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- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Alfred Chandler on the Electronic Century
transformed life and work in the second half of the twentieth century. I chronicle the evolution of the new high-tech industries from their beginnings by the first-movers until the end of the twentieth... View Details
- 14 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Understanding Users of Social Networks
networks," says Piskorski. They can address some basic search failures: "It's hard to know what my friends are up to, but online I can catch up with them quickly." But they can also fix bigger search shortcomings, such as those related to establishing... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
New South Wales. Local Construction of a Global Standard: Foreign Share Ownership and Workplace Gender Diversity in Japan explains that historically, the Japanese corporate structure has made it difficult for women to enter into... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
of these, should we, as someone suggested, strip MBA degrees, once awarded, from recipients who later prove unworthy of the designation? What do you think? Original Article New students are arriving on business school campuses for the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
chains, and speeding communications. The result: "People can spend more time thinking up new products and servicing customers, and less time checking boxes." To get there, most firms must be willing to engage in radical change and... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
"outsiders," such as Elizabeth Arden, created their own road to success, overcoming significant odds. The new book Paths to Power: How Insiders and Outsiders Shaped American Business Leadership explores the demographics of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
airlines increase their retail prices. So all buyers essentially end up sharing the fees, even if they choose to forego the intermediary. Thus begins a vicious cycle of increasing costs. With price coherence in place, intermediaries need... View Details
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
information and coordinate people and resources on an increasingly global scale, he says. As the business landscape took on a completely new look beginning in the mid-1990s, academic critics found an easy... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
people are a smaller number of big decisions: buying a house, buying a car, dealing with a building contractor, investing for retirement, etc. These consumption decisions tend to be made on an irregular and infrequent basis or are new in... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
and the US auto industry are on their way to recovery and that the IPO symbolizes the beginning of a new stage in the life of GM, whose sales figures have recently shown improvement. Vineet Kumar, Assistant... View Details
- 05 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 5, 2008
2005, the fate of the European Constitution is in jeopardy. Ten new accession countries have just joined the EU, with Turkey in the beginning stages of the accession process. View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
care for congenital heart disease conditions beginning in 1995 and had initiated universal outcome measurement. In 2014, the challenge was to continue to improve care in a complicated patient population and take outcome measurement to a... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
these features may also facilitate discrimination based on sellers' race, gender, age, or other aspects of appearance. In this paper, we test for racial discrimination against landlords in the online rental marketplace Airbnb.com. Using a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
in my retirement, or 2) It is money I put in now to pay people who are already retired. I prefer the first view ... ." There was support for forced savings programs. Bill Bittner said, "[Without one] I am afraid a large portion of the population would find... View Details
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Podcast: The Potential Partnership of India and China
recent history of animosity and cooperating in ways economic, social, and political—the beginnings of what could be a powerful partnership, says Harvard Business School professor Tarun Khanna. In his new... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
U.S. corporations, which enjoy ready access to the deepest capital markets in the world. Venture capital, for example, and the public equity markets that support it, has channeled money to innovative ideas that have transformed industries and generated View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
value-relevant before disclosure, for negative earnings adjustments it is value-relevant only after disclosure. This finding is consistent with managers delaying the communication of bad news until IFRS compliance. A finer model shows... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 18
http://hbr.org/search/913041-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 913-034 Distribution at American Airlines (C) Presents 2011-2012 updates to American's distribution strategy including new challenges and disputes. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
the money spent. Cost includes not only the immediate, short-term costs of treatment but the long-term costs of ongoing care as well as the indirect cost of poor health. The goal should be to increase value, not reduce the short-term costs of health benefits. View Details