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- 04 Mar 2015
- What Do You Think?
Can a Laissez-Faire Approach Fix Labor Market Inequality?
regarding wages ." Gerald Nanninga concluded that, "The problem with universally mandated rules of business (be it wages, hours, or whatever) is that it limits strategic options At least with the laissez faire approach, there is... View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
Land Rover, for instance, while the Universal Serial Bus (USB) helps standardize the connection of countless computer peripherals. Intellectual property owners often strive to have their patents included in these standards, such that in... View Details
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
Pavel Kireyev and Ozyegin University professor Koen Pauwels. In it, the authors ask two questions: First, do display ads really make a difference in pushing consumers "down the funnel" to making a purchase decision, and second, how big of... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
analytical skills, and universal frameworks that we can apply to HBS style case studies—the core of participant-centered learning in our MBA and Executive Education programs. The people who planned this pop-up city had to wait until the... View Details
- 19 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Climbing the Great Wall of Trust
of Business, and Janet Murray of the University of Missouri—St. Louis, explores the role that trust plays in forming bonds across cultures and national borders—an area that has received surprisingly scant attention in our globalized... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Digital Designs on the Inner City
businesses can benefit from working for a company and observing how the company sets prices and adjusts to market changes. "One of the biggest destroyers of wealth is somebody who starts a business too soon, without the proper grounding. We need to start thinking... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Qualitative Analysis, edited by Erik Martinez Kuhonta, Dan Slater, and Tuong Vu. Stanford University Press, forthcoming Abstract This chapter assesses the contribution of contemporary qualitative research on Southeast Asia to the field of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively
retail investors much more as being like customers or employees of the company—even using a computer system to track preferences. They have both received awards by IR magazine for good investor relations. So in some ways these cases show that there may be View Details
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
utility. The federal debt could be at $20 trillion, the top income tax rate at 45%, and the S&P 500 at 418. Ferguson, a professor at Harvard University and Harvard Business School, imagines that to be the worst-case scenario. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308035 PublicationsWarmth and Competence as Universal Dimensions of Social Perception: The Stereotype Content Model and the BIAS Map Authors:Amy J.C.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
co-written by HBS doctoral candidate Hayley Blunden, Harvard University post-doctoral fellow Jennifer M. Logg, and HBS professors Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie K. John, and Francesca Gino. “In asking a co-worker for advice, you have this... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2017
- Research Event
Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?
CAMBRIDGE, Mass — On a rainy afternoon in late October, Mohsen Mostafavi stood before a packed auditorium at Harvard University and considered the history of cities in terms of three cooked eggs. Mostafavi, the Dean of the Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 26 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Field Researchers Share Tricks of the Trade
The term "academic research" can conjure images of scientists conducting experiments in a basement laboratory, or of tweed-clad professors poring through old theories to develop new ones. But let's not forget about field research, which happens beyond View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Leadership Lessons From Outer Space
that searches for dark matter and dark energy. "In the long term, it may tell us what the universe is made of," he said. "But the stuff that astounds me the most is the simplest stuff." Virts then admitted what really... View Details
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
engaged in education in ways that are generous, well-intended, effective at alleviating the symptoms of a weak education system, and thoroughly inadequate to help strengthen the system," says Harvard Business School Professor Jan W. Rivkin, a leader with View Details
- 15 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Paul Gompers and Josh Lerner
costly failures. The book seeks to provide guidance to would-be "emulators"—corporate managers, university administrators, and policy makers—about how to adopt the best of venture capital and avoid the common pitfalls that... View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
study with University of Connecticut Assistant Professor Namho Kang; EDHEC Business School Research Associate and Affiliated Professor Gideon Ozik; and Boston College Professor Ronnie Sadka, chairperson of the finance department, Carroll... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
we started to get good at interconnecting them (outside universities and research labs) only about 10 to 12 years ago. Of course, we've become a lot better at it over the past five years, with the explosion of the Internet, intranets,... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
Grant, and Graham Wilson. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010. An abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Business/Management/?view=usa&ci=9780199214273 Working PapersDo Powerful... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace