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- 13 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?
In the past decade, physician burnout has evolved from a serious concern to a troubling epidemic, affecting 50 percent of physicians and physicians-in-training. Excessive workloads, process inefficiencies, and administrative burdens... View Details
- 19 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Racist Umpires and Monetary Ministers
pitcher throws the ball. How much would you expect the race of the umpire and the pitcher to determine the outcome of the call? That's the question Christopher A. Parsons, Harvard Business School visiting... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
self-insured increased competition and choice. This union could be created by using a presidential executive order to designate the Public Option as a “qualified health plan” for purposes of Internal Revenue View Details
- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 06 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Best Place for Retirement Funds
a wonderful resource for scholars thinking about wealth and income. The Survey is conducted triennially by the staff of the Federal Reserve Board, and there are a number of... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
the browser market. Because different browsers require slightly different code to be viewable, it is costly for Webmasters to write for different types of browsers. They will tend to pick the browser that is... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
Credit: malerapaso For as much as American politicians and their constituents complain about taxes, the truth is that tax reform packages to address those complaints are rare—the last major reform of the tax View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
us now. Preliminary results of a study Gino conducted during the coronavirus crisis shows that people with a heightened sense of curiosity feel less stress and approach their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
to team wins? We divided our 38-year panel dataset into two parts: 1981-1992 and 1993-2018. We conducted variance decomposition analysis in the manner of Groysberg, Hecht, and Naik and we found that since... View Details
- 30 Jun 2020
- Book
Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
England. The company had been at the forefront of the corporate social responsibility (CSR) movement in the 1990s, establishing a CSR group and issuing its first CSR report in 2000. Even before Polman’s arrival, a Unilever sustainability... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
not-for-profit educational and research institute that will bring together higher-ambition leaders from around the world to learn from each other's experience. It will also offer leadership development programs for the next generation of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
better for longer-term habit formation.” Beshears conducted the study with Hae Nim Lee, a former doctoral student at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania;... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 17 Jul 2000
- What Do You Think?
Where Is the Microsoft Board?
the case is what it is. But what could the Microsoft board have done to counsel management about the company's conduct of the case? Would management, particularly the company's founder, have listened? Does... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
Beyond what we can do as individuals to reduce our risks of exposure, are there objective measures employers can use to validate what is effective? The answer, fortunately, is yes. Many claims will be made over the next few weeks and... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
their hypothetical choices were organic milk and vegetables. "We could support some of the story but not all of it yet," Karmarkar says. And so she and Bollinger View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
results of a salary survey conducted by the French Engineering and Scientist Council, a network of alumni organizations that includes 144 of the... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
sentiment, the researchers conducted six lab experiments in which participants answered questions about a simulated website of a fashion retailer selling T-shirts. The research also included a field study... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
that they will share it. "People watch a lot of things online that they would never share with anyone," Teixeira notes. To figure out what prompts viewers to share ads, Teixeira's team conducted an... View Details