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- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
less than private insurers for the same services. Using 2018 data (the most recent year for which all relevant data is available), we found that a pay-as-you-go Public Option could lower the price for the 3.4 million people who now buy... View Details
- 07 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 7
behavioral decision-making literature. In particular, we highlight three cognitive barriers that impede sound individual decision making that have particular relevance to behaviors impacting the environment. First, despite claiming that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 17, 2008
entrepreneurship, and we also highlight the relevance of social networks, self-assessed skills, and attitudes toward risk. Moreover, we find that regulation plays a critical role, particularly for those individuals who become... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
From Turf Wars to Learning Curves: How Hospitals Adopt New Technology
employed by the hospitals in which they work. The resulting social interactions between these individuals and groups within hospitals provide a fruitful setting for examining issues that are of relevance to organizations in a broader... View Details
- 07 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Banning Big-box Stores Can Hurt Local Retailers
stores in the same postcode. "In the areas with the big stores you see employment growth," Sadun says. "You don't see this killing effect on the small shops." While Sadun conducted the study in England, the findings are certainly View Details
- 05 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities
Dalton. "They actually want to learn. I look at how hungry they are and how relevant they are. Look for the Desh Deshpandes," he told the audience of MBAs, referring to the founder of Cascade Communications and Sycamore... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Connecting With Nonprofits
depicted in Figure 1, as one moves along the Continuum the level of engagement deepens, mission relevance becomes more central, resource deployment expands, activities broaden, interaction intensifies, and managerial complexity magnifies,... View Details
Keywords: by James Austin
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
employment—and provide evidence that none of them can account for a quantitatively relevant fraction of our results. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54796 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
manufacturing clusters. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49178 Business Models-Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract— This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
For Better Ideas, Bring the Right People to the Brainstorm
conversation with an extroverted person, they not only generated more ideas, but the ideas they came up with scored roughly 15 percent to 20 percent higher. “What we think happens is an extroverted person is going to say a lot of relevant... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps
The resourcefulness with which companies dealt with these staffing challenges could be an area of deeper research, Giacomin says, and has ongoing relevance in today’s tight labor market. The internment experience also fundamentally... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49331 Working Papers The Business Model: Nature and Benefits By: Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, and John Heilbron Abstract—This paper considers the nature of the business model and its strategic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
potentially relevant patents agree to a price cap on royalties just before a standard is set—after which the standard-setting body is prohibited from discussing pricing. Price commitments have the potential to create a scenario that is... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
several forms. But many proposed questions were clustered around inquiries about willingness to recommend, trust, and authenticity. Among suggested questions that managers might ask of themselves were: "What positive, relevant impact... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
entry. Note that these findings are cited by an organization that advocates strongly for free trade and generally less government. But do the hypotheses they advance deserve closer examination? Are the findings peculiar to the United States, or do they have View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- What Do You Think?
If You Blink, Will You Miss?
world many of the relevant facts, opinions, people, and so on are not laid out for us before we have to act." What do you think? Original Article I've been asked so frequently if I have read Malcolm Gladwell's new book, Blink: The... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Racial Diversity Pays Off
segregated career tracks and told, "This is what you're good at." 3. Integration and learning perspective. Group members are encouraged to bring all relevant insights and perspectives to bear on their work. "Every work... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 12
and barriers to creating and claiming value, the most promising sequence and process design, etc.— should be informed and modified by two classes of potentially relevant cross-border factors, the general and the negotiation-specific.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
the parts of Africa that have a heavy disease incidence. MTV has developed a DNA of public service announcements that it claims are of central relevance to its high-risk customer base. How core is this to the strategy of a for-profit firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
in teams: reflexive, experimental, contextual, and vicarious learning. We integrate these categories into the dynamic capabilities framework to show their particular relevance at different points along the sensing-seizing-reconfiguring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman