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- 02 Apr 2010
- What Do You Think?
Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?
disability expenses, (2) Health insurance affects health status positively, (3) Layoffs are harmful to everything from mental and physical well-being to work behavior, (4) Work schedules and length of hours affect physical well-being and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 15 Jun 2021
- News
The Value of Difficult Conversations
Great Conversation In the virtual classroom, Ratajczak steered the conversation away from past harms to the Black community to the current issues that stem from them. He wondered how payments could address modern inequities and if such... View Details
- 02 May 2018
- Blog Post
Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?
practice he calls “radical transparency.” That means “giving most everyone the ability to see most everything (to reduce) harmful office politics and the risks of bad behavior more likely to take place behind closed doors than out in the... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
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Finalists | New Venture Competition
Pearle is a luxury vegan caviar brand, offering the taste and feel of caviar without harming sturgeon, the most endangered species group on the planet. After building a reputation in the greater than $2 billion caviar market, Pearle will... View Details
- 03 Jul 2018
- What Do You Think?
Should CEO Satya Nadella Cancel Microsoft’s Contract with ICE?
problem with cancelling the ICE contract is that it is probably one of hundreds of MS contracts with the government, many of which are supporting other potentially unpopular programs Because MS is providing business infrastructure to ICE, cancelling the contract could... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
short-term bias, boards of public firms must be careful with the type of incentives they set or risk that managers will behave in a way that might harm the long-term interests of the company. "It's important that boards of public... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
I'm interested in understanding when and for what multiple identities can be harmful vs. helpful." Thomas is preparing a case that shows how General Electric used its internal diversity policies to enhance both its business efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
adverse effects of a housing price bust that would harm the financial system. How does this approach differ from the mortgage guarantees provided by Fannie and Freddie and the reform option with government guarantees favored by the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the economy or the taxpayer.” Finding a Middle Path Neither has to happen, says Moss, who ardently believes that his approach finds a middle ground between the harm and moral hazard extremes foreseen by Sununu. Today, financial... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
challenging goals can powerfully drive behavior and boost performance. Advocates of goal setting have had a substantial impact on research, management education, and management practice. In this article, we argue that the beneficial effects of goal setting have been... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
harmful actions carried out through others evaluated less negatively than harmful actions carried out directly? Four experiments examine the moral psychology of indirect agency. Experiments 1A, 1B, and 1C... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
ensure that, except during downturns, when new fiscal stimulus is required, new spending and tax cuts do not add to the deficit The risks associated with high debt levels are small relative to the harm cutting deficits would do.” Have we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
uncomfortable tension that we have to reconcile. Dey: If you don’t innovate, someone else will come along with a better product and win, and one business can cause harm to another that way. But those competitive forces are fair. One of... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
eliminate more than 70 percent of fraud without decreasing profit. As he explained in his blog: "By delaying payments, a merchant or network differentially harms bad affiliates (who rightly worry they may get caught) without unduly... View Details
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KINDS OF CONTENT (“PROHIBITED CONTENT”) ARE STRICTLY PROHIBITED ON THE SERVICES: Content that defames, harasses, discriminates against, harms or threatens others; Content that discusses illegal activities, with the intent to commit them;... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation incentives. This paper examines this issue, exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
the weapon, if the only intention for making the purchase was to do harm within a certain period of time. “The most plausible explanation as to why waiting periods work is this: People have visceral states, such as anger or suicidal... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
too often still result in decisions that take scant account of public health and whether the health of individual citizens is being advanced. When worker safety is jeopardized by unenforced building codes or exposure to harmful industrial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
I Gave at the Office
There was quite a bit of research on this, but it was inconsistent about whether it helps or harms donations. So my coauthor, Dale Miller, and I looked at whether different framings of that situation can impact people’s willingness to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Path to Economic Revival
Pisano and Shih: It’s naive to believe that manufacturing can be shipped abroad without harm to U.S. competitiveness. Related Links Why Manufacturing Matters - HBS Working Knowledge Making Their Way James McNerney Jr. After decades of... View Details