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  • February 23, 2010
  • Article

The U.S. Public Debt Hits its Tipping Point

By: Robert C. Pozen
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; United States
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  • November 2023
  • Article

Coalition Cascades: The Politics of Tipping Points in Clean Energy Transitions

By: Jonas Meckling and Nicholas Goedeking
Policy change often involves multiple policy subsystems, as in the case of clean energy transitions. We argue that trans- subsystem policy feedback is a central dynamic in policy change across subsystems. Policy in one subsystem creates ... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Transition; Energy Sources; System
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  • January 2021
  • Article

COVID-19 Hasn't Been a Tipping Point for Value-Based Care, but It Should Be

By: Thomas W. Feeley
Four out of five health care provider organizations are suffering ongoing losses as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the recent NEJM Catalyst Insights Council survey on value-based payment and care. Yet Council members, who are still largely entrenched... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Health Care; Health Pandemics; Health Care and Treatment; Cost
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  • Editorial

ExxonMobil's Shareholder Vote Is a Tipping Point for Climate Issues

By: George Serafeim and Sakis Kotsantonis
Keywords: Climate Change; Board Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Investments; Environment
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  • Article

The Tipping Point of Animacy: How, When, and Where We Perceive Life in a Face

By: Christine E. Looser and Thalia Wheatley
Faces capture humans' attention; yet, beyond aesthetic appreciation, it is presumably not the face itself that interests people but the mind behind it. Minds think, feel, and act in ways that have direct consequences for well-being, but despite their importance, how... View Details
Keywords: Social Psychology; Mind Perception; Face Perception; Identity; Cognition and Thinking
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  • March 2018
  • Article

Making the Numbers? 'Short Termism' and the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

By: Hazhir Rahmandad, Rebecca Henderson and Nelson P. Repenning
Much recent work in strategy and popular discussion suggests that an excessive focus on "managing the numbers"—delivering quarterly earnings at the expense of longer-term investments—makes it difficult for firms to make the investments necessary to build competitive... View Details
Keywords: Capability; Short-termism; System Dynamics; Tipping Point; Business or Company Management; Earnings Management; Resource Allocation
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  • 16 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Seven Tips for Managing Price Increases

discard your existing customer segmentation assumptions and segment consumers around product usage behavior and price sensitivity. You must get out into the marketplace yourself and talk to consumers directly to understand their pain View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 18 Apr 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tips to Reinvent the Department Store

a designer's line and pick from it the point of view we want to represent," while a vendor's own store will typically offer an entire line of products. "[But] there are certain commodity items. A Prada handbag is a Prada... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette; Retail
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

United States. Rajiv Lal: Around the turn of the twentieth century, many of the bricks and mortar players did not have an Internet presence. Now most of them have an ecommerce strategy and have transformed themselves into omnichannel businesses. It's an inflection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 06 Oct 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

Since March, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge has posted more than 80 stories and research papers on the topic of COVID-19, most targeted at managers and the new challenges they face. That's a lot of information to digest. To that end, we went View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2023
  • Book

You’re More Than Your Job: 3 Tips for a Healthier Work-Life Balance

multiplicity of skills, networks, industries, and irons in the fire—and that might also mean multiple income streams,” Wallace says. From a managerial point of view, diversification means being open to reallocating talent when there are... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

you. Brooks: I mean-- Winfrey: Well, I I and this is the other thing I think that's really important and I've come to on on my own. I just realized that you reach a point where you have to ask yourself, what is enough? What is enough? And... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 15 Nov 2022
  • Book

Stop Ignoring Bad Behavior: 6 Tips for Better Ethics at Work

something and didn't do anything.” In the new book Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop, Bazerman points to the Purdue example as emblematic of the troubling human tendency to go along with acts of wrongdoing, and he... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 14 Oct 2021
  • In Practice

Reunited and It Feels (Not) So Good: Tips for Managing a Rocky Return

masks. We recently asked Harvard Business School professors whose research and expertise traverse topics related to remote work what advice they would offer managers and executives actively seeking to navigate these points of friction.... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

As an entrepreneur, how confident are you that you fully understand your customer’s pain points or their job to be done? Entrepreneurs I first meet tend to start selling me on their solution before explaining the problem they are trying... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

However, with ecommerce we believe we are now at a tipping point for many retailers. Category killers are highly focused retailers specializing in a category of goods that succeeded against Walmart due to... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • January 1995 (Revised April 1996)
  • Background Note

Choreographing a Case Class

By: V. Kasturi Rangan
Compares four different approaches to case teaching: lecturing, theorizing, illustrating, and choreographing a case. Argues the advantages of the "choreography" method from the point of view of students' learning. Concludes with a description of that method and some... View Details
Keywords: Cases
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  • 26 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Leave a Lasting Impression on Customers? Don't Forget the (Proverbial) Fireworks

offerings, but you are just arranging them in a particular order to increase excitement and achieve better overall satisfaction.” Add one surprise along the way. As long as the experience is generally positive, adding a peak of excitement at some View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 28 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

creating." Requests made from profiles with African American-sounding names were about 16 percent less likely to be accepted. According to the study, discrimination was pervasive across price points and in a variety of neighborhoods,... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service
  • 31 Oct 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond the 'Business Case' in DEI: 6 Steps Toward Meaningful Change

going to solve the deeper issues that organizations need to be facing,” Williams said. In 1996, Harvard Business School professors Robin Ely and David Thomas were among the first scholars to point out that seeking benefits of diversity in... View Details
Keywords: by Katherine Hutt Scott and Barbara DeLollis

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