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- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?
Eiichi Shibusawa continues to gain influence in Japan—even though he died almost a century ago. Japan’s government announced earlier this year that the 19th century business leader would be the face on 10,000 yen ($90) bank notes—the highest value denomination in... View Details
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
Working PapersTaxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities Authors:Mihir A. Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala Abstract Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
nature of willpower and are reliable predictors of economic outcomes in the adult. The implication is that one might, for example, be able to strengthen a "weak" child's ability to resist temptation, and in so doing offer welfare View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
opportunities and jobs, their life satisfaction has steadily declined, the paper notes. That might be due at least in part to women working during the day, then having to return home to the “second shift” of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
product enabled customers to turn on motors and lights for different items, such as a car built out of the plastic bricks, with a remote control. However, once the entrepreneur added a feature that turns on lights automatically in darkness, the troubles began. Even... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Supply Chain Risk: Deal With It
the key risk factors have developed from a pressure to enhance productivity, eliminate waste, remove supply chain duplication, and drive for cost improvement," says William L. Michels, CEO of consulting firm ADR North America, Ann... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
one reward from one category and another reward from another category than they were to obtain two rewards from a pool that included all items from either reward category. As a result, they worked longer when potential rewards for their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2019
- What Do You Think?
Should Non-Compete Clauses Be Abolished?
of time 2-3 years.” Can rules on non-compete agreements be fixed? What do you think? Original Column Non-compete clauses (NCCs), which prohibit employees from leaving for other jobs with competitors, have been a fixture of American work... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
High Commitment, High Performance Management
and governance system? Performance and psychological alignment that works for a period of time—sometimes many years—can create rigidities that require challenges. In the book I discuss what leaders must do, be, and know to lead a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2008
- What Do You Think?
Why Don’t Managers Think Deeply?
Jeffrey Immelt, GE's CEO, has received a lot of publicity recently for fostering "imagination breakthroughs" by encouraging managers to think deeply about innovations that will ensure GE's longer-term success. He has vowed that he will protect those View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
in the mining industry. Villarzu envisioned moving to a robust IT architecture, enhancing the solutions that were available, identifying further needs in the company and deciding how to fix them, and working... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
integration. The reason is that at low prices, increases in revenue resulting from enhanced productivity are too small to justify the cost, whereas at high prices, the revenue benefit exceeds the cost. Trade policy provides a source of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
Companies Love Big Data But Lack the Strategy To Use It Effectively
to reshape their companies, and explored how they can put data to work for them in ways that create value for their own businesses. The data advantage in sports Big data is already being used heavily in the sports world, students heard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
proprietary processes, and methodologies. Both types of expertise are clearly valuable. While general experts add greatly to team outcomes—often because so much of knowledge-based work is "learned by doing"—contributions from... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 11 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities
when the CEO sends out a companywide email, are you supposed to reply? That’s where the soft skills training comes in. After landing a job, Autism at Work participants are given mentors and team buddies—existing SAP employees who... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Working PapersFacts and Fallacies about U.S. FDI in China Authors:Lee Branstetter and C. Fritz Foley Abstract Despite the rapid expansion of U.S.-China trade ties, the increase in U.S. FDI in China, and the expanding amount of economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
large motorcycles that had weathered many threats, including that of smaller, less expensive Japanese products aimed at a younger market in the 1990s. That image was enhanced by an invitation in February, 2017 from the newly elected... View Details
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
greater, but the average quality will be lower due to the lower expected value of marginal ideas. However, we posit that slack time such as school breaks may be qualitatively different than work time because contiguous blocks may be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
has to retail shopping. Amitabh Chandra is the Henry and Allison McCance Professor of Business Administration and faculty chair of the M.S./M.B.A. program in life sciences at Harvard Business School. He is also Ethel Zimmerman Wiener... View Details