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- 29 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
policies, non-CEO executives’ behavior, and tail risk vary with CEO materialism. We document that the proportion of banks run by materialistic CEOs increased significantly from 1994 to 2004, that the strength of risk management functions is significantly lower View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
Editor’s note: Last Friday, President Donald Trump signed an Executive Order indefinitely preventing Syrian refugees from entering the United States, suspending all refugee admission for 120 days, and blocking all citizens of seven... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
world as it is? Who are we? What can I live with? All five questions must be answered. According to the author, “Each question is an important voice in the centuries-long conversation about what counts as a sound decision regarding a hard problem with high stakes View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
consultant at McKinsey and for Treasury Secretary Larry Summers for six years before joining Google at 32. When she and Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg began working together in 2007, Sandberg View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
The center approached Alessi, a medium-sized tableware company in Italy, at the request of professors Youngme Moon and Gail McGovern for a case in the Consumer Marketing MBA elective. Working through... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
of the most common ways that managers unwittingly undermine daily progress is by failing to make timely decisions or provide clear, consistent goals. Here's an example from a work diary in a consumer products company: Had meetings [ ] to discuss how to reposition our... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
Berglund, from whom I might have expected as much as one of my former students, asked whether I was asking the right question. He proposed what was for him the real question: "Does it make sense to... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Rather than stifling investment, the proposed change will hopefully trigger increased focus on equity-type investments, on entrepreneurial activities that actually produce products and services to attract investors, and it will shine a... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
provide business leaders with a helpful tool for evaluating the legal and ethical aspects of their decisions. Managers should first ask themselves whether the proposed action is legal. The legality of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 13 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet
sense to be diversified than it used to in the past, since, at the end of the day, all markets are moving together,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business... View Details
- 10 Jul 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: It’s a Bad Idea to Ban Customers From Recording Videos
not part of a passenger’s contract with United. (In a request for rulemaking, I recently asked the Department of Transportation to rule this and similar policies invalid and unenforceable.) But even if the... View Details
- 28 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
How Property Ownership Changes Your World View
attempts, until a change in government in 1984 resulted in a state proposal to pay off the owners and allocate the land to the squatters. Each owner was given the option of accepting the deal or suing to obtain higher compensation. By... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
years ago, as being as important as the first machine age they attribute to the development of steam power. These are ideas that can expand the potential for growth, if not for jobs and greater economic... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
India is a country where many women struggle for survival from the day they are born. Girls in India are less likely to be breastfed than boys, for instance, and less likely to be immunized. But India also... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
easier for the other party to at least understand your number, so they're not as likely to get mad and walk," says Kevin P. Mohan, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School. “Students find out that maybe it's OK to be angry... View Details
- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
rental charge and a charge for the remote. Do partitioned prices help the consumer make an informed decision or just add to his or her confusion? Do partitioned prices increase demand? Is an online grocer better off presenting a customer... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
depends on the number of customers the firm decides to target for its retention campaign. We propose a predictive model that accounts for all these elements. Our optimization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
leadership style to “drain the swamp” of the Washington bureaucracy and deliver results for the American people. The United States is not a company, of course, and its citizens are not employees, but voters still were drawn to his... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
presented in this paper imply a theoretical challenge for international political economy, which has, as a field, failed to understand deeply how firms work and what kinds of roles they have come to play in contemporary international... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 18
to sway our decisions in directions we did not initially consider? And what can we do to correct for the subtle influences that derail our decisions? The answers to these and similar questions will help you negotiate similar factors when... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne