House Of Cards - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

overwhelmingly reported they would pay wages first, but health care premiums were the second-most critical bill overall, and clearly ahead of rent,” the researchers write. “As one respondent put it, ‘[h]ealth insurance is so important to... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

100,000 Japanese Americans to relocate from their homes on the Pacific coast to internment camps in other parts of the country. Not knowing how long the internment would last, many of the internees hurriedly... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

think about the transaction influences their behavior. "Exchange norms" are defined by reciprocity—I get this, you get that. It's the kind of interaction we have with business associates or when we are buying a View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

No one says the life of the entrepreneur is glamorous, at least in the start-up phase. Financing pressures. Bad diet. Family—what family? And now new research from Harvard Business School professor Noam Wasserman reveals another... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

Augustine Heard & Company, a commission house focused on trade between China and the United States, in 1840. He welcomed his four nephews into the family business as it expanded in the increasingly complex economic and political... View Details

19 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers

By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

13 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Can We Get To Where We Need To Go?

those who care about the renewed, continued competitiveness of the United States," he told attendees who gathered recently at the national summit held at HBS, America on the Move: Transportation and Infrastructure for the 21st... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Transportation; Air Transportation; Auto

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

In a 2012 Harvard Business School case on corruption at German conglomerate Siemens AG, Peter Solmssen —brought in to clean house —reflects on how people approach a business bribe. "The stupid ones say, very simply, what are you going to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

decision by the Bush White House to provide more than $20 billion to GM, Chrysler, and their financial subsidiaries, the auto task force put together by President Obama managed a restructuring of both... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

20 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

Editor's note: When did America's declining global competitiveness begin? One starting spot might be 2008, the last year the country topped the World Economic Forum's list of most globally competitive nations. Four years later, the US has... View Details

Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

explores the determinants of observed analyst-firm pairings. We adopt an analyst/brokerage house perspective that allows us to examine not only firm-level characteristics as in prior research but also... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Nov 2013
Research & Ideas

A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections

targeting efforts. The First Cut Customer attrition is a widespread problem that affects firms in a variety of industries. For example, US credit card providers often deal with annual churn rates View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Service

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

$10 for a rare card that actually was priced at $1,000. The temporary clerk had wrongly assumed that there was a decimal point. When the owner learned of the mistake and went to the boy's home, the father... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration

lack of opportunity was many years ahead, and it was widely expected that the policy would be readjusted if the labor market tightened back up. Second, there was not even a ban, just fewer visas! The threat that a U.S. green View Details

Keywords: by Staff

10 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

How Numbers Talk to People

The problem with big data is that there is, well, so much of it. Analyzing it is like trying to sip from a firehose. Just in time, a new book on the art and science of quantitative analysis arrives this... View Details

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

expect Republicans in the House and Senate to resist any populist measures that threaten the ability of corporations to compete globally and hurt the US economy in the long run. Let’s talk about the number... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

12 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising

before the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary Task Force on Competition Policy and Antitrust Laws, Edelman wrote that the deal could have an anticompetitive effect on Internet... View Details

Keywords: by Benjamin G. Edelman; Advertising; Publishing

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

We tend to think of the moment of insight and creativity in sudden and shocking terms: the bathtub overflowing (Archimedes), the apple beaning off the head (Newton), the bolt View Details