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  • 06 Nov 2008
  • Op-Ed

Selling Out The American Dream

basis, they justify policies to redistribute wealth so that we can cross-subsidize each other's dreams. The most egregious recent example: so-called affordable housing policies to enable as many Americans as possible to own their homes.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • June 2017
  • Case

MIA: Profit at the Base of the Pyramid

By: Lynda M. Applegate, José Antonio Dávila Castilla, Sarah Mehta and Aldo Sesia
In January 2016, Guillermo Jaime had just returned home to Mexico City after attending a Harvard Business School executive education program. Jaime was the founder and CEO of Mejoramiento Integral Asistido (MIA), a company providing affordable housing to low-income... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Social Capitalism; Housing; Emerging Markets; Social Enterprise; Society; Wealth and Poverty; Social Entrepreneurship; Construction Industry; Mexico
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  • 2024
  • Book

The Ritual Effect: From Habit to Ritual, Harness the Surprising Power of Everyday Actions

By: Michael Norton
Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to keep us on track—what we come to know as habits. Over time, these routines (for example, brushing your teeth or putting on your right sock first) tend to be performed automatically. But when we’re more mindful about... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Happiness; Performance Productivity; Attitudes
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  • 16 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019

Recommendations are based on analyses of individuals’ career histories in the professional services sector and other settings, such as appliance manufacturing, oil and gas, health care, and education. The article proposes strategies on how to View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Mar 2017
  • News

No Deal, Grading President Trump, Tito Jackson

  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

buy with respect to an advertising agency is not a case where one size fits all. The decision should be based on a careful economic analysis. Our study provides some basic insights into when an in-house agency is likely to be efficient... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

    Managing the Liquidity Crisis

    Companies are scrambling for cash in the wake of the pandemic. Unfortunately, for structural reasons they are unlikely to get the cash they need from their traditional lenders, even though the financial system is in relatively good shape and there are reserves of... View Details

    • March–April 2024
    • Article

    How Companies Should Weigh in on a Controversy: A Better Approach to Stakeholder Management

    By: David M. Bersoff, Sandra J. Sucher and Peter Tufano
    Executives need guidance about managing their organizations’ engagement with societal issues—including hot-button topics such as gender, climate, and racial discrimination. Success in this realm does not mean avoiding public controversy or achieving unanimous support... View Details
    Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Social Issues; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Judgments; Management Practices and Processes
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    • 17 Jan 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Business Should Support Employees Who Are Caregivers

    supporting caregivers a critical talent management issue, according to a new report, The Caring Company: How Employers Can Cut Costs and Boost Productivity by Helping Employees Manage Caregiving Needs, by Harvard Business School’s Joseph... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
    • 04 Mar 2014
    • News

    40 of the Smartest People in Healthcare

    • 29 Mar 2021
    • News

    Continuing employee development in the face of budget cuts

    • December 2015
    • Article

    Task Shifting in Surgery: Lessons from an Indian Heart Hospital

    By: Budhaditya Gupta, Robert S. Huckman and Tarun Khanna
    We present a case study that illustrates task shifting, the transfer of activities from senior to junior colleagues, in the context of cardiac surgery at the Narayana Health City Cardiac Hospital (NH) in India. The case discusses the factors driving the adoption of... View Details
    Keywords: Service Delivery; Rank and Position; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; India
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    • 27 Sep 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: September 27

    Industry Author:Arthur Daemmrich Abstract Fiercely contested before, during, and since its passage, the 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) will restructure... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • August 2012 (Revised January 2013)
    • Case

    Public Health Insurance Exchanges: The Massachusetts Experience

    By: Regina Herzlinger and Jordan Bazinsky
    The CEO of Tufts Health Plan, James Roosevelt, is wondering whether to offer insurance products on the Massachusetts Connector, the first U.S. exchange. He wonders if he should enter these uncharted waters at all. And, if yes, with a broad network or a narrow network... View Details
    Keywords: Health Insurance Exchange; Healthcare Reform; Public Health Insurance Exchange; Decision Making; Market Entry and Exit; Emerging Markets; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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    • Article

    The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling

    By: Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
    The last decade has seen a sharp rise in patent litigation in the U.S., with 2015 having one of the highest patent lawsuit counts on record. In theory, this could be a consequence of growth in the commercialization of technology and innovation—patent lawsuits increase... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Aggregators; Patent Litigation; Patent Pools; Patent Trolls; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; United States
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    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    The Pecora Hearings

    By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen

    In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand... View Details

    Keywords: Financial History; Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
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    • February 2001
    • Case

    BarnesandNoble.com (C)

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Dickson Louie and William A. Sahlman
    At the end of 1999, Steve Riggio, the vice chairman and acting CEO of barnesandnoble.com, wonders what his company should do next against Amazon.com, the online retailer who is the leading online book seller in the United States. While barnesandnoble.com has been... View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Internet and the Web; Diversification; Brands and Branding; Retail Industry
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    • 24 Jan 2015
    • News

    Boost the right kind of innovation

    • 31 Mar 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Can a ‘Basic Bundle’ of Health Insurance Cure Coverage Gaps and Spur Innovation?

    continuing to address health insurance problems piecemeal will only create further fractures. The US needs to work on fostering “universal access to innovative care in an affordable system,” they say. You... View Details
    Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Insurance; Health
    • 22 Sep 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: September 22

    and conclude with a discussion of its role in strengthening institutional theory as well as, more broadly, the field of organization studies. Purchase the article ($15): http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~db=all~content=a913246271 The Shifting Mission of Health... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace