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- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
innovations might impact—and be impacted by—workers, consumers, organizations, and society. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55845 March 2019 Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Choice... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
they never leave responsibility for work conditions in the hands of their partners or cede decisions on quality control. Implemented with care, this freedom within a framework sharpens and transforms value creation and innovation. It sets... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
A Close-Up Look at the Men behind the Empire
a book about what Americans do best — founding and building new businesses," writes Tedlow, the MBA Class of 1949 Professor of Business Administration. "It is about men who broke old rules and made new ones, who built new worlds, who were... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
politicians running in "swing" areas. Incumbent politicians running in politically contested areas (where the local government had been ruled by the same party for fewer than 10 years) were more inclined to use structured loans than those... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Shop Talk, Different Avenues
Wilkis Wilson, Traub, and Maybank Main article: Where Innovation Rules Marvin Traub (MBA 1949) joined Bloomingdale’s in 1950, became its president in 1969, and served as chairman and CEO from 1978 to 1991. Today, as chairman of Marvin... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
50 Years & Counting
and the Entrepreneurial Mind-set Janet Kraus "The entrepreneurial path is a great place for women to make career rules the way they see them." - JANET KRAUS HBS senior lecturer Janet Kraus doesn't much like the phrase "having it all,"... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
cultural differences along which societies and organizations vary. Culturally tight organizations have stricter social norms and rules of conduct, and people tend to adhere to them more strictly. There is also a greater appreciation of... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Unleashed
lever you have for leading organizations, arguably the more vocal one. Whatever strategy has not made clear to your extended team, culture will unapologetically fill the void. Culture establishes the rules of engagement after leadership... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
investors, falsified information, and pretended to create value when value hadn't really been created. If inadequate disclosure rules were cracks in the financial infrastructure, options were the rocket fuel that blew the cracks wide... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=972044 Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Publication:The World Bank Economic Review, 2010 Abstract Most major View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Evidence from the Financial Analysis Market Authors:Boris Groysberg, Ashish Nanda, and M. Julia Prats Abstract Our paper contributes to the studies on the relationship between workers' human capital and their decision to become... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
talent will be the decisive stroke for top leaders. In Hill's essay on "Leadership as Collective Genius" in Management 21C, she spells out what the creative process entails at the collective level, as well as ways that several company... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
contributing to the so-called Great Resignation (or “Big Quit”) that has gained publicity recently. Quitting in the United States is a major business expense. Applying generally accepted rules of thumb for the annual cost of quitting to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
market—they must demonstrate to an independent panel from the Institute for Quality and Efficiency in Health Care (IQWiG) that a new product works better than existing options for an identifiable group of patients. The rule doesn’t apply... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
our bets, or buying insurance, or educating ourselves about the risks so that we can make better-informed decisions in the future. We use these approaches because they work. And in dealing with climate change we would have more sensible... View Details
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
the single decision-making authority of a hierarchy is optimal. The paper therefore argues that when enterprise IT is required, so is an electronic hierarchy: a collaboration in which one member has all required decision rights over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2002
- News
For Alumni Only: Breakthrough Insights Program Debuts
Spar also turned to history for context. Advancing themes from her book Ruling the Waves, Spar illustrated how recent revolutionary technological developments in fact can be seen as replays of past situations where pioneers of free... View Details
Keywords: Laura Singleton
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
leveraging their market power to gain traction for lower quality products when they use a tying strategy. In this paper, we empirically explore this question by examining Google’s decision to tie its new reviews product to its search... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
workforce development organizations, small businesses, philanthropies, and the city government to put in place a series of investments to help turn around the struggling city. In 2017, JPMorgan Chase's chairman and CEO, Jamie Dimon, is faced with the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne