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- 24 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support
seniors—a parent, an in-law. Well over 50 percent of workers report they have some caregiving obligation. The question becomes: Do the terms and conditions of their employment and the nature of that obligation mesh? A lot of traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
frog design, LUMA Institute), we have developed a semester long, cross-disciplinary, “doing” course that presents students with a conceptual framework for a human-centered innovation process and provides them with tools for engaging in that process, as View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
football is an integral component of the community's, as well as the university's, culture. With conference realignment already being discussed extensively in the college sports arena as well as in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
smaller." John Homan suggested, "... that the Federal Government give a 10 percent tax credit to the purchaser of a house and the purchaser pay it back ... over 20 years in equal installments with no interest." Education in general as View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to ’Simplifiers’
sales depend on two things: the launch of new, higher-priced, higher-featured, often customized products that persuade consumers to trade in their existing appliances before they break down (think cellphones), as well as household... View Details
- 15 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point
the environmental challenges of climate change, scarce water, and depleted fishing stocks as well as by migration driven by both income inequality and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to rock the workplace with no end in sight, leaving business leaders to struggle with a wide variety of challenges, including keeping staff members happily engaged—and employed. To make sense of the pandemic’s impact on workers—both on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
project, the professors aimed to provide an ethical reference point for both future and current business leaders. "We wanted a way to help companies answer these questions," Margolis says. "How do we know if we're doing View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Presentation Round-Up
creation, production, delivery and use of the Web, as well as toward a service delivery infrastructure. Panelist Katie Burke (HBS MBA '95) noted Web-based e-mail as a good example of how and why software is turning into a service.... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
Gupta commented that responses to the question of whether immigration policies should be more welcoming to low-skilled workers assumed that the issue was limited to the United States. Gupta reminds us that it could just as well have... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
misunderstand the health of the company that makes this wrong." Ruth Sager suggests that the current reactions to misleading financial reporting could potentially go too far. As she says, "Fashion in any field is like that. It... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
how well he can create shared value in that context. A lot of negotiations are also about leverage, and for the most part, he’s gotten himself in a very favorable position where he usually has the negotiating leverage. He may not have the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
shocks and within-/cross-category spillovers. Multiple equilibria are addressed by estimating a selection function from the observed data. The Bayesian approach that combines decision-making with parameter inference, as well as multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
important and previously unidentified metric for assessing the health of the human emotional ecosystem. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/quoidbach%20et%20al_372259e1-d8a0-4488-b09a-b4978f06f406.pdf August... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
not-for-profit educational and research institute that will bring together higher-ambition leaders from around the world to learn from each other's experience. It will also offer leadership development programs for the next generation of leaders, as View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
roles that various constituencies played in the development process. Purchase the case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207027 Note on Accountability in the U.S. Health Care System Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
Everyone Knows Innovation is Essential to Business Success—Except Board Directors
Spencer Stuart, directed by Julie Hembrock Daum; and independent researcher and management consultant Deborah Bell. The team worked for over a year before that to identify board members from more than 60 countries, in industries including consumer staples, energy and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
Author:Louis T. Wells Publication:AIB Insights 10, no. 1 (2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the Paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/lwells/Insights.pdf Working PapersAgency Costs, Mispricing, and Ownership Structure... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 11
of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
consultancy firm that broadly rated management practices in three areas: monitoring—how well managers keep track of what's happening in a firm and make good use of that information; targets—how well... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel