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- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
percentage of Democrats working at utility companies, but a lower percentage of Democrats employed at energy companies. “It's quite striking to see these large differences in the political composition of certain industries and certain... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 05 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?
the start of the influenza season in the United States. “It’s quite strong evidence that just the natural course of your day bringing you by the flu shot clinic increases your likelihood of getting a flu shot” Getting employees to go to... View Details
- 28 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Manufacturing Matters
on the country's industrial commons, which represents the collective capability to sustain innovation. Gary Pisano: Is there a future? Yes. It's not too late. There's still a manufacturing base in the United States, and it's quite large... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Lessons from the Classroom
What’s Next & So What? Leading in the 21st Century
0.5. Kotter: But the old standard is irrelevant. The question should be, "How would we rate the nation's leadership capacity against what we see coming at us?" Perhaps a generous way of saying it is, we fear the View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 02 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
Four Companies that Conquered America
company does not have a strong presence in the USA. So how do you penetrate the U.S. market? The annals of business are littered with foreign companies that have never quite succeeded in the USA. But here are four companies that have.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 28 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business
restaurants awarded five stars on the popular Yelp review service managed to carry on business as usual, despite a $1 increase in the minimum wage. But restaurants with a mediocre 3.5-star rating didn’t fare as well; the same $1 wage... View Details
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
given to applications, the coarseness of rating patterns, and the sellers' dynamic certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
to rate each item on a 7-point scale ranging from practical (1) to pleasurable (7). Keinan also asked the shoppers to circle one of two answers for each item: "Because I need it" or "Because I want to have it (although I... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
case capturing some of the dilemmas faced by African economies. South Africa is the largest economy in Africa by quite a distance, and is an illustration of the macro determinates of foreign direct investment, he said. Werker, whose... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: Bounce Back
Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot Illustration by Michael Sloan/The i Spot The rate at which people have been signing on to social media in the last decade had many marketers wondering if it might replace email altogether as a way... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed!... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
important, we found no evidence that new ecommerce shoppers were less loyal than existing customers. In fact, we observed quite the opposite: Customers who started buying online during the most severe lockdown conditions exhibited higher... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
measures, commenting that "the pain should be borne by greedy and equally irresponsible lenders." JTG, while agreeing, didn't quite see it that way, suggesting that citizens as well as lenders share responsibility. In his words:... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Casino Payoff: Hands-Off Management Works Best
the MGM-Mirage are quite generalizable to other industries," Martinez-Jerez says. "There are many decentralized employees with the rights to act on behalf of customers, and that's quite common in other... View Details
- 09 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Speed Up Energy Innovation
Is there a special sauce for stimulating innovation in the energy sector, a concoction to spur cost-effective developments toward solving the climate change problem? HBS professor Rebecca Henderson doesn't claim to know all the ingredients for that special sauce. But... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Batteries and Chocolates
striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled View Details
- 21 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know
it came down to money. In previous studies, Fletcher says, participants were offered a higher pay rate per correct answer in the competitive scenario, so it's possible that men respond more to higher pay View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
recommendations being made to restore trust? A: I think a lot of the recommendations will turn out to be helpful—whether it's trying to either ensure rotation of engagement partners (which we've had for quite some time now) or,... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 09 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Hold or Fold? Sizing Up Business Risk
exit the game. Once you've placed the bet, though, you always have to choose one of three broad options, which we'll call Option A, Option B, and Option C. Option A is to stay in the game as an active player until some later time or until someone or something boots you... View Details