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- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
individual countries that are driving these flows, but rather that the willingness has to be on the part of international investors to take risks. And emerging markets can't... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?
educational campus. The campus owner internalizes benefits, and could pay to build the system. I'm particularly struck by the use of PRT to increase the value of land that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
A New Approach to Health-Care Reform
executives of provider organizations, as well as hospital, insurance, drug, retail, and medical device companies; deans of medical schools; and employers, who pay the bulk of health-care costs. All these parties interact in an... View Details
- 06 Apr 2017
- News
From Lobster Traps to Border Fencing
A Massachusetts firm that makes wire mesh for lobster traps says its technology could save millions in building the US-Mexico border wall proposed by President Donald Trump. "It's difficult to climb, it's difficult View Details
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
Let's face it: in most cases, the stock market knows what it's doing. With millions of people performing their homework and investing money in stocks they hope will pay off, it's hard for any one person to... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need
credit crunch? Nicolas P. Retsinas: In 2007 the nonprime mortgage market crumbled. Many of these products were predicated on ever-rising home values, which would enable owners to sell, pay off, buy again-a... View Details
- 12 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks
you a long time,” Ibáñez says. That’s not to imply that discretion is a bad thing when scheduling tasks, she adds, but the researchers highlight the importance of weighing the harm (time) against the advantages (freedom View Details
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
better off keeping them around and paying for them so that we had them to protect us. More broadly, people don't appreciate how valuable a lot of the government's services are until they need them. Public... View Details
- 19 Oct 2022
- Op-Ed
Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup
many times your cofounding team will disagree on things—from product and hiring decisions to operating procedures and a fundraising strategy—and how you process these decisions together is fundamental to a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 23 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Five Ways to Make Your Company More Innovative
observe things, then question why. If you want to be an innovative person, when you see things, you have to pay attention and then wonder why. A good illustration of observing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- What Do You Think?
To Whom Should Boards be Accountable?
if anything, would the courts have to say about it in response to potential shareholder lawsuits? As it turns out, the two final bids involved two news organizations, one with a stellar journalistic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Jul 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Do We Listen to Advice Just Because We Paid for It? The Impact of Cost of Advice on Its Use
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 16 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How to Compete Like a Judo Strategist
you need to anticipate competitors' moves and customers' needs and make long-term investments that will not necessarily pay off in a matter of weeks. You don't do frontal assaults against armies that are ten... View Details
Keywords: by David B. Yoffie & Mary Kwak
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, View Details
- 16 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?
from prior years of employment to direct toward the cost of your MBA. However, if you have debt that cannot be deferred while you are in school, work on paying that off first.It is important View Details
- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
employees on company time to make updates and edits to the software for community use that could be used by competitors? New research by Assistant Professor Frank Nagle, a member of the Strategy Unit at... View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments
By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and N. Bugra Ozel
We find widespread evidence of firms appearing to avoid paying overtime wages by exploiting a
federal law that allows them to do so for employees termed as “managers” and paid a salary above a
pre-defined dollar threshold. We show that listings for salaried positions... View Details
Cohen, Lauren, Umit Gurun, and N. Bugra Ozel. "Too Many Managers: The Strategic Use of Titles to Avoid Overtime Payments." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 30826, January 2023.