Argus - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Jun 2009
First Look

First Look: June 23

work and non-work identities. Specifically, we suggest that identity compatibility is influenced by (a) the extent to which individuals can control the co-activation of identities, and (b) the routinization of identity co-activation. We View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas, April 18

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52520 Interest Rate Conundrums in the Twenty-First Century By: Hanson, Samuel G., David O. Lucca, and Jonathan H. Wright Abstract—A large literature argues that long-term interest rates... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

29 May 2012
First Look

First Look: May 29

their network to overcome resistance to change. We argue that strong ties to potentially influential organization members who are ambivalent about a change (fence-sitters) provide the change agent with an affective basis to co-opt them.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Feb 2021
Research & Ideas

To Fight Climate Change, Should Green Investors Reconsider Big Oil?

argues that “the majority of this recent green patenting is not driven by highly rated ESG firms but instead by firms that are explicitly excluded from the ESG funds investment universe.” 'Blockbuster' innovation Cohen and coauthors Umit... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

11 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

How Hackathons Help Decide Platform Winners and Losers

the richest breeding grounds for coding superstars: the hackathon. These high-pressure weekend events of furious engineering can be an incredible environment for diffusion of knowledge, argues Andy Wu, an assistant professor in the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

student as a DBA-- doctor of business administration--student.”) David Wittenberg was more to the point, arguing that it is not inadequate recruitment efforts that are producing disparate enrollments. “Let’s do everything in our power to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

03 Aug 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?

stock holders’ but seldom ‘it’s all about the employees and customers.’” Bruce Lloyd argued that there has been too much emphasis on power and too little on values in leadership literature and training. “Leadership is much more concerned... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

14 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

groups and asked to assess a series of hypothetical workplace conflicts between two managers. Each group reviewed identical situations—except for the names of the arguing characters: Adam and Steven (two men), Adam and Sarah (a man and a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

(GFS), designed for Google web searches. One team, called Big Table, argued for adding systems on top of GFS; the other team, called Build from Scratch, wanted to replace GFS entirely. Coughran decided to give the two teams space to... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

19 Aug 2013
Research & Ideas

Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior

One way to uncover the consequences of inequality, Moss and his colleagues propose, is to set up experiments in a lab to look at possible effects on individual decision-making. Behavioral psychologists have found that people often make decisions based on their frames... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

which a judge ruled in favor of a company that specifically had targeted women for layoffs; the judge argued that the company had no choice but to reduce its workforce for budgetary reasons-and that it made sense for the company to cut... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

26 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different

Want to be different? Change your world, not your tactics. As HBS professor Youngme Moon argues in Different: Escaping the Competitive Herd, competition too often breeds conformity. Yet there is plenty of space for adventurous companies... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

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the career of Edwin H. Land. A scientist and inventor, entrepreneur and CEO, aesthete and humanist, he argued that the industrial process should be “dedicated to the discernment of deep human needs.” Georges F. Doriot: Education Leaders,... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

At Your Service

be true in service organizations. Morriss: But so often, it isn’t. We argue that the failure to make necessary tradeoffs is the number one obstacle to excellence in service organizations. Why is that such a difficult concept for service... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; customer service; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Air Transportation; Transportation

02 Aug 2021
What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

customer centricity, reminded us that, “What’s interesting is many of the most customer centric firms in the world don’t have a CXO (Amazon, Starbucks, Virgin, Southwest Airlines). I would argue that’s because it is already baked into... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Minimum Wage Hikes Drive (Lousy) Restaurants Out of Business

minimum wage remains intense. Advocates for higher wages for the country’s lowest-paid workers argue that businesses should provide a livable wage for their employees. Activists have pushed to increase the minimum pay to as much as $15 an... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

GoPro, how do you make creativity work for you?" he asked. "How do you solve real business problems? That's one opportunity for agencies." Anand asked another question: Would HBS play a central role in education 10 years from now? Most people in the room believed it... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising

02 Oct 2008
What Do You Think?

Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?

realm of ideology. Some respondents doubted the Government's ability to achieve the Buffett result, if not the "Buffett Effect" of the column's title. Several argued that the Government, by necessity, has different goals and constraints.... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

11 Feb 2008
Research & Ideas

Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?

not less. In their new book, Greater Good: How Good Marketing Makes for Better Democracy, the authors argue that the core benefits of marketing align closely with the requirements of democracy: exchange, consumption, choice, information,... View Details