Subjectivity - Publications - Faculty & Research

12 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?

such as pension administration or IT, that are made available to the business units should also be subject to a market test, even if they can be quite large. It is really only the value adding functions—corporate R&D (if the firm has... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

04 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

Ziff-Davis and is now the ninth largest network on the Internet. The tales of these two firms (along with that of Donna Dubinsky, a member of the HBS Class of 1981 and CEO of Handspring, the maker of Visor personal organizers) are the View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

"You have to be absolutely conscious of standards. The reason Bill Gates is the richest man in the world after the Sultan of Brunei is because he captured the standards. Are we subject to the emergence of new standards?" he... View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

25 Mar 2021
News

Alumni Honor Nitin Nohria and Support His Legacy

Black-owned businesses in the Boston area. The course is cotaught by Senior Lecturers Archie L. Jones, Jeffrey J. Bussgang, and Henry W. McGee, and uses case discussions, presentations from subject experts, and hands-on consulting to... View Details

20 Sep 2011
News

A Taxing Question

proposal: “To reform the current system,” Pozen wrote in Bloomberg Businessweek, “Congress should exempt from US taxes corporate income earned in foreign countries with an effective corporate tax rate of 20 percent or higher. Such earnings could be repatriated to the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Accounting, Tax, Bookkeeping, Payroll Services; Professional Services

08 May 2020
Research & Ideas

We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

avoid gratuitous politically incorrect comments. In return, I’ve never been asked by the School to change the subject of a column. Over much of this time, I’ve benefitted from the outstanding help of Sean Silverthorne, whom I regard as my... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Aug 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

subject seem less mystifying—and more humanizing—to a broad audience of non-financiers. Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients? New research reveals stockbroker behavior that is probably illegal,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Credit, Information, and the Courts

assessments of wealth, the credit reports of the nineteenth century included subjective character assessments, often based on hearsay. Even the Agency’s guides to its own credit reporters admitted that the process was “unavoidably... View Details

01 Sep 2014
News

Making a Statement

female subjects as the protagonists, I could identify with this immediately. It was a project I could readily support.” So could Bethell, a managing director and founding member of Bain Capital in London, who made a gift to the fund in... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Visual Collections

creditors and debtors. The collection consists of more than one thousand woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs from Western Europe and the United States, on the subjects of money, banking, and financial history and ranging in... View Details

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

(1) in the context of denying harm to the environment than in the context of claiming to help the environment, and (2) in situations where behaviors are evaluated subjectively than in situations where behaviors are evaluated more... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

century--the Electronic Century. Halfway through my research, however, I decided to concentrate completely on the latter topic and make chemicals and pharmaceuticals the subject of a separate volume. The rise of Japan in consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

06 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

Where Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?

across the business environment. The subject is also a hot political potato, from Republican President Donald Trump's dramatic trade approach to proposals from Democrats on automation, robots, and job loss. A new study looks at worker... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing

07 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 7, 2015

assumptions, quantitatively estimating likely revenue and profitability, testing out sensitivity to assumptions using scenarios, and assessing the main risks of entry and of staying out. The analysis provided strong support for entry View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Aug 2014
What Do You Think?

What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?

with organizational culture, a matter of interest to him throughout his career. My own favorite of Bennis's writing is a curious little book called Geeks & Geezers. It was the subject of one of these columns in 2002. (Can it really be... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

24 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

The Surprising Link Between Language and Corporate Responsibility

thus subject to the same phenomenon of language. "While we might hope that companies do good for the community because it's the right thing to do, in general they think of it as making a short-term trade-off for a long-term return. It... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

04 Mar 2015
What Do You Think?

Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?

the aggregate global production-consumption gap. But any journey begins with one person or corporation taking the first step in the desired direction." Do you agree with White? What do you think? Original Article Inequality, an important issue in the world today,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Retail

06 Mar 2013
What Do You Think?

Who Should Manage Our Work Time?

productivity always hold a fascination for us. But the last few weeks seem to have brought an unusual flow of material on the subject across my desk. One question this raises is, "Why now?" In short order, I am encouraged by... View Details