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- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
services in Vietnam, for example, might go to an inner-city neighborhood of Boston with a high concentration of foreign nationals, to survey them on their banking habits and test out new ideas for changing these habits. Theory Into... View Details
- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?
Statistics survey of job loss among workers with three or more years of tenure in 2013 through 2015, about 37 percent of lost jobs was due to plant closings or relocations, some portion of which represents jobs that left the country. But... View Details
- 18 Oct 2016
- Op-Ed
Why Business Should Invest in Community Health
corporate attention than employee, consumer, and environmental health. In a survey of more than 80 companies attending the Building a Culture of Health conference at Harvard Business School in April 2016, a lower percentage of respondents... View Details
- 29 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 29, 2007
and Related Research, no. 458 (May 2007): 202-219 Abstract Direct-to-consumer advertising (DTCA) has become an influential factor in healthcare delivery in the United States. We evaluated the influence of DTCA on surgeon and patient opinions and behavior in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Women Negotiating in the New Millenium
difference in men and women," said Riley, who has worked on the Harvard Law School-based Program on Negotiation. "We were slightly more cooperative, and men slightly more competitive." One more recent negotiation study, though, began to reveal a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
finance. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207086 Survey Masters LLC Harvard Business School Case 107-061 A small survey research partnership has reached the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
Jumpstarting Innovation: Using Disruption to Your Advantage
change and disruption that is going on in the business environment. Indeed, almost 50 percent of the CEOs surveyed in the IBM study said the source of innovation was from changes in the business environment. Less than 20 percent reported... View Details
Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
between level of peer interaction, group and solo practice, and maintenance of certification exam performance. Design, Setting, and Participants: Longitudinal cohort study of 568 physicians taking the 2008 maintenance of certification exam. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Feb 2011
- What Do You Think?
Are We Going “Back to the Future” In Researching Management?
observers are both looking back at what we've accomplished so far and looking ahead to what the future brings. The Harvard Business School faculty hasn't escaped this phenomenon. Plans have been made for a survey that will ask two... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
they often brush them aside in favor of using their own intuition. Sure enough, that pattern emerged in the research team’s survey of 119 full-time workers from a variety of industries: 59 percent said they had consulted with multiple... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
surveys that get very low response rates. Instead, we’ve been focusing on angel groups that have systematic processes for looking at would-be companies and evaluating them. In particular, we have a forthcoming working paper looking at 13... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
Looking for CEOs in All the Wrong Places
business publication, for example, recently cited a survey that found that two-thirds of the world's largest companies had replaced their CEOs since 1995. More than one thousand left US companies last year alone. Khurana's interest in CEO... View Details
- 07 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 7, 2007
employed in a study of the market for federal judicial law clerks conducted in 1998-2000, we have broadly surveyed both federal appellate judges and law students about their experiences of the new market for law clerks. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
By: Coates, John C., Jesse M. Fried, and Kathryn E. Spier Abstract—We report the results of an online survey, conducted on behalf of Harvard Law School, of 124 practicing attorneys at major law firms. The survey had two main objectives:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
after an event passes, according to recent research based on a survey examining French firms with fewer than 250 employees during the global financial crisis last decade. Conducted over a seven-year period starting in 2008, the research... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
place," Srinivasan says. "That is a value judgment, to be sure. But it may not be a bad thing if certain companies are restricted in their access to financing, simply because loss of trust in public capital markets has big consequences for the entire... View Details
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
manager changes his or her hours, it can upset a delicate balance of work schedules, family commitments, and child care, which in turn can derail increasingly fragile family budgets. In a survey of Wal-Mart employees, for instance,... View Details
- 09 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Career Advancement Without Experience
do I get there?" For their study, O'Mahony and Bechky surveyed two strikingly different groups: high-tech contractors and film crew members. While roles in the film industry tend to be more fixed—a key grip on one project will most... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
coaching. Linda Powell described several important elements of an effort to support inclusion this way: “Organizations must have clear policies on harassment, (then) insist on leadership that models appropriate behavior, effective mechanisms for investigating charges,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett