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- 20 Oct 2010
- Op-Ed
Export Competitiveness: Reversing the Logic
D.C.: 2010. Clemens, M. and J. Williamson. 2004. "Why Did the Tariff-Growth Correlation Change after 1950?" Journal of Economic Growth 9 (1): 5-46. Coe, D. and E. Helpman. 1995. "International R&D Spillovers."... View Details
Keywords: by Christian Ketels
- 07 Aug 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is There Still a Role for Judgment in Decision-Making?
was a way of injecting a certain amount of objectivity and analysis into the decision to be made. In recent years, we have been advised to make certain decisions in a "blink" by Malcolm Gladwell, to "think twice" View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Mar 2021
- What Do You Think?
What Does Remote Work Mean for Middle Managers?
Business Review in 1993. Michael Hammer and James Champy, Reengineering the Corporation: A Manifesto for Business Revolution (New York: HarperCollins, 1993). Brian Hancock and Bill Schaninger, “The vanishing middle manager,” McKinsey... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
forthcoming Management Science Evidence of Upcoding in Pay-for-Performance Programs By: Bastani, Hamsa, Joel Goh, and Mohsen Bayati Abstract—Recent Medicare legislation seeks to improve patient care quality by financially penalizing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
for the creation of jobs and wealth among urban families. Moderator Randall Pinkett of M.I.T. Laboratory Anne Habiby, executive vice president of the Initiative for a Competitive Inner City, a national nonprofit founded by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Policy,” in which University of Michigan Professor Andrew J. Hoffman wrote, “One of the reasons (among many) that the public discourse on critical scientific issues of our day has become so confused is that too many academics, according... View Details
- 04 Aug 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?
Common sense had its defenders. C. J. Cullinane commented that "Common sense and experience for all their faults are fast." Phil Clark added that "how man reacts to a situation is driven by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Feb 2010
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?
we rely less on so-called "experts" and "stars"? In short, should we be spending more time examining our true decision-making abilities and the things that influence our results, i.e., more time "thinking twice" than "blinking"?... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
information is significant and avoiding information overload. David J. Collis, the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Michael G.... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 12 Jul 2020
- Book
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020
new book edited by Geoffrey Jones and Asli M. Colpan pulls back the covers. Race, Work, and Leadership: New Perspectives on the Black Experience, To support black employees, business leaders must challenge biases and help employees be... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
organizations. Despite their fundamental role in the purpose of organizations, scholars have little understanding of actual interaction patterns in modern, complex, multiunit firms. By Adam M. Kleinbaum, Toby E. Stuart, and View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Aug 2002
- What Do You Think?
Is Platform Leadership Old Hat or the Wave of the Future?
however, as interesting as the phenomenon described by Annabelle Gawer and Michael Cusumano in their book, Platform Leadership. They include: Did platform leaders set out to create vehicles View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
Despite all these efforts to gain new global historical visions, however, the debates surrounding this movement have remained rather provincial in scope. Global History, Globally addresses this lacuna by surveying the state of global... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
respondents. Shann Turnbull points out that "National governments can deal with globalisation as they can determine the rules of ownership and control applicable in their jurisdictions." Nevertheless, he proposes the creation of a "Community Investment... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Oct 2007
- What Do You Think?
Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?
Summing Up The clear consensus of those responding to this month's column is that managerial capitalism, as John Bogle terms it, has peaked. But what will follow it is less clear. Many doubt that the form of owners' capitalism represented View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 05 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?
for cadavers. Anteby's current research examines the morality of markets by focusing on the U.S. supply and demand of cadavers for medical research and education.) Anyone who has been trained as a physician—or is close to someone who has... View Details
- 12 Jan 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?
responses did not correlate well with country of origin. One interesting example concerned fears about the two-tiered economy created by job exportation. Before concluding, "These trends cannot be stopped View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
proved that each generation perceives its actions as rational but to (the) next it may appear irrational. This is the path to growth and development of civilization." Frances Pratt said, "What is normal and rational is framed by... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
I'll Have the Ice Cream Soon and the Vegetables Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. If you have resolved to exercise more, try ignoring what your peers... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
If the COVID-19 crisis lasts four months, 65 percent of small retailers say there’s a good chance they’ll be forced to close permanently by the end of the year. Among restaurants and bars, 70 percent expect to go out of business if... View Details