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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
imaginable form of government, all others excepted. Maybe the same applies to market capitalism. Uwe Lembke (MBA ’61) Saint Germain-en-Laye, France Beyond Class Notes Usually I just scan our class notes, where Norm Whitaker (PMD 17, 1969)... View Details
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
creating opportunities for norm reinforcement. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52457 Strategy-Proofness of Worker-Optimal Matching with Continuously Transferable Utility By: Jagadeesan, Ravi, Scott Duke... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
How Can Start Ups Grow?
industry norms and culture. For instance, entrepreneurs often promote flat, non-hierarchical structures in the firms they start. However, if customers are used to dealing with titular "Vice Presidents" in other firms, they may... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
uncovered significant differences in performance associated with their respective strategies for competing in that industry.10 This format of combining industry notes with company cases, which had been initiated at Harvard Business School by a professor of... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Effective Communication in the Age of Zoom
than interesting.” April: We have a lot of new things to think about when we're sort of rebuilding the work environment in a virtual world. And it's obviously going to take us some time to create these new norms and figure out the best... View Details
Keywords: Zoom
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
of the other fees. The restaurants must offset their costs. "One might imagine a restaurant charging a reservation fee to the specific diners who book through OpenTable, but to date that hasn't happened—and it seems there are pretty strong View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
silence his anticorruption activities. The deputy governor of Kirov called the charges "complete nonsense." Another case, Caijing Magazine, set in China, looks at how an inside-outsider, Wang Boming, uses his independent financial newsmagazine to carefully... View Details
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
United States," Ton points out, "the norm is only seven hours, and the difference shows." For example, Mercadona cross-trains employees so their productivity is not tied to store traffic. Cleaners can work the cash... View Details
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
commingle. One explanation is that norms for family relationships are often applied to relationships in other domains of life, such as professional or business relationships. The other interesting finding is that the link between economic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
World Class Learning
ability and willingness to speak up in class. Walker points out that many international students come from cultures in which it is taboo to debate with a professor or a fellow classmate. Other societal norms dictate that greater respect... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
but all of these interact with one another and with legal and normative constraints and enablers in society. And so for the first two—bias and underrepresentation—the problem and solution, although not simple and not fully resolved, were... View Details
- 13 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 13, 2015
information spillovers and mitigate the default contagion. Collectively, these results provide new evidence on the strategic interactions between a firm and its customers in a dynamic information environment. Download working paper:... View Details
- 18 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Greed Ruining Private Equity Firms?
and how they have performed in the past,” Ivashina says. “If someone left and they believe this person is important, there is likely to be a very serious conversation about that.” GREED IS THE NORM The researchers naturally expected greed... View Details
- 31 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Taking the Fear out of Diversity Policies
'I want to increase relationships' or 'I want to create ways in which people have open communication,' then it's very much promotion-focused—a concern with advancement and growth." Studying The Exception To The Norm The researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jan 2022
- Blog Post
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic made remote work more the norm than the exception, and now many companies are struggling to map out a hybrid plan that both managers and employees can embrace long term. With return-to-work policies in flux, this is... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
Many managers interpret Reg FD subjectively, often relying on individual industry norms to decide where to draw the line. Ultimately, the ambiguity of Reg FD leads to considerable variation in the information managers privately provide to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
metrics. Unfortunately, the effects of different types of coupling are somewhat hard to distinguish. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52349 Bureaucratic Norms and State Capacity in India: Implementing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 18
effects of an imperfect legal system, and social norms of fairness. We illustrate our arguments with examples from practice. Publisher's link: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/doi/10.1002/smj.2303/full February... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
million property that generates $100,000 in cash flow would have a cap rate of 10 percent.) Historically, the cap rate for commercial real estate has averaged 9 percent. As property prices soared in the 1980s, cap rates sank to between 5 percent and 6 percent. After... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Bad Times for Business
critical of what was transpiring. The question is, How did we get started, and what were the norms that led to this disregard for traditional verities? Kanter: The two big messages of the 1990s were “The old rules don't hold” and “There... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons