• 21 Feb 2017
• First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

strategies and their importance for globalization have been scarce. In The Language of Global Success, Tsedal Neeley provides an in-depth look at a single organization—the high-tech giant Rakuten—in the five View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

• 26 Apr 2024
• HBS Case

Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory

people being honest with them. They get their feelings hurt easily. But the harsh reality of life is that you will be replaced if you do not do your job well. You need people to be honest with you to help... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Sports

• 30 Jul 2013
• First Look

First Look: July 30

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=kupor%20tormala%20norton%20rucker.pdf Working Papers An Empirical Study of the Spillover Effects of Workload on Patient Length View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

• 12 Mar 2024
• Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

times a professor’s research has been published or cited is that approach presumes that researchers have equal amounts of time available. The reality, he says, is that some researchers must spend more hours... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education

• 22 Apr 2008
• First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

  Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 14 Sep 2023
• Research & Ideas

Working Moms Are Mostly Thriving Again. Can We Finally Achieve Gender Parity?

lasting career ramifications. By May 2023, the number of employed moms was at its historic peak. “COVID-19 did not destroy all the gains moms have made, and that’s good news.” “Now, 77.5 percent View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin

• 12 Sep 2023
• Research & Ideas

How Can Financial Advisors Thrive in Shifting Markets? Diversify, Diversify, Diversify

quantified the impact on firms. A company that increases clients under 40 by 10 percentage points stands to gain 3 percent more assets under management in that particular year and the View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Financial Services

• 05 Sep 2023
• Book

Failing Well: How Your ‘Intelligent Failure’ Unlocks Your Full Potential

together, experiencing them all as negative experiences in life or in business, Edmondson contends that some failures are smarter than others because they help us identify a path toward eventual success. In the workplace, an employee may... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

• 09 May 2011
• Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

escalated. A Deloitte survey in 2010 of 131 financial institutions worldwide found that 79 percent had enterprise risk management programs in place or in progress, an increase of 20 percent from just two... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

• 18 Feb 2009
• First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

private donors, gain the cooperation of governments, and catalyze private markets to achieve its goals. Purchase this case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

• 02 Feb 2023
• Research & Ideas

Why We Still Need Twitter: How Social Media Holds Companies Accountable

until conditions are changed.” The tweet included the hashtags #freechipworkers and #fairwages in hopes of spreading the word. The tweet went viral, gaining 18,000 retweets on its original post and rippling... View Details

Keywords: by Kasandra Brabaw; Technology

• 13 Sep 2011
• First Look

First Look: September 13

find that three commonly used models that all suffer from the IPS restriction-the homogeneous logit model, the nested logit model, and the random coefficient logit model-lead to counterintuitive estimates of the sources View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

• 02 Apr 2024
• What Do You Think?

What's Enough to Make Us Happy?

That’s not a bad yardstick for decision-making in the happiness business. Most of us would probably agree that “what’s enough” should be a bit of a stretch but achievable. For example, for many View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

• 24 Apr 2020
• Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

who would normally get picked in the draft may not get a shot this year. Each year roughly 30 to 40 college players who were not invited to the NFL Combine end up being drafted; given the lack of opportunity... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports