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- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
were the basis of a second proxy. When corporate income taxes decline, investment opportunities of the firms improve—fewer taxes means companies can keep a larger fraction... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 21 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19
Organizational Responses to COVID-19 and Climate Change: A Conversation with Rebecca Henderson (Environmental Insights) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge 4. Develop cross-functional teams able to... View Details
Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
- 12 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy?
size of a company's headquarters—it could be that profitable companies waste their money on large headquarters—but it does suggest that companies should not necessarily be looking to minimize the size of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2002
- Lessons from the Classroom
Entrepreneurship: It Can Be Taught
often see staged financing in new venture situations. The fourth is sources of financing. While traditional finance courses have focused on classic corporate financing options, we introduce venture capital, angel investors, strategic... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
department and focused on the "interruption" of customer buying behaviors, the need to acquire new customers, immediate transactions, and the treatment View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Feb 2016
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: New Insights into Career Development
Christensen discusses economic theory and personal happiness. WORKING PAPERS Looking Up and Looking Out: Career Mobility Effects of Demographic... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 25 Feb 2020
- Research & Ideas
For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
more important, Choudhury says, as people increasingly choose to live and work close to where they grew up, often foregoing economic opportunity to do so. “Vacation flexibility View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
business model that best matches the characteristics of the innovation and the needs of the target customer group. For example, one electronics company we View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
ruling can outlaw work that was previously supported by the government. Funding can be canceled with the stroke of a pen. Great People Abandon Promising Projects The projects are less important than the... View Details
- 24 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends
of the ascending chairman and his constituents. That is, a change in chairmanship can only occur if the incumbent retires or is voted out--both View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
argues for the "public's right to know," but suggests two other questions in assessing the need for a takeover: "What's the cause of the problem? And what are the public interests at... View Details
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
wins were more frequently associated with the positive emotions and intrinsic motivation that in turn generated the creativity needed to develop innovative approaches to problems. That doesn't mean that... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
We all know how political influence works: company X donates money to politician Y, and then that pol leans on regulator Z to go easy on his new best friend. In economic parlance, that circle of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
this question, particularly since if this is a question of coordinating efforts, highlighting the risks and benefits of action may help to create a critical mass View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
story is one of many that have evoked dropped jaws among Sucher's students. "When we show the videos in class, it's in an atmosphere of complete and utter silence,"... View Details
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
the older worker is shown to the door," said Harvard Business School Associate Professor William R. Kerr, who recently cowrote a working paper called Skilled Immigration and the Employment Structures View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- What Do You Think?
Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’
employees in the dark and constantly surprising them is a serious form of disrespect." Bert Baker linked it to integrity with this comment: "When I know that my manager is a person View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
John Stuart Mill, philosophers have wrestled with the age-old questions autonomous vehicles are now raising—in new and urgent ways—for businesses and their leaders. “And by genuine ethical decisions, I View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
retired." This led Illysa to comment, "One more reason we must choose not only our careers but our work places carefully: who do we want to become?" Heidi Olson wondered "if the change in hormones when gaining power is... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett