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  • 24 Oct 2018
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

may also try to overcorrect in areas where they failed the first time, such as overanalyzing or delaying decisions, being too conservative on cash flow, or focusing too much on scalability too early in the product-development process. If... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
  • Article

The Business Case for Investing in Physician Well-Being

By: Tait D. Shanafelt, Joel Goh and Christine A. Sinsky
Importance: Widespread burnout among physicians has been recognized for more than two decades. Extensive evidence indicates that physician burnout has important personal and professional consequences.
Observations: A lack of awareness regarding... View Details
Keywords: Physicians; Well-being; ROI; Health; Welfare or Wellbeing; Ethics; Investment Return; Health Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

The Mirroring Hypothesis: Theory, Evidence and Exceptions

By: Lyra J. Colfer and Carliss Y. Baldwin
The mirroring hypothesis predicts that organizational ties within a project, firm, or group of firms (e.g., communication, collocation, employment) will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the work being performed. A thorough understanding of the... View Details
Keywords: Modularity; Innovation; Product And Process Development; Organization Design; Design Structure; Organizational Ties; Mirroring Hypothesis; Industry Architecture; Product Architecture; Complex Technical Systems; Information Technology; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Relationships; Innovation and Invention; Product Development
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  • 21 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 21

welcome counterpoint to the largely hidden involvement of corporate leaders in shaping policy through the hundreds of millions of dollars they direct to Super PACs, trade associations, and think tanks to promote liberal and conservative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Apr 2024
  • In Practice

Getting to Net Zero: The Climate Standards and Ecosystem the World Needs Now

With each month clocking record-breaking temperatures across the planet, this Earth Day reflected the renewed urgency of regulators and businesses to find climate-change solutions. The US Securities and Exchange Commission recently adopted new rules that will mandate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 29 Nov 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Is There a Method to Musk’s Madness on Twitter?

SpaceX and Tesla and his other businesses. While it isn’t quite building electric cars or going to Mars, the situation that Musk is stepping into at Twitter is challenging and might call for a leader who is willing to take some risks here rather than remain View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Technology
  • 19 Jul 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Government 'Nudges' Motivate Good Citizen Behavior

other categories. A nudge on energy conservation that compared households to their neighbors led to almost twice as many kilowatt-hours saved per dollar spent as traditional education and incentives. A nudge to schedule flu shots led to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 03 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018

forthcoming IMF Economic Review Debt Redemption and Reserve Accumulation By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—In the past decade, foreign participation in local-currency bond markets in emerging countries increased dramatically. We revisit sovereign debt... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Sep 2006
  • Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

Keywords: by Jakub W. Jurek & Luis M. Viceira
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

Cutting the Gordian Knot of Employee Health Care Benefits and Costs: A Corporate Model Built on Employee Choice

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The U.S. employer-based health insurance tax exclusion created a system of employer-sponsored insurance (ESI) with limited insurance choices and transparency that may lock employed households into health plans that are costlier or different from those they prefer to... View Details
Keywords: After-tax Income; Consumer-driven Health Care; Health Care Costs; Health Insurance; Income Inequality; Tax Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Cost; Insurance; Employees; Income; Taxation; Policy; United States
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  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

operations. That said, these same women are often more conservative when forecasting financial goals and with raising significant rounds of capital. And, even if they have a big vision, they are less confident in declaring at the outset... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 06 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Updating a Classic: Writing a Great Business Plan

lamebrained the idea. Also, we have difficult factor markets like energy, but that simply means that there are great opportunities for people with ideas for alternative energy. Were I rewriting the article today, I might emphasize the importance of controlling your... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Dec 2022
  • Research & Ideas

The Color of Private Equity: Quantifying the Bias Black Investors Face

exit, they do just as well as the majority groups,” says Lerner. “And if anything, they seem to be more conservative in valuing things.” Additionally, the minority groups were able to scale up staffing when necessary and were not doing... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds; Financial Services
  • 13 Aug 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Good Incentives Lead to Bad Decisions

performance a lot you may get individuals who like risk, whereas if you have a more conservative incentive scheme you may get individuals who are more conservative. And depending on the goals of your organization, you may want to attract... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking
  • 04 Feb 2019
  • Book

Green Businesses Are Incredibly Difficult to Make Profitable. Try It Anyway

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Green Technology; Energy
  • 15 Mar 2017
  • Lessons from the Classroom

More Than 900 Examples of How Climate Change Affects Business

This word cloud is composed of blog posts by more than 900 students describing how individual organizations are likely to be affected by climate change. Image by Patrick Clapp Last fall, first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School received a new assignment in... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Green Technology
  • 31 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

From SpinPop to SpinBrush: Entrepreneurial Lessons from John Osher

told the audience of HBS alumni and Executive Education participants. "He hated having to manage employees, so he built a big company with very few employees." Dr. John's was the third major venture that Osher built from the ground up and brought to a... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Consumer Products
  • 21 Feb 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Are Your Employees Passing Up Incentives? Try Promoting the Programs More

helping people quit smoking, to eating healthier, to conserving energy, John says. Companies can take three steps to rethink incentives. Try incentives through a pilot program first. Start with a smaller group of participants and, once... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • 17 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

What's Behind the Unexpected Trump Support from Women

threats. The second largest contingent of women supporting Trump was white women with college degrees. Forty-five percent of them voted for him. While some were likely attracted to Trump’s fiscally conservative policies, research suggests... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Morgan Roberts and Robin Ely
  • 08 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

How Trump’s Anti-Immigrant Rhetoric Crushed Crowdfunding for Minority Entrepreneurs

nationwide retraction of support among backers of Kickstarter projects. Most backers are white, the study contends. The decline in support for minority creators during increases in the Migration Fear Index are most pronounced in View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis

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