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- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
traditional banks, to display loan terms and costs, inconsistently. Regulators should require disclosures that are clear and concise, and let borrowers decide what is best for them. Model disclosures being developed within the online... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
that colleagues support one another's efforts to do the best work they can. That has always been true for efficiency reasons, but collaborative helping becomes even more vital in an era of knowledge work, when positive business outcomes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 4, 2007
desired occupational identity. This practice produces an engaging form of control that relies on management's selective allocation of identity incentives. These findings document a previously overlooked type of control: one reliant on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
consistent with these ideas, some policy practice and much of the academic criticism of policies inspired by Porter's cluster work have taken a different direction, looking instead into ways of creating clusters. The fifth section... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
likelihood that non-compliant practices are detected, and the likelihood that detected violations are punished. However, the type of regulatory regime-compliance-based or "pay-to-pollute"-and three important cost thresholds also... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 3, 2007
Philips Electronics, which is headquartered in the Netherlands, as an example of a company with a two-tiered board. The company is governed by both a supervisory board and a board of management. Examines the role, dynamic, and best View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
Strategic Value Of Values: A New Guidance System By Rosabeth Moss Kanter Any company can say it has values, but what Banco Real did was to embed them in business practice and make them credible to the skeptics inside and outside of their... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
and differences in entrepreneurship as practiced in the U.S. and abroad? What are the reasons for these differences? A: I'll start with a key similarity. The basic notion that people act in their perceived self-interest is a given. In... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Jun 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Promise of Channel Stewardship
the chain best positioned to create a process that benefits all. In this excerpt, Rangan discusses the promise of channel stewardship. (Look for an HBS Working Knowledge interview with Rangan next month.)Senior managers of most of the... View Details
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
puts the increasingly complex job of Chief Executive in a very real context. It serves as a practical guide by allowing you to walk alongside Jim as he takes on his new role and all its attendant challenges. Jim's story-developed in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
No one is penalized for asking for help or making a mistake. These companies also employ four distinct approaches to day-to-day work: They use the best available knowledge (which is understood to be a moving target) to inform the design... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
http://ezp-prod1.hul.harvard.edu/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1146/annurev-orgpsych-031413-091305?nosfx=y August 2013 Harvard Business Review Manage Your Work, Manage Your Life By: Groysberg, Boris, and Robin Abrahams Abstract—Work/life balance is at View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
countless incremental fixes-attacking fraud, reducing errors, enforcing practice guidelines, making patients better "consumers," implementing electronic medical records-but none have had much impact. It's time for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
That's true because most innovations fail, so it's not practical to build a new infrastructure to support every innovation until you find out they succeed. So it's inevitable they will be mismatched for some time. We have to have... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
dishes on la carta, and in every dish there is not one ingredient that's identical to another. They're all different." Pisano believes that managers and management scholars alike can learn an important lesson in Oldani's ability to marry creativity with intense,... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
historical and hypothetical scenarios. Additionally, we demonstrate that the exponential penalty approach exhibits exceptional computational performance, implying practical viability. Our results suggest that this approach could lead to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
teams within and sometimes outside their organization. This raises questions like: How will you innovate? How will you bring out the best ideas in your teams working together near and far? How will you drive change within the organization... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
from economics and sociology on intra-household bargaining elucidates how negotiations over the allocation of domestic labor at Level 2 influence labor force participation at Level 1. In conclusion, we integrate practical implications... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 27, 2009
Abstract This paper constructs an index of financial sophistication that, in comprehensive data on Swedish households, best explains a set of three investment mistakes: underdiversification, risky share inertia, and the tendency to sell... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace