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- 01 Mar 2005
- News
A Dog’s Best Friend: Jim Hawes’s Charles River Rescue
shore. After we got onto dry land, I was a bit numb and I started to jog over to the other side of the river to take a warm shower. The dog stayed right at my side until I got to my apartment, where we parted. A photographer happened by during this View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- Blog Post
Faculty Books Published in 2020
Experiments by Michael Luca and Max H. Bazerman In The Power of Experiments: Decision-Making in a Data Driven World, Michael Luca and Max Bazerman explore the value of experiments, and the ways in which they can improve organizational decisions. Drawing on View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
associated with taxing foreign-source income. Examples are given of the practical after-tax effects of the major alternatives. Foreign tax credit and "tax haven" based business activities receive special attention. Provides an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
Yelp data can complement government surveys by measuring economic activity in close to real time, at a granular level, and at almost any geographic scale. Changes in the number of businesses and restaurants... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
Dow, General Motors, Nestlé, and Petrobras) and smaller entrepreneurial firms (such as the U.K.'s AIFS and China's BabyCare) undertake critical financing, investment, risk management, and incentive management issues to take full advantage of this global setting.... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
apart" with increased training times and more rapid changes in international job markets, according to Michael Lindsey. "We're headed for a two-tier economic society..." says Mike Dorkoski. While Brad Leach opines, "The View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “You are losing hundreds of billions in raw economic activity each month—and that’s not even accounting for all the other forms of loss the pandemic has caused. So you can put a lot... View Details
- 05 Mar 2014
- What Do You Think?
When Will the Next Dot.com Bubble Burst?
Summing Up Is "Collateral Damage" from Economic Bubbles Inevitable, Necessary, and Useful? According to the old saw, markets are made by differences of opinion. If that's the case, there is a real market around the question of... View Details
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
listening to others ." Bill Welter opined that " the basic cycle that all thinking professionals (doctors and managers alike) should use (is): to sense, to make sense, to decide, and to act . Unfortunately, too few of us deem 'thinking' to be View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
set a goal to be kinder to others. Express sincerely felt kindness to a co-worker." Science has confirmed what we observe in our daily interactions. According to the Mayo Clinic, acts of kindness activate the part of our brain that makes... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Rebooting Europe
how to reignite that flame. The former Goldman Sachs banker and Portuguese secretary of state has his work cut out for him. The EU’s 2012 Community Innovation Survey found that while nearly half of European companies claimed innovation View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Tracking a Turnaround
Levy, who accepted the position in January 2002. “He said, ‘We don’t care. It will be a good case study either way.’” “I wanted to get the unvarnished story as it unfolded in real time,” says Garvin, noting that he and his coauthor,... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
themselves, and repeated assertions of low-quality patents. We find moreover that NPE litigation has a real negative impact on innovation at targeted firms: firms substantially reduce their innovative View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Student Conferences Spark Discussion, Promote Interaction
brokers to talk to Internet customers in real time, cautioned that advances in quality and service should be introduced over time. "It's important to stay on the leading edge with customers without falling off," he concluded. "Technology... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Blog Post
Accelerating Climate Solutions - Short Intensive Program 2023
Business School (HBS) MBA students. When faced with destruction, fear, and grief, do we throw our hands up in despair? Are we paralyzed by the headlines warning of impending climate catastrophes and the very real devastation from... View Details
- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2022
- Blog Post
Four Elements for Finding the Right Career Path
problem solve, which is what our analytical intelligence does, even though this approach is highly rewarded in our current world culture. In the book, I teach the reader the practice of free attention. This is a process not of thinking about oneself, but actually... View Details
- 05 Nov 2020
- Blog Post
12 Weeks of VC Summer: Remote Edition
the tone for company culture and even amid everyone’s hectic schedules we were able to fit in activities to get to know each other. One of the best parts of working on a team are the conversations that happen offline, and this was... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Redefining Success: Women & Work.
issue sounds a familiar chord for Edee Simon-Israel (MBA '81), who worked in business development in commercial banking after graduation, but decided she didn't find a "corporate lifestyle" fulfilling. She subsequently started her own successful View Details
- 26 Jun 2025
- News
The Vinyl Revival
place, and did you always want to be an entrepreneur? Caren Kelleher: My love of music, and I'd say entrepreneurship, started very young. I grew up in a household full of music. My dad was a real rock-and-roll guy, and started teaching me... View Details