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- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
the future with great accuracy, they won't say what will cause an event or why. They'll tell you which magazine articles are likely to be shared on Twitter without explaining what motivates people to tweet about them, for instance. To... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
firms face little competition, even after the end of formal periods of patent protection and market exclusivity. Additionally, the evolving technologies of drug development—in particular, the increasingly common use of auxiliary endpoints in View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708448 Children's Hospital and Clinics (B) Harvard Business School Supplement 608-073 Explores the numerous initiatives Children's Hospital and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
relationship using data from 93 change projects conducted by clinical managers at the National Health Service in the United Kingdom. The results show social position, both within the field and within the organization, influences actors'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2023
- HBS Case
A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?
imprisoned come from predominantly minority communities. In 2018, Black Americans were incarcerated in state prisons at nearly six times the rate of White Americans, research shows. Many prison reform advocates say long-standing disparities, such as racial segregation,... View Details
- 12 Apr 2022
- Book
Racism, Colonialism, and Britain's Legacy of Violence
detention, civics and home craft lessons would liberate them, as would forced labor’s sweat and toil and torture’s unfathomable pain. Britain had a new name for this, too. No longer called the “moral effect,” it was now “rehabilitation.”... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
assertive enough, or maybe somehow, because I'm empathetic, it means I'm weak. I totally rebel against that. I refuse to believe that you cannot be both compassionate and strong." We've seen how stress can alter behavior. It's jarring for... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
- 19 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
trials. As a result, this could change the types of products that can be profitably brought to market. To better understand the landscape of precision medicines, we use a comprehensive database of over 130,000 global clinical trials over... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
another. It is a culture geared to the long-term success of an increasingly rapidly changing panoply of strategies in an accelerating competitive environment based on a stream of new ideas and constant change. At no time has the importance of this been driven View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 11 Apr 2024
- In Practice
Why Progress on Immigration Might Soften Labor Pains
important, as in many settings, refugees face severe restrictions on how they can participate in the local economy. When you have a lower- or mid-skilled (non-refugee) migrant coming for US work opportunities, their motivation may be... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 12 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 12, 2008
companies and what they have learned through that process. These entrepreneurs were asked similar questions, such as "How do you build a board of directors in a venture-backed start up?"; "What do View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2020
- Book
From the Plow to the Pill: How Technology Shapes Our Lives
Spar: The causality goes through a couple phases. If you think about what happened to women in the 20th century, the automobile gave women the mobility to leave the home and go to the city or town and do... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2021
- Book
In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded
anticipated what Steve Jobs accomplished at Apple. Silverthorne: As an author, it’s often more challenging to write less about a subject than more. How did you go about organizing your task of covering four centuries of capitalist... View Details
- 10 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Technology and COVID Upended Tipping Norms. Will Consumers Keep Paying?
payment. But what about after taking a ride-share ride? Or after getting a haircut? Many of those establishments prompt tipping either through their online app or on a tablet at checkout. Have you been surprised by the prompt? You’re not... View Details
Keywords: by Anna Lamb, Harvard Gazette
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
Silverthorne: You write that Indonesia's 1980 nationalization of ITT's thirteen-year-old Indostat telecom business "marked the end of an era." What changed? Louis Wells: In the 1980s, a new attitude toward foreign investment swept the... View Details
- 27 Jul 2020
- Book
Reflection: The Pause That Brings Peace and Productivity
Many of us feel time-pressured, tethered to our smartphones so we can stay on top of work and home responsibilities. It can be tough to step off the daily merry-go-round, put our phones, laptops, and to-do lists aside, and find decent... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
(iStockphoto/Rost-9D) Artificial intelligence (AI) is the topic of the moment in circles ranging from science to business to religion. Its potential and implications are driven home when you see robot soccer... View Details
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
that CEOs take home versus average employee pay is taking on added importance in 2018, as public companies in the United States are mandated for the first time to disclose pay ratios between the CEO and employees. Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
This strategic response is more pronounced for vendors whose stocks of patents are small and whose home markets have weak IP systems. Our study is the first to examine the relationship between heterogeneity in national patent systems and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2021
- In Practice
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?
A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman