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- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
15 minutes. Tabulating the data, the researchers discovered that the vast majority of a CEO's time, some 85 percent, was spent working with other people through meetings, phone calls, and public appearances, while only 15 percent was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
have remained brisk. By 2015, facial care was a $1 billion market in India, and skin lighteners represented almost half that market size. The facial care market is expected to grow to $1.96 billion—nearly doubling in size—by 2019. “The campaign has helped a lot in... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
New Home for External Relations
Relations, Development, the HBS Fund, Planned Giving, Alumni Records, Data Operations, and the Bulletin. "This is also the first time in many years that all of External Relations has been together under one roof, which creates important... View Details
- 09 Jun 2024
- Blog Post
The EC Formula: MBA Class of 2024 Looks Back
in your industry?This is a no brainer: Public Entrepreneurship with Professor Mitch Weiss. I had previously worked on multiple public/private partnerships, but always on the private side. I saw that the View Details
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
period we are in today, had witnessed a dramatic loss of confidence in business and American institutions more generally. In 1968, 70 percent of the public thought business tried to strike a fair balance between profits and the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
W. Feeley Abstract—Patients and providers are frustrated with seemingly endless data entry. We used our patients’ vested interest in their own health care by actively engaging them in the entry of their own medical information into the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
downsizing versus price increases from two perspectives: how manufacturers and the public think consumers behave, and how consumers actually behave. What did your research show? A: The research Jay Koehler and I have conducted shows that... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
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Roscini January 2025 J 3.0 Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy Vincent Pons Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Managing International Trade and Investment Meg Rithmire Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Role of Government in Market Economies Matthew Weinzierl Spring 2025 Q4 1.5... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016
New York: Springer Building a Culture of Health: A New Imperative for Business By: Quelch, John A., and Emily C. Boudreau Abstract—This ambitious volume sets out to understand how every company impacts public health and introduces a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
neural networks) to reveal patterns in data that could be used for theory building. We also illustrate how ML methods can illuminate interactions and non-linear effects better than traditional methods. In summary, ML methods could serve... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 24
cross-national data for 32 countries, and controlling for per capita GDP, income inequality, and other factors. Countries that had higher rates of tipping behavior tended to have higher rates of corruption. We suggest that this surprising... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
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First Look: May 5
Publications May 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations By: Brown, Daniel, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—We explore the role of the corporate leader... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
during the pandemic in each of the 51 countries from a variety of sources, including reports in the New York Times and the European Commission’s database, Eurostat. They compared that data to figures from the same months for the past... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
survey that allows us to precisely characterize European biologic drug procurement institutions over time. Using data from three classes of biosimilar drugs, we analyze how market features and public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
defining societal issue of the 21st century. The debate over “who gets what’ underlies policy debates ranging from taxation to health care to wages and permeates society at all levels, attracting increasing interest from policymakers, academia, and the general View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
proving that sustainability is good for business, the environment, and its people." Brooks Wallace Public relations professional looking to learn about sustainable business practices Take a values-driven approach to business and learn how... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
of attention, and we use this framework to study the “attentional stability” of common errors and psychological biases. While many costly errors are prone to persist, in some situations a person will recognize her mistakes via “incidental learning”: when the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman