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- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
landscape. Small, innovative, entrepreneurial companies are popping up everywhere to address the small business credit market." Mills cites the example of OnDeck Capital, a New York web-based company... View Details
- 23 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Just How Independent are ‘Independent’ Directors?
factor by noting connections such as directors who come from the same city or attended the same school. But that fails to capture the richness of social relations that transcend such formal connections. Researchers found that the social... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 May 2016
- What Do You Think?
What Does Boaty McBoatface Tell Us About Brand Control on the Internet?
control over brands is explicitly ceded to the public for marketing purposes. As I write this, the Binghamton, New York minor league professional baseball team is thought to be on its way to being named the... View Details
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when stretch goals... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
NFL Head Coaches Are Getting Younger. What Can Organizations Learn?
out of favor, as the team failed to perform and Kiffin ruffled the feathers of owner Al Davis, among others, according to an article in the New York Times. There are many other examples of young,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
businesses, I’ll let Speed Trap’s content speak for itself. With respect to the book’s conservative tone, I do think I was reflecting the Zeitgeist. If you are skeptical, read Michael Lewis’s 2002 New York... View Details
- 29 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are First-Time Buyers Left Out of Real Estate’s Rebound?
The United States housing market is no longer the boat anchor dragging down economic growth. Data from the S&P/Case-Shiller Home Price Indices show that average home prices in an assortment of American cities have been on the upswing,... View Details
- 12 Nov 2024
- HBS Case
Inside One Startup's Journey to Break Down Hiring (and Funding) Barriers
different, with unemployment at 27 percent unemployment and recidivism at almost 77 percent in 2022. Some $88 billion was spent per year to run the sprawling prison system in the United States, with the New View Details
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing
example. Many nonprofits and other organizations can't afford to hire data scientists, so DrivenData taps into college students and professionals who are looking to work with real-world data sets. For instance, the company is seeking a model for using Yelp reviews of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
prominent high-tech firms that say every immigrant creates jobs, claiming figures as high as six new American jobs for every immigrant hired," Kerr says. "On the opposite side you have people who are fiercely opposed to the program,... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
"The Problem With Work Is Overwork," The New York Times, May 31, 2015, p. BU4. James Heskett is coauthor with W. Earl Sasser, Jr. and Leonard A. Schlesinger of the upcoming book, What Great Service... View Details
- 15 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
A Mass Crisis Can Overwhelm Health Care. Liberia Found a Solution.
more urgent. Health care workers from areas where there are fewer cases are already traveling to hotspots like Boston and New York to help, Trelstad says. Central to the case study is a decision Last Mile... View Details
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
momentum until the deal was virtually closed. Neither side did its due diligence on their mutual perceptions of the real underlying social contract—partly because of the cultural chasms dividing old-line industrial Japan, creative Hollywood, and the View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
The book Capitalism at Risk first appeared in 2011. The problems it identified with social inequality, global trade strife, and environmental degradation have only accelerated by 2020. The new edition of Capitalism at Risk, subtitled How Business Can Lead, is expanded... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
governed by a set of rules, the rules of play, according to John A. Deighton, Harold M. Brierley Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and Leora Kornfeld, adjunct faculty, Schulich School of Business, York... View Details
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
vision, guts, and a can-do spirit can transform weak institutions, invent wildly creative contraptions, build fantastic new markets, and conquer distant infidels. American men love the populist guy who stands against dominating... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
leaders will report new lessons on the art of building trust during a time when it looks remarkably difficult. Sandra J. Sucher is the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice in the General Management Unit. Marco Tabellini:... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Aug 2014
- What Do You Think?
What Is Warren Bennis’s Legacy?
Summing Up Was Warren Bennis's Optimism Regarding the Future of Leadership Warranted? In a recent obituary for Warren Bennis in the New York Times, former executive and HBS Professor Bill George was quoted... View Details
- 03 Mar 2010
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does “Identity” Affect Economic Performance?
economic success of countries like the U.S.? What do you think? To read more: George A. Akerlof and Rachel E. Kranton, Identity Economics: How Our Identities Shape Our Work, Wages, and Well-Being (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010). Robert J. Shiller,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Herb Kelleher, respectively. While neither were the first to come up with the basic notion on which their businesses were founded, it is not too much of an overstatement to say that Bogle taught us a new way to invest while Kelleher... View Details