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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
because it draws upon the power of the founding myths of the country (the myth of success, the frontier myth, the city on a hill) and... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 22 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs
Kerr says. "Some European countries also have workforces that have been aging substantially, and the replacement rate in the population for some of these countries is even... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
iPhoto This weekend the NFL is concluding its annual draft. Up to 255 college football players will be distributed over three days across the 32 NFL teams. In the midst of the coronavirus pandemic, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell made the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2013
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela
Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
headed? If so, is the question of who should choose your boss becoming "a little irrelevant"? What do you think? Original Article Recent events surrounding the walkout View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
"nudge" help here? What do you think? Original Article Books with one-word titles are in fashion these days. Two current ones, Nudge and Enough, help us understand the roots of the current housing... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
just in the U.S. The rise of the charismatic CEO, escalating pay, and the consequences of Tyco or Global Crossing—these have reverberations across the world. It undermines the medium-term and long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
with local politicians [who] had an interest in getting reelected," Vallée says. "However, this happened at a large cost to the taxpayer, as the positive effects of the loans were short-lived, and interest... View Details
- 30 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Looking Behind Bad Decisions
African government take a stand against an effective AIDS treatment drug? The inability of government to make wise tradeoffs—give up small losses for much larger gain—has been investigated by HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
percent for the market as a whole. New Capital Market Instruments The press and Wall Street are focused on the 24 countries which now have REITs and the 28 countries which are expected to have REITs over the... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
household name in many areas of Indian society. She uses an amazing metaphor in the interview. “India is a country that lives in several centuries simultaneously. We have people living back to back from the... View Details
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
clarity. “Financial crises come out of periods of overheated credit markets.” Rachel Layne: Part of your research with HBS Professor Samuel Hanson explores market behavior,... View Details
- 02 Mar 2017
- What Do You Think?
Is China About to Overtake the US for World Trade Leadership?
improve their trade ‘interoperability...’" Nevertheless, "the US will stay a country with a young and ambitious population benefiting from the flow of immigrants while China is rapidly growing old... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 Feb 2001
- What Do You Think?
Do MBA Programs Face “The Innovator’s Dilemma”?
"dilution" resulting from the introduction of an online MBA by a highly regarded onsite program, Joshua Doherty questioned the futures of top-tier schools that may lose their ability "to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
If a Car Can Drive Itself, Can It Make Life-or-Death Decisions?
version of what philosophers call “the trolley problem” and pits fallible humans with brains and souls over machines that can’t overthink a situation or get tired behind the wheel. The “trolley problem” View Details
- 01 Jul 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Super Stretch Goals Only for the Very Young?
abandon their ethics to get it.” When applied to individuals, the question prompted an interesting exchange between Sandeep and Phillippe Gouamba regarding the effect of wealth and poverty on the tendency... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
video case studies of laid-off workers, as well as a couple of technical notes for students—one focusing on best practices for managers as they consider workforce reductions; the other on the overall View Details
- 31 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
State and Local Governments Peer Into the Pandemic Abyss
balances laid off more workers, regardless of their levels of sales tax reliance, the researchers found, but in cases of high sales-tax dependence, having more cash on hand... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
developing their double nature: male-female. Only the third group of people are 'good' leaders with complex thinking, agility and sensitivity." It prompts the question: How important is leadership gender in influencing the way we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett