Equality Of Opportunity - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine

suppliers, Bernstein speculates. More broadly, “It begs the question: If you have the opportunity to raise money from more reputable investors, would you be willing to agree to lower valuations in order to be affiliated with reputable... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Sep 2003
What Do You Think?

To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?

corporate managers and directors must first be accountable to and for the satisfaction of customers, the loyalty and opportunities for growth of employees [and others]... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

direct reports, as well as the direct reports of their peers. This pushes managers to work together to determine which employees to recommend for new opportunities across teams. Build a culture View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

new options; these offer another opportunity to reach the pot of gold and even recoup previous losses. "The upshot of this approach," says Hall, "is that CEOs... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

for low job satisfaction among those surveyed in The Conference Board survey. More than half, Nanninga reports, said "there were no career advancement opportunities in their current roles," but "81 percent View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

for blocking hackers and preventing online invasion. There is a trend to invest in application and infrastructure hardware, said John G. Simon, a partner at General Catalyst. An opportunity exists, he said, for add-ons and plug-ins that... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

spoken with and advised a steady stream of young, middle-, and later-stage professionals who excelled for a period but then began to struggle professionally and to experience doubt about what they wanted. In the early stages View Details

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

fast second mover can upset the normally strong barriers to entry that a first-mover advantage in a network setting can create. In short, the big lesson learned is that a window of opportunity exists for a... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

itemizes what it spends on cotton, cutting, sewing, dyeing, finishing, and transporting each shirt, consumers become more attracted to the brand and more likely to purchase. “By unpacking the costs, you have the opportunity to explain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

to react to new problems or take advantage of new opportunities and make themselves heard. Delegate but supervise. Q: As you point out, it is not well understood that today's multidepartmental organizational... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

negatively impact job performance. But companies can mitigate these effects by adopting specific human resource policies, says Choudhury, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. The... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

02 Mar 2017
What Do You Think?

Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?

to lose much sleep over the question. For example, Shadrick Shaili commented “China’s motive is to make the best out of any economy they have an opportunity to trade or deal with so that the benefits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

an overview of the literature on both areas, and identifies opportunities for creating more effective and useful research. By Deepak Malhotra and Max H. Bazerman. 2. Peer Effects and Entrepreneurship How do... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The fee-for-service model of American medicine doesn’t put much value on long... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

out later to be a horrible sham. In his efforts to be an outstanding butler, Stevens instinctively and continually chose service over other values and opportunities, irretrievably losing the opportunity for true romantic love. Kazuo... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Thinking About Global

the current system. Otherwise businesses will lose profitable opportunities and find themselves in the middle of disputes that hurt their future prospects. And poor countries will fail to benefit from what... View Details

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

professors Lauren Cohen, Joshua Coval, and Christopher Malloy discovered to their surprise that companies experienced lower sales and retrenched by cutting payroll, R&D, and other expenses. Indeed, in the years that followed a congressman's ascendancy to the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

15 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner

HBS Working Knowledge contributor Carol Elsen conducted an e-mail interview with Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner about their new book, The Money of Invention: How Venture Capital Creates New Wealth. Elsen: Since the dot-com implosion, how... View Details

Keywords: by Carol Elsen; Financial Services

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

making good money in developing markets, but those opportunities are now considerably diminished due to depreciating currencies in the face of high commodity prices, specifically energy prices, which are... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

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