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- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
how a truly free market will work as there are no truly free markets today Perhaps a proper study on how big money rigs and biases things in its own favour should be first carried out before deciding how this can be remedied." Ken... View Details
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
year-over-year decrease in the Gini Coefficient (increasing equality) is strongly (and linearly) associated with an increase in household income." Steve Scheinkopf agreed, saying "I used to be an Ayn Rand capitalist, but... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
corporation to do? HBS professor V. Kasturi "Kash" Rangan and HBS research associate Arthur McCaffrey propose a framework for an "ethic of engagement," that embraces standards for global investment that respect poor... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
developments are important. Our study provides the first serious evidence that file sharing cannot explain the decline in music sales in the last couple of years. In addition, in the last two quarters, music sales increased while file... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
business and technology-related elements. It addresses the limitations of prior work, in that it i) is based upon the actual architecture "in-use" as opposed to planned or "idealized" versions; ii) identifies discrete layers in a firm's architecture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
MacIver, and Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World, with Colin B. Carter. (Read an excerpt from The Future of Boards.) Julia Hanna: You've been studying board dynamics since the 1980s. What is a trend... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Jan 2012
- Op-Ed
Where Green Corporate Ratings Fail
Are Influential Corporate sustainability rankings are an influential tool that guides consumers' spending decisions, helps jobseekers select employers, improves workplace environment and morale, and informs socially-conscious investments and pension funds. In addition,... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
still have a ways to go," added Ely, the Diane Doerge Wilson Professor of Business Administration and senior associate dean for Culture and Community. The conference, held from February 27 to March 1, is one of a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 10 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
How Restaurants in Lima and Copenhagen Became Best in the World
profit. How do these chefs express the full extent of their culinary innovativeness while at the same time as creating a return for investors? Two recent Harvard Business School case studies explore this tension through the experience of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?
against Black citizens and resulting Black Lives Matter marches and protests. It prompted Harvard Business School Dean Nitin Nohria to send an email (which quickly became public knowledge) to faculty, staff, and others associated with the... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
academic economics department. Amazon is far from alone in this trend. Some 50 tech companies “have been snapping up economists at a remarkable scale,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
mission is to bring together leading scholars and business practitioners to study and shape the digital transformation of the economy. Accordingly, “Beyond Chicken and Egg” included three industry executives, as well as two academics who... View Details
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
in the first place,” Lloyd wrote. Bealeader commented: “ leadership training is too often: (1) an infrequent, if not one time, event, and (2) offered to a select few.” In citing the pressures of market norms, Clark & Associates... View Details
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
more or less effective. We develop these ideas in a multi-method study of a hospital emergency department (ED) redesign. Before the redesign, people coordinated in ad-hoc groupings, which provided flexibility because any nurse could work... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
as dangerous as Power and others speculate. Based on two detailed case studies and 53 additional interviews with risk-management staff at five other major banks over 2001-2010, this paper shows that relentless risk measurement is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 20
Publications Market Reaction to and Valuation of IFRS Reconciliation Adjustments: First Evidence from the UK Authors: Joanne Horton and George Serafeim Publication: Review of Accounting Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
gestures in negotiations because people feel comfortable initiating negotiations with them and believe they signal cooperation (Study 1). We show that handshakes increase cooperative behaviors, affecting outcomes for integrative and distributive negotiations. In two... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing
first job. "We are talking about the 'knowing-doing gap,'" says MacCormack. "The very first time you put theory into practice, you learn all the challenges associated with applying the theory. We wanted to add a course that... View Details