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- 01 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Systemic Racism Can Threaten National Security
expect an equal contribution from your citizens, all citizens must be treated equally,” says Tabellini. “It reveals the costs for society as a whole if you don’t.” Despite the national reckoning in the United States after the killing of George Floyd View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
holders, but also applicable to many disputes involving small amounts. The customary approach When a digital image infringement by businesses is identified, the typical approach used by copyright owners is... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
our study, a key difference lay in the challenges faced by novices and veterans. The core challenge for everyone who performs necessary evils comes from having to do two seemingly contradictory things at... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
comes with costs Recognizing someone else’s emotions, especially negative ones, can come at a cost, the research team says. The person doing the acknowledging is willing to spend time talking through feelings of anger, sadness, or... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Manager or Mentor? Why You Must Be Both
his teaching career at Wharton. As a newly minted twenty-nine-year-old professor there, he said, he found himself the recipient of a steady stream of practical advice from the senior faculty. Don't hang back by the blackboard when... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 02 Apr 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Making the Move to General Manager
they've been learned in the program. At the same time, it provides benefits to the sponsoring organizations by requiring participants to work on personally relevant issues. It does, however, have one other... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
and effective in preventing severe disease, and their accelerated review will go down in history as having saved millions of lives. But COVID vaccines weren’t the first medical products to be brought to market through an expedited process. So how View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 27 Feb 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
How Following Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Harvard Business School spends a significant amount of research funds each year on the health care industry, answering questions such as: How can the business of health care be made more efficient? What can a business do to motivate... View Details
- 10 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley
relentlessly attacked in the US" while those most affected by the act as implemented express "acquiescence or even mild praise." The paper, SOX after Ten Years: A Multidisciplinary Review, is scheduled to be published later... View Details
- 03 Oct 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Skills Gap and the Near-Far Problem in Executive Education and Leadership Development
- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
associate professor at Harvard Business School. “But we also find that a surprisingly large degree of information avoidance doesn't appear to be related to such excuse-driven motives.” By replicating past experiments that sought to... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 06 Oct 2023
- Book
Yes, You Can Radically Change Your Organization in One Week
trust is like a Fabergé egg, and once you break it, you can never rebuild it. Not only is that not true, but you can rebuild it very quickly. We do it through running lots of experiments. Here, we want to have deep humility. We know we're... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
Bulletin: When they have a grace period, how do people use that time and capital differently? Rigol: Giving people more time up front allows them to better match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you... View Details
- 11 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating When the Rules Suddenly Change
new environments. Your strategy must be driven not only by your goals but also by what you will learn while achieving them. Thus, negotiating with an individual NHL player has... View Details
- 26 Sep 2023
- Book
Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target
While most companies have embarked on some sort of digital transformation, many leaders still feel overwhelmed by the challenges of doing digital right. The new Research Handbook on Digital Strategy not only... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
Online—was coauthored by Nancy P. Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor of Management of the Wharton School of Business; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
what the School teaches, and to whom. How can HBS best complement and contribute to the work of the University's world-renowned laboratories as well as to cutting-edge, science-based firms in Boston and beyond? Can the School itself learn... View Details
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
squeezed. But how do you survive if you find yourself in a commoditizing industry characterized by me-too products, overcapacity, and frequent price cuts? How can you make money? 1. Decide which customers... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 28 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Clock Is Ticking: 3 Ways to Manage Your Time Better
significantly influenced by where their colleagues worked at a given point in time, rather than just by where they themselves worked. Our results suggest how important it is to be intentional about where you... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz