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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
under historical market conditions, compared to simulated losses of $280 billion in the absence of equity extractions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-023.pdf Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Economics researchers have long studied how local workers respond when an industry such as steel manufacturing is squashed by obsolescence or competition. Is the region able to regenerate with new industries and workers to fill them? Do... View Details
- 29 May 2020
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents
COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
Abstract—Existing apology research has conceptualized apologies as a device to rebuild relationships following a transgression. As a result, apology research has failed to investigate the use of apologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Here are key requirements to ask of any service provider offering to certify your work setting as a healthy building. These best practices apply for employers, employees, and customers alike. Our research over many decades in public... View Details
- 15 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty
Henri-Louis Bergson’s injunction: “Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought.” THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond COVID-19 Business Impact Center (Harvard Business... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
this volume of essays come about? What surprised you most in the array of research and insights you were able to assemble from your colleagues? Jones: The origins of the project lay with my current research... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Negotiation and All That Jazz
emotions. "Even very successful people carry a great degree of anxiety with them to the negotiating table," Wheeler says, "and that anxiety is an obstacle to effective performance." Research that he and psychologist Dr. Kimberlyn Leary... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
planned lecture and an instructor-dominated question-and-answer period for the ambiguity of a hard-to-plan, free-flowing discussion driven by student ideas, which may well follow unusual paths and come to unexpected end points." Educating Educators Although his... View Details
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
Churchwell: What inspired your work analyzing the study of business history around the world? Geoffrey Jones: There were two main factors driving our desire to bring together this survey of the current state of business history worldwide. First, there has been an... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Entering the Age of Alliances
been collaborating for three years to increase the number of African American biologists and chemists. In 1995, they launched the UNCF Merck Science Internships. The undergraduates, doctoral students, and postdoctoral scientists who receive these internships are... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
deforestation campaign in order to make its supply chain more socially and environmentally responsible. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=907414 Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
HBS research associate Brian DeLacey, are studying the processes of mentoring and coaching in entrepreneurial environments. Leonard and DeLacey discuss their findings with HBS Working Knowledge editor Sean Silverthorne.Silverthorne: In... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
Britannica had 123 errors while Wikipedia had 162 (for averages of 2.9 and 3.9 errors per article, respectively.) For the editors at Britannica, that may be a little too close for comfort. It's the kind of success that attracted McAfee, whose View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders
"As different cultural traditions meet in the marketplace and inside organizations, managers face tough choices about the values that they and their organizations will live by," HBS professor Lynn Sharp Paine told participants at a View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 09 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 9, 2015
It is difficult for people to implement what they don't understand. Yet, research indicates that, on average, more than 50% of employees in organizations say they do not understand their organization's strategy. Further, the percentage of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict... View Details
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
argument is that it has a theory of change for this intervention, based on existing research that suggests urban sanitation improves environmental and human health. But it has made a conscious decision that measuring such longer-term... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
domestic partners. In order to illuminate the interplay between these two levels, we review literature from two separate bodies of literature. Research in psychology and organizational behavior on candidate-employer negotiations sheds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace