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- 17 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 17, 2007
addressed by recent studies. They argue that business groups are responses to different economic conditions and that, from a welfare standpoint, they can sometimes be "paragons" and, at other times, "parasites." The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2007
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First Look: May 29, 2007
to extreme, alternative in a choice set. The term extremeness avoidance has been used to describe the reason underlying this phenomenon. In this research, we argue that extremeness avoidance behavior depends on assortment type, with... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pay-for-Performance Doesn’t Always Pay Off
have argued that the real problem is that incentives work too well. Specifically, they motivate employees to focus excessively on doing what they need to do to gain rewards, sometimes at the expense of doing other things that would help... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Digital Exhibits | Baker Library
Intersection of Science & Art: Edwin H. Land and the Polaroid Corporation This exhibit brings into focus the formative years and trajectory of the company and the career of Edwin H. Land. A scientist and inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, aesthete and humanist, he View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
short-term profits and returns to shareholders at the expense of worker safety and health, the environment, and society in general. In this article, I argue that a very different logic informs the practices of most high-performing and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: The Money of Invention
the growing role of intermediaries. Gompers and Lerner argue that the next decade is likely to see a fundamental transformation in the structure of the venture industry, as a relative handful of large, professionally managed venture... View Details
- 01 Jan 2020
- What Do You Think?
Why Not Open America's Doors to All the World’s Talent?
after they obtain green cards, start their own companies, mostly in the tech sector. Kerr believes the system can be improved to create a more welcoming set of policies for talented people to enter the US and to prioritize the best uses of visas. He also View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
by consulting company Accenture, Soltes argues that such codes can be worth quite a lot to companies—but only if they go beyond generic platitudes to create a tool that employees can actually use. Author of the book Why They Do It: Inside... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Smarter Way to Reduce Customer Defections
individuals identified as likely to defect. The tricky part comes in figuring out exactly who should be targeted. “You have to look at the net profitability of the retention campaign” Sunil Gupta, the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
pick up that theme in arguing that time management is too important to be left solely to individuals. They cite a survey of 1,500 executives in which only 52 percent of respondents indicated that the way they spent their time... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Apr 2013
- What Do You Think?
Will Women Leaders Influence the Way We Work?
this, in part because the sample size is so small. Several have argued that if we are to tap the potential of people with a variety of backgrounds and demands on their time, we need to rethink work. Among other things, the argument... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jan 2012
- What Do You Think?
Income Inequality: What’s the Right Amount?
of government in promoting it. It would be hard to find anyone arguing for the extremes of complete equality (everyone with the same income or wealth) or inequality (with all the income and wealth in the hands of one household), something... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 09 Dec 2020
- News
How to Fix America
million at age 65, or $2 million at age 74,” writes Ackman. Raj Choudhury, Lumry Family Associate Professor at HBS, argues that supporting the “work from anywhere” movement—a topic he discussed at length in a June Bulletin interview—will... View Details
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
Farjoun argues that we have neglected the full array of modes of cognition between rational choice and feedback-based adaptive learning and have therefore overstated the role of our focal mode, reasoning by analogy. Third, he highlights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2017
- News
Negotiating Peace in Canada's Largest Rainforest
me a useful phrase because he was busy arguing with his aunt, I think, or grandmother. And she said, are you listening to argue or listening to listen? There's a difference. When you're listening to argue,... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
behavioral health economics, focusing on insurance markets and product markets in health care. We argue that the prevalence of choice difficulties and biases leading to mistakes in these markets establish a special place for them in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
directors. In order to qualify, shareholders had to have owned at least 3 percent of a firm's shares for at least the prior three years. Still, the announcement drew ire from some business groups, including the US Chamber of Commerce and the Business Roundtable. They... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2020
- News
Find Your Allies
Carla Harris (MBA 1987) Carla Harris (MBA 1987) When she went off to Harvard College, Carla Ann Harris (MBA 1987) was pretty sure she wanted to be a lawyer. “I loved Perry Mason at the time and I loved to argue my point,” she told... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Driven
innovative framework for understanding the human experience and offers intriguing insights into individual and organizational behavior with practical applications for government, business, and community leaders. Noted experts on organizational behavior, Lawrence and... View Details