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- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
Language Frustration Neeley and her colleagues found ample evidence that language anxiety and frustration were common throughout many of the interviews; many reported a sense of being "other" or experiencing an "us versus them" dynamic at a work... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
save more across the board. We'll need to increase our national savings rate quite substantially. That's ultimately the only way we're going to turn around our current account deficit and ultimately... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2023
- Blog Post
Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps
included varies by source and will change over time In the U.S., 17% of homes have an electric heat pump installed. In the South – in states such as North Carolina and Alabama – this number is above 40% [1]. It is clear that electric heat pumps are already View Details
- 19 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Is Wikipedia More Biased Than Encyclopædia Britannica?
verifiable answer," says Zhu. "They can be quite subjective or even controversial." History, they say, is written by the victors, and can read very differently depending on who is telling the tale. Even modern-day issues such as... View Details
- 30 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Future of IT Consulting
ensure that the group stays on the leading edge of the subject matter. Related to this third driver is the focus that a separate consulting firm can maintain in managing a highly talented group of knowledge workers. The management and incentive systems are View Details
- 13 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Merck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to Walk the Talk
and the infection rates here are astronomical. Frazier: I think they're like 25% of the world's infections. Neeley: It's scary. It's really, really scary. I mean, it's scary when it comes to thinking about sending children back to school... View Details
- 25 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing
regulatory scrutiny and investors’ appetite for high yields. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/dXAGwnYmit60tm0vtk17][/div]But even with more defaults, fintech lenders weren’t likely to be hurt, in part because the companies charge higher View Details
- 21 May 2021
- Blog Post
Alumni Spotlight: Cissy Chen (MBA 2019)
wanted to leverage my knowledge & experience in finance to focus on making a difference in my home region of Asia through impact investing. In China, for example, the sector lacks quite a bit with regards to human capital and... View Details
- 11 Oct 2023
- News
Soldier On
quite figured out how to put all the pieces together. Our population's been sort of stagnant and flat for a couple of years. It's an aging population. And so when you go back to HBS and you think “you have one wild life, how are you going... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Case Study: The Home Team
to pull, rather than taking out a loan at a higher interest rate later to pay for a new roof.” So far buyers have loved it. They say it helps them look at a prospective purchase with a broader perspective, beyond just countertops and... View Details
- 19 Jan 2024
- News
The Values and Virtues of a Quick Fix
bigger issues, but they may actually be quite solvable and allow you to begin the trust rebuilding process, but you’ve got to get in there and figure out what they are. DM: You also talk about at the outset building a "good enough" plan,... View Details
- 07 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
4+2 = Sustained Business Success
research effort in which we carefully examined more than 200 well-established management practices as they were employed over a ten-year period by 160 companies. Our findings took us quite by surprise. Most of the management tools and... View Details
- 22 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading
shouldn’t ever manage, Cespedes cautions. Quite the contrary; sales managers make important decisions that affect salespeople’s lives—doling out territories and quotas—and it’s hard to gain the staff’s respect if managers have never... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 10 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Being Your Own Boss Can Pay Off, but Not Always with Big Pay
to quit their jobs at record rates and try new posts and career paths. But self-employment, an option many workers are reportedly pursuing during the so-called Great Resignation, may not be as lucrative as... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Banking on Success
have a clue as to how Internet stocks are valued and as a result tend to stay away from them. How would you rate your personal computing skills? My children would say laughable, but I can check my e-mail and surf the Net. James A. Stern I... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround
the treaty, Secretary of State John Hay warned of "grave consequences" and threatened to send the Marines. The Panamanians soon capitulated. The whole thing was quite sordid, although the cynic in me can't help but admire the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Remix
community after their respective accusations against Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson. It’s one of the factors that helps explain why women of color report sexual assault at rates far below that of white women and a major force behind... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
cases where a truck will need to be driven by a human or a cash register will need a person to operate it, but will you need as many humans? The answer is “no.” And will the unemployment rate increase at some point? I suspect it will.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The War Within
When the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine began in February 2022, Nataliia Zhyliak’s world was upended in a matter of days. At the time, Zhyliak, a psychologist in the western Ukrainian city of Kamianets-Podilskyi, was working at an education and rehabilitation... View Details