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11 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet

three hours rather than all day, or even five days for a Test match. "Five days doesn't work on TV, but two hours and ten minutes does. As a result, the Indian Premier League (IPL) is a big success in a few short years." To... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports; Financial Services

07 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’

classic 1959 album Kind of Blue was created on the spot and is played in the D-Dorian mode, something the group had never heard of until Davis explained it moments before the recording tape started to roll. Working in that strange mode... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler

04 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

were renowned for their work in the antislavery cause. Both were at the peak of their powers and reputation. Instead the convention chose a one-term congressman whose claim to fame was an unsuccessful run for the Senate from Illinois: the... View Details

28 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

inside of you, and you want to keep it balanced." Eventually, Gino and Margolis plan to work within several companies to discover particular ways to incorporate a prevention focus into their bottom line, while still encouraging... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

react to the hiring decision, and was it worth the risk? Would male employees or local partners be reluctant to work with a woman? Would local customers refuse to trust the decisions of a woman? "You're basically facing a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Sep 2004
Research & Ideas

How Consumers Value Global Brands

consumers in Indonesia, Turkey, and Egypt the most. In those predominantly Muslim nations, we could survey only people who worked in the organized economy and belonged to the top 50 percent of the population in socioeconomic terms. Such... View Details

Keywords: by Douglas B. Holt, John A. Quelch & Earl L. Taylor

23 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care

world. With Thomas H. Lee, MD, Bohmer authored the opinion piece "The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations," which appeared in the August 5, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Bohmer recently sat down with HBS View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

28 Aug 2007
First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

Working Papers Diversification of Chinese Companies: An International Comparison Authors: Joseph P.H. Fan, Jun Huang, Felix Oberholzer-Gee, Troy D. Smith, and Mengxin Zhao Abstract Purpose—This paper provides a systematic comparison of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

completion of repetitive tasks is critical to many organizations' success. Yet research points to two different work-design-related strategies for accomplishing this goal: specialization to capture the benefits of repetition and variety (i.e., View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

firms, which by definition have enjoyed some measure of success, are more likely to deny new realities because the old ones worked well for them. Young enterprises are not similarly weighed down by the dead hand of history. But that does... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

29 Feb 2016
HBS Case

Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can

of Chicago dubbed the Array of Things. The idea is to provide real-time, location-specific information on temperature, humidity, vibration, light, and foot traffic from sensors on telephone poles throughout downtown. But there has been debate about foot traffic sensors... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy

20 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Maybe Uber isn't God's Gift to Mankind

fraud—telling their insurance carrier that they were not working for Uber at the time of the accident, when technically they were. Edelman’s scenario goes like this: A driver in the field is on the hunt for passengers using the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Transportation; Insurance

06 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Women MBAs at Harvard Business School

pretty clear that Harvard hadn't quite embraced women at that time." The 1990s proved frustrating for those working toward gender equality at HBS. In 1995, women made up only 28 percent of the MBA class—the lowest percentage since... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

07 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

Are Creative People More Dishonest?

various ethically questionable work behaviors such as "take home office supplies from work" and "inflate your business expense report." Respondents also evaluated scenarios describing a hypothetical person who has the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

more than 3,000 American transnationals suggests that JVs are falling out of favor. Why? Increasing forces of globalization such as increasingly fragmented production processes make the decision not to collaborate pay off. That's one finding from View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

11 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 11

effect of efficiency wages on employee behavior and social norms. Working PapersSpatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain Authors:Juan Alcácer and Mercedes... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2018
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?

Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Energy

31 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

global venture. In particular, he wanted to ensure that WeWork continued to be a great place to work, both because he cared about WeWork's people and because a better work experience was core to the company’s brand. In the summer of 2017,... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 18, 2008

Working PapersAn Exploration of the Japanese Slowdown during the 1990s Author:Diego A. Comin No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-065.pdf (When) Are Religious People Nicer?... View Details