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- 06 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Hills, Deep Poverty: Explaining Civil War in Nepal
descent into violence. For Nepal, these factors for study included poverty, social and language diversity, and even geographical conditions. What Iyer and Do found: poverty trumps all, yet in a complex, nuanced way. As Nepal's conflict developed, the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
of government spending on private sector economic activity. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/cmalloy/pdffiles/envaloy.pdf Intensities and Risk Aversion in School Choice: A Laboratory Experiment Authors:Flip Klijn, Joana Pais,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
panel discussion held at Harvard Business School, where several experts talked about how to treat the troubled industry at a time when the year-old Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 is still in its relative infancy. “Health care is the most... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The State of Customer Service Leadership
Our observations of great service leaders reveal a greater emphasis on those skills demanded for intense personal interaction, engagement with employees at all levels of large people-intensive organizations, the ability to work with the... View Details
- 28 Oct 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Can We Expect in the Other War?
The first is: Are these transitory feelings that may fade in intensity with progress in the war on terrorism? Let's assume instead that what we may experience is an intensification of trends in personal lifestyles already noticeable prior... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace
'cooperating.'" Tending to the organizational spirit may necessitate more individual soul-searching on the part of managerial leaders, as well. "Companies that want to be great from here on in are going to have to become View Details
Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
Silvia Bellezza, Francesca Gino, and Anat Keinan shows there may be prestige advantages when you stand out rather than fit in. The Role of Emotions in Effective Negotiations Senior Lecturer Andy Wasynczuk, a former negotiator for the New England Patriots, explores the... View Details
- 28 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Meeting China’s Need for Management Education
definitely growing more intense as companies and government agencies strive to become truly "global" players. While much of the past growth and business success might have been based on national and regional success, they... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
people in our study experienced an intense mix of emotions when performing these tasks. These emotions included sympathy, sadness, guilt, shame, anxiety, and even anger at times. A second unanticipated pattern emerged in our data: Many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
contracting intensity in privately governed organizations, whereas we expect no such association for publicly governed organizations. We analyze data from California hospitals to determine differences in these roles across ownership... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
urgent needs of the future. Start-ups, on the other hand, are intensely focused on innovation but are also beholden to the impatience and boom-and-bust cycles of the venture capital industry. In his new book, The Architecture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
health care. But the truth is that many of these efforts, despite best intentions, have not solved the issues they target, says Harvard Business School professor Jane Wei-Skillern. "Traditional approaches are still falling short, especially as the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907412 HDFC (A) Harvard Business School Case 301-093 The top management team at India's leading home finance company must decide how to deal with the emergence of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women—a History
characterized by rapidly occurring change with broad impact and high stakes. In these intense times, cracks evolve and women move swiftly to enter into those cracks. In each of these periods, the American economy and society were changing... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 13 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw
intense focus on software security updates, after a massive tech meltdown in July impacted millions of Microsoft Windows devices used by organizations worldwide, including airlines, hospitals, emergency call centers, and banks. The cause... View Details
- 01 May 2020
- In Practice
COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change
operations and supply chain will not only better enable them to manage future pandemics, but also some of the disruptions that climate change is bringing like more intensive storms, droughts, and flooding. I also hope that this pandemic... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
primarily service providers. SC industries, especially traded services, have higher average wages than B2C industries. The supply chain economy also has a higher degree of innovative capacity as reflected by a much larger intensity of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
at times in the form of subsidies. For example, Amazon provides discounts on its e-reader prices for customers who agree to receive targeted ads from Amazon and third-party sellers on their devices. Higher intensity of competition between... View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
thinking they are fine and find out they are too passive or too aggressive." Intense Emotions Can Work Students learn that it's important to keep their emotions in check in many cases, but at the same time, successful negotiations... View Details