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Lessons from England's Health Care Workforce Redesign: No Quick Fixes

By: Richard Bohmer and Candace Imison
In 2000 the English National Health Service (NHS) began a series of workforce redesign initiatives that increased the number of doctors and nurses serving patients, expanded existing staff roles and developed new ones, redistributed health care work, and invested in... View Details
Keywords: Health Care; Work Force Management; United Kingdom
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  • 2018
  • Book

Business and the Natural Environment: A Research Overview

By: Andrew J. Hoffman and Susse Georg
The fields of corporate environmentalism, green business and corporate sustainability have grown significantly over the past twenty-five years, such that the academic research domains of business decision-making, accounting, organizational behaviour, and the protection... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Regulation; Research
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  • 10 Sep 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior

Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton & Elizabeth W. Dunn
  • June 2017
  • Teaching Note

The De Beers Group: Exploring the Diamond Reselling Opportunity

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Daniel P. Gross and Lauren G. Pickle
In September 2014, Tom Montgomery (SVP of strategic initiatives at the De Beers Group) and his team launched a pilot program in the United States to explore $1 billion diamond market for pre-owned (recycled) diamonds. According to Montgomery, the motivation for the... View Details
Keywords: Diamonds; Go-to-market Strategy; Secondary Market; Willingness To Pay; Pilot Program; Strategy Development; Strategy Execution; Scope; Marketing; Advertising; Branding; Customer Value; Pawn Shops; Jewelry; Supply And Demand; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Vertical Integration; Advertising Campaigns; Value Creation; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Advertising Industry; Mining Industry; United States; United Kingdom; Africa; Botswana; South Africa; Namibia
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  • December 2018 (Revised June 2020)
  • Case

Creating the French Behavioral Insights Team

By: Michael Luca, Ariella Kristal and Emilie Billaud
This case explores how neuroscientist Mariam Chammat helped set up the first behavioral insights team at the center of the French government, and encouraged French administrations to innovate and create policy initiatives based on psychological theories of influence... View Details
Keywords: Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Experiments; Negotiation; Decision Making; Economics; Taxation; Entrepreneurship; Consumer Behavior; Public Administration Industry; Europe; France; Paris
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  • 13 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

accommodating high-risk workers. They offered the following advice, based on recent research: Encourage sick employees to stay home with paid time off Gary Johns, professor of management at Concordia University: Many employees continue to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Research - Faculty & Research

Publications Browse faculty-authored books , cases , scholarly articles , working papers , and more. Global Research Centers To facilitate faculty research and case development on an international scale, Global Research Centers have been... View Details

    Reza R. Satchu

    Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurship Management Unit at the Harvard Business School where he teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, The Founder Mindset and Founder Launch. He is also the Founder, Managing Partner and majority shareholder of... View Details

    • 19 May 2003
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts

    any initiative to empower the poor and the equally critical importance of available credit to allow poorer families to invest in their future. Despite the plethora of education-related activities and the rapidly growing success stories in... View Details
    Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Financial Services
    • 15 Mar 2021
    • Blog Post

    REFLECTIONS ON MY TIME AS BEI DIRECTOR

    At the end of March, I will retire from my role as Director of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative and turn the reins to BEI’s new Director Lynn Schenk and Coordinator Elise Clarkson. What has changed since I started in the... View Details
    • 28 Feb 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research, February 28

    preferences are homogeneous, newspapers are more likely to engage in cost-cutting. Both responses are more pronounced for newspaper firms whose sister firms have already experienced Craigslist’s entry. We also find that failure to design the right response harms... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • November 2024
    • Article

    Stakeholder Amnesia in M&A Deals

    By: Caley Petrucci and Guhan Subramanian
    Public companies have increasingly embraced environmental, social and governance (ESG) factors in the course of everyday business. However, these ESG considerations are virtually non-existent in merger and acquisition (M&A) transactions. Elon Musk’s recent acquisition... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governing and Advisory Boards; Mergers and Acquisitions
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    • 12 Apr 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    What Great American Leaders Teach Us

    a small subset of the database available to the public on the Leadership Initiative Web site, the full database is available to other scholars interested in studying the business leadership landscape. There... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 07 Oct 2019
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    How Companies Can Make Up with (Very) Unhappy Customers

    Switch Habits Juul vaping products have become a cigarette alternative for adult smokers and a growing concern among parents of teens. What the company did initially to head off concerns. Cost-cutting Leads to Turbulence in the Airline... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Air Transportation
    • 08 Oct 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime

    Some may shrug at the inevitable passing of the local newspaper, writing it off as a dinosaur that doesn’t have much to offer in our modern world of blogs, social media sites, and streamed soundbites. But no news is not necessarily good... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 2022
    • Article

    Leadership & Overconfidence

    By: Don A Moore and Max H. Bazerman
    Expressions of confidence can give leaders credibility. In the political realm, they can earn votes and public approval for decisions made in office. Such support is justified when the confidence displayed is truly a sign that a leader (whether a candidate or an... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Characteristics; Leadership; Government Legislation; Political Elections
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      Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

      The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
      • 02 Apr 2012
      • Research & Ideas

      Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?

      answers depend on the platform. Some products help those who need the most help. Some help only those who have little trouble interacting in the real world anyway. And some platforms offer certain features that help those who need it... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology
      • 14 Feb 2017
      • First Look

      First Look at New Research: February 14

      when it results from using discretion, suggesting that the benefit of repetition does not compensate for the cost of exercising discretion in this setting. Our research offers a behavioral perspective on queue management and highlights... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 20 Mar 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

      businesses often have less than 20 days’ worth. While forecasts vary, many public health experts don’t expect the coronavirus outbreak to subside for at least eight weeks, assuming that social distancing and other mitigation efforts can... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage