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  • 23 May 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified

less so with the age of residents and racial composition of a neighborhood. Growth in grocery stores, bars, restaurants, and cafes—especially the pricier places—were good predictors of an uptick in the number of college-educated residents... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 13 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

was black or white. But many of the fourth and fifth graders avoided mentioning race during the game. As it turns out, racial colorblindness is a social convention that many Americans start to internalize by as young as age 10. "Very... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Jul 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Five Discovery Skills that Distinguish Great Innovators

study confirming this was done by a group of researchers, Merton Reznikoff, George Domino, Carolyn Bridges, and Merton Honeymon, who studied creative abilities in 117 pairs of identical and fraternal twins. Testing twins aged fifteen to... View Details
Keywords: by Jeff Dyer, Hal Gergersen & Clayton M. Christensen
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

London in the 1960s. The Whitehall researchers attributed shorter life expectancies among lower-level civil servants, who tended to die at younger ages than their bosses, to the psychological stress of working in subordinate positions.... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 19 Apr 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The History of Beauty

homogenization of beauty ideals. Beauty became associated with Western countries, and white people, and with women. These assumptions reflected wider societal trends. Western societies as a whole underwent growing gender differences in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics
  • 16 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 16

http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20et%20al%202013.pdf 2006 American Economic Review A Note on Fairness and Redistribution By: Di Tella, Rafael, and Juan Dubra Abstract—In an influential paper, Alesina and Angeletos (2005)-henceforth, AA-argued that a preference... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is Quality of Labor? And How Is It Achieved?

Philippines, or Brazil, companies should consider knowledge capacities and not price whenever they decide to use such ('cheap') labor . The only companies that still look at labor through the same eyes as during the industrial age are... View Details
Keywords: by by Jim Heskett
  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

suppliers to curate subscription boxes of artisanal food sold online. Why employees don’t want to return Barriers to rebuilding restaurant staffing begin with ensuring the safety of restaurant workers, including the need to take into account the View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • April 2008 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care

By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Individuals enrolled in both Medicare and Medicaid, known as dual eligibles, are among the highest-cost beneficiaries in the US. Commonwealth Care Alliance, a small nonprofit insurer and care delivery system in Massachusetts, operated under a public demonstration... View Details
Keywords: Programs; Public Sector; Alliances; Policy; Age; Service Delivery; Value; Health Care and Treatment; Welfare; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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Porter, Michael E., and Jennifer F Baron. "Commonwealth Care Alliance: Elderly and Disabled Care." Harvard Business School Case 708-502, April 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
  • 01 Nov 2022
  • What Do You Think?

Why Aren’t Business Leaders More Vocal About Immigration Policy?

Shapes Business, Economy & Society (Stanford Business Books, 2021). Tara Watson and Kalee Thompson, The Border Within: The Economics of Immigration in an Age of Fear (University of Chicago Press, 2022)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

bequeath themselves expensive office facilities and luxurious corporate jets make different business decisions than those who do not? In this age of Wall Street excesses, these are pertinent questions that could further our understanding... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 11 Oct 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

pension starting from a young age ." Vernon McKenzie and Akhil Mehta described successful efforts to do just that in Australia and India, respectively. In Australia, "Every employee, by law, must contribute 9 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

implicated in recent acts of corporate malfeasance—could have become so depraved, this is probably the wrong question. Given that human nature does not change much from age to age, the real issue is the effectiveness of the constraints... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 05 Nov 2021
  • Op-Ed

Is the Business World Finally Ready for the Wisdom of Shibusawa?

this extraordinary transformation, beginning at age 13 when Commodore Perry of the US Navy turned up in Tokyo Bay demanding that Japan open itself to trade—on foreigner’s terms. Shibusawa was more changemaker than observer. Inspired by... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Rei Morimoto; Financial Services; Retail
  • 08 Sep 2008
  • HBS Case

The Value of Environmental Activists

There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • January 2024 (Revised May 2024)
  • Case

Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy

By: Hise Gibson, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
Fawn Weaver, as a Black woman and industry outsider in a capital-intensive, highly regulated, competitive and male-dominated spirits industry, successfully overcame numerous obstacles to launch a premium American whiskey brand, Uncle Nearest in 2017, which became the... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Business Startups; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Age; Ethnicity; Gender; Entrepreneurship; Working Capital; Innovation Leadership; Innovation Strategy; Intellectual Property; Trademarks; Leadership Style; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Marketing Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Private Ownership; Performance Effectiveness; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Prejudice and Bias; Social Issues; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Expansion; Entrepreneurial Finance; Food and Beverage Industry; Tourism Industry; United States; Tennessee; France
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Gibson, Hise, Archie L. Jones, Nicole Gilmore, and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone. "Uncle Nearest: Creating a Legacy." Harvard Business School Case 824-047, January 2024. (Revised May 2024.)
  • 07 Jul 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Can We Have Too Much Productivity Improvement?

global economy and the Internet were cited by some as being responsible for the current dilemma. John van Heteren paraphrased several respondents when he opined that "I believe that the existing definition in your article was not conceived in the Internet View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 18 Dec 2019
  • Book

6 Skills That Wise Companies Harness for World-Changing Innovation

As a boy, Soichiro Honda, the eventual founder of Honda Motor Co., was infatuated with airplanes. At age 10 he biked 20 kilometers to see American pilots performing aerobatics near his home in Japan, climbing a tree to watch the show. It... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 04 Nov 2015
  • What Do You Think?

Why Does Gender Diversity Improve Financial Performance?

(Danielle); “Winning in this age requires more cross-disciplinary thinking... Women, in my experience, are better thought integrators.” (Allison S. A. Graves); “Many studies suggest that women tend to score higher on tests of social... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Aug 2019
  • Cold Call Podcast

Super Bowl Ads Sell Products, but Do They Sell Brands?

it was an advertising bro fest, but also a reflection of the cultural norms of the time. After all, the 1960s was the dawn of the golden age of advertising when agencies were evolving from product pitchers to storytellers. That first... View Details
Keywords: Advertising; Sports; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting
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