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- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 26 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy
publishers and retailers to social networks and gaming sites. Job growth on the Internet stands in sharp contrast to the US economy as a whole, which has suffered from high unemployment for years. The report... View Details
- 22 May 2020
- In Practice
Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?
techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
Gerdeman is a senior writer at Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. [Image: PeopleImages] Does reflection help you? Share your insights below. Book Excerpt Mosaic Reflection By Joseph Badaracco The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
Summer 2018 RAND Journal of Economics Scale versus Scope in the Diffusion of New Technology: Evidence from the Farm Tractor By: Gross, Daniel P. Abstract—Although tractors are now used in nearly every agricultural field operation View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
What Chung and Zhang discovered was personal selling—the ground war—had a stronger effect on partisan voters, but a candidate's own advertising was better received by nonpartisans. Barack Obama's ground... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 May 2017
- Book
The Clear Connection Between Slavery and American Capitalism
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
BalanceYounger workers are rejecting the idea of sticking with one employer for the long haul and are instead finding happiness by job-hopping and creating dramatically... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 25 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Incubators Take Notice: Your Entrepreneurs Are Networking with the Wrong People
hackathons and set up incubators to nurture new ideas. Traditional companies are even wading into co-working to stimulate interaction. But, does it take a village to hatch a groundbreaking venture? It can help, but only if you don’t... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Oct 2017
- Book
Five Leaders Forged in Crisis, and What We Can Learn From Them
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
on how COVID-19 might reshape city life and the business ecosystem. “As business and policy leaders try to navigate the crisis created by the pandemic, there’s an urgent need... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
day.” Testing the unique benefits of work By all accounts, overcrowding, extreme poverty, and the experience of forced displacement inside the camps has taken a profound toll. Doctors Without Borders has... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
Danielle Kost: Every executive is searching for the next big idea or strategy. Are there any techniques or approaches that people can use to stimulate their own creativity at work? Teresa M. Amabile: Three of the components necessary for... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
make us question our often knee-jerk assumptions about what motivates other people’s choices. “If we see someone make a choice and we think we immediately know why,” she says, “we ought to take a moment to stop View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Infographic: Can I Please Speak to an Actual Person?
Technology and Operations Management Unit. About the Authors Katherine Vizcardo is a graphic designer based in Providence, Rhode Island, and Danielle View Details
- 17 Jan 2020
- In Practice
6 Traits That Set Top Business Leaders Apart
clarify the complex "They can communicate very clearly and succinctly—usually with short words and short sentences—and even on complex issues. They've developed the skills necessary to really get to the... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
Monetary Fund and an economics professor at Harvard University; Brent Neiman, a professor at the University of Chicago; and Jenny Tang, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. View Details
- 10 Feb 2020
- In Practice
6 Ways That Emerging Technology Is Disrupting Business Strategy
suggests) has focused more on value capture and competition within existing business models, and yet the most valuable companies in the US today simply did not exist 30 years ago. The technology they exploit... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
Vincent, and Clémence Tricaud Abstract—In French parliamentary and local elections, candidates ranked first and second in the first round automatically qualify for the second... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman