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  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

What’s the best way to run a company? The question has bedeviled economists as long as companies have existed. How, after all, do you measure something as soft as management style across the range of different types and sizes of companies in a way that makes it... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 08 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief

the difficulty of decisions and the perverse incentives that can come from them can help reduce this preference for worse news,” says Barasz, “and, ideally, free people to make better choices.” About the Author Michael View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 17 Nov 2015
  • News

Carbon Neutral

Eacho, left, and Minnick (Getty Images) Congress is at a standstill over carbon. One side wants to regulate emissions as a pollutant; the other fears that any move to regulate oil and gas will impede growth and cost jobs. A compromise once pushed by the Obama... View Details
Keywords: Michael Blanding
  • 25 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Economic Cost of Physician Burnout

long run.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStock] Related Reading How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity Clay Christensen on Disrupting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 02 Mar 2021
  • HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

the conversation so we might be able to talk slightly more thoughtfully about things that we have so much trouble talking about today.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 02 Jun 2021
  • Research & Ideas

A Rare Find in Health Care: A Simple Solution to Racial Inequity

Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in the Boston area. [Image: iStockphoto/Hispanolistic] What will it take to make health care in America more fair? Share your thoughts in the comments below. View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 16 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Crowdsourcing Is Helping Hollywood Reduce the Risk of Movie-Making

to gather the information that has accumulated over the course of months or years in a low-touch way, it could help determine the best course of action to take.” The result may not be Crazy Rich Asians, but it may lead to a crazy rich return on investment. About the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Motion Pictures & Video
  • 08 Feb 2021
  • Book

How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect

more, that wouldn’t work,” he says. “But if I am in fact using some of that time to do other things to make the world better, then that’s a pretty good trade-off.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 28 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can Apprenticeships Work in the US? Employers Seeking New Talent Pipelines Take Note

Many American companies have made a four-year degree a default qualification for entry-level jobs, elevating an expensive university education—with a smattering of internship experience—above paths that might prepare young talent for today’s workforce better. In a new... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 16 Jul 2014
  • HBS Case

Marketing Obamacare

the others tallied up levels of enrollment far above the national average. How did they do it? Quelch looked at one of those success stories—Connecticut—for clues. In a new Harvard Business School case co-written with researcher Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health
  • 16 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Why Technology Alone Can't Solve AI's Bias Problem

In a cluttered online world, few can resist the convenience of an automated ranking when deciding what movie to watch on Netflix or which seafood restaurant looks promising in a Google search. But when it comes to finding a job candidate or someone to do a basic... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 09 Jul 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Overcoming the Challenges of Selling Brand New Technology (Hey, Need a 3-D Printer?)

SeventyFour Few phrases in business are more seductive than the one attributed to Ralph Waldo Emerson in the 19th century: “Build a better mousetrap and the world will beat a path to your door.” Unless, of course, what you are selling is something totally new, like 3-D... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology; Consumer Products; Electronics; Industrial Products; Information Technology; Manufacturing; Medical Devices & Supplies; Retail
  • 02 Apr 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Is 'Gut Feel' a Good Reason to Invest in a Startup?

vasilchenko The odds investors face when deciding which startup to back are long enough to make any self-respecting poker player toss in their cards. “Most investors know that when they write a $50,000 check they have a 98 percent chance of never seeing that money... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 16 Dec 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

As the holidays approach, we’ll all experience the temptation to overspend on gifts for our loved ones (and maybe a little on ourselves). When faced with difficult decisions like whether to spend $199 on a knife set or a tool set, we may follow the age-old advice... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail
  • 03 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick sides between Team Chloe and Team... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology
  • 06 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health

When news broke March 24 that a young co-pilot for Lufthansa's low cost-airline Germanwings had intentionally crashed a passenger jet into the French Alps, killing himself and 149 others, people struggled for answers. What would make someone take his own life along... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health; Air Transportation
  • 25 Jun 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

FIELD Trip: Conquering the Gap Between Knowing and Doing

The mission: To sell more laptops. The market: Rural China. The challenge: The business partner wants to know what laptop features would be appealing to customers in rural China. Landing in Shanghai with eight days to find out, a team of six Harvard MBAs did the most... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 21 May 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

CORe: HBS Powers Up Online Program on Business Fundamentals

As a Harvard Business School professor for 20 years, V.G. Narayanan has significant experience using the School's pioneering case method to teach business concepts—introducing a real-world management problem, and then using the Socratic method to help students put... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education
  • 29 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

Are you sure you have everything you need to watch the Super Bowl this weekend? Beer? Check. Nachos? Check. Friends? Check. What about your smartphone, tablet, or laptop? When most people sit down to watch the "big game" this Sunday, the television won't be... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports
  • 28 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Responsible Leadership in an Unforgiving World

Struggle is an experience we instinctively avoid, looking for any way to minimize the hard work and pain involved in getting what we want. And yet—nearly every book we read and movie we watch involves someone struggling mightily to achieve their ends. Like them, we... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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