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- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
with Azure, acquiring LinkedIn in social media and Activision/Blizzard in gaming, and investing in OpenAI to gain control of ChatGPT. Equally important, he transformed the Microsoft culture from an arrogant bureaucracy into an empowered... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
this wealth-based discriminatory behavior using a laboratory study. Our experiment shows that individuals are more willing to illegally help peers when those peers drive standard rather than luxury cars and that envy and empathy mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
they will be able to withdraw their funds at a later date—and at what exchange rate. This happened in Brazil in the early 1990s and in Argentina in the early part of this century, when similar desperate policies were enacted. The View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
leaders focus on the few things that produce results and experiences for the right customers; (3) the best service operating strategies don't require tradeoffs, so leaders foster "both/and" thinking in designing winning... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
the evaluations given (and consequent resource allocation). We empirically evaluate effects in data collected from a grant proposal process at a leading research university in which we randomized the assignment of evaluators and proposals... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
growth The strategy map and accompanying scorecard provide a powerful communication vehicle about the organization's vision and strategy. Rather than use measurement to control employees, leaders use strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 15 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 15
refinement to use is critical because it can lead to dramatically different predicted outcomes. To better understand which refinement is more predictive of actual behavior, we conduct a controlled experiment... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
Street because [they] have the education, the network, and the experience to make it work." J. Paul Brownridge, former Los Angeles city treasurer and candidate for Los Angeles city controller, noted that African-Americans View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich. Almost $170 million in medical debt To measure the impact of medical debt relief, the researchers conducted two experiments in partnership with RIP Medical Debt and their debt collector partners.... View Details
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
believed wholeheartedly in "the teachability of teaching" and that "a good class discussion can be developed, rather than merely left to the randomness of chance or genetics." He described the essential challenge of... View Details
- 21 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Bio-Piracy: When Western Firms Usurp Eastern Medicine
They began their research by searching through every patent filed by the US Patent and Trademark Office and the European Patent Office between 1977 and 2010. (They detail their findings in the working paper Codifying Prior Art and Patenting: Natural View Details
- 30 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Under a Research Microscope
says, "will kill us financially and medically it will ruin our economy, deny us the health care services we need, and undermine the important genomic research that can fundamentally improve the practice of medicine and control its... View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
rigorous methods to problems of great social importance, tirelessly championing multi-level analyses of problems that matter. His impact on our field has been immense. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2295054 Working Papers Span of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
development as a means of raising the lives of previously disadvantaged South Africans. By 1999, the company listed on the Johannesburg Stock Exchange, making 36-year-old Surve the youngest CEO of a listed diversified conglomerate. From its inception, Sekunjalo only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
either back peaceful settlements or support warring groups and continued fighting. Attitudes toward peaceful settlement are expected to be especially obdurate for civilians who have been exposed to violence. In a survey of 1,120 Syrian refugees in Turkey conducted in... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
overt discrimination against the residual non-Muslim population. A second distinctive feature of the business history of the Republic of Turkey has been the very small role of foreign-owned business, which stands in contrast to the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Authors:Diwas KC, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
with the sale deters CEOs from selling their equity. The effect of taxes remains significant even after controlling for other determinants of CEOs' sale of equity. We also find that taxable institutional investors and CEOs both respond to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace