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- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
percent in 2015. Yet nearly one-third of Indian housewives express the desire to work. How do governments go about changing perceptions of women in the workforce when it’s in their economic interest to do... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
Vermont may not be that important to a senator in Kansas, where there are fewer forests," Cohen explains. "If they can do some kind of vote trading between them on that logging bill, then the Vermont senator can View Details
- 27 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Build 'Scaffolds' to Improve Performance of Temporary Teams
"Four minutes," a triumphant Amy C. Edmondson exclaims as she arrives at her Harvard Business School office, clutching a bike helmet and explaining that her commute is 10 minutes faster by bicycle than View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
space race have been blessed somewhat by the glamour of it all. Investors enthusiastically, maybe too much so, backed a host of startups including those headed by superstar names like Sir Richard Branson,... View Details
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
do not confuse the two. They periodically step back from their arguments and try to confirm their assumptions by examining them critically. If they find that some still lack hard evidence, they may elect to... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 16 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Simple Economics of Open Source
pay-off, no reward? Could it be driven, as some media reports have admiringly suggested, purely by intellectual fervor on the part of programmers, perhaps coupled with a noble desire to share and dispense knowledge to benefit mankind? Not... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
obvious demand, the strategy has another benefit: “Your competitors don’t see you as a threat, since you are not taking away from their demand,” says Teixeira. By the time you have a foothold in the marketplace, it’s already too late for... View Details
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
upside down." Could we learn more about leadership by studying followership? Is leadership really about followership? What do you think? Original Article The flood of... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
Our daily lives are dictated by familiar routines that go something like this: Wake at 6 a.m., shower, go to work, prepare and eat dinner, tidy up the house, head to bed at 10 p.m. Then, set the alarm to repeat it all over again the next... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
Online—was coauthored by Nancy P. Rothbard, David Pottruck Professor of Management of the Wharton School of Business; Lakshmi Ramarajan, the Anna Spangler Nelson and Thomas C. Nelson Associate Professor of Business Administration at... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex, ever-changing deal situations that occur in today's business environment. Harvard Business School professor Guhan Subramanian fills that gap by examining complex deals where negotiators are fighting on multiple fronts—across the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 11 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Spatial Organization of Firms: Internal and External Agglomeration Economies and Location Choices Through the Value Chain
Keywords: by Juan Alcácer & Mercedes Delgado
- 01 Aug 2008
- What Do You Think?
Has the Time Come for “Stretch” in Management?
changing, will Detroit adopt the stretch concept in the development of, say, 100-mile-per-gallon vehicles by 2012? There may be reasons why we will increasingly underestimate our capabilities, giving greater credence to stretch. We are... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
sells music titles for 99 cents each, compete with free music downloads on peer-to-peer networks? Do the two approaches to distributing digital content complement each other? What can the music industry, which aggressively fights p2p... View Details
- 04 Jun 2018
- What Do You Think?
Are There Conditions Under Which Directors Should Consider Hiring a CEO Fired Elsewhere for Inappropriate Behavior?
decision, a board’s “focus should be on advancing all of the women whose careers were derailed by these arrogant, narcissistic, powerful, PROTECTED men.” It raises the question: How does a board introduce to the organization a CEO fired... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
passing through town for one evening and hopes you can have dinner. What to do? If you're more grasshopper than ant, research by Assistant Professor Anat Keinan is sure to please. In a series of papers coauthored with Ran Kivetz, a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 01 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan
that farmers have access to credit lines. However, it's understandable why lenders might hesitate to grant loans to the cheese producers. Trichakis explains that farms are essentially small- and medium-sized enterprises, helmed by farmers... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
1.3-billion-observations panel. We find that fears that strict ID requirements would disenfranchise ethnic minorities and other disadvantaged populations have not materialized. We do not find any significant effect of the laws on... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
what everybody else is doing in the moment. Very often, this openness is gone after the first take. On a second take, many musicians will try to improve their own performance, and just by focusing on their... View Details