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02 Mar 2007
What Do You Think?

What Is the Government’s Role in US Health Care?

underwriting. Its estimate does not include the costs of sorting out acceptable applicants or denying payments under existing policies, another substantial amount. And it does not include the costs that doctors and hospitals incur in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

05 Dec 2023
Research & Ideas

Are Virtual Tours Still Worth It in Real Estate? Evidence from 75,000 Home Sales

remains white-hot despite high interest rates. “Maybe it doesn't help you to get a 5 percent sales price rise by using visual tools—but it might help sellers in many other ways,” Troncoso says. Virtual reality for house hunting To parse selling behavior, the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Real Estate

18 Oct 2011
First Look

First Look: October 18

PublicationsOptimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations Authors:Bariş Ata, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Intermediaries for the IP Market

Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & David Yoffie

07 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

success. “In a start-up, if a company is doing well, and a founder gets greedy and takes more than his fair share, people sort of forgive him. But when a company is going down, when you protect your own interest it's always at the cost of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2022

Two intense years of pandemic distancing and disruption gave way to another sort of distress in 2022—a year of soul searching, burnout, and quiet quitting. The 10 most-read articles on Harvard Business School Working Knowledge showed a... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

24 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

remorseful in the recording, but he displays some self-recognition. “It wasn’t like I was being blackmailed into doing something, or that I was afraid of getting caught doing it,” he continues. “I, sort of, you know, I View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

23 Jan 2024
Book

More Than Memes: NFTs Could Be the Next Gen Deed for a Digital World

get free entry to “ApeFest,” the music festival we referenced earlier. Even the Vatican has issued NFTs that give holders exclusive access to historical artifacts and documents.* *And of course, these sorts of benefits are typically... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology; Financial Services

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

include an "insurance policy" that pays one party a sum tied to the future realized value of the firm. This sort of arrangement sometimes appears in mergers in the form of "earn-out provisions" and "collars."... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

27 Feb 2023
Research & Ideas

How One Late Employee Can Hurt Your Business: Data from 25 Million Timecards

authors reach their conclusions by correlating the timesheet records to a host of other data points, including daily store sales, scheduling practices, store traffic, and weather. In conducting their analyses, the researchers created a statistical abstract of View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Retail

07 Dec 2021
Op-Ed

Want to Build Better Leaders? Focus on Mindset, Skills, Knowledge

class=infogram-embed data-id=_/zKh5RuKYpwdq5VANdcPm][/div] M: Mindset. The foundational level of the MSK Leader Development Framework pyramid targets a leader’s mindset, in particular, the beliefs that orient the way we handle situations and View Details

Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Shawnette Rochelle

Research Summary

Profitable Souls: Foreign Investment and the Fate of Human Rights

By: Debora L. Spar

This is a project about foreign investment, about what happens when big multinational firms invest in small, poor, and often nasty places. Typically, most observers assume that this is a largely negative relationship: that multinationals exploit the local population,... View Details

25 Aug 2014
HBS Case

Starbucks Reinvented

managers are confronted in their careers with the sort of transformation challenge faced by Starbucks, but Schultz's reflections and actions are instructive for anyone charged with finding sources of strength, innovation, and renewal in... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Food & Beverage

12 Apr 2022
Research & Ideas

Swiping Right: How Data Helped This Online Dating Site Make More Matches

tell if these online matches came to fruition in real life.) Defining desirability To sort matches, the researchers measured desirability, though not in the “supermodel” sense. Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: The team determined... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

31 Jul 2013
Working Paper Summaries

Learning from Double-Digit Growth Experiences

Keywords: by Eric D. Werker

04 Jan 2022
Research & Ideas

Scrap the Big New Year's Resolutions. Make 6 Simple Changes Instead.

country that we go to, we always visit the open market, because that’s where you see real living,” he says. “You see it out in the open.” "Coming down the mountain at full speed, there’s nothing like it." People experience nature in all View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

12 Sep 2022
Research & Ideas

When Experts Play It Too Safe: Innovation Lessons from a NASA Experiment

Lane and her colleagues sorted responses evaluating robot arm designs into three categories of evaluator: unscreened, screened through a human resources-like questionnaire examining their credentials, and those that took a robotics skills... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Aerospace

20 Mar 2014
Working Paper Summaries

Waste, Recycling and Entrepreneurship in Central and Northern Europe, 1870-1940

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Andrew Spadafora

13 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

have proactively sought out minority funds to invest in. “Those are two ideas that aren't hugely expensive, which don't require all sorts of fancy legislation, but that could potentially make a big difference,” says Lerner. You Might Also... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services

04 Apr 2023
What Do You Think?

How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?

and seeing what sort of results and ads he’d get back. He wasn’t happy with what he saw . Some of the ads were completely unrelated to the search . In a normal company, the CEO, seeing a bad product, would call the person in charge of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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