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- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?
jumped after the first two stimulus payments hit in April 2020 and January 2021, driven by retail investor buying, says research by Harvard Business School Professor Robin Greenwood. "We've been through this... View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In a Landscape of 'Me Too' Drug Development, What Spurs Radical Innovation?
windfalls on drug development choice, researchers looked at more than 12,000 drug candidates from 3,108 firms, eventually narrowing the field to 270 companies that had at least one drug already approved by the FDA. The cohort included... View Details
- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
As they write, "We call attention to another dark side of pervasive economic inequality: Lower-income individuals are restricted not only by what they can financially afford to purchase, but also what they are socially permitted to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Humans Outshine AI in Adapting to Change
that required increasingly more flexible self-orienting. Like a simplified version of a four-player scenario of the classic video game Mario Kart, each game included four “possible selves,” which were indicated by red squares. Yet, only... View Details
- 09 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
impact to a grant. However, the analysis illuminates some of the core tradeoffs at play and, hopefully, will enable a more informed discussion about the role that impact investing can play in the broader philanthropic landscape. About the Author View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
political economy, and behavior. This conversation is lightly edited for clarity and length. Rachel Layne: What draws you to the economy and politics of the far right? Paula Rettl: I'm from a country that has huge inequality. And then I... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 22 May 2024
- HBS Case
Banned or Not, TikTok Is a Force Companies Can’t Afford to Ignore
Businesses that dismiss TikTok as merely a platform for teenagers looking to create and consume cat and dance videos do so at their own peril. That’s the message of a Harvard Business School case study tracing the video-sharing app’s explosive rise to the world's... View Details
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
that also receive significant media attention. But there are so many other settings like the service sector, non-white elite, and middle class women that don’t receive the news coverage. We need more systematic research on the movement’s impact in other settings.”... View Details
- 29 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Do Disasters Rally Support for Climate Action? It's Complicated.
of the planet—voters in adjacent soybean and cattle-raising regions seem to think so, finds a recent working paper co-authored by Harvard Business School assistant professor Paula Rettl. “What we're trying to show is that, for some... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 31 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines
to create a “routineness score” by layering them on top of seven-day periods. For example, the model groups someone ordering a car at 3 p.m. and someone ordering a car at 4 p.m. as more likely to have similar routines than two people who... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
“It's important to help creditors understand that this might be an unusual circumstance, and that if they could just be patient, accept some equity in this firm instead of liquidating the assets, that equity could be really valuable post-pandemic,” Antill says. About... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Awards
Society for the Social Studies of Science, Rachel Carson Prize
Awarded the 2001 Rachel Carson Prize by the Society for the Social Studies of Science for From Heresy to Dogma: An Institutional History of Corporate Environmentalism (Stanford University Press, 2001). View Details
- 05 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can
much as they did." Instead, markups—the difference between prices charged at checkout and the marginal costs incurred by a company in order to make a product—climbed about 25 percent between 2006 and 2019, according to research View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
postings and social media and impressions from informal conversations. “Companies invest tens of millions of dollars on user experience for customers, but don't bring any of that discipline to applicant experience.” That puts employers in a quandary. They grapple with... View Details
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in business generally and venture capital specifically, with the sphere of impact investing no... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment
person who's in charge of the project, who's going to say, ‘OK, these are the reviews that I got, and these are the ones that I'm going to go forward with.’ But they're going to be informed by the experts that they select to evaluate,”... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management at Harvard Business School. Roughly 42 percent of Fortune 500 companies said they’d reached an environmental target or committed to reaching one by 2030, an 11... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19
Rachel Layne is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: Laurence Dutton] Related Reading Inflation with COVID Consumption Baskets China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers What... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Beware the Lasting Impression of a 'Temporary' Selfie
the user is intoxicated, they must correctly answer math questions for the text to be sent. So think before you send. And then think about how people will perceive you long after you hit the button and what you shared no longer exists. View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne