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05 Mar 2001
What Do You Think?

Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?

Productivity will improve as the alternation of job assignments eliminates the 'indispensable' worker." Connie Luthy says, "I have practiced 'Just-In-Time' hiring ... in the pharmaceutical industry.... I have advised my client... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

on the intensity of the work and did not want it to be different. Even those who wanted more time for their personal lives presumed they had no alternative but to leave the... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive Measuring the Perceived Liquidity of the Corporate Bond Market Feedback or ideas View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

03 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Healthcare Conference Looks At Ailing Industry

medicine is that most therapeutics were directed at symptoms, not causes.—Eric S. Lander With that in mind, about 200 HBS alumni working in the healthcare field converged in mid-November at the Charles Hotel in Cambridge View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

14 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

alternative mechanisms by which private information about firms' R&D activities can be revealed to investors. I investigate the degree to which both mechanisms lead View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Best for the Corporate Brain?

Summing Up Those offering insights into ways to make the corporate brain function more effectively suggest that the corporate brain may be as complex as its biological counterpart. Respondents alternatively... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

26 Jun 2013
Op-Ed

A Roadmap for Afghanistan’s Economic Future

outcomes are now visible. The trajectory Afghanistan is now on pays too little attention to new enterprise and job creation and is predictably dismal. The alternative scenario I've described has a brighter... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

As yet, there is no foolproof way to monetize social capital. If there were, Ello would be well on its way to financial success. The upstart social networking site set the internet abuzz recently by... View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Publishing; Financial Services

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

box, and the remote. Your breakfast-included hotel bill still features separate prices for bed and for breakfast. Partitioning should only be used by those sellers who want to sensitize people View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

15 May 2019
Research Event

The Unconventional Capitalism That Shapes Business History

Steiner, who in 1913 founded Anthroposophy—a “science of the spirit,” provides further evidence on alternative capitalisms to the American capitalism of today. Steiner and his followers created a new way of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Education

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

conclude that business leadership would be wise to push past pride and the false sense of self importance, and include within the decision making process those in the enterprise who know the actual nuts and bolts of the business."... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

nation's debt? they are the ones who chose the representatives." As an alternative to insolvency, forgiveness of debt combined with other measures had appeal for several respondents. Yadeed Lobo, while... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

09 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal

on the form of the plan, and they rarely examine the available alternatives. Often, they aren't even aware that alternatives exist. But such a laissez-faire approach, as I've seen over and over again, can lead View Details

Keywords: by Brian Hall

13 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning

be the case with new technologies); they may be skeptical of the products because previous offerings have failed to live up to expectations; or they may have personal objections View Details

Keywords: by Youngme Moon

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep

from the Working Paper.Ann Cullen: How is your system different than traditional mutual fund rating systems? Cohen: Our method takes advantage of a wealth of previously unexploited information about fund holdings. Standard metrics rate funds based on past performance.... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

23 Aug 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?

green business profitable is an even harder journey. For society's sake, entrepreneurs must be prepared to make that journey, says Geoffrey Jones. A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Green Technology

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

efficiency, because some schools are strategic players that rank students in order of preference, while others order students based on large priority classes. Therefore it is desirable for a mechanism to produce stable matchings (to avoid... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for Max Bazerman

Cone's property. After the seizure, Cone switched from sustainable forestry to massive clear-cutting on other parts of his land—a disastrous decision from both an economic and environmental perspective. An View Details

Keywords: Re: Max H. Bazerman

31 May 2023
Research & Ideas

With Predictive Analytics, Companies Can Tap the Ultimate Opportunity: Customers’ Routines

method to plot when enough bikes are needed to cut congestion or improve bike traffic flow. The next step, Ascarza says, may be to study how people who are traveling as part of... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Transportation

05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

for years to come. Unpredictability inflicts a heavy cost on scientific progress, whether in domains like stem-cell research or in searching for safe alternative fuels. It damages the United States'... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

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