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- 26 Apr 2023
- In Practice
Is AI Coming for Your Job?
will be displaced in large numbers. Those job losses will be partially offset by job gains for machine learning specialists and emerging jobs like prompt engineers. But, once companies View Details
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
iStockPhoto State laws that require people to wait a few days before purchasing firearms reduce gun-related homicides by 17 percent, new research shows. Waiting periods saved 750 lives per year in the 17 states that had such policies in... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to improve the performance of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
When the Internet Runs Out of IP Addresses
addresses they need. Neither are Web sites demanding IPv6, because Web sites want to be reached by users, and users only run IPv4. In fact, it's even worse than that. Moving to IPv6 too early brings extra costs. For one, there are the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
of creative productivity. "We found that of all the events that characterized the best inner work life days, by far the most prominent was making progress," Amabile says. "And of all the events that characterized the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
world mathematically and use that to make decisions is very interesting to me," he says. "The world is not deterministic—there is a randomness built into it. And yet, by using robust optimization techniques we can tackle a wide... View Details
- 16 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases
sticker shock? 1. Understand Your Customers. There are at least four ways in which customers can respond to higher gas prices: downgrade from premium to regular; take fewer trips by car, consolidate errands, switch to public... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 26 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
To Motivate Employees, Give an Unexpected Bonus (or Penalty)
iStock In the 1992 film Glengarry Glen Ross, an executive played by Alec Baldwin presents a unique motivational scheme to a trio of down-on-their-luck real estate salesmen. There will be a new contest, he tells them, to see who can bring... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
medical radiation safety. "The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies." “There was suddenly a huge spike in the public’s attention on medical radiation risk,” says Hong Luo, James Dinan and... View Details
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
discounts, stores are subsidizing high-value customers” “The use of this lever of discounts has been so high in many aspects, it is causing e-commerce companies to become unprofitable,” says Teixeira, the Lumry Family Associate Professor of Business Administration. “We... View Details
- 17 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Babies
We prefer to think of babies as cuddly bundles of joy, but they are also products at the center of a multibillion-dollar market in adoptions and scientific conception, a market that few people acknowledge and that functions like no other.... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
to the challenge. Think of it as a new strategic initiative facing huge execution challenges. These require senior management to get the best information they can about barriers to execution, and it requires trust and commitment. That... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
their monthly bills—potentially cringing over the many coffee or take-out purchases—also led to a modest decline in monthly spending. “It was nice to see evidence of that,” says Norton. “It seems like people are a little bit shifting their spending down once they've... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
leaders need to be brave and not afraid of criticism." The research team didn’t study data in 2021, so it’s unclear whether government officials are continuing to underreport COVID deaths. But Rouen hopes leaders have learned View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Improving Brand Recognition in TV Ads
Advertisers pay millions of dollars to air TV ads that, by some estimates, more than a third of viewers skip over with digital VCRs or by switching channels or tuning out altogether. New research View Details
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
“I was so struck by that. He clearly felt he was going to become untethered from the person he’d been for many years, in a fundamental way,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation professor at HBS, who is semi-retired herself. In preliminary... View Details
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
information about large stock trades to their best, most lucrative clients. When a savvy activist investor submits a trading order through a brokerage firm, for example, the brokers will exploit this information by telling their favorite... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
good. One reason is that many companies are preoccupied and enamored by value capture—how to make money. They think about how to capture value before they think about how to... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
law aims to encourage. In the process, these liquidations ultimately shortchange creditors by billions of dollars a year, according to new research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Samuel B.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
future, 50 percent of all tasks currently done by humans could be done by machine learning and artificial intelligence,” says Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, assistant professor at... View Details