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23 Apr 2014
HBS Case

Are Electronic Cigarettes a Public Good or Health Hazard?

for young people to start smoking tobacco cigarettes, or even lure ex-smokers back to the habit. This has created a dilemma for health regulators, says Quelch, interviewed... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Advertising

29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

01 May 2006
Research & Ideas

What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure

concerns occur whenever employees take into account the impact of their current actions on their future career. In essence, whenever the internal and/or external labor market observes a performance measure that helps revise its beliefs about an employee's ability, the... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

24 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

discuss each of these myths in turn. Size Of The Reward Loyalty programs do not really work in grocery stores because the rewards that grocery retailers can afford to offer are too small. They cannot offer... View Details

Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products

15 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto

Harvard Business School professors David A. Garvin and Michael A. Roberto fielded questions about their article in an email interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. Garvin and Roberto discuss the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Jun 2002
What Do You Think?

Are We Entering an Era of European Management Leadership?

nuanced cultural approaches." Whether this will produce sustained economic superiority or a model to be emulated in the U.S. is debatable.—James Heskett Roy Bingham points out that "American management seems View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

government needs to reach an agreement with creditors as soon as possible. Every day that goes by, it is getting closer to going back to the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

The Creativity Maze

love. The reason I can work so hard at my writing is that it's not work for me." And Michael Jordan, perhaps the most creative basketball player ever, had a "love of the game" clause inserted... View Details

Keywords: by Teresa Amabile

02 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

Mapping Your Corporate Strategy

of our readers are familiar with Porter's work. How does your work on strategy intersect with his? A: It's actually quite simple. Porter's work helps managers formulate their strategy. Our View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

More Than the Sum of Its Parts: The Impact of Modularity on the Computer Industry

specialized groups working independently of one another. The 'modules' could then be connected and (in theory at least) would function seamlessly, as long as they conformed to a predetermined set of design... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

turn, winning breeds greater confidence and raises the company to an even higher level. Building organizational confidence, especially in turnaround situations where organizations have been on losing streaks, is the View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

it a fad that amounts to little more than sensitivity training in New Age clothing, or does it reflect something more profound about the way we are beginning to conceive of and relate View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

Well-intentioned people often start the new calendar year with a long list of personal resolutions, only to abandon most of them before Valentine’s Day. Alas, it’s a lot easier to make New Year’s resolutions... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

holders for your stock because they do not trade much. Getting back to Japan, the stock splits can be thought of a form of float manipulation. By limiting the number of shares on the market, and making it... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

setting priorities for free time, to make sure important personal relationships and beloved activities don’t slip through the cracks. "It’s hard to do, because jobs are infringing," he said. Butler... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees?... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

01 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation

percentage of Democrats working at utility companies, but a lower percentage of Democrats employed at energy companies. “It's quite striking to see these large differences in the political composition of... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald

29 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

Pride Goeth Before a Profit

into a very powerful motivating force. In a tough economic environment, when there is little money for bonuses and a lot of concern about layoffs, Katzenbach says it becomes even more important to communicate with employees about the... View Details

Keywords: by Theodore Kinni

29 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future

creativity and investigate more deeply the veracity of the popular "lone genius" concept. What insights or surprises did you walk away with? We were pleasantly surprised by multiple facets, from incentives that foster creativity through liaison View Details

Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

Lessons from the Browser Wars

older and smaller companies. If you use Firefox, sometimes you will find missing menus, missing pictures, links that don't work, etc. Even Netscape doesn't work with all of our Harvard Business School applications. But it's Webmasters who... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Computer; Consumer Products; Technology

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