How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve
Identifying a customer's pain points is the first step for entrepreneurs in developing a new product. Julia Austin offers tips for choosing the right "job to be done."
View ArticleThe Impact of Technology and Trade on Migration: Evidence from the US
Both robot adoption and Chinese import competition between 1990 and 2015 caused large declines in manufacturing employment across US local labor markets (commuting zones, CZs). However, only robots...
View ArticleA Preliminary Framework for Product Impact-Weighted Accounts
Although there is growing interest in environmental, social, and governance measurement, the impact of company operations is emphasized over product use. A framework like this one that captures a...
View ArticleLove in the Office Is Wonderful. Except for CEOs.
Finding love among your office colleagues can be a wonderful thing, and not inevitably career ending. Unless, of course, you are the CEO. Advice to the corporate lovelorn from Regina Herzlinger.
View ArticleThe Old Boys' Club: Schmoozing and the Gender Gap
Over a four-year period, male employees assigned a male manager were promoted at a faster rate than their female counterparts, with no observable difference in performance. Male employees benefited...
View ArticleThe Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software
The increasing use of open source software in most commercial apps has revolutionized software development—but also created hidden vulnerabilities, say Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman.
View ArticleRecovering Investor Expectations from Demand for Index Funds
The authors propose a framework that uses observed ETF trades to reveal the full distribution of investor expected returns. This approach can be applied broadly to provide a potentially useful signal...
View ArticleFor Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity
Workers in the global economy increasingly perform their jobs far away from home. It turns out, says Prithwiraj Choudhury, that homesickness is a significant barrier to their productivity. Here's what...
View ArticleReinventing Retail: The Novel Resurgence of Independent Bookstores
Successful independent booksellers are differentiating themselves from online and big box competitors by tapping into a larger social movement that promotes the value of shopping local and a desire to...
View ArticleHow Best Business Practices Can Improve Health Care
Why do Harvard Business School scholars spend so much time and money analyzing health care delivery?
View ArticleAre Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?
It feels as if core leadership values such as humility and transparency have been on the decline. Is this trend being reversed? asks James Heskett.
View ArticleNominal and Opportunity Effects of Managerial Discretion
This study of field data from a Chinese manufacturing company explores the consequences of subjective performance evaluations leading to bonuses and penalties. Results may help practitioners improve...
View ArticleHow Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
Male employees who bond with their male managers move up the ranks of their companies faster, reinforcing the gender pay gap, according to research by Zoe B. Cullen.
View ArticleConsumer Protection in an Online World: An Analysis of Occupational Licensing
This paper uses new data collected by a digital platform to study the role of occupational licensing laws on individual choices and market outcomes.
View ArticleA Great Teacher's Lessons for Leading
Thomas DeLong, a professor at Harvard Business School, explains in a new book what makes a great teacher—and manager.
View ArticleWarring Algorithms Could Be Driving Up Consumer Prices
Companies increasingly use software to conduct rapid price changes. Alexander MacKay explains why firms might benefit but consumers should be worried.
View ArticleImpact Investing: A Theory of Financing Social Entrepreneurship
The author provides a formal definition of organizational sustainability and characterizes the situations in which a social enterprise should be sustainable.
View ArticleThe Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
Knitting together a diverse workforce into a common fabric is a difficult challenge for managers—and even more difficult for the workers themselves, say Lakshmi Ramarajan and Erin Reid.
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