Meanings Of Work And Retirement - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

you see as some of key factors that led to this? Luis Viceira:The Dow is an index that has traditionally included the largest companies traded in the US stock market. Its growth since its inception reflects the growth View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated... View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

20 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Globalization Hasn’t Killed the Manufacturing Cluster

and researcher Giulio Buciuni, of the University of Venice Ca' Foscari, address the question of when clusters survive View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Manufacturing; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

focused on housing and household debt for good reason: In the United States, a residential housing loan collapse touched off the deep financial crisis of 2008. But in the decade-plus since, the focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

be displayed. Making Niche Profitable Zhu's interest in how different revenue models affect content, consumers, and companies generates a number of interesting "what ifs." For example, what if a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

13 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees

accommodating high-risk workers. They offered the following advice, based on recent research: Encourage sick employees to stay home with paid time off Gary Johns, professor of management at Concordia University: Many employees continue to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

colleagues write in the working paper. "Firms that received loan guarantees, and their employees, enjoyed far more stability than their counterparts." In the United States, where small businesses... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

communications readers used by Apple Pay unless consumer demand is high. First off, Apple must convince merchants to adopt its service, says Willy Shih, the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Management... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care

the current plan are here.) Transcript edited for length and clarity. Sean Silverthorne: Why should citizens be interested in tax reform beyond what it means for their tax bill on April 15? Matthew... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

Improve Collective Intelligence, written by Ethan Bernstein, the Edward W. Conard Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School; Jesse Shore, assistant professor at Boston University’s Questrom School View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

24 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Do We Tax?

There is a mismatch between what many scholars assume is the purpose of taxes and what most people believe for themselves. That mismatch means that the advice experts offer to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Legal Services

16 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Can Applied Economics Save Homeless Puppies?

an animal shelter near her hometown. “I visited the shelter to earn a Girl Scout badge, but it immediately became a passion,” she says. More than a decade later she was sitting in a behavioral economics class at Stanford University, studying the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

What Really Drives Your Strategy?

the frustrations that can emerge as we talk to people who work with or study strategy is they read these ideas and say, "OK, so the resource allocation is complicated and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2008
What Do You Think?

Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?

Yet others viewed it as a means of getting more for less out of people, something to be tried when other approaches don't work. Howard Esbin likens it to "strategic... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

corporations are primarily economic instruments, the purposes of the corporation actually get defined and worked out differently in different countries View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

15 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers

in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

(iStockphoto/Sanja Radin) Increasingly, I hear and read about questions such as: Why are my best tech people leaving our great company to work on something called crypto and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

27 Jul 2019
Op-Ed

Does Facebook's Business Model Threaten Our Elections?

technology-driven efforts to sway their votes, and from as far away as Russia, according to US government claims. Social media in general and Facebook specifically were the primary weapons View Details

Keywords: by George Riedel

11 Jun 2012
Research & Ideas

When Business Competition Harms Society

area and $11 elsewhere in the state. Because these facilities don't have the option of competing for business on the basis of price, they compete solely on the basis View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Auto

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