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- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
historic 5-1 defeat to Eintracht Frankfurt manifested the need for action; the club parted ways with manager Niko Kovač. The Bayern team appointed Flick as new team manager to lead the Bavarians back to success. Flick had worked as an View Details
- 02 Dec 2010
- What Do You Think?
Making Right Choices: Art or Science?
difficult when it is between two roughly equally good or bad alternatives, which is often the case that managers confront. The rapidly growing number of alternatives in our lives is a particular challenge for those wishing to make good... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
Auschwitz, and other members of his (and his wife's) extended family lost their lives in the Holocaust and because of the fighting in World War II. In 1944 and especially early in 1945, young Andy was a hunted child. Life under the... View Details
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
Our daily lives are dictated by familiar routines that go something like this: Wake at 6 a.m., shower, go to work, prepare and eat dinner, tidy up the house, head to bed at 10 p.m. Then, set the alarm to repeat it all over again the next... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
transparency,” says Cullen, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. Meanwhile, the legal landscape has shifted in recent years toward transparency. Laws and policies that protect workers’ ability to discuss... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou, an assistant professor at London Business School, suggest that luxury goods have an important effect on human behavior that is only now becoming clear—and that may have implications for addressing the continuation of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 07 Nov 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Sir Alex Ferguson--Managing Manchester United
values, from the club's CEO to his assistant coaches, the players and the youth team, to his long-time assistant, the kit manager, and even the ladies who take care of washing the team jerseys. All those experiences and interactions... View Details
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
From Emerging Economies to the Global Market: The Case of Embraer
posted a 54 percent jump in sales and a 35 percent gain in second-quarter earnings. A new HBS case study on Embraer, presented in Buenos Aires (in a modified version of how such a case might be taught in a standard classroom setting), offered plenty of room for View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
what we were seeing,” says Ethan Rouen, an assistant professor in the Accounting and Management Unit at Harvard Business School, who conducted the study with HBS Professor George Serafeim and HBS doctoral candidate Botir Kobilov. “This... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
School Assistant Professor Ashley V. Whillans. “We need to stop trying to paint this picture of the perfect employee who never needs help.” Whillans, who studies how people navigate trade-offs between time and money, recently co-wrote a... View Details
- 07 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
responding more quickly and effectively to the pandemic than their government was, demonstrating the faith that consumers have in their brands and the companies that stand behind them. 86 percent of surveyed consumers view their brands as an essential safety net, ready... View Details
Keywords: by Jill Avery and Richard Edelman
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Human error causes at least 90 percent of the 5.25 million accidents in the United States annually. Could driverless cars save lives? Yes, but it may take a long road to get there. “Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are never drunk or tired or inattentive,” says Harvard... View Details
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
working paper by Ariel Dora Stern, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. “There is a huge delay associated with being the first product to enter a new device market” She found that first movers in a particular category spent... View Details
- 26 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?
place to study the misery of joblessness and the value of work, but not to Reshmaan N. Hussam, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School. After reading about the atrocities, she visited the camp in December... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
field study requires a lot of ingenuity and trust from both the academics and the field participants. "Doing Empirical Research in, with, and through Companies" was the topic of a lively session last week at the annual Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
world's poor live in countries where governments lack either the will or the ability to raise living standards on their own. Financial assistance to such governments,... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
that." Protecting Workers Peter Yu, an assistant professor of law at Michigan State University, argued that while it's true that labor is cheaper in other countries because workers are not protected, the cost of View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 15 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions
particularly among younger Americans, to reconnect and live their lives." “There’s an enormous appetite, particularly among younger Americans, to reconnect and live their lives," says Edward Glaeser, the... View Details
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
raising instinctive fears of bodysnatchers looking for a quick payday. It's just these kinds of gray zones that HBS assistant professor Michel Anteby likes to research, areas where questions of legitimacy and moral beliefs are raised.... View Details
- 15 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Want Your Employees to Plan Better for Retirement? Don't Do This
If organizations want to help their employees keep up with the Joneses, turns out it’s better to keep the Joneses out of sight. So suggests an article in the Journal of Finance by Harvard Business School assistant professor John Beshears.... View Details