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- 31 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
One Quarter of Entrepreneurs in the United States Are Immigrants
immigrants are responsible for a lot of great companies,” says William Kerr, the Dmitri V. D’Arbeloff — MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. “After all, they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Why You Are Unhappy at Work
feeling. What can be done to improve the office environment? Research by Harvard Business School professors suggests these problems are not only common—but solvable. Here are some of our most insightful stories about unmotivated employees... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers
Choosing the right software platform is a critical task for developers. It can be a business life-or-death decision picking between Android or iPhone, Amazon Web Services or Google Cloud Platform, Xbox or PlayStation. At the same time,... View Details
- 05 Dec 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?
favors so-called "barbell strategies" in which a portion of the business portfolio is created to guarantee survival in the event of a Black Swan so that the more innovative and entrepreneurial remainder of the portfolio can be... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
http://hbr.org/search/214005-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 114-009 Contempo Technologies, Inc. and Betty Sievers: A Clash of Interests in an Uncertain Time In an era of rapidly evolving systems of health care delivery, the impact... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why dot.coms Will Rise Again
Unenlightened senior executives, says HBS professor F. Warren McFarlan, have been known to make exultant but uninformed remarks about the dot.com demise. Among such comments: "Thank God that disease is over! It's back to business as... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
"disrupting" is of course the goal of their business activities, panelists said, it is also no small trick to cut through the entrenched practices surrounding established incumbents. Nor is it... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Stop Thinking of Climate Change as a Religious or Political Issue
ideologies at the door and approached the topic as we do any other topic involving investment under uncertainty. OP-ED COLLECTION The Business of Climate Change What role should business leaders play in... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49544 November 2015 Annual Review of Economics Peer-to-Peer Markets By: Einav, Liran, Chiara Farronato, and Jonathan Levin Abstract—Peer-to-peer markets such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb allow View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
disposable as a BIC pen. Small wonder they’ll react as owners.” DRE added that job renting is code for job instability. “When you kill the opportunity to own a job, it is only a matter of time before the economic circle shrinks to (the)... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an improvement that may seem View Details
- 23 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Status: When and Why It Matters
like to believe that people pay for status for purely symbolic reasons, but the empirical evidence for that has been weak at best," says Harvard Business School's Daniel Malter, an assistant professor in the Strategy unit who studies... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
the fact that a large portion of new businesses is created in the informal sector. The authors identify the main obstacle to this area as the country's insufficient access to credit for small entrepreneurs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
growth countries also tended to show worse performance on a number of business environment and governance indicators. From this analysis, lessons are drawn for Liberia. We conclude that with a continued inflow of aid, foreign direct... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
Evolve!: Succeeding in the Digital Culture of Tomorrow (HBS Press).Q: Many people rushing to use the Internet in their businesses have made some real mistakes that you warn your readers about. What are some of them? A: Tongue in cheek, I... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
'70), founder of beauty tool company Tweezerman. "tweezerman: Should We Take The Business To The Next Level Of Growth?" From Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams that Got them Right By Thomas H.... View Details
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
Every business leader faces difficult tradeoffs when working to make a company both profitable and purposeful. But leaders who articulate a company’s deep purpose can tap into that broader vision to help them navigate short-term decisions... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 07 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 7, 2016
by performing automated evaluation of the quality of writing, sentiment estimation, and topic extraction. By analyzing 5,830 reviews from 57 hotels in Moscow, Russia, we find that (i) negative reviews tend to focus on a small number of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
create the environment to have financiers show up. In India, there is bank branching by the state bank of India that provided capital to farmers, consumers, and small businesses in rural areas, where private... View Details
- 11 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t
growing trend for firms with international branch offices, says Harvard Business School professor Jordan Siegel. He discusses the issue in a new study titled "Multinational Firms, Labor Market Discrimination, and the Capture of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel