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- 30 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One
improve. For instance, what factors, such as parents’ beliefs and geographic location, influence voters? And do stricter voting requirements keep people away from the voting booth on election day? “The hope is that in View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
of hospitals rather than a more holistic view of the sector. "We need [talented managers in] hospices and retail clinics and nursing homes and skilled nursing facilities and biotech, medical devices, and health IT. Further, this focus on... View Details
- 30 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
Why the U.S. Should Encourage FDI
States outperformed the rest of the world in the majority of years. As such, there is something particularly bad about the return experience of foreign investors taking a controlling position in American... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 13 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Problem with Productivity of Multi-Ethnic Teams
result.” Co-ethnic teams more productive As Pons and his co-researchers analyzed the data, however, they found a disturbing result about the ethnic makeup within teams. Those canvassing teams made up of two... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training
Business Administration at HBS. “But everything is rewritten to work in a Zambian context. The data to date shows that the training’s effects are very positive.” Drawing from her own experience teaching negotiation at HBS, View Details
Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn
- 11 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Saving the Planet
in domains such as customer service, finance, operations, and business history are coming together to explore the many facets of how sustainability and business management might mix. Here is a sample of that... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
a book about immigrant entrepreneurs from the 1790s to the present day, and planned to begin with Alexander Hamilton. It turns out that he was more of a policymaker than an entrepreneur, but if I had to... View Details
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
to haunt them as advertisers become frustrated by the lack of innovation and specter of corruption that can prevail in a monopoly. As a result,... View Details
- 05 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?
Ninety percent of new entrepreneurial businesses that don't attract venture capital fail within three years. A software engineer at the government contractor EG&G, Don Brooks had been working on computer... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
working conditions occur in the United States or Europe, usually there is a cry for more regulatory enforcement—along with an ensuing debate about how much government is enough (or too much). When such... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Oct 2020
- What Do You Think?
Are CEOs the Wrong Leaders for Stakeholder Capitalism?
Interorganizational management in a channel of distribution is a complex matter. But it doesn’t hold a candle to the complexity of stakeholder capitalism, View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
work place." Others addressed the more general question of who or what should determine the limits of transparency in an organization. While there was an acknowledgement that not all things can be disclosed, confidentiality was seen View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Preparing to Sell
well, the family has a higher risk of losing its wealth through bad investment decisions and overconsumption. Starting now, before your sale and liquidity event, you need to adopt the attitudes of those families that endure View Details
- 05 Aug 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Happened to the ‘Innovation, Disruption, Technology’ Dividend?
characterized those urging patience. As he put it, “The computer was created by Babbage in the 18th century We only started seeing the pervasive benefits from computing in the last 10-15 years. Today’s innovations will bring real... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
seller's ID with a seller score, or a buyer with a buyer rating." These days, however, profile pictures are commonplace. It's a phenomenon that... View Details
- 06 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Growth of the Social Enterprise
central board of directors. In contrast, affiliates are independent, 501(c)(3) organizations that have an agreement with a coordinating, central organization to be part of an identifiable network. Each affiliate has its own View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 08 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care
describe it—in a way that applies to health care or any industry—is innovation that transforms a product or service that historically has been very complicated and expensive into something that is affordable... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
nature of cases is changing as well, with more cases focusing on international and global issues, as compared to single-country cases that are easier for a faculty member to do... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
private equity and public companies "changes the ownership structure of assets and alters the incentives and governance mechanisms that surround the economic engine of our economy." During a recent... View Details
- 19 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Public Education Goes to School
working paper, published this year, titled "Promoting a Management Revolution in Public Education." Mallory Stark: How does the PELP program operate? Stacey Childress and Allen Grossman: PELP operates View Details