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- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People
Video directed and produced by Joanie Tobin In their book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton draw on years of quantitative and qualitative research to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
You Don’t Have to Quit Your Job to Find More Meaning in Life
many workers fleeing positions in hopes of finding something better. De Freitas partnered with Michael Prinzing, a postdoctoral fellow at Yale University, and Barbara Fredrickson, a professor at the University of North Carolina, Chapel... View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 14 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings
Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities found that the average workday... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
Amazon gets an edge with its secret squad of PhD economists
- 12 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Competition the Cure for Healthcare
Last month HBS Working Knowledge offered an excerpt from Redefining Health Care: Creating Value-Based Competition on Results, by Harvard Business School professor Michael E. Porter and Elizabeth Olmsted... View Details
- 06 Aug 2021
- Book
Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO
successively by John Sculley, who was kicked out in 1993, Michael Spindler, fired in 1996, and Gil Amelio, a member of the board who took over from Spindler and was fired five hundred days later, the company... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
- News
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- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
choices are presented—can encourage people to change their behavior in pursuit of policy goals, says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
think the chances of a government plan supplanting private options are slim," he writes. But the existence of both public and private insurance plans might provide enough competition to improve overall value for patients. Professor View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution
and strike deals long before the Hebron agreement was signed, and this continues even in the wake of the Har Homa settlement at Jabal Abu Ghneim. Today, business-to-business cooperation and alliances across borders are being pursued aggressively View Details
- 17 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells
Backlash. The paper was co-written by University of Virginia Assistant Professor Tami Kim, who was an HBS doctoral student, HBS Assistant Professor Kate Barasz, John, and Michael I. Norton, the Harold M.... View Details
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
considered exemplary policies and practices by government. By looking more closely, however, Porter, Takeuchi, and Sakakibara also began to discover what they call "another Japan." While the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
Tightly packed workers and other weak protections allowed COVID-19 to sweep through American slaughterhouses during the past year, infecting at least 45,000 employees and killing an estimated 240 people. To Harvard Business School Professor View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Persuasive Appeal of Stigma
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
Published since 1979 by the World Economic Forum, the Global Competitiveness Report ranks seventy-five countries and measures the comparative strengths and weaknesses of their economies. At a press conference announcing publication of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
This scenario may sound familiar, unfortunately: Your flight begins with poking and prodding by the TSA agent, all to wait for the inevitable delayed departure. Boarding extends the indignities: more waiting while your section is called,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Motivating Effort in Contributing to Public Goods Inside Organizations: Field Experimental Evidence
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
A Perfect Fit: Aligning Organization & Strategy
Monday morning. Eight managers, handpicked by their superiors, face one another in the middle of a room. Seated in a semicircle behind them is the company's top management team. As the members of the inner circle report what they have... View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross