Costs And Consequences - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

One way to uncover the consequences of inequality, Moss and his colleagues propose, is to set up experiments in a lab to look at possible effects on individual decision-making. Behavioral psychologists have... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

Fittest: The Impact of the Minimum Wage on Firm Exit. One lesson is clear: Businesses that provide higher-quality service and maintain a solid reputation can become more insulated from market shocks, such as increases in fixed costs. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

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 markets more... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Confronting the Reality of Web Services

of questions does not include anything about cost savings or ROI. I just don't think there are crisp and meaningful ways to do these calculations. This doesn't mean, of course, that a company shouldn't try... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

information technology as being subject to fashion, but the same thing happens, the network effect. This is important when we start talking about B2B hubs." The third characteristic is differentiated products and prices. Most of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

whether there might be an emerging professionalism with Chinese characteristics and how this might have an impact on the professions elsewhere. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick

providers, and financing to at-risk youth. The nonprofit created alignment among all the entities for shared measurable outcomes—youth successfully placed in jobs with the shortest time and lowest View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

book, I compare the career imprints that were cultivated at different healthcare firms, including Baxter and Abbott, during the 1970s, and I examine the consequences of this... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

24 May 2010
Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

ignores all costs associated with paying for the spending such as higher taxes or increased borrowing. From the perspective of the target state, the funds are essentially free, but clearly at the national level someone has to pay for... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 12

management decisions, with consequences for aggregate economic activity. This article discusses the role of investment banking and investment management industry veterans on the Financial Accounting... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 18

interviews at the January Allied Social Science Associations (ASSA) meetings. Second, the AEA now invites candidates who are still on the market, and employers whose positions are still vacant, to participate in a web-based... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2005
What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?

is arguably the strongest these days, appears not to be competitive in many global industries in which labor costs are still important. Germany, in particular, where workers and union members routinely... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Feb 2012
First Look

First Look: February 14

individuals bring well-articulated preexisting preferences to such decisions. Understanding beliefs and attitudes motivating these preferences can assist physicians in helping parents make informed decisions consistent with their values.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

wouldn't face the domino effect that many people face when they don't have savings accounts or other resources that my classmates and I had." Emotional Costs And Worst... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

19 Jan 2022
In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details

Keywords: by HBS News

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

number of additional analyses we conducted confirm that our findings are most likely driven by changes in individuals’ opportunity costs of starting new ventures as a result of worsening labor market conditions View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

good judgment—good from whose perspective?" Few questioned that good judgment can be acquired, possibly at some risk and cost of mistakes. This still leaves us with the question of whether it can be... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

14 May 2009
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Teams

in your organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a diagnosis of how present View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

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