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- 23 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.
potentially shuts out consumers and small businesses when they need debt relief the most. Another could be difficulty in accessing the court system itself as the pandemic worsened and most courts moved proceedings online as a public View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
Policy,” in which University of Michigan Professor Andrew J. Hoffman wrote, “One of the reasons (among many) that the public discourse on critical scientific issues of our day has become so confused is that too many academics, according... View Details
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
vaccination are much greater than those for high technology products. Delays to getting shots in arms can reduce the odds of reaching global herd immunity, reinforce safety and health concerns across countries, and slow down the world’s... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
Case 615-044 Trouble at Tessei In 2005, Teruo Yabe is asked to revive Tessei, the 669-person JR-East subsidiary responsible for cleaning its Shinkansen ("bullet") trains. Operational mistakes, customer complaints, safety issues,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
revenue. The shift from public to private priorities in space is especially significant because a widely shared goal among commercial space's leaders is the achievement of a large-scale, mainly self-sufficient, developed space economy.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 19, 2016
and limiting production volumes; illegal poultry imports threaten food safety while undercutting prices of domestic product; corruption is rampant; debt is exorbitantly expensive; commercial real estate is sparse; and electricity is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat
their counterparts at International. Wal-Mart also tries to aggregate across national boundaries with its IT platform and regional management teams that were created in 2004 to manage global brand development and oversee government and View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52673 Harvard Business School Case 517-050 Beingmate Founded in 2002, Hangzhou, China–based Beingmate was a major producer of infant formula and related products in the high-demand Chinese market. After an infamous 2008... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
New Medical Devices Get To Patients Too Slowly
effectiveness is measured. This forces the FDA to make ad hoc rules for the testing of each new device in order to properly gauge safety and effectiveness. When Stern looked more closely at the numbers, however, she discovered a curious... View Details
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
more than $10 billion in deal volume per year, on average, but they also play an important role in defining the relationship between inside and outside shareholders in every public company. Delaware courts and lawyers in transactional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the government bailed out universal banks and monoline financial institutions alike, both... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
of it doesn’t,” Beer says, citing the example of an oil company that built a $20 million safety training facility but still suffered several fatal accidents nonetheless. “Part of it is a fad. Everybody’s doing training. Everybody’s got... View Details
- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
School Case 218-094 Celgene In February 2011, Adam Koppel, a managing director at Brookside Capital, the public equity arm of Bain Capital, must decide whether to increase or exit the firm’s position in Celgene Corporation. News has... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
percentage increase in nurses' perceptions of safety improvement were no better than that of 48 control hospitals. Thus, we investigated drivers of successful program implementation within the set of treatment hospitals. We found that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?
Every public health crisis—whether it’s the availability of highly addictive opioids or junk food marketing to children—prompts consumers to question how far companies will go for profit. It’s not an unwarranted concern. After all,... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
to answer: Would negative publicity from the accident affect future innovation in that segment of the medical device industry? Would people’s perception of safety issues reduce demand for products using... View Details
- 06 Nov 2012
- Op-Ed
Stop Talking About the Weather and Do Something: Three Ways to Finance Sustainable Cities
The wrath of Hurricane Sandy has illuminated a fundamental question: How do we ensure that our cities are resilient in the face of inevitable future disasters? A destroyed city is not a sustainable city. I'm making the case that it's time to stop complaining about... View Details
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
stock of his corporate sponsors dropped, as did sales of Nike golf balls. A college’s well publicized scandal can open the eyes of prospective students. Source: SIphotography But Luca reasoned that many colleges wrestle with drinking and... View Details
- 01 Feb 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Concierge Management an Answer to the “Big Quit”?
contributing to the so-called Great Resignation (or “Big Quit”) that has gained publicity recently. Quitting in the United States is a major business expense. Applying generally accepted rules of thumb for the annual cost of quitting to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 14 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Does December's Drug-Approval Dash Mean for COVID-19 Vaccines?
Technology, on the working paper Internal Deadlines, Drug Approvals, and Safety Programs, released by the National Bureau of Economic Research in November. Danielle Kost: How should people interpret your research as they watch the... View Details