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23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

corruption. But a wholesale change to the market, designed under reformist President Obasanjo and pushed forward by President Jonathan, promised greater efficiencies and investment guided View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

about presuming preferences. When predicting other people’s tastes, we tend to erroneously assume that liking one thing precludes enjoying another, dissimilar option, according to a recent set of studies by researchers at Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

09 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

in a mutual caring way and also to help their firm excel. The designer can encourage this by fostering firm-wide symbols, rituals, and norms. However, any such social contract must be a mutual commitment to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria

January 2015
Case

The Blonde Salad

By: Anat Keinan, Kristina Maslauskaite, Sandrine Crener and Vincent Dessain

In 2014, Chiara Ferragni, a globe-trotting founder of the world's most popular fashion blog The Blonde Salad, and Riccardo Pozzoli, her co-founder and business partner, had to decide how to best monetize her blog as well as her shoe line called the "Chiara Ferragni... View Details

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03 Dec 2014
What Do You Think?

Can the Brilliant Jerk Be Managed Effectively?

for the phenomenon. Munyaradzi Mushato suggested that, "my experience in industry tells me that most jerks are created by the very systems that are designed to improve performance that is, about 70% of... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway

frequently that psychologists have a name for them: "fundamental attribution errors." Unable to know every aspect of a stranger's backstory, yet still needing to make a primal designation between friend and foe, we watch for... View Details

Keywords: by Anna Secino; Education; Employment

14 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Can Entrepreneurs Drive People Movers to Success?

transport/ride launched in 1967), and numerous airports. However, these systems were largely designed to move a large number of people on a fixed schedule along a track from point to point to point. In today's revival, people movers are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Transportation

16 Jan 2008
Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

varied so widely. A policy aimed at strengthening the banking system, for example, might seem to have little in common with a policy designed to compensate the victims of involuntary unemployment. But the truth is that public deposit... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

01 Sep 2023
News

Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees

For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records,... View Details

Keywords: April White; Illustrations by Fabio Consoli; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

allowing bonds to be rolled over into private sector retirement accounts; and generally making it easier to purchase bonds by expanding distribution to outlets such as the post office and Wal-Mart. "The federal government spends $350... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

10 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

How to Get Companies to Make Investments That Benefit Everyone

Regulators often punish companies for bad behavior—for instance, by fining them if they pollute the environment. But instead of focusing on what business leaders are doing wrong and constantly slapping their hands, government officials... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

25 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Is Baseball Ready to Compete for the Next Generation of Fans?

While football and basketball are now the most popular and financially successful of the four major professional sports leagues, Major League Baseball appears to be rallying. Last week, MLB said revenue for the 2022 regular season, which featured an American League... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Media & Broadcasting; Sports

27 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

ground in Bentonville, Arkansas to sell and service Wal-Mart. Large individual accounts are now separable market segments, and even profit centers supported by their own multi-functional organizations. The days of easy separation of sales... View Details

Keywords: by Benson Shapiro

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

system by repeatedly downloading their own papers, so that others would see the high download count and assume that these particular papers were very popular. SSRN maintains detailed historical records of every paper download and is able... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2011
What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

Summing Up Does Common Sense Impede Change? Common sense is the decision-maker's friend when the decision has to be made rapidly, with a minimum of research or formal theory, with no more than moderate risk or consequences, and by... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

04 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them

Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Green Technology

28 Jun 2010
HBS Case

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

details how one institution has implemented its own version of health-care reform, taking overall performance levels from well below average to the top 10 percent in the industry. Coauthored by HBS assistant professor Anita Tucker and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

07 Feb 2019
Book

How Big Companies Can Outrun Disruption

innovation strategy, design a system for creativity, and build up an enterprise’s cultural DNA. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration, shares insights in our Q&A. Martha Lagace: Your title, Creative... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain

Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado

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