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08 Jan 2016
Research & Ideas

Is it Worth a Pay Cut to Work for a Great Manager (Like Bill Belichick)?

trade to the Patriots and play for Belichick. In 2004, playing for the Patriots, Dillon rushed for 1,635 rushing yards and 12 touchdowns, setting career highs and franchise records. Dillon played a major role in View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg & Abhijit Naik; Sports

03 Feb 2015
First Look

First Look: February 3

records of all one-on-one meetings between senior management and investors for an NYSE-traded firm, we investigate the impact of private meetings on investor decisions. We find that when investors meet privately with management they make more informed View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs

A few years ago anyone could become an entrepreneur. All you needed was a half-baked idea and a phone to hear offers from salivating venture capitalists. Now the environment is much more difficult. Question: Do you have what it takes to be an entrepreneur in this View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

17 Jul 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up

As America recedes from global leadership under President Donald Trump’s “America First” policies, a new generation of business statesmen is stepping up to take on global issues of monumental importance: global trade, climate change, job creation, and healthy living.... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

the International Economy, edited by Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and Craig Parsons, 227-239. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2010 Purchase the book: http://www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/cup_detail.taf?ti_id=5625 Government and Markets: Toward a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Dec 1999
Research & Ideas

Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

efficiently as possible. Increasing the company's product line was a potentially quick, inexpensive way to shape a nascent market for processed food. It was also a means, Heinz reasoned, of building the brand. In the 1870s, branding was a View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn

13 Sep 2016
First Look

September 13, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Bounded Awareness: Implications for Ethical Decision Making By: Bazerman, Max, and Ovul Sezer Abstract—In many of the business scandals of the new millennium, the... View Details

12 Feb 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

‘UpTick’ Brings Wall Street Pressure to Students

Students act on information pulled from actual accounting statements, earnings forecasts, and macroeconomic data, revising and forming new strategies as data becomes available. At the same time, they can take into account the decisions of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Education

06 Dec 2021
Research & Ideas

The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray

economy driven by research and intellectual property that it no longer accurately signals so-called value stocks, suggests new research from Charles C.Y. Wang, Harvard Business School’s Glenn and Mary Jane Creamer Associate Professor of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

across the business environment. The subject is also a hot political potato, from Republican President Donald Trump's dramatic trade approach to proposals from Democrats on automation, robots, and job loss. A View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

18 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public offering, the first time GM shares... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

29 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 29

Eurasia In the fall of 2013, the people of Ukraine disagreed passionately whether their country should intensify ties with the European Union or Russia. After President Yanukovych rejected the free trade agreement with the EU in November,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?

Instead of seeking patents, many inventors and firms choose to keep the details of their innovations secret, out of the public view. But what are the implications of keeping important new ideas locked away in vaults as View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

07 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase

services, Mills says, citing the experience of milliner Linda Pagan, owner of The Hat Shop in New York. “She decided to create these crazy videos and put them on Instagram, and they’ve taken off,” Mills says. “She still takes customer... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage; Service

07 Oct 2015
What Do You Think?

What is the Best Immigration Model for the US?

seeking asylum who bring different skills and behaviors than immigrants. Germany’s problems, opportunities, and solutions are so different from those of the US, that its “model” for handling new arrivals has limited application. That’s... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the elective course Managing... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

06 Apr 2007
What Do You Think?

Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?

Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Energy; Utilities

22 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Earth Day: Recent Research on Sustainability

about real estate, urbanization, sustainability, and infrastructure. LEED-ing by ExampleWhen a local government decides to pursue environmentally aware construction policies for its own buildings, the private sector follows suit, according to View Details

23 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?

place—China. In 2001, the country transitioned to independent boards and passed a unique law requiring board members of publicly traded firms to reveal when they dissent from the majority opinion, along with an explanation for their... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

Mainstream churches, meanwhile, were not benefiting from the distanced relationship, and indeed were ceding ground to secular spirituality and its offshoots from New Age crystals to personal empowerment. How to bridge the Sunday-Monday... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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