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  • 13 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

firms often hunt for target companies they see as undervalued. By cutting costs or reorganizing, the acquirer can improve productivity and position the firm for profitable operations or a future sale. In some quarters, View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • 05 Jul 2012
  • What Do You Think?

Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?

that lead to damaged trust may well be "plans and intentions (that are) overtaken by circumstances beyond control." There were even more suggestions about what to do about the trust deficit, other than just making sure that all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 26 Jun 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Japanese Businesses Are So Good at Surviving Crises

action.” Yakult delivers water and instant noodles to survivors They are called the “Yakult Ladies,” a team that delivers probiotic drinks manufactured by Yakult to customers’ homes. Shortly after the earthquake and tsunami destroyed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 21 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

this dramatic run for two years." About $100 billion of the $814 billion the US government disbursed through stimulus payments found its way to the stock market. That was one of the key findings of a recent working paper co-authored by... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

the rest of the time. Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury (@prithwic) is the Lumry Family Associate Professor at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey Polzer: Diagnose before prescribing Employers should each diagnose their particular situation... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 05 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How Hormones Foretell Whether People Will Cheat

There's an old fable in which a scorpion asks a frog for a piggyback ride across a river. The frog fears getting stung along the way, but the scorpion argues that stinging the frog would be fatally stupid; the frog would die and sink and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

behavior bubbles below the radar An employee may not come forward right away to expose wrongdoing at a corporation for many reasons. In the absence of directly observing egregious behavior by a particular individual, an employee may not... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • 29 Nov 2021
  • Research & Ideas

How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family

pay—and that has the potential to lay the groundwork for an overworked, unhappy existence, according to research by Ashley Whillans, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
  • 02 Jun 2010
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?

hope the comments were as helpful and thought-provoking to you as they were to me. Those of you willing to venture to place weights on the determinants of success gave the nod to culture by a wide margin. As Mouaz AlZayyat put it,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

came from a sample of customers.” While the recent emergence of ChatGPT has reignited fears that machines may replace humans in the workplace, the results of this study don’t necessarily mean that AI is going to gut marketing departments,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 04 Apr 2023
  • Book

Two Centuries of Business Leaders Who Took a Stand on Social Issues

While shareholders still reign supreme at many companies, a widespread shift toward more responsible business practices is driving more leaders to take a stand on social and environmental issues today, says Harvard Business School Professor Geoffrey Jones. Jones... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Consumer Products; Fashion; Retail; Green Technology
  • 21 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?

that led to the financial crisis. And while the intricate details of pay plans don't evoke the outrage of multimillion-dollar paydays, curbing the risk-taking incentives embedded in those plans is key to resolving the current crisis and preventing another. That task... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • What Do You Think?

How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?

impostors? Will the person overcome by fears and uncertainty let it show differently than a candidate unconsciously using the feeling to succeed? Should we even allow anyone to interview them, instead... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 08 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

By contrast, while Black entrepreneurs had lower success rates overall in raising money, support did not fluctuate as dramatically with the ups and downs of the Migration Fear Index. The paper finds that... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 15 Mar 2024
  • HBS Case

Let's Talk: Why It's Time to Stop Avoiding Taboo Topics at Work

sensitive subjects. “If we don’t talk about anything that’s real, how can they do their jobs, and why would we follow them?” Many people go to great lengths to avoid broaching controversial topics at work, Wing says, partly because they View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 23 Jan 2024
  • Research & Ideas

How to Keep Employees Productive: Support Caregivers

by Willis Towers Watson found that 40 percent of employees desire family-related assistance, with preference for expanded family leave, bereavement leave or assistance, and additional maternity leave. Companies can attract and retain... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 27 Feb 2019
  • Research & Ideas

The Hidden Cost of a Product Recall

experience them,” Stern says. “At the same time, we see that competitors are likely to accelerate their own innovation activities to take advantage of these weaknesses.” Stern, along with Indiana University Assistant Professor George P. Ball and Georgetown University... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Auto; Medical Devices & Supplies
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • What Do You Think?

How Important Is “Executive Intelligence” for Leaders?

performance of an organization has long been debated, and the debate has focused most recently on the controversy over compensation for CEOs. Jeffrey Pfeffer and Robert Sutton cite studies that maintain that no more than 10 percent of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

street-to-prison cycle that had ravaged his youth. He had passed a high school equivalency test and had earned a college degree, and by that point could envision a bright future as a budding accountant at Arthur Andersen, the firm he... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 23 Apr 2012
  • Research & Ideas

How to Brand a Next-Generation Product

approach indicated small, manageable changes. Given the choice between the FS-E40 and the Spectra, however, they stuck with the FS-E40--presumably fearing the challenges of moving to a significantly new design, Gourville says. “In the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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