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- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
to be treated as a religious question. I think it's better seen as a classic managerial question about decision-making under uncertainty” Let alone how to tackle the problem, it seems we can't even agree on whether climate change is a problem at all. To View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
cacophonous." Krupa hit every part of his kit as hard and as fast as he could, "not trying to wake up the crowd," says Schaap, but "trying to wake up the band. He's trying to relax them or scare them beyond their fear." Fear of mistakes is a great inhibitor in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
obligated to take care of each other in the workplace—more so than men are obligated to take care of female employees. Anecdotally, she noted the public outcry when Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer disallowed employees from working at home, undoubtedly View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
you can't prove who you are.” The scope and scale of the project, and its progress so far in already enrolling 200 million people, make this the largest-scale project of its kind in the world, says Harvard Business School Professor Tarun... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
bring data and experiments into their organizations." However, the use of experiments remains spotty, with even data-driven companies still figuring out how to make the most of them. After observing several technology companies View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Firms Respond to Being Rated Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract While many rating systems seek to help buyers overcome information asymmetries when making... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2019
- Op-Ed
Even for Non-Believers, These Are the Next Steps on Climate Change
arguments about whether sea level rise is human caused or even if it’s real; we just need to invest with the probabilities in mind the same way we make risk management decisions under uncertainty about interest rates, exchange rates, or... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber
- 01 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
What to Do When Your Organization Has Dueling Missions
A couple of years ago, hip-hop artist Macklemore topped the Billboard 100 chart with Thrift Shop, a paean to buying inexpensive used clothing from Goodwill Industries. Indeed, like the rapper, millions of people know Goodwill primarily as... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
counterparts. In most countries, firms have become less diversified over time. However, there is no such trend in China. The level of diversification of Chinese enterprises does not vary over our study period (2001-2005), making Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Electronic Health Records Were Supposed to Cut Medical Costs. They Haven't.
its employees and retirees are sent to New England Baptist Hospital for joint replacement surgery. Because the provider is getting paid one price, that leads to greater accountability for patient outcomes, Kaplan says. "When we buy a... View Details
- 18 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Penn State Lesson: Today’s Cover-Up was Yesterday’s Opportunity
he had to fend off impeachment. Had Martha Stewart and Rajat Gupta admitted their roles in insider trading, they could have plea bargained, moved past their ethical lapses, and possibly avoided prison time. Had Best Buy founder Richard... View Details
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
brothers had in total seven children. What should the three brothers do strategically with the company and how should they address the generational transfer? Did it make sense for the brothers to plan on passing their majority ownership... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Jan 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Sustain Organization Diversity?
investors compete for profits—and the competition isn’t fair. In particular, using profits to buy back stock provides immediate (although not as much as many assume) benefits to shareholders. Investments in labor provide much longer-term,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
influence that activist investors such as Icahn are gaining on Wall Street.) Carl Icahn made news last month when he announced he had accumulated a large ownership stake in American International Group (AIG) and said he wanted the company split up. His letter View Details
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
What was the genesis of the research that ended up as "Allocating Marketing Resources"? What was the problem that you were trying to answer? Sunil Gupta and Thomas Steenburgh: Our goal in writing this chapter was to ask how the academic literature might be useful to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Private Meetings of Public Companies Thwart Disclosure Rules
anyone, it must make that information public to everyone. “Place yourself in the position of a hedge fund manager. Why would you spend all this energy seeking to meet with the CEO if it didn't help to significantly inform you in some... View Details
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
can also have dysfunctional effects if it is not placed wisely. Though much research has examined conditions that increase individuals’ tendencies to trust others, we know very little about the circumstances under which individuals are likely to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
their patient populations need, and workers and families can have the freedom and flexibility to make their own health care choices." This statement speaks to a strong attachment to personal freedom and choice in American... View Details
- 16 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?
Wagaroo’s Get a Dog page is a great place to start, Exley says. But for people who specifically want to buy a dog from an ethical breeder, there’s a strategy afoot to help them avoid puppy mills. For shelters and rescue groups that... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
in hospitals. One condition of funding was that she also create a tool to improve the safety climate and encourage senior managers to become more engaged in hospital safety initiatives. “It was not that senior leaders were solving problems, but that they were just... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry