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- 25 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?
Great Training Robbery, a working paper based on case studies conducted by Beer, Magnus Finnstrom, and Derek Schrader, as well as decades of research on training effectiveness, will be the focus of a Harvard... View Details
- 20 Dec 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
How to Design a Better Customer Experience
(The accompanying teaching note is available to instructors to help them run the exercise.) Thomke, who has worked with global firms on upping their customer experience game, has taught the class in the HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- What Do You Think?
Is Stakeholder Management Facing New Headwinds?
1984 book by Edward Freeman. Roland Marchand may or may not have helped the notion along when he wrote about it as an element of the “corporate soul.” Wikipedia provides one notion of how the concept works... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Apr 2019
- What Do You Think?
Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?
rates. Economist Stephanie Kelton argues one reason the disconnect exists is the knowledge that a nation with its own currency can simply deal with deficits by printing more money. Only in extreme cases will... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Management’s Role in Reforming Health Care
world. With Thomas H. Lee, MD, Bohmer authored the opinion piece "The Shifting Mission of Health Care Delivery Organizations," which appeared in the August 5, 2009, issue of the New England Journal of Medicine. Bohmer recently sat down with View Details
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
and international students were underperforming relative to their American male peers. As a result of a campuswide effort, HBS has closed that grade gap, a feat that drew applause in Burden Auditorium on Friday. Still, View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
works ever since. But the main reason I wrote this book is the tremendous resonance his ideas have had with my HBS students and with businesspeople. I think Schumpeter is the most penetrating analyst of... View Details
- 21 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?
storage racks from collapsing and other major accidents; or perhaps by a particularly dramatic decline in smaller injuries prevented by workers more regularly wearing personal protective gear," says Toffel,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
previously worked at the same company—even if they hadn't worked there at the same time. In cases where investors had attended the same undergraduate school, the success rate dropped View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
productivity from using the software by as much as 100 percent, when compared with free-riding competitors. "Companies that contribute and give back learn how to better use the open source software in their own environment" The... View Details
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
tells HBS Working Knowledge. "Indeed, if you paid your suppliers more slowly they'd almost certainly pay their suppliers more slowly, which would have the desired effect. "You have no control, and... View Details
- 20 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono
early 1990s began raising awareness of the conflict in Sarajevo, playing live footage of the war during U2's Zooropa tour. After working to get eight industrialized nations in 1999 to agree to $100 million in African debt relief, he... View Details
- 18 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs
experts in the field gathered last year at HBS to discuss such funding issues at a seminar hosted by the School's Social Enterprise Initiative. "If there's such a rise in the hybrid models, as more and more... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
If a successful analyst is hired by another organization, chances are both his work performance and the market value of his new company will not reap the expected benefits; they might even lose altitude. So... View Details
- 18 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Brand China Can Succeed
Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.As the British nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation? Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem? Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
- 19 Sep 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Chandrayaan-3 Says About India's Entrepreneurial Approach to Space
are feeling is cumulative. The moon landing is a culmination of decades of work by Indian scientists. Beyond space, India has become one of the largest producers of vaccines, which of course was relevant... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
percentage points. For some consumers, the bulbous bellies, protruding needles, and nasty teeth changed their habits; as soda sales dropped, bottled water sales rose from 24.9 percent to 28.1 percent. Graphic warnings worked View Details
- 05 May 2011
- News
Obama's Secret Negotiation Weapon is One You Can Use Too
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
countries serving on the board are rewarded with an average $60 million "bonus" in IBRD loans. This is more likely driven by soft forces like boardroom culture rather than by the power of the vote... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace