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- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
but also as a lab for many basic questions in finance. For example, multinationals must design repatriation policies for their subsidiaries around the world. Their View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 17 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking
discreet but regular ways for staff and supervisors to engage in officially forbidden yet tolerated practices at work. "Gray zones emerge when official company rules are repeatedly broken with, at minimum, a supervisor's tacit or... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues
that only 30 percent of employees are engaged in their work. The issues raised are ones I have worked on for many years. With the drive for higher productivity in the workplace, there is little doubt that... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
A recent study suggests that America’s political polarization is driven more by incorrect beliefs and stereotypes about the other side than distaste with those people. That should be good news for those wondering how to knit polarized... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Summing Up Hard-wiring Performance Is Great In Concept...but.... The responses to the concept of promising and delivering results rather than selling products or services are in, and you've agreed that hard-wiring performance is a winning concept that provides benefits... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
For years, the United Kingdom sent out letters to delinquent taxpayers urging them to pay their overdue tax bills. The letters cost the government tens of millions of pounds per year, but, unfortunately, most citizens ignored these pleas... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Spending on Happiness
Can money buy you happiness? Yes—so long as you spend the money on someone else. According to new research, giving other people even as little as $5 can lead to increased well-being for the giver. That's the insight into the secret of... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
By now, it’s an expected right-of-passage. As you enter credit card information for an online purchase, up pops two familiar words: “Privacy Notice.” Does seeing those words make you more confident about the transaction, knowing that the... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jul 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are You Ready to Manage in an Irrational World?
(personal and individual) biases and all becomes 'rational' again for management purposes." Ron Palmer observed that the discussion "adds weight to the ideas that we need new and better tools for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 29 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creativity, Entrepreneurship, and Organizations of the Future
revolutionary improvement that creativity may bring. The need to understand creativity within the larger context: of teams, organizations, networks, and society-at-large. What did your participants identify as a research agenda for the... View Details
Keywords: by Teresa M. Amabile & Mukti Khaire
- 08 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part Two]
new industries in Japan are things like highly skilled specialist personnel; a lack of risk capital because of heavily controlled financial markets; barriers to commercializing university research; and limited incentives View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 14 Dec 2010
- Op-Ed
Tax US Companies to Spur Spending
industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Alternatively, a measure of accumulated nondistributed earnings could also serve as the basis for the tax. Accumulated earnings taxes have been used... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
- 29 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 29, 2006
firms in nearly 100 countries in 1999 and 2004, we find suggestive evidence that international financial integration has been associated with higher levels of entrepreneurial activity. Our results are robust to using various proxies for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2004
- What Do You Think?
Why Do Managers Fail to Act on Their Predictions?
demographic, social, and other trends aside? Does anyone in the organization have the responsibility to mobilize people to act on such trends (as opposed to identifying them)? What are the short-term incentives to do so? Can an... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
aligned with the effort, and a strong and well-articulated business case for action. IBM's diversity task forces benefited from all four. Demonstrate Leadership Support It's become a cliché to say that leadership matters, but the issue... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a... View Details
- 02 Dec 2002
- What Do You Think?
How Will We Respond to the “Moment of Truth” in Option Plans?
Summing Up Are We Getting More Sensible About Management Incentives? Respondents to this month's column suggest ways of fixing or selectively using various methods of providing incentives to management. They join the chorus of voices... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
macro components. The micro component comes from the selection of low beta stocks. The macro component comes from the selection of low beta countries or industries. The two parts both contribute to the low beta anomaly, with important implications View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
creativity is absolutely essential for current business success. I define creativity as producing novel, workable ideas and solutions to problems; innovation is implementing those ideas within an organizational context. You need novel and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile