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- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
accompanied by lower inflation and interest rates—that justify deficit spending to produce both economic growth and social programs designed to improve our quality of life and reduce social inequality”... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
Public Sector seminar series, which runs through May, is designed to induce lively conversation, build a community of scholars, and create a research agenda exploring the possible role View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
The CEO's key to a successful earnings call with investors? Crystal clear communication. Earnings calls are typically held after the release of quarterly earnings, allowing company executives a chance to brief investors, analysts, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
entrepreneurs experience in understanding and meeting loan requirements, negotiating terms, and operating under covenants. In 1998, women who achieved high growth in their businesses had an average of 4.2... View Details
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
digital platform, and the increased fiscal pressures created by the worldwide economic crisis. Unfortunately, the educational programs for future health care leaders fail to provide many of the needed skills, according to a survey View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
research, Sucher's team is looking to interview people who have conducted layoffs—or who figured out an alternative. "We'll be focusing on individual experiences of the layoff from a managerial point... View Details
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
good enough. The range of safety risks has expanded and consumers everywhere are trying new products and experiences they aren't familiar with. Marketers must do more to educate consumers about safe... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
which this advice is ignored. Most homebuyers have access to a number of options, and can search more thoroughly to develop even greater options. However, my anecdotal experience is that many homebuyers... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 07 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics
place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt... View Details
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
dealt with the myriad medical issues that occurred over several months among the millions of people in attendance. There will also be a complex data study of cell phone traffic —telecommunications—during the... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
growing a business, for better or for worse. “I tell my students that they'll get a better framework in this 14-week course than I got in 14 years at the school of hard knocks.” Chester A. "Chet" Huber (HBS MBA '79) says the... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
common tool in experimental economics, the dictator game has one player determining how to split an endowment between himself and another player.) The prediction bore out. In a series of experiments... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
other research examines the design of performance measurement systems and incentive contracts for rewarding teams and channel partners. In short, this research explores the idea that career concerns,... View Details
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
A: Hamilton really became Hamilton on two occasions: his six years of experience during the War of Independence; and when he was appointed Treasury Secretary in 1789. During... View Details
- 22 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Negotiation is Like Jazz
rift. But at the same time, the procurement manager is also conveying substantive information regarding his access to price information and experience with this type of order. Substantive acts can be honest... View Details
Keywords: by Kathleen L. McGinn
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
violations. “When you get a report with the credibility of a true academic analysis, it changes the entire environment” “You would think that as [auditors] gain more experience they’d become better at... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Are Optimists or Pessimists Better Leaders?
reported that 18-39 year-olds were more optimistic than people 40-64, and far more than people 65 and older.2 For reasons we don't fully understand but can appreciate, life experience turns some people into pessimists. By the way, the... View Details
- 18 Jan 2021
- Book
How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems
Boston’s Experiment with the One Fund,” Harvard Business Review, January 22, 2016. Reprinted by permission of Harvard Business Review Press. Excerpted from We the Possibility: Harnessing Public... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2014
- What Do You Think?
Has the Post-Capitalist Economy Finally Arrived?
era of capitalism will bring. Tom Dolembo commented that "the revolution that is occurring is a shift of cost from production of product to delivery View Details