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- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
and jury, consumers must bring their grievances to an expert panel that’s more likely to take the brokerage’s side, reducing consumer awards by $40,000 on average, says HBS research. “Unlike judges, arbitrators aren’t randomly assigned,”... View Details
- 18 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing
TV, but was amplified by exposure on YouTube and other social media. Click to watch. As marketers have experimented, what have they learned about what works on social? We sat down with four marketing experts on the Harvard Business School... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
come from diverse sources Chief among the recommendations from Grushka-Cockayne and her colleagues is aggregating several probability forecasts, typically from between five and 10 experts. Ideally, those experts should have some... View Details
- 03 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion
their appreciation and communicate all the benefits that can be provided,” Vareleas adds. Experts argue that where a town hall format is used, executives should always be on camera. Final thoughts No matter which tools a firm uses to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- Research Summary
Wearing a Red Hat ¨C The Impact of Activist Industrial Policy on Software Development in China
The idea that the government should steer economic development by strategically hand-picking and managing certain industries is controversial but appeals to many developing countries that are eager to upgrade their industries. In this paper, I study China's recent... View Details
- 2015
- Working Paper
The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12
By: Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew and Dong Ik Lee
CDC was founded in 1948 as part of the U.K. government's efforts to develop the economic resources of Britain's remaining colonies. Since then, CDC has pursued a series of strategies to "do good without losing money," as its original mission was phrased. Its approach... View Details
Lerner, Josh, Ann Leamon, Steve Dew, and Dong Ik Lee. "The Impact of Funds: An Evaluation of CDC 2004-12." Working Paper, October 2015.
- 15 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Promises and Limitations of Big Data
age where it was possible to allow data to speak for itself, without theory or expert knowledge of the subject matter. However, in a short span the pendulum swung from big data being a big deal to becoming a big hype. As is usually the... View Details
- 11 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Rules Entrepreneurs Need to Know Before Adopting AI
experts from industry. Your team needs both ML engineers (often PhD level) and top software engineers who can productize and deploy AI. (Ideally you want talent who can do both, but good luck finding them!) There's a limited supply of ML... View Details
Keywords: by Rocio Wu
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
postwar decades, expectations of what managers should contribute to society became rather more modest, to say the least. Today, in place of such notions as the "socializing of industry from within" and the concept of the business executive as an View Details
- 14 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Business Case for Becoming a Jack-of-All-Trades
that by becoming the world’s expert in a very narrow area.” If anything, people in businesses tend to be even more hyper-focused than academics, Nagle says, siloing R&D workers in very narrow research areas that give them a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, is an expert in corporate integrity and risk management. He interviewed dozens of business executives convicted of crimes, including Bernie Madoff, for his 2016 book, “Why... View Details
- 15 Nov 2018
- Book
Can the Global Food Industry Overcome Public Distrust?
JamesBrey Food is the largest segment of the global economy. It is also widely recognized as more critical for human health than any pharmaceutical drug on the planet. But significant changes in the industry are making people lose trust in many institutions involved in... View Details
- Research Summary
Informing Brand Marketing Practice
Susan M. Fournier is involved with several projects relating more generally to brand managment issues. These include boardroom-level projects (with Professors Thomas Madden and Franke Fehle of the University of South Carolina, and sponsored by Interbrand) on the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
School professor Josh Lerner, an expert in intellectual property protection and commercialization. He believes many companies have failed to recognize the growing importance of IP in the global economy. "It has become more essential... View Details
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
1980s, when the companies he studied scrambled to boost quality in response to the competitive threat posed by Japan. “In many of the cases [companies] employed experts in improving quality,” Beer says. “These View Details
- 07 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
IP Modularity: Profiting from Innovation by Aligning Product Architecture with Intellectual Property
- 21 Sep 2021
- Office Hours
Readers Ask: How Can I Gain Power and Influence?
a variety of circumstances. Battilana answered questions from participants in a recent installment of “Office Hours,” an Instagram series (@HarvardHBS) in which Working Knowledge makes experts available to Instagram users to ask questions... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 30 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The New Rules for Remote Work: Pandemic Edition
the current circumstances and shift projects around as needed, Austin says. More tips for remote workers Unsure of your footing when it comes to working at home? Remote work expert Prithwiraj Choudhury answers all your questions. Readers... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2022
- What Do You Think?
Can the Case Method Survive Another Hundred Years?
The primary pedagogical rap on it is that it is an inefficient way to teach some things. This is particularly true, the argument goes, if concepts or quantitative techniques are the subject of the day. Why not instead employ an expert to... View Details
- 18 Dec 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Grooming Next-Generation Leaders
Narayandas, faculty of the School's Executive Education offering "Program for Leadership Development (PLD): Accelerating the Careers of High-Potential Leaders," are experts on the subject. PLD invites executives with ten to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace