Multiplier Firms - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Dec 2016
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016

your actions and misconduct to students? The recorded answer offers sobering lessons for anyone with business ambitions. What’s a Boss Worth? Quite a lot, it turns out. Good bosses can have a multiplier effect that ups everyone’s game,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2011
News

Coming Full Circle

1980 to found Delta Consulting, a firm that merged with Mercer Consulting in 2000. Now vice chairman of Marsh & McLennan, Mercer’s parent company, Nadler continues his engagement with academia through his financial support of the HBS... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

earnings growth by 6%. Consistent with the hypothesis that this effect derives from the local demand channel, we find that consumption is less responsive to local labor demand shocks in counties with more generous benefits. Our analysis finds that the local fiscal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

winning streaks, the number of leaders multiplies along with the momentum of the streak. Winning teams and successful organizations become increasingly less dependent on the person called the commander-in-chief—even though, ironically,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

according to the research. One reason might be that costs are lower for companies that moved production offshore, and the resulting, more efficient firms developed higher-skilled service work, like computer science, to fill the employment... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

thoroughly nasty industry. The saddest thing about it is that it will not put an end to uninvited outbound telemarketing. You'll still get calls from firms you deal with, including those you have no choice but to deal with such as local... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

23 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

a question related to whether the poor should be helped by the government or if they should help themselves, while the measure of luck is the share of the oil industry in the state's economy multiplied by the price of oil. The correlation... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater

consistently delivers a valuable, innovative product under the pressure of a very firm deadline (opening night, eight o'clock curtain). The product, a play, executes again and again with great precision, incorporating significant... View Details

Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

Ashish Dhawan (MBA ’97), founder and senior managing director of ChrysCapital, a private-equity firm based in Mumbai. Even so, Dhawan believes that a growing awareness of the outside world and a sense of competitiveness in the Indian... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

13 Jul 2009
Research & Ideas

Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative

multiplied by a marginal Federal borrowing cost of 3 percent), eliminating any price advantage of Medicare. The comparison between the administrative expenses of private insurers and Medicare also ignores the fact that Medicare pays no... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

07 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Dividends from Schumpeter’s Noble Failure

particularly those of Richard Kahn, whose multiplier effect became crucial to Keynes's thesis. Meanwhile, Keynes discarded some of his own wrong-headed arguments and excess verbiage.11 Schumpeter, working almost alone, seldom exposed his... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas K. McCraw

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

for success while avoiding common traps. Filled with practical examples, this book will help you prepare and manage your job search; build your network to be an exponential multiplier for you; be ready when you meet recruiting teams; and... View Details

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

family-friendly. Here’s the sequence: Large firm consulting. An interesting professional experience which gave me exposure to a wide range of industries; however, the demands of the clients, and the firm... View Details

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