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- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
declare bankruptcy and walk away from as much of its obligation as possible. Potential management responses can get pretty complicated. In this instance, growth trumps greater productivity, because the latter alone raises the dependency... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Fool vs. Jerk: Whom Would You Hire?
comes to getting a job done, of course competence trumps likability. "I can defuse my antipathy toward the jerk if he's competent, but I can't train someone who's incompetent," says the CIO at a large engineering company. Or, in... View Details
Keywords: by Tiziana Casciaro & Miguel Sousa Lobo
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
experiments. Booking.com conducts thousands of tests every month. Evidence from a test always trumps executive opinion. Even the failures that tests often produce are regarded as opportunities for learning rather than costly mistakes. The... View Details
- 15 Dec 2003
- Research & Ideas
The New Global Business Manager
from other cultures think, argue, and perceive things very differently. A manager who is sensitive to that will understand and respond much better in a global context. Just living in that world of trade-offs can be invaluable. Understanding how the need for global... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 12 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Design Enables Discrimination: Learning from Anti-Asian Bias on Airbnb
well-documented by law enforcement groups, advocacy organizations, and public surveys in the United States since COVID-19 upended the world in 2020. In March of 2020, then-President Donald Trump dubbed COVID-19 “the Chinese virus” in a... View Details
- 29 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The History and Influence of Andy Grove
If you look at some of the principles by which he ran that company, you can see that in an upside-down way, he learned them in Hungary. Everything Intel was, Grove's experience in Hungary was not. Here are a couple of examples. "Knowledge power" View Details
- 25 Aug 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: After Charlottesville, Where Does a CEO's Responsibility Lie?
business leaders. Those who had until then been willing to either support Trump or at least mute their criticisms clearly felt that his responses to the protests and violence made that stance no longer sustainable. For example,... View Details
Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda
- 02 Sep 2016
- Op-Ed
The Twitter Election
Every four years, a new American presidential campaign gives a fresh boost to social media. This year the winner is Twitter. Donald Trump has racked up 11.3 million Twitter followers (and counting) compared with 8.5 million for Hillary... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 08 Mar 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: Can the Proposed American Health Care Act Improve on 'Obamacare'?
Yesterday, President Donald Trump endorsed the American Health Care Act (AHCA), a plan proposed by Republican United States lawmakers to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA), more commonly known as “Obamacare.” Democrats rallied against... View Details
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
After Donald Trump won the US presidency in 2016, many Americans who hadn’t voted for him wondered: What exactly motivated so many other voters to choose him? It was a question right in the research wheelhouse of Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2009
- HBS Case
Customer Feedback Not on elBulli’s Menu
creativity and innovation trump any traditional decisions about pricing and operations. "I should charge 600 euros [for a meal at elBulli]," Adrià has said, "but I do not cook for millionaires. I cook for sensitive... View Details
- 15 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019
Business School Case 718-005 Populism in America: Fake News, Alternative Facts and Elite Betrayal in the Trump Era During the 2016 U.S. election, long-time politician Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, and celebrity billionaire Donald Trump, a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
friends—but employers seem hardly to notice the trend. Joseph Fuller discusses why companies should support them. Should US Companies Still Care About the Paris Climate Change Agreement?American President Donald Trump pulled out of the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Editor’s note: Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order indefinitely preventing Syrian refugees from entering the United States, suspending all refugee admission for 120 days, and blocking all citizens of seven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 17 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: As America Recedes from Global Leadership, Its CEOs are Stepping Up
Germany, earlier this month, President Trump was “odd man out” on both global trade and climate change. China, Russia, and India joined the European nations in fostering global trading commitments and climate change. As View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 26 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More
"We are the 'piggy bank' that everyone wants to take advantage of," President Donald Trump told his 61 million Twitter followers in May, days after he hiked tariffs on $200 billion worth of Chinese goods. "NO... View Details
- 06 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
How to Do Away with the Dangers of Outsourcing
Staffing, risks, benefits, and regulatory compliance are all increasingly externalized, most often to parts of the world where need routinely trumps prudence. Rather than manage their own corporate assets, CEOs and other top executives of... View Details
- 11 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices
(again) American political leaders have repeatedly tried and failed to stem spiraling drug costs. US President Donald Trump said in May that he expected drugmakers to voluntarily cut their costs, providing few details. However, a Wells... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
iStock Even as President Donald Trump and Republican leaders seem set on a course to weaken Obama-administration consumer protection regulations, a soon-to-be-published study reports that 7.3 percent of financial advisors in the United... View Details
- 17 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News
posts. Would you share this headline? In both 2021 and 2022, Jordan and colleagues surveyed more than 3,000 participants to gauge their reactions to 588 headlines. The list included false headlines such as “Hispanic Woman Claims Love Child with Trump” and true... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman