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- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
What do you think? Original Article Two contrasting news stories caught my eye over the past couple of months. The first involved the strike, at least initially unsuccessful, by the mechanics' union at Northwest Airlines in an attempt to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 16 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings
that later crashed to fractions of their peak value. "I don't know what people were smoking, but it wasn't legal, I suspect," he said, adding that many overvalued companies "were in the job of selling stock rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
department, and whether the emails and meetings involved people from other levels of the organization, such as individual contributors and senior managers, for example. Sadun and her colleagues found that during the first three months... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 11 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time
racial makeup of loan officers—a job that’s become more nuanced in a largely automated mortgage origination process, Sunderam says. Loan officers are critical to the process Loan officers play an important role for would-be borrowers,... View Details
- 03 Apr 2019
- Book
Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business
spent at the US Small Business Administration beginning in 2009. We were in the midst of a terrible recession. In the first quarter I was in Washington we lost 1.8 million small-business jobs because credit... View Details
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Abstract—Scholars from many disciplines have investigated self-deception, but defining self-deception and establishing its possible benefits have been a matter of heated debate—a debate impoverished by a relative lack of empirical research. Drawing on recent research,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
making: participants were more likely to hire job candidates and choose collaborators who reframed their distress as passion compared to those who did not. Expresser gender did not moderate these effects. Results suggest that in cases... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients
pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that View Details
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
pursued on a part-time basis with a workload designed accordingly and an emphasis on the quality vs. the quantity of work accomplished. This article is part of a continuing series on faculty research and teaching commemorating the 50th anniversary of the View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Radical Design, Radical Results
vision," Verganti says. "Steve Jobs has said that the market doesn't always know what it wants. Companies that do radical innovation do not listen to users; they eventually value market feedback, but View Details
- 13 May 2002
- Book
Bringing the Master Passions to Work
If passions are the masters of reason—as David Hume (1960) believed—then they have done a remarkable job at getting us to believe in their benign nature—their outright subservience to reason. Deception and self-deception are as critical... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
first number mentioned in a negotiation often has a big impact on subsequent talks. It's nice to get the benefit of that "anchor" if the number is in the right ballpark, but if you're unsure what the range might be in a likely... View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
on their experience in offices that would prepare them for the presidency, and how they became president. A filtered president is one with a high amount of relevant experience, an unfiltered one with little or no such domain experience. George Washington, as the View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
asking that question through research on the controversial issue of genetically modified organisms (GMOs), agricultural products that are genetically altered to increase yield, incorporate pesticide properties, or exhibit other beneficial qualities. (Calgene's Flavr... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
manage it, and give it direction? That's what our new book, From Resource Allocation to Strategy, is about. People have studied the process in various ways, first to understand how it works and then to understand how it breaks down; and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
then infrastructure like this helps more people get to work faster, helps businesses be more productive, makes scarce resources such as fuel and clean air go further, and attracts jobs and workers. Such a focus on geography, employment,... View Details
- 23 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn
This is the first time in five years that the number has gone below 300. Together with the credit crunch, we are witnessing a plethora of potentially great opportunities but with a measly amount of capital to fund them. I have high hopes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
separate customer pools. One is the pool that is coming in on the card. The other is the pool you don't know much about that is not coming in off the card. Without [data from] the card, you may not treat these customers as well as you would treat them otherwise. A... View Details
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
credit went unanswered. So when Mills left SBA to come to HBS, she did the research herself. The resulting 2014 working paper found that small business was experiencing a credit crunch, particularly in lending from banks, despite creating two out of every three new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks
keep in mind when implementing supply chain strategies or approaches. This course, Managing the Supply Chain: The General Manager's Perspective, is about these principles and perspectives. And it's aimed at the general manager because it's the GM's View Details
Keywords: by Staff