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- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
could lead to substantial growth.” But new research suggests that small businesses are far more fiscally conservative than banks realize. In fact, firms with up to 10 employees hold back spending on their revolving credit lines to create a buffer, even when banks raise... View Details
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
seeking to pioneer radical or disruptive innovations while pursuing incremental gains. A business does not have to escape its past, these cases show, to renew itself for the future. [...] A New Lens On... View Details
- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
you may find some people getting a [compensation] discount they don’t deserve.” Don’t try to hide the past The researchers have also produced several business cases examining... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
work he makes a resource allocation decision at the operating level—how to allocate his time and attention—which de facto keeps the investment from happening, even though financial resources have been... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
negative shock to global growth, that would be bad news for everyone. I don’t believe this to be the base case unless there is a real hard landing. Q: Which industries and nations will feel this slowdown... View Details
- 25 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Planning for Surprises
partisan perception and then avoided any reasonable challenge to this view. Richard Clarke, the former counterterrorism czar under Former President Clinton and President Bush, made a compelling case that... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
whether top investor affiliation matters for job seekers is endogeneity. It may not be surprising that high-quality startups may be able to attract top investors such as Sequoia or Accel Partners on the one hand, and top engineers on... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
executive at eBay. "We live in a world where entrepreneurship drives massive change in the private sector, and we feel that can be true in the social sector." The... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Stuck in Gear: Why Managers Don’t Act
of many managers facing similar threats. In the case of Firestone, Sull writes, it just dug itself into an even deeper hole. Its reaction did not make the company better able... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
apples-to-apples comparison, the researchers considered two applicants up for a position at the same time—one yellow, one green. In cases where View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
with the largest market caps in their industries, underperform in a majority of cases the average stock in their respective sectors over the next... View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
one country or one city as opposed to another, due in part to differing institutional contexts. If so, then by aggregating the data, it's possible that researchers have been lumping together dissimilar cases... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
high-cost, high-wage economy like Germany? Porsche's unusual answer in a globalizing auto industry has framed two case studies by HBS professor Jeffrey Fear and colleague Carin-Isabel Knoop. Do I Dare Say Something? Are you afraid to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
taking any given moral standpoint. The notes do emphasize, however, that case protagonists can end up being losers or winners in a challenging mêlée. In fact, many notes point out that View Details
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
at Harvard Business School, who wrote the article with Dan Ariely of Duke University. "But is creativity always good? We often hear of cases in which people use innovative behavior to create a sense... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
gender gap among companies in Sweden. They excluded family-run companies, because in those cases the CEO was likely to be the founder or a descendent of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
This study may have been more difficult to conduct if the authors were reliant on government grant funding, as is the case in many public health and medical schools. “We’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Visiting the doctor can sometimes feel like being slammed down on an assembly line: Make co-pay. Check vitals. Diagnose the problem. Get a prescription. Next! The... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
leadership experiences before they are prepared for major leadership assignments. Through these processes, they learn about themselves and how to lead diverse people through complex challenges. Look at the sad View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 May 2019
- What Do You Think?
Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?
contingent on value-added communities [built around ideas] are self-defining, just about everything is decentralized ideas compete on an equal footing.” Again, not all of his case examples were drawn from View Details