Strategic Foresight as Dynamic Capability: A New Lens on Knightian Uncertainty
Creating strategy under conditions of uncertainty is not easy, so many managers rely on a single analogy to past experience to guide their decisions. This paper argues, by contrast, that imagining...
View ArticleWorking (From Home) During a Crisis: Online Social Contributions by Workers...
This study shows that people working from home (WFH) make more online contributions to socially helpful topics, yet face higher psychic costs and anxiety about time constraints. Managers might consider...
View ArticleA General Theory of Identification
Statistical inference teaches us how to learn from data, whereas identification analysis explains what we can learn from it. This paper proposes a simple unifying theory of identification, encouraging...
View ArticleWhere Do Workers Go When the Robots Arrive?
Marco Tabellini and colleagues investigate where workers go after losing their jobs to automation and Chinese imports.
View ArticleHow Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact
Grants or investments? Philanthropists have multiple funding tools available, but choosing the wrong one can dilute the benefits, according to research by Benjamin N. Roth.
View ArticleWhat Customers Need to Hear from You During the COVID Crisis
Many brands have turned off their marketing efforts during the pandemic, but Jill Avery and Richard Edelman argue that now is the time when customers need to hear from you most. But what do you say?
View ArticleSmall Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
A survey of small-business owners shows that lack of liquidity and skepticism of government programs are compounding COVID crisis recovery efforts.
View ArticleThe Bulletproof Glass Effect: When Privacy Notices Backfire
Consumers regularly encounter privacy notices explaining if and how their personal information will be collected, stored, used, and shared. Evidence in this study demonstrates that privacy notices,...
View ArticleContractual Restrictions and Debt Traps
Microfinance has failed to catalyze entrepreneurship in developing countries, despite abundant evidence of high return on investment opportunities. What can account for this?
View ArticleHas COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
4QUESTIONS. Companies and consumers depend on the global value change to create and distribute products around the world. What happens when the chain breaks? Insights from Laura Alfaro and Ester Faia.
View ArticleHow Are Small Businesses Adjusting to COVID-19? Early Evidence From a Survey
This survey of 5,819 small businesses in the United States shows that the pandemic has already caused massive dislocation among small businesses.
View ArticleWhy COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Building Health
Like it or not, humans have become an indoor species, so buildings have a major impact on our health. That's why the Healthy Building Movement is gaining momentum, say John Macomber and Joseph Allen.
View Article7 Winning War Strategies to Beat COVID-19
The Agile methodology used to speed complex software development is also helpful for managing decision-making in today's crisis environment, says Euvin Naidoo.
View ArticleChanging In-group Boundaries: The Role of New Immigrant Waves in the US
How do new immigrants affect natives’ views of other minority groups? This work studies the evolution of group boundaries in the United States and indicates that whites living in states receiving more...
View ArticleHow Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
What are the financial implications of rising seas and extreme weather? Asset managers and risk experts gathered at Harvard Business School to discuss how they’re evaluating climate risk in their...
View ArticleThis Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
Following the 2008 financial crisis, France offered a business loan program that helped firms, employees, and even the government, says Boris Vallee.
View ArticleLessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
The National Football League player draft this year is challenging for the league, players, fans and, in particular, talent evaluators, reports Boris Groysberg and colleagues. What can business learn?
View ArticleCorporate Leadership and Creditor Recovery Rates: Evidence from Executive Gender
This paper examines the relationship between executive gender and creditor recovery rates, showing that creditors to female-run firms have higher recovery rates in the event of default.
View ArticleHow Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding
COVID-19 has turned many companies into federations of remote workplaces, but without guidance on how their onboarding of new employees must change, says Boris Groysberg.
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