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- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
polesnoy As technology commoditization begins speeding up again, it’s a great time to be a consumer in search of a state-of-the-art flat panel... View Details
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
communicate with them in a dynamic, two-way fashion. Fifth, there is technological change. As digital networks make instant connectivity the norm of business life, and as... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
Should companies let employees keep working remotely after the COVID-19 pandemic ends? Assessing the impact of remote work has involved a lot of guesswork for business leaders, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Consider the Chinese... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
Several factors are generating a tailwind for the recovery, although it varies from market to market. In large measure it has to do with improvement in the economy as a whole,... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship in Europe
Four Key Trends Kuemmerle began his talk with a contrast: "In 1995," he quipped, "an entrepreneur was defined as someone who did everything he could to keep from getting View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
Lehman failure. None of these reforms is perfect, but they are improvements over where we were five years ago. Unfortunately, there are other areas in which we've made little or no progress since 2008. Housing finance is still basically a... View Details
- 12 Feb 2016
- Op-Ed
The Real Jobs Tragedy in the US: We've Lost the Skills
could aspire to a more prosperous future. Second, when jobs disappear, the skills of a workforce atrophy over time. That is especially true of the middle-skills jobs that require some post-secondary training... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
When working professionals were shifting to home offices a year ago as COVID-19 was spreading, comedians and pundits predicted that people would no longer need bras and pants that aren’t stretchy. Instead... View Details
- 20 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers Value Global Brands
serves as a rationale for global brands to charge premiums. Global brands "are expensive, but the price is reasonable when you think of the quality," pointed out a... View Details
- 24 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Building ’Brandtopias’—How Top Brands Tap into Society
when disruptions hit. The most impressive brands are those that are able to use disruptions as a platform to enhance the delivery of cultural value." To analyze the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Aug 2005
- What Do You Think?
Is There an “Efficient Market” in CEO Compensation?
shareholders into a more active participative role, CEO compensation along with other governance challenges such as agency issues will continue to plague companies." Julie... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
public outrage and protests, as well as a fair amount of handwringing on the part of politicians. What's less clear is how this rising level of inequality has affected the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
2.0" turned up on the online encyclopedia one day—and was recommended for deletion—McAfee and colleague Karim R. Lakhani knew they had the makings of an insightful case study on collaboration and governance in the digital world.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2011
- What Do You Think?
Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?
Summing Up Summarizing responses to questions about a topic as complex as thinking slow requires that one think slow. So I wrote this column, slept on it, rewrote it, and still... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
safe.” If companies do provide a notice, however, they must abide by it. For that reason, companies often make them as broad and sweeping as possible—perhaps triggering... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
Summing Up The title of this wrap-up and the one that accompanied this month's original column basically just deletes "Wikileaks." The original title was my mistake. The intent was not to direct attention to Wikileaks in a... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 16 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?
Should eco-conscious investors support a company that’s developing innovative solutions to climate change—even if that company is also a major polluter? The market’s answer to this question has been View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
will garner the best solutions from innovators if they let them choose whether to work as solo competitors or whether to work on a team. "Self-selection is the main driver of effort gains in... View Details