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21 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

and not just inside the Beltway. At HBS, a group of MBAs last spring crafted and sent to Washington a bold proposal to create a nonprofit, public-private Corporate Governance College to employ and train a cadre of professional directors... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson

20 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts

Ramarajan Striking a careful balance between professional image and personal passion is difficult, as a case study on high-profile banker and gospel singer Carla Ann Harris underscores. Professor Lakshmi Ramarajan discusses the case in this Cold Call podcast. Why... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

26 Jun 2000
Research & Ideas

A New Ecosystem for Business and Society

lives in diverse and frequently unexpected ways. Describing, for example, the dramatic evolution that took place in colleges and universities a century ago with the advent of research libraries and scientific laboratories, Rudenstine... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

test-takers. We consider data from a large-scale, high-stakes policy change that removed penalties for wrong answers on the national college entry exam in Chile. We find that the policy change significantly reduced a large gender gap in... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

connect babysitters and parents online, at a time when no one else had thought to manage care-giving connections via the Web. She had started the company right out of college while working full-time, but by 2006, Sittercity had sitters... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: September 27

whether the reviewers are certified as "elite" by Yelp, but is unaffected by the size of the reviewers' Yelp friends network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-016.pdf Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

personnel data for newly hired college graduates within an Indian technology firm. We leverage the fact that the assignment of an employee to one of many production centers within the firm is uncorrelated with observable characteristics... View Details

19 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Digital Technology’s Profound Game Change for Marketers

When I was a kid, "The Graduate" was a generation-defining hit movie, with Dustin Hoffman playing an aimless college graduate. In the middle of a graduation party, an older businessman takes the wayward Hoffman aside and... View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang; Advertising; Technology

29 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Inventing Products is Less Valuable Than Inventing Ideas

professor of strategy at the Ross School of Business at the University of Michigan. In the case of Zuckerberg vs. the Winklevosses, the twins may have had created a simple interface for college kids to connect with one another, but it... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

03 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?

won the NFC East and went on to win the Super Bowl, making Johnson the first coach in history to win a college national championship and a Super Bowl title. Six Cowboys played in the Pro Bowl that year. The Cowboys repeated as Super Bowl... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

20 Mar 2005
Research & Ideas

Lessons of Successful Entrepreneurs

listen," said Fialkow, a college dropout who helped create UPromise and a number of other successful ventures. The goal is to get to market as quickly as possible, Fialkow continued. If you have a good idea, put smart people around a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

had little revenue because it offered services free of charge. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709456 Purchase this... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

13 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

average, in 2000, women working full time received $9,984 less in gross earnings than did men.4 In 2001, median weekly earnings of full-time female college graduates were 72.5 percent that of male college... View Details

Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart

12 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 12

public education linking an employer, the New York City K-12 public education system, and the city's two-year colleges. P-TECH (Pathways in Technology Early College High School) was a new concept, a six-year high school running to grade... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

grown, so has the demand for courses on the topic. Scan the mission statements of most major universities and professional schools and you'll find that "educating leaders" is the common thread. Search the catalogues of almost any View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

is in that triumvirate? A: I believe that Steve Jobs, Andy Grove, and Bill Gates are the three people who put a computer on everybody's desk. Q: We'll segue a little bit into him as a manager. He was a highly trained engineer. First in his class at City View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

citing the fact that many teaching colleges don't use technology themselves. Technology is not part of the teaching curriculum, and many school administrators simply don't embrace technology. "We need a major social investment in... View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

07 Mar 2000
Research & Ideas

Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

management control and health care. Her latest book, Market-Driven Health Care, won the 1998 Book of the Year Award from the American College of Healthcare Executives. Herzlinger opened the conference by reporting on the forces driving... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

go before humans cede the craft of writing to machines—if that ever happens in an organizational context. Overcoming aversion “is the billion-dollar question in front of the AI industry,” says Choudhury, who teamed on the paper with Bart S. Vanneste, associate... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

07 Jan 2009
What Do You Think?

Is the World Really Flat?

question, those who addressed the issue at all played it quite safely. For example, C. J. Cullinane wrote, "[I]nvest at the basic high school and college level in math and science. Small business should get tax breaks as well."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

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