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- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
describes in a new working paper, The Better Is the Enemy of the Good. In fact, Exley argues that based on her research, people look for any excuse to avoid giving a donation and then rationalize their skinflint behavior to avoid feeling... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part One]
A whole new way of working, leading, and living is in store for every human being, thanks to the Internet, according to HBS professor Rosabeth Moss Kanter. But how best can people and businesses make their mark? In her View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
respectively, for the NASA Tournament Lab, a new online project designed to tackle complex computational problems by setting up competitions among scientists to come up with solutions. But the findings from... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
hearing at higher levels when you come with a constructive solution—not one that is a demand, but rather one that has alternatives and options associated with it," she says. "Self-organizing is the new mode for getting things... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
on every PC shipped in the late 1990s? Researchers line up on both sides of the argument. A recent working paper by Harvard Business School professor Pai-Ling Yin and Stanford professor Timothy F. Bresnahan offers an answer. Looking at both the pace of adoption of... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Making Biotech Work as a Business
No matter how you slice the numbers, all arrows in biotechnology's financial performance after twenty years are still pointing downward, said HBS professor Gary P. Pisano recently. Despite the great promise of the sector—to improve the understanding of disease,... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
Industry Author: Geoffrey Jones Publication: Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010 Abstract The global beauty business permeates our lives, influencing how we perceive ourselves and what it is to be beautiful. The brands and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new products or holiday packages that match their... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
Act)-leveraged effective federal programs that already existed, while also taking action in some new areas. With the Recovery Act, the federal government significantly expanded its role as a guarantor of small business capital,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?
should be practicing anyway. The only new element is that it has to be practiced in a different (remote) work environment. As David Wittenberg put it, “It might take a bit more time to connect with employees View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Piskorski and David ChenHarvard Business School Case 710-408 Meetup, an online company providing means of arranging face-to-face meetings, is deciding between two options of increasing its revenue by investing to (i) increase View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Oil Price Fallout: What Happens Next?
The last six years have proved just how fluid the international oil market is. And if recent support of the Keystone Pipeline by the U.S. House of Representatives and the Nebraska Supreme Court (which approved the pipeline's path through that state) are any indication,... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
course of four weeks, representatives at two Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) sites offered filers the option of splitting their refunds, depositing all or some of their refund into an existing or new savings account with the Bank... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50914 April 2016 Harvard Business Review Network Effects Aren't Enough By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Simon Rothman Abstract—In many ways, online marketplaces are the perfect business model. Since... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
production of low-income rental housing. While it has grown into the largest source of new affordable housing in the U.S. and its structure is now being replicated in other programs, the LIHTC has also drawn skepticism and calls for its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
only 910,000 homes on the market remained unsold nationwide, an all-time low. And Zillow, the online real estate sales platform, recently revised its 2022 forecast upward, predicting home prices will surge 16 percent nationwide. The... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette