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  • 25 Aug 2010
  • News

Games, Parties, Pranks, and Celebrations

10 lists were also still popular, but I remember that those tended to be a little dicier in content and got people into trouble sometimes. We also did the “Wave.” PMD 70 would pick a word, and the first... View Details
Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

plus side of the ledger, tariff rates declined, leading to more competition and forcing Greek companies to compete internationally. Reducing bureaucracy also helped: time to export decreased from 20 to 16... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • Web

Organize Care Around Medical Conditions - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

outcomes, the IPU needs to have a focus on costs of care delivery and needs to regularly review the costs of the processes of care being utilized. This is best accomplished by... View Details
  • 08 Feb 2023
  • Op-Ed

Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears

Spending time in reflection is vital. Most leaders need more time to reflect on the last meeting, never mind the last month or quarter. But the benefits of introspection can’t be overstated. Block out View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

didn't leave the house for 322 days. But I have a big yard. So, I can walk around a lot. So. And during that time I was looking for ways to inspire and fortify myself. View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of the Entry of Biosimilars: Evidence from Europe

Keywords: by Fiona Scott Morton, Ariel Dora Stern, and Scott Stern; Health; Biotechnology; Pharmaceutical
  • October 10, 2019
  • Article

The Case for the Public Option Over Medicare for All

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard Boxer
How can the United States better control its health care costs and quality and still achieve universal coverage? The strongest choice is not Medicare for All, which would eliminate private insurance; it’s the public option, which would allow people to choose from... View Details
Keywords: Universal Health Coverage; Public Option; Medicare; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Cost Management; Quality; United States
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

International Differences in the Size and Roles of Corporate Headquarters: An Empirical Examination

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
This paper examines differences in the size and roles of corporate headquarters around the world. Based on a survey of over 600 multibusiness corporations in seven countries (France, Germany, Holland, UK, Japan, US, and Chile) the paper describes the differences among... View Details
Keywords: Business Headquarters; Size; Organizational Structure; Culture; Japan; France; Germany; Netherlands; United Kingdom; United States; Chile
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  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

management problems in the world. Controlling and reducing costs is difficult in any industry, but even more so in larger and more complex... View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 10 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

structure with management and ownership formally represented in different organs. In the case of La Nación, the newspaper is owned by a corporation (La Nación S.A.), but the Saguier family, descending from its founder, View Details
Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

freeze up.” David Wittenburg, from his vantage point as a “former numismatist,” suggested that such currencies “arise in times of need (e.g., tokens when official currency is scarce) and they disappear when... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
  • Article

Reflections on the 2013 Decade Award: 'Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited' Ten Years Later

By: Mary Benner and Michael Tushman
This paper reflects on Benner and Tushman (2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the... View Details
Keywords: Organizations; Innovation and Invention; Performance Productivity; Innovation and Management
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  • 04 Dec 2000
  • What Do You Think?

Have We Overdone Deregulation and Privatization?

selective increases in capacity, new approaches to managing consumption, and increased merger and acquisition activity, with attendant realization of synergies and lower View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Summer 2008
  • Editorial

Will the Stork Return to Europe and Japan? Understanding Fertility within Developed Nations

By: James Feyrer, Bruce Sacerdote and Ariel Dora Stern

Only a few rich nations are currently at replacement levels of fertility and many are considerably below. We believe that changes in the status of women are driving fertility change. At low levels of female status, women specialize in household production and... View Details

Keywords: Income; Household; Gender; Japan; Italy; United States; Sweden; Spain
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  • December 1989 (Revised April 1997)
  • Case

Destin Brass Products Co.

By: William J. Bruns Jr.
A specialized manufacturer of brass valves, pumps, and flow controllers is troubled by competitive pricing in pumps and higher than expected margins for flow controllers. Managers suspect that cost accounting and cost allocations to products may be to blame. Two... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Activity Based Costing and Management; Five Forces Framework; Customer Value and Value Chain; Competition; Business Strategy; Design; Inflation and Deflation; Asset Pricing; Governance Controls; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

May 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Value of Trading Relations in Turbulent Times By: Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Zhaogang Song Abstract—This paper investigates how dealers’ trading... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Mar 2023
  • Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

international development, big tech at Google, government service in the Obama administration, and on the founding team of the healthcare startup Cityblock Health, I watched fertility and pregnancy companies... View Details
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

wealth—in excess of $8 million (Study 1) and $10 million (Study 2)—are wealthier millionaires happier than millionaires with lower levels of wealth, though these differences are modest in magnitude. Second, View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

level regulating against outsourcing, controlling borders to discourage labor migration, or training for "quality"—including attitude and skills as well as other attributes? What do you think?... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • Web

Aligning Reimbursement with Value - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

lengthier times to payment. Once IT systems can support bundled reimbursement, sending a single bill and processing a single claim will dramatically reduce the administrative View Details