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20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research, including the View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

12 Nov 2024
HBS Case

Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers

Blakeman says. A pitch to the right person at the right time at a bar led to a $100,000 angel investment. Diversifying his business, Blakeman started to work with prisons to put his search tools into the... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Employment

September 2015
Technical Note

The On-Demand Economy

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, James Weber and Elizabeth Anne Watkins

This note describes the emerging on-demand economy, also referred to as the sharing economy. The note highlights several companies including Uber and Airbnb that exemplify this new mode of competition, a model that threatens to disrupt traditional firms. Uber provides... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Reform; Disruption; Disruptive Innovation; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Labor; Employment; Working Conditions; Human Capital; Rights; Organizational Design; Social and Collaborative Networks; Service Industry

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19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

alleged short-term nature of capital markets, and the way the human thought process works. Overcoming roadblocks requires public policies to be much more aligned with creating the right incentives to support... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55053 2018 Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient Revenue Farming Reconsidered: Tenurial Rights and Tenurial Duties in Early Modern India, ca. 1556–1818 By: Sheth, Sudev J... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

aside time to focus that can help restore work-life balance. Joseph Fuller: Make time for ‘deep work’ at the office and home People have struggled to balance the demands of work and their personal lives since the emergence of organized View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

05 Feb 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

2001) Note: Selecting companies for good to greatness may be just as difficult as selecting leaders. One of the 11 companies that Collins cited as going from good to great went on to bankruptcy in just seven years after the publication of the book. Malcolm Gladwell,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

Penny for Your Thoughts? For Big-Picture Ideas, the Right Pay Structure Matters How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge Feedback or... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

18 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups

are often natural and subconscious individual behaviors, making it easier for a person to make the right choice. The 2008 book Nudge, written by Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, piqued their interest. (The book also inspired the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

22 Apr 2015
Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

rights. Protection of property rights in the country is still poor and a major deterrent to investment. Greece scores just a 3 out of 12 on a World Bank's strength-of-legal-rights index, actually decreasing from 4 in 2007. Tellingly, the... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

23 Jan 2012
Research & Ideas

Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes

You have the moving parts of human beings delivering services interacting with human beings as customers. Culture is the guiding force; it's the difference between the positive experience you have when you... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Service

23 Oct 2012
First Look

First Look: October 23

Trichakis Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper deals with a basic issue: How does one approach the problem of designing the "right" objective for a given resource allocation problem? The notion of what is View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

well as the number of students in our entering MBA cohort (900 or more), it's hard to deny that something on a large scale is being attempted. By contrast, the term "morals" evokes what many people imagine as an individual decision or the outcome of one's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

the Single Market so long as they pay into the EU budget and implement virtually all EU legislation. At best, therefore, leaving the EU would amount to little more than Britain’s throwing away the voting rights and influence it has now,... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

analyzing research publications, we have found three basic trends. First, research has increasingly focused on economic performance. Second, research focusing on how organizations affect other dimensions of human welfare, beyond economic... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

bill, an increasing number of young Greeks are leaving the country causing perhaps the most damaging effect of them all, brain drain. One of the most robust academic evidence is that an economy where the means of production are controlled by individuals (and where... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

27 Jun 2024
Research & Ideas

Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge

humans but do influence the behavior of LLMs. Marketers could use such machine-learning techniques to determine the best strategic text strings to include in their product information pages for desired results in almost real time, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Technology

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

commercialize remarkable technological breakthroughs like the genome. There are also enormous questions about what the proper regulatory structure will be: Who owns a gene? Who owns the right to determine what I can do with my genes?... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

27 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Horrible Boss Workarounds

there this morning, and I don't know what to do with him." The attendant suggests that the man take the penguin to the zoo right away, and the man agrees that this is an excellent idea. But the next day, when the man returns to the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Mar 2002
What Do You Think?

Why the Bull Market in Leadership Books?

the somewhat pessimistic view that "There has always been and will always be a dearth of quality leadership ... because self-interest continues to drive human conduct." But Mark Horstman suggests that this doesn't insure a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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