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04 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

Worried About the Great Resignation? Be a Good Company to Come From

Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice at Harvard Business School and Shalene Gupta is a research associate. They co-authored the new book The Power of Trust: How Companies Earn It, Lose It, Regain It. [Image:... View Details

Keywords: by Sandra J. Sucher and Shalene Gupta

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

managers' influence activities. An explicit focus on toolmaking extends accounting research that has hitherto focused attention on the structural arrangements and interpersonal connections when explaining the emergence of the influential... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

05 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 5

French General and Harvard Business School professor, Georges Doriot, who established the American Research and Development Corporation (ARD) in 1946. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/812110-PDF-ENG Bharti Airtel... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Feb 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course

Wasserman says. "It's about choices .My research has shown that teams of friends and family cofounders have a higher tendency to blow up than teams of prior coworkers, but that doesn't mean you should never found with friends and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

16 Jul 2008
Op-Ed

What Should Employers Do about Health Care?

the money spent. Cost includes not only the immediate, short-term costs of treatment but the long-term costs of ongoing care as well as the indirect cost of poor health. The goal should be to increase value, not reduce the short-term costs of health benefits. New View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter, Elizabeth O. Teisberg & Scott Wallace; Health

08 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

A Bold Proposal for Investment Reform

managers to act in owners' interests. However, as recent research in behavioral finance indicates, it also encourages investors to switch assets to the most recent hot funds each quarter. This creates problems for fund managers that want... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

device maker Research in Motion, said he saw niche opportunities for Wi-Fi, but questioned the practicality of extensive wireless Wi-Fi networks. "It would take 10,000 hot spots to cover Waterloo [Ontario]," Balsillie said.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

sessions and should involve the same preparation (e.g., background research and question lists) and legal considerations. Question lists should be compiled in advance and in connection with HR and legal departments—virtual interviews... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

04 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: January 4

not be taken into account or even noticed-as a strategy for managing diversity and intergroup relations. Despite research demonstrating that race is perceived automatically (and thus, the seeming improbability of actual colorblindness),... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

Burnham Lambert's Michael Milken carved out new ways to restructure large amounts of publicly traded debt. Gilson's research suggests that the total costs associated with Milken's method of reorganizing troubled companies were as little... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

addressable market of $280 billion. That’s music to the ears of small businesses. Indeed, our research shows a sizeable credit gap exists for small businesses, particularly for loans under $100,000, which is the size that over 60 percent... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

19 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem

margins. Yet in the new case study "Mercadona," HBS assistant professor Zeynep Ton and research assistant Simon Harrow describe a Spanish supermarket chain that has done all this while achieving steady profits and double-digit... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Food & Beverage

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

confidence. Drawing on decades of behavioral research plus the experience of thousands of business clients, the authors take the mystery out of preparing for and executing negotiations—whether they involve multimillion-dollar deals or... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

28 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Eyes Shut: The Consequences of Not Noticing

August 5, Bazerman documents a decade of research showing how and why many leaders fail to detect critical information in their midst. "This book will help you recognize when to seek more useful information and apply it to your... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman; Retail

15 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 15

cooperation and coordination. Prior research has emphasized cooperation, and specifically the partners' commitment and alignment of interests, as the key determinant of collaborative success. Scholars have paid less attention to the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when stretch goals... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

others are hard at work creating experiences that will be much richer, but just as easy to initiate and engage in. Q: What other areas are you focusing on with regard to broadband, given its current state? A: The chapter in the book on Internet2, the View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

19 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 19, 2007

examine how well the most widely used ratings—those of Kinder, Lydenberg, Domini Research & Analytics (KLD)—provide transparency about past and likely future environmental performance. We find KLD "concern" ratings to be... View Details