First Nations - Publications - Faculty & Research

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

or she will pay. The study, Consumer Protection In An Online World: An Analysis Of Occupational Licensing, is the first to look together at what consumers care about and the effects on demand and metrics of customer satisfaction. It is... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

with building the business. "I was unstoppable, so great was my faith in what I sold," she said, describing her weeks on the road. By the early 1950s, Estée Lauder Cosmetics was distributing products through Saks, Neiman Marcus, Bonwit Teller, and other View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Hernandez of New York University, dive into the topic in their working paper Political Identity and Trust. “Our biggest headline finding is that it seems that it’s beliefs that drive trust, not taste" If it seems we are a nation of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

use, including updating the associated incentive mechanisms. For example, European countries, particularly the United Kingdom's National Health Service, have gradually adopted bundled payments to prioritize patient outcomes and best... View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

13 Oct 2015
First Look

October 13, 2015

Africa, and Latin America to seize the revolutionary mantle from the Soviet Union. The Soviet Union adapted to win it back, transforming the nature of socialist revolution in the process. This groundbreaking book is the first to explore... View Details

20 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

When CEOs Become Activists

and CEO Dan Schulman was especially vocal: “This decision reflects PayPal’s deepest values and our strong belief that every person has the right to be treated equally, and with dignity and respect,” he wrote in a statement. As the outcry from the business community... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Publishing

15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Several CEOs are receiving significant media attention for taking public positions on controversial social and environmental issues largely unrelated to their core business, ranging from gay marriage to climate change to gender... View Details

02 Aug 2016
First Look

August 2, 2016

to first dates, people frequently experience performance anxiety. And when experienced immediately before or during performance, anxiety harms performance. Across a series of experiments, we explore the efficacy of a common strategy that... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Mar 2010
Research & Ideas

Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial

consulting couch to the launch pad, denial is ubiquitous. You find it in individuals, in teams, in companies, in industries. Indeed, you find it in entire nations and economies. Look at the invasion of Iraq, or the dot-com bubble of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Retail; Technology

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

Podcast with: Richard TedlowInterviewer: James AisnerRunning Time: 29 min., 09 sec.Transcript My name is Jim Aisner and I am Director of Media Relations at Harvard Business School. This is the first in a series of podcasts for the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

05 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

sustainability efforts at Novozymes, the world's largest and oldest producer of industrial enzymes. In 2015, the Danish company became the world’s first company known to have crafted a new corporate strategy based on the United View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

with the unsexy title, A Nation Transformed by Information: How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present. Co-edited by HBS professor emeritus Alfred D. Chandler and James W. Cortada, the story starts out... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. I View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

25 Oct 2016
First Look

October 25, 2016

insulate consumers from cost sharing, thereby undermining insurers’ ability to influence drug utilization. We study the impact of copay coupons on branded drugs first facing generic entry between 2007 and 2010. To overcome endogeneity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

debate. What are some frameworks you would recommend as we begin these discussions? A: I would recommend beginning with just a handful of basic frameworks—lenses, really—for figuring out how we want to approach this fast-growing area. View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

start, locate, or invest in a city. As HBS professor Michael Porter has explained in The Competitive Advantage of Nations, political units—whether nations or cities - are in competition with each other and can control their destiny using... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Best Place for Retirement Funds

would come together to push those programs through. What else might emerge in the future is difficult to predict. If I had to guess at what is coming down the pike, I think that we can look forward to some kind of vigorous national debate... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

pandemic has motivated and facilitated lift outs in two key ways: Market volatility has motivated searches. Market agitation at any level, from firm to industry to global, can motivate people to browse job ads and take or make that first... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this definition contributes to the existing proposed... View Details