Tragedy Of The Commons - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

across a variety of countries and sectors. The results of this exploration show that managers are trying to ensure safety and maintain profitability with tremendous energy and... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

24 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

How Much Will Remote Work Continue After the Pandemic?

is considerable variation across industries. Remote work is much more common in industries with better educated and better paid workers. Respondents in better educated and higher paid industries have also observed less productivity loss... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

01 Dec 2021
What Do You Think?

How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?

(iStockphoto/tolgart) In 1992, the very funny cyberpunk novelist Neal Stephenson brought “the pizza Deliverator,” also known as Hiro Protagonist, to life along with the notion View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

Boulevard of Broken Dreams: Why Public Efforts to Boost Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Have Failed--and What to Do About It

Silicon Valley, Singapore, Tel Aviv—the global hubs of entrepreneurial activity—all bear the marks of government investment. Yet, for every public intervention that spurs entrepreneurial activity, there are many failed efforts that waste untold billions in taxpayer... View Details

09 May 2024
Research & Ideas

Called Back to the Office? How You Benefit from Ideas You Didn't Know You Were Missing

Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “They have a tendency to reproduce one another's work, and so they get the feeling that they're making progress. But in reality, there's not... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

22 Sep 2023
News

Skydeck Voices: The Most Important Person I Met at HBS

Photo provided by Harvard University Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Who was the most important person you met at HBS? And why? This is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck, and when my colleagues set up on Spangler Lawn during Spring Reunions... View Details

03 Sep 2009
What Do You Think?

Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?

merger activity of the 1980s when it made sense to encourage key employees to remain in place for some time after an organization, whose value was based in part on their presence, was sold. Recently, though,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

01 Dec 2013
News

Faster, Bigger, Stronger: Supersizing the NFL

have learned on my own or in a classroom." Kacyvenski's personal story of overcoming a childhood marred by hunger, homelessness, abuse, and tragedy has earned him a guest spot on View Details

Keywords: Finance; Management; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

02 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Women, Work, and the "M" Word

increasingly remote and hybrid work environments. Whether this means starting one internally for the women within the company or advertising access to external groups, these groups offer women a community... View Details

01 Oct 1999
News

The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

"may be the Dragon, a common icon in Asia that combines the disparate and frequently beneficent attributes of lesser beings into one View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

11 May 2017
News

Going with the Flow

interests have spanned a number of industries but Fisher says a common emotional thread runs through them all. “I am passionately engaged in mission-driven enterprises that make a significant difference in... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

of investments. Q: Were there common characteristics among successful investing strategies? A: The team grouped the investors into quartiles... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

16 Jun 2021
HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

On February 1, 2020, a passenger who had been on Carnival’s Diamond Princess ship docked in Japan tested positive for the COVID-19 virus. Soon afterward, 700 people on the ship contracted View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel

05 Feb 2019
News

The First Five Years: Karan Shah (MBA 2016)

companies—one focused on manufacturing and one focused on fashion? “It’s refreshing in many ways! I am fortunate to have the opportunity to work in two very different industries. While there might not be much View Details

24 Oct 2017
Blog Post

The Latin American Community at HBS

Latin American is a state of being, not a regional denomination. Or at least that is what I learned at Harvard Business School. Upon arriving at HBS, members of the Latin... View Details

01 Feb 1998
News

Women at the Top

global business executive's most common ailment-jet lag-she was determined to glean as much as possible from this high-powered gathering of management experts and peer leaders. At 4 p.m. sharp on Sunday,... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young

December 2021
Article

Primary Care Access During the COVID-19 Pandemic: a Simulated Patient Study

By: Michael Anne Kyle, Renuka Tipirneni, Nitya Thakore, Sneha Dave and Ishani Ganguli

Background
Primary care practices have experienced major strains during the COVID-19 pandemic, such that patients newly seeking care may face potential barriers to timely visits.
Objective
To quantify availability and wait times for new patient... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19; Ambulatory Care; Policy/economics; Access; Telemedicine; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment

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01 Dec 1997
News

Making Real Progress in the Middle East: The Bottom-Up, Economic Solution

catalyst for growth in the neighboring countries, in much the same role as Japan played in Asia. Such collaborative activity across borders is common in other regions, but... View Details

Keywords: Michael Porter, Yagil Weinberg, and Noreena Hertz

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Sustainability Career Advice from the Career & Professional Development Office

where sustainability is at the core; others are interested in an organization where sustainability might be a newer initiative. A common question from MBAs is how to decide what type View Details

25 Aug 2022
News

Understanding the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard

impact of its research labs is broad, the Institute has built four common platforms for external engagement that will enable rapid innovation and continual refinements as... View Details

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