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29 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Uber Is Worth Saving and How To Do It

entrenched interests are going to resist and regulators are too slow to catch up,” she says. But Kanter calls financial results a “lagging indicator” of a company’s health. “They tell you what you’ve just done. They don’t predict the future. Culture is a View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation

17 Apr 2017
Research Event

The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy

mission is to bring together leading scholars and business practitioners to study and shape the digital transformation of the economy. Accordingly, “Beyond Chicken and Egg” included three industry executives, as well as two academics who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Service

11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

broadcasters pay a premium for licensing rights. In terms of affiliate fees, nine out of ten of the most expensive cable networks per viewer carry high-engagement sports content, with ESPN, the NFL Network, and the MLB network leading the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

In the months leading up to the 2008 presidential election, CNN ran a story titled "Gender or Race: Black Women Voters Face Tough Choices in South Carolina." The "tough choice" in question: should they vote according to race (Barack... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism

businesses, the problem isn't so much agency issues within the firm as much as it is public cronyism, with companies jockeying to curry favor with government for preferential investments or loans based on political connections. "In that case, government investments may... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

found, given, and transmitted from the past." Thomas Carlyle, the Scottish writer who named economics "the dismal science," famously declared for the other side: "The History of the world is but the Biography of great men." Our instincts might View Details

30 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

India’s Ambitious National Identification Program

them." In July 2009, the Indian government invited Nandan Nilekani, cofounder and cochairman OR cofounder and former CEO of the global technology services firm Infosys and a champion of private-sector entrepreneurship, to lead the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

excellent students no longer can stand out if "grade inflation" at a college leads to almost all students getting A's, so too, innovative companies find it increasingly difficult to get the visibility and recognition they... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

soon as the pressure is off. In Medtronic's case the challenge was especially acute because the company had such a positive culture and strong set of values. As the newcomer leading these changes, I recognized that many people in the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

and more sophisticated procedures. A greater number of patients could then benefit from better, lower cost, more convenient healthcare, he said, "than if we expect the leading institutions to somehow transform themselves and come... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

26 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?

When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology; Information; Technology

12 Jul 2020
Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

as she tracks leads and confronts complex mysteries across 25 books. I’m glad that John Lescroart is still writing about lawyer Dismas Hardy and police inspector Abe Glitzky (half-Black, half-Jewish) and has added Diz’s daughter Rebecca... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

their advice because such dismissal threatens advisors’ sense of self-worth, leading them to judge seekers more harshly. Moreover, these effects are compounded by advisor expertise: expert advisors are more likely to punish seekers who... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Nov 2016
First Look

First Look - November 1, 2016

emerging market firms raise external capital, they face a tradeoff where greater transparency may lead to a lower cost of capital but at the cost of revealing proprietary information in their relational business practices. We find that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

impact on our trajectory." Last year, with three remaining locations in the Boston area, Finale's original lead investors acquired a majority ownership in the business, folding it into a Rhode Island-based holding company where Conforti... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

17 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook

leading journal in the field, the Business History Review, and regularly attend conferences of the flourishing business history societies in the United States and Europe. Yet as we reviewed the literature being covered by our... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

agree about what their students need to know. At other leading business schools, there is a movement away from a required curriculum. It is as if a medical school said, "Some students don't want to take pathology and organic chemistry so... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

October 2020 (Revised February 2021)
Case

The Tulsa Massacre and the Call for Reparations

By: Mihir A. Desai, Suzanne Antoniou and Leanne Fan

How should historic social injustices be addressed? Survivors of the 1921 Tulsa Massacre and their descendants, including Representative Regina Goodwin of Tulsa, believe they should be addressed through reparations and have consequently continued to push the government... View Details

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28 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

regulators and bank examiners are inconsistent, which leads to confusion and an aversion to taking on more risk from bankers. During the most difficult part of the crisis, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) issued guidance... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

Editor's Note: Rapid urbanization and resource scarcity pose problems—and opportunities—for businesses and governments all over the world. But who can best lead the building and developing of these municipalities? One model: promotion and... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

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