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01 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?

prominent high-tech firms that say every immigrant creates jobs, claiming figures as high as six new American jobs for every immigrant hired," Kerr says. "On the opposite side you have people who are fiercely opposed to the program,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

aspects of decisions unique to consumer-negotiated exchanges that would benefit from greater attention from consumer researchers. One piece of advice that negotiation experts commonly offer is very simple: Before you enter into any... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

congressional committees truly bring home the bacon to their states in the forms of earmark spending. Can you give a sense of how large this effect is? A: Sure. The average state experiences a 40 to 50... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2020
In Practice

How Retailers Can Thrive in a Shopping Season Like No Other

stay-at-home orders will likely make brick-and-mortar stores and shopping malls less appealing to consumers, and will likely fuel online shopping. On a more positive side, consumers are likely to continue to indulge in little luxuries that make staying at View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail

18 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 18, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408004 HCL Technologies (B) (Abridged) Harvard Business School Supplement 408-006 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=408006... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

and those with the most up-votes rose to the top of a list next to the moderators. Among the most popular questions, which drew a laugh from both the panelists and the audience: How do you compete in a winner-take-all market when you’re... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

Sarah Jane Gilbert: What led you to write Different? Youngme Moon: I wrote this book because in business today there is a huge disconnect between the way we talk about the concept of differentiation and the way it actually plays out in... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

very small part of the food system, but whatever we are able to grow will be increasingly important,” Zmick says. Zmick also is engaging the Gardeneer community through social media, encouraging people to garden and grow fruits and vegetables at View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

recommendations for would-be global leaders is to live in a country where the language spoken is different from that in one's home country. "When my wife and I lived in Japan we had a two-year-old child, which meant we had to dive in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

the predictive value of a theory can be measured in terms of how many pairs of experimental subjects you would have to observe playing a previously unexamined game before the mean of the experimental observations would provide a better... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

others. Oral history can also shed light on hypersensitive topics, such corruption, which are rarely formally documented. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55633 January 29, 2019 Harvard Business Review Time for Happiness: Why the Pursuit... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

was simply that entrepreneurial companies were both more common and more successful. Entrepreneurs often find opportunity amid upheaval. Can you give us an example from your own experience? Owades: We had a huge problem in 1994 at Calyx... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

23 Mar 2021
Book

Succeeding in the New Work-from-Anywhere World

When the pandemic forced employees to flee offices and work from home in droves last year, many business leaders worried that productivity might take a dive. Would remote workers be too tempted by the lures of Netflix or too distracted by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

You've held your own while negotiating dozens of successful deals. Even so, you want to take your game to the next level. What's the next step? There are plenty of guides that offer tips on negotiation strategies. As useful as these are... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

03 Oct 2017
First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017

increase medical business skills and raise clinical performance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53281 Tournament Incentive Plans Incorporating Objective and Subjective Criteria: Implications for a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

28 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

brands, forever on the lookout for new opportunities; home life has become an act of managing supply chains, outsourcing housecleaning, childcare, and even grocery shopping to others; and churches market themselves like fast food... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Sep 2011
What Do You Think?

What’s Apple’s Biggest Challenge: Replacing Steve or Wall Street?

years from now? What is Apple's post-Jobs future? What do you think? Jim Heskett's latest book,The Culture Cycle, was published in September. Original Article Discussions of management succession have been triggered once again in... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

27 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 27

and clinical research. How should IAVI manage tensions between what is necessary to achieve its mission and what is necessary to build new incentive structures that enable key actors to work together effectively? Purchase this... View Details