Quit Rate - Publications - Faculty & Research

18 Jun 2007
Op-Ed

Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field

payoffs to investors and tax authorities, can lower compliance costs of the corporate tax, and can allow for a lower corporate tax rate on a wider base. Concerns over greater alignment between tax and financial accounting are important... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

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

16 Oct 2013
Op-Ed

Response to Readers: Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking

With more than 7,500 views and 180-plus tweets, I want to thank everyone for taking the time to read the original HBS Working Knowledge piece, The Case for Combating Climate Change with Nuclear Power and Fracking, and, in particular, for sharing your thoughts with one... View Details

Keywords: by Joe Lassiter; Energy; Utilities

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

to social problems through market solutions, the rate of return on these deals should be at least as high as traditional early stage investments. The big winners were in the technology and health care sectors, and in another group of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

even with all that money flowing to ads, executives are doing quite a bit of hand-wringing over whether they actually produce sales. Luca and Dai thought they could help answer that question. Besides, previous research measuring impact of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

12 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

with a career and seeks to find employees who are looking for one, too. In fact, during the training period, all trainees are offered $2,000 to quit Zappos: Most decline the offer. Zappos's approach to managing its employees results in... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto

26 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

The Power of the Noncompete Clause

even those with the most noble intent of upholding their NDAs will "inevitably disclose" what they know in the course of everyday work. As I noted earlier, states differ in their enforcement of noncompetes. California has quite... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

who was terminally ill, asked Wright when he was going to go into business for himself. "That was the catalyst—after my dad died, I walked in and quit my job." In 1989 Wright began establishing endorsement opportunities for Bay... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

08 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

A: I think good salespeople are able to read faces and size up prospects well. They are able to empathize with their customers and to see their point of view. They also have to be able to handle rejection well. I recall that the turnover View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

24 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

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

important interactions with expensing. That is the fourth piece they should pay attention to. The fifth piece is the change in the structure of passthrough taxation which is really quite revolutionary. Weinzierl: There's been some talk... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

robots, or sock puppets. But there is a point at which an object looks almost human, yet not quite human enough, and the result is disturbing. It's called the uncanny valley. And for Christine Looser, it's the starting point for a line of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

07 Oct 2014
First Look

First Look: October 7

difference across innovation systems is whether disclosure is of intermediate progress and solutions or of completed innovations. We present experimental evidence that links intermediate versus final disclosure not just with quantitative tradeoffs that shape the View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots

of Colts fans. Their initial hypotheses correlated quite a bit with where everybody was from and what teams they liked, but I have to say, at the end of the day, the truth prevailed.” That truth will remain undisclosed for the benefit of... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

Lakhani said the question comes down to this: Do we have the right labor force? His research team recently held a three-weeklong contest that looked to improve the accuracy and processing speed of an algorithm designed to analyze genomic data. With a prize pool of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

11 Jun 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching the Next Generation of Energy Executives

You may think that being an energy executive—especially a manager in a leading oil company—might be the easiest job around. Just flip the production switch, and watch gas prices head toward $4 a gallon. But students enrolled in Harvard Business School professor Forest... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Energy; Utilities

29 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 29

retention rates over one-, two-, and three-year horizons. The documented relationship between the use of online banking and customer retention remains positive even after controlling for self-selection into the online channel. We also... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Waking Up a Sleeping Company

at Medtronic, would feel uncomfortable with the changes I was proposing. Many of our leaders seemed quite comfortable with the culture just the way it was. To link the cultural changes to our mission, I framed them in terms of helping... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

Germany in 2000, the labor costs were about 25-26 Euros per hour. In the Czech Republic it's about four Euros per hour. So it's quite dramatic. But how you assess these costs depends on productivity levels as well. And German firms are... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

06 Nov 2012
First Look

First Look: November 6

the macroeconomic potential-for incomes, productivity, and delivery of critically needed services-is huge. A call for "better management" may sound prosaic, but given the global payoffs, it's actually quite radical. Read the... View Details