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- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
One December evening in 2011, while preparing a lesson plan, Harvard Business School professor Eugene Soltes picked up the phone for his weekly conversation with Bernie Madoff. Soltes, who was doing an in-depth investigation on... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
see how many things [Denmark has] in place to redistribute income and wealth. I was curious to understand how we got to this point, and how do we build a society that can redistribute more and have such a robust safety net. This led me to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 29 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
Whence IT Value?
visible, important ways. This hypothesis is reinforced by a growing number of academic studies indicating that a dollar spent on IT returns at least as much as a dollar spent on other forms of capital in many industries. These findings... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 12 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Untold Story of ‘Green’ Entrepreneurs
In the 1920s, on pitch black nights in rural eastern Montana, the farmhouse owned by the parents of brothers Marcellus and Joe Jacobs stood out for one reason: it had light, although located far from power lines and gasoline supplies. It was a beacon in the dark that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
after misconduct. The labor market partially undoes firm-level discipline by rehiring such advisers. Firms that hire these advisers also have higher rates of prior misconduct themselves, suggesting "matching on misconduct." These firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
democracies, which are imperfect and messy, but endeavor to fundamentally protect the rights and safety of people.” Sean Silverthorne: In general, what do business leaders need to know about operating in authoritarian regimes? Meg... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Should Artificial Intelligence Be Regulated—if at All?
Do you want learning based on all the information, good and bad, in the world? Or should some sources be banned? And how about output? Should certain uses of the output be limited? Should disclaimers as to... View Details
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
in their organizations? A: Women tend to do better after a move for two reasons. One is that they are more invested in external than in in-house relationships. There are four main reasons why star women maintain external focus: uneasy... View Details
- 05 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures
share their mistakes as a team-building exercise to improve communication and collaboration. “You can motivate your team to work harder by doing this,” Brooks says. “I know I have felt that way seeing other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
B2B Branding: Does it Work?
enterprise customers. They cannot do so economically using the traditional direct sales force. Second, if left unattended, individual managers will each do their own ad hoc marketing. The result will be a... View Details
- 21 Feb 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More
Motivating employees takes more than carrots and sticks—it hangs on making them aware of those incentives and deterrents, according to new research. Companies, governments, and institutions across the globe spend countless billions on incentive programs in hopes of... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- August 2016
- Case
CSI Ingenieros
By: Jay Lorsch and Emily McTague
CSI's business unit managers gathered around the downstairs conference room for the company's weekly meeting to discuss project bids. Cristina WaldAshley Hartman, who was in charge of finding projects for the engineering firm to work on, read through several she had... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Board; Board Committees; Board Dynamics; Organization; Organization Alignment; Dynamic Capabilities; Organization Design; Organizational Prototyping; Organizational Silence; Organizational Learning; Organization Behavior; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Manufacturing Industry; South America; Uruguay
- 04 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector
interest in developing social entrepreneurship courses, and last but not least, practitioners themselves, who are seeking to achieve mission impact as effectively, efficiently, and sustainably as possible. Q: What do you mean View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
net return of 13.7 percent (an upper-quartile fund begun in that year had a return of 20.4 percent) (Venture Economics 1997). These calculations of Xerox's internal rate of return (IRR) do not include any ancillary benefits generated... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
headquarters reminds us that a brand is a precious asset. The value of any brand asset depends upon whether it has delivered on its past promises and is believed likely to do so in the future. It takes years of effort to build brand trust... View Details
- 09 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?
increases by public utilities commissions. Regulators Must Recognize Influencers To the degree these third-party stakeholders do have influence, it complicates the traditional models of regulatory capture.... View Details
- 05 Jun 2013
- Op-Ed
Corporate Leaders Need to Step Up on Climate Change
Green initiatives are ubiquitous these days, implemented with zeal at companies like Dupont, IBM, Walmart, and Walt Disney. The programs being rolled out—lighting retrofits, zero-waste factories, and carpool incentives—save money and provide a green glow. Most large... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Toffel & Auden Schendler
- 04 Sep 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Level II Negotiations: Helping the Other Side Meet Its ‘Behind the Table’ Challenges
Keywords: by James Sebenius
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
perspectives so students can understand everything that's happening. One of those cases was actually on financial fraud at Bausch & Lomb, a fraud uncovered by the press in a lot of detail. Another situation was Intel with their... View Details
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
backgrounds—the intersection where creativity is most likely to occur, according to The Medici Effect, a book by Frans Johansson (HBS MBA '00) that is used in the course. Another driver of creativity, motivation, is the locus of Amabile's... View Details