- 14 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
Is Sweden Still 'Sweden'? A Liberal Utopia Grapples with an Identity Crisis
Even Sweden isn’t quite the Sweden that many picture. “Americans, myself included, don’t have a fully fleshed-out understanding of what Swedish capitalism is like,” Spar says. “We think it’s more like socialism, and it’s not. It’s deeply... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Sam Walton: Great From the Start
"Of course, what really drove Sam was that competition across the street—John Dunham over at the Sterling Store. Sam was always over there checking on John. Always. Looking at his prices, looking at his displays, looking at what was going on .... I'm sure it... View Details
- 01 Oct 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect
- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
and a company’s decision to participate and the approach the company used to present employee demographic data. The researchers found that participants rated the company most favorably when it aggregated employee data across disparate... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 26 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks
horizontal and diagonal lines, curves, and waves, as well as adding some narrative arcs suggested by fiction writer Kurt Vonnegut. In a series of online studies, they asked participants to rate the different journey lines in several... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- HBS Case
How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’
for anyone. Workers quit before progressing in their careers. Companies lost workers’ knowledge and experiences and had to invest in hiring new people. Adding to the feeling of powerlessness, junior employees weren’t included in... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why a Failed Startup Might Be Good for Your Career After All
charismatic but controversial cofounder of WeWork, who quit as CEO in 2019 after a bungled initial public offering amid questions about his business practices. “The market values the experience they have and rewards them in terms of high... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
All Eyes on Slovakia’s Flat Tax
As interest in the flat tax grows, the world seems transfixed on an unlikely country, Slovakia, whose 3-year-old tax reform program is paying early dividends. Essentially applying a uniform tax rate on citizens (and sometimes companies)... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
especially tuned in to the consumer-spending habits of the local populace-a boon to companies trying to serve the local market. "Many female managers that we studied had valuable insights about consumer demand that were quite... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Review 90, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2012) Abstract The article argues that U.S. taxation reform should reduce corporate taxes, incorporate an awareness of the global marketplace, and generate revenue-neutral incentives for innovation. According to the article, a reduction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Want to Make Diversity Stick? Break the Cycle of Sameness
double the rate that women replaced men on the bench: 16 percent. Black people replaced Black people in 25 percent of successions. For other replacements, Black judges were appointed 7 percent of the time. White men replaced white men at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
tipping and corruption is counterintuitive in the United States. But there is a fuzzy line between the two." Countries with higher rates of tipping behavior also tended to have higher rates of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Blissful Thinking: When It Comes to Finding Happiness, 'Your Dreams Are Liars'
where the work can be quite technical. Then you have the self-improvement people who can’t read and interpret the science, and some of it’s wrong. Where it is really exciting now is the seam between science and self-improvement, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dan Morrell