Happy End Problem - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

Two well-documented problems can derail government programs to boost new venture activity. First, they can simply get it wrong: allocating funds and support in an inept or, even worse, counterproductive manner. Decisions that seem... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

01 Dec 2008
News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

the last minute to the Friday morning schedule of HBS fall reunion participants, who nearly overflowed Burden. While the panelists at all three sessions brought different perspectives to the crisis, a consensus emerged that lax regulatory oversight had contributed to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

05 Dec 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?

Given the nature of some unusually thoughtful responses, there was no consensus on the question of whether Walmart has reached its full potential. Comments raised even more interesting questions surrounding the dynamic of relationships between the benefits of scale and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

01 May 2013
News

Robert F. Higgins, MBA 1970

While some people end their careers with a focus on philanthropy, Bob Higgins began his that way. After graduating from HBS, he spent nine years with three different private foundations, each with a deep interest in health care. Today,... View Details

06 Sep 2004
What Do You Think?

How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?

Summing Up Is the end of cheap oil a challenge to the world? Yes. Will it affect our standard of living adversely? Not likely. At least that is the verdict of most of the large number of respondents to this month's column who rely on assumed human ingenuity combined... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

13 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How Leaders Create Winning Streaks

disasters, strategic threats, fumbles ("dropping the ball") and fatigue. The key to winning is recognizing that troubles will occur, and finding a way to win even when experiencing problems and making mistakes. This can occur by... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

As Bernshteyn explains, the prescriptive insights gleaned from the massive amount of community data available worldwide will transform entire industries and break down long-standing barriers to value. The Ends Game: How Smart Companies... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

With Millions of Workers Juggling Caregiving, Employers Need to Rethink Support

the workforce. Companies also pay a price, both directly and indirectly, often in ways they don’t fully understand, the report found. The Gazette spoke with its author Joseph B. Fuller, professor of management practice and co-chair of the Managing the Future of Work... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

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Leadership, Ethics, and Corporate Accountability Course | HBS Online

Considerations An Analysis Using the Reflective Leadership Framework Examining Employee Responsibilities at Scale: What Can We Learn from Google? Review and Self-Reflection Featured Exercises Analyze your biases and reflect on past decisions to help identify View Details

13 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril

disregard—advice all the time. A widely recommended strategy for figuring out the most accurate solution to a complex problem is to reach out to multiple people to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in weighing alternatives. Prior research... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

11 Oct 2006
Research & Ideas

The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts

compared to other IPOs and the market at large. The analysis found flips underperformed the S&P 500 by 5 percent in the following three years. Lerner believes that problems with quick flips occur because of the short period that... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

depend on the ability of its independent regulators to provide for a level playing field between the government and private sector in areas such as insurance, civil aviation, telecom, and energy. Privatizations, tariff reform, an end to... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

08 Sep 2016
News

How We Make It Work

playground—if it is balanced then the two children on either end are just dangling. There is no energy. And when it is balanced each side is in the middle or average. I have no desire to be an average mom, average wife, or average CEO. I... View Details

15 Jun 2021
News

June 2021 Books and Podcasts

CEO of Furman Selz, growing the company more than tenfold. He also creates a happy and abundant family life, though he never forgets what it means to struggle. At age 60, he is reminded of his painful past when a family secret emerges... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Mar 2012
News

Capitalism’s New Agenda

theatrical for some people. But odd as it may seem, their concerns were not very different from the concerns we heard when we talked to business leaders around the world about the problems they thought might constitute material threats to... View Details

Keywords: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard, and Lynn S. Paine; social activism; Occupy Wallstreet; Corporate Services; Finance

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

Drawing upon his business research, he offered a series of guidelines for finding meaning and happiness in life. He used examples from his own experiences to explain how high achievers can all too often fall into traps that lead to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2005
What Do You Think?

Can an Organization’s “Deep Smarts” Be Preserved?

But it isn't easy. It requires that carefully-selected individuals possessing deep smarts devote significant amounts of time to the coaching of a self-selected protégé by creating a learning process that the authors term "guided experience" (including... View Details