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- 07 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Exit Interview: HBS Dean Kim Clark
won't be able to do this job. Q: What was the toughest part of the job? A: It always comes down to people. The hardest decisions are about who to promote and who not to. The toughest situations are dealing with real-life human problems... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Alumni Bulletin Staff
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years."—Robin Ely But even with increasing representation, women still fill less than 15 percent of executive officer positions at Fortune 500 companies and make up just 3.6... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
retailer profitability, and the impact of each policy on customer decisions about the size of their shopping carts and whether to purchase from particular product categories. It was written by Ngwe and Chaoqun Chen, assistant professor at... View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
in restricting the ability of firms to locate where it makes sense for them to be, but rather to create tax reform that makes US firms more competitive. Chairman Wyden, Ranking Member Hatch, and Members of... View Details
- 24 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Becoming an Ethical Negotiator
scholars and practitioners had addressed specific ethical issues in negotiation, no one had taken a comprehensive look at the process. Our collection [in What's Fair] includes articles by economists, lawyers, decision analysts,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
started their business, their product line enjoyed little consumer awareness outside New York City. But the couple was determined to build a large market for premium cosmetics. One of the earliest and most important decisions that the... View Details
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out,... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
organizational management practices all over the world. The project was borne of a widely perceived gap in economic research. In business academia, there is an optimistic tendency to assume that managers generally make View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
success. Alina Sandell, for example, said, “Key to all of this I think is assessing the characteristics of your culture, looking at whether your culture is aligned to your strategic requirements and then targeting effort to turn the dial... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
assigned to two groups and presented with the dilemma of choosing between an expensive clothing item that they loved and a cheaper item that would be just as useful but allow for savings to purchase necessities. Based on their assigned group, Keinan asked them to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 23 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 23
to teach but are largely silent on what to teach. Manufacturing Morals demonstrates how faculty and students are exposed to a system that operates on open-ended directives that require significant decision View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
from non-experts or not at all. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=47824 August 2014 Administrative Science Quarterly The Contaminating Effects of Building Instrumental Ties: How Networking Can Make Us Feel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Potential Downside of Win-Win
restaurant A and movie D and have a wonderful evening. Both enjoy the activity they care more about, making both happier than they would have been if they compromised. On the societal level, while one restaurant won and others lost, and... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 21 Nov 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017
their boundaries and in their domestic economies only a subset of their production stages. A key decision facing firms worldwide is the extent of control to exert over the different segments of their production processes. We describe a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform
people are held accountable for their actions as individuals rather than as a group, they tend to weigh their choices more carefully.—Cynthia A. Montgomery and Rhonda Kaufman Make directors accountable to shareholders. One compelling way... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2012
- What Do You Think?
Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?
industries, but on providing support for basic process-oriented innovation that can be utilized by competing companies in several industries. Managers who understand the importance of competing through innovation will fare best in the future Pisano and Shih envision.... View Details
- 16 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters
economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs talk about choosing to postpone... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
says. "But you end up with this strange incentive to book through OpenTable, not because you love OpenTable, not because you needed a reservation, but because you want the dollar. It looks like free money, a rebate on a purchase that you were going to View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
where that motion took him."9 Tony's crime is a self-administered shock treatment. It wakes him up and makes him feel alive. The prospect of living two lives—as the dutiful Tony and as a crook—thrills him. In an odd way Tony's View Details