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- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
at Harvard Business School. “Political polarization can create distortions within the economy,” says Kempf, one of the coauthors of the new review. “Partisanship seems to be a really important determinant of many decisions made by... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 Oct 2024
- Op-Ed
Latino Voters Have Grown More Politically Divided. That’s Not Surprising.
John Judis and Ruy Teixeira heralded a new age of US politics in their 2002 book, The Emerging Democratic Majority. The book predicted that the growing Latino population, coupled with a clear Democratic lead in many other growing segments... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and Web3? What are the strategic implications for my organization of View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 6
behavior are reduced (Study 5). Our results have important implications for models of ethical decision making, moral behavior, and self-regulatory theory. Publisher's link: http://www.francescagino.com August 2013 Journal of Finance The Real Product View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 02 Oct 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Leadership an Increasingly Difficult Balancing Act?
advantage in a world of impatient investors, restive employees, and demanding customers? Do they require leaders who have fewer answers, more questions, and a bias for testing and quick action? Are investors, employees, and customers willing to trade yesterday's... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
What do Stella McCartney, Apple, Netflix, and Wal-Mart have in common? They were all subjects of the most popular episodes of Harvard Business School's Cold Call podcast in the last year. Twice monthly, host and Chief Marketing and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
market but at a position that is the most critical leadership position for an NFL team. Tom Brady, the six-time super bowl champion widely considered the NFL’s Greatest of All Time (GOAT), signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, after the... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
fighting intolerance and religious extremism. All of which makes her seemingly an unusual interview subject for Harvard Business School's Creating Emerging Markets series, sponsored by the HBS Business History Initiative, which has... View Details
- 04 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From
developing employees by figuring out their passions, giving them relevant experiences to help them become more marketable, and helping them on their way when they are ready to exit. Companies can then benefit from an influx of enthusiastic View Details
Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 12 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
Operations and the Competitive Edge
Obstacles facing companies in today's hyper-competitive global markets are seemingly more complex than ever, to the point that managers must rethink many of the basic principles of good operations management, says Robert Hayes. In a View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
were unable to provide new loans to underwrite company growth. “The recessionary measures that were taken in Greece were not the cause of the crisis.” Even large companies that could ordinarily rely on public equity or debt View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 29 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age
time crunched, the last thing we want to do is squander labor market opportunity and flexibility. Yet that’s what could happen if new companies are forced to build workforces based on dated assumptions about... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should Intellectual Property be Protected in International Trade?
raises the questions: How hard should US trade negotiators seek to encourage such a change in Chinese policy? Does IP ownership belong in international trade deals? What do you think? Original Column Unusual attention currently is focused on trade policy, triggered by... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
competencies] they can." The gap in levels of efficiency between markets for goods and for talent remains wide. Can it be closed? What will it take? Should it be closed? What do you think? Original Article Two seemingly unrelated... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
SUMMING UP: Does It Matter If China Assumes Global Trade Leadership? There are a variety of reasons why China is not a threat to the global trade leadership of the United States. They include demographic disadvantages, an unwillingness to make Chinese View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
if an employer provides some special training/skill to an employee that increases his market value substantially ." Naseem Khan suggested that " a retention bonus may be doled out in lieu of base pay increases." Steve... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
pharmaceutical firm B creates a drug that treats the same ailment and prepares to bring the drug to market. According to best estimates, this new competition will reduce the price of A's product to $2.55 per pill. B would pick up 40... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. They are also instrumental in driving the innovation that provides a competitive... View Details