Hospital To Home - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part Two]

hospitals or schools or businesses that are trying to figure out how to incorporate this technology to get advantage out of it. And for them,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

who doesn’t understand the nuances of the business or how to effectively manage its people. In recruiting Bob Nardelli from GE, Home Depot’s board failed to choose someone who... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

relatively calm, he said. He was also impressed by their patience and resilience. There was no pushing and shoving, Takeuchi reported, no honking of car horns, even in long waits for a tank of gas. On the highway, anxious drivers eager to... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

02 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps

growing number of elections, and that is a cause for concern.” Fewer voters means less people having a stake in what government does, eroding trust of the governed—particularly by younger, poorer, and less educated citizens, who tend to... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Communications; Public Relations

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

day, 7 days a week and is available from one's own home without a trip. While Amazon has been compared to Walmart, it's probably most apt to compare Amazon View Details

Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

percent—the lowest in over 30 years. Home prices are perking up, and the number of home mortgages with negative equity is down. Balance sheets have recovered to their 2007... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

01 Mar 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time for More Reverse Mentoring?

rest of us. An imaginative, tech savvy caregiver we employ in our home dreamed up a business based on an unsatisfactory personal experience. Despite her lack of formal training, resources, and investment, she devised a way View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

part of the inauguration of the HBS Asia-Pacific Research Office. "In order to be effective, they must find ways to deal with differences in how people think about matters such as authority, fairness,... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Good News, Not Blues, For the Inner City

suburb of Lenexa, near Kansas City, but was burdened by high employee turnover. When Sprint changed course and opened a call center at 18th Street and Vine, in the inner city of Kansas City, the company was "overwhelmed" with applicants, Porter said. Most... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

27 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What South Korea Teaches the World About Fighting COVID

In a world devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic, the Republic of Korea (South Korea) has been able to effectively combat the disease without ever imposing a full lockdown of its economy. How did the country accomplish its success, and what... View Details

Keywords: by Doug J. Chung; Health

25 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

Informing consumers and restricting bad apples: that’s the dual role that occupational licensing is supposed to play. If a plumber, painting contractor, or HVAC repairer has a license it should matter to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service

07 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips

consensual. You should want the job as much as the job wants you, so act in interviews as you would with colleagues to make sure these are people who will help spark that creativity. I added the “within reason” part because, as a PhD... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Accounting; Education

16 May 2018
Research & Ideas

How Companies Managed Risk (and Even Benefitted) in World War Internment Camps

engineers, chemists, and technicians are interned as prisoners of war in Ahmednagar. ...We all want that after the victorious war, patriotic, courageous young Germans go abroad again as commercial pioneers. How can we ever count on precious men View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

26 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

equity or direct investment in the company's home country and labor market interactions evidenced by business travel from the home country to the U.S follow U.S.-style... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

The team studied trends in outstanding credit, stock market values, and home prices from 1950 to 2016 for 42 countries. They found the potential for a financial crisis was highest in years when both stock... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

10 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Governance in India and Around the Globe

effects of global talent from global product markets. Further, the emergence of the Indian software industry offers a unique experimental setting to ask whether globalization can promote convergence in corporate governance. This is... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu; Technology

20 Aug 2014
Research & Ideas

Dragging Patent Trolls Into the Light

The Texas town of Marshall has a population of 25,000 people, 2,000 of whom are students attending one of the four colleges that have earned Marshall the nickname "Athens of Texas." Marshall is also home View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Legal Services

14 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

The Widening Rift Between Corporations and Society

discuss—master bedroom suites, home schooling, the passion for genealogy, extreme sports, organic foods, alternative health, and the profound popularity of the Vietnam Memorial Wall. Capitalism will find its renewal in these social... View Details