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Is the Healthiest Building in the World Worth the Rent?

Harvard Professors John Macomber and Joseph Allen discuss the importance of healthy buildings given that people spend the majority of their lives indoors, and how their learnings extend to a post-COVID...

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The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

When institutions let us down, look for leadership outside of hierarchies, says Rosabeth Moss Kanter. These leaders "don’t wait to be asked; they just get moving."

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Fighting Climate Change Requires a New Capitalism

Tackling one of the biggest crises of our time—climate change—requires leaders to embrace a new vision of business, argues Rebecca Henderson.

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Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?

There is little doubt that remote work will be on the increase at many organizations post pandemic, but at what cost to corporate culture? asks James Heskett.

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COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

We asked experts from the HBS Business and Environment Initiative how the coronavirus crisis might change the way companies think about sustainability.

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Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

Businesses are starting to plan their re-entry into the market, but how do you know what that market will look like? Frank V. Cespedes warns against putting too much trust in forecasters.

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China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

American retailers have yet to pass along higher prices caused by Chinese tariffs, but shrinking product demand caused by the coronavirus could change that, warns Alberto Cavallo.

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The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso see risk-mitigating innovation everywhere the virus spreads.

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We’ve Now Been Asking “What Do You Think?” for 20 Years

James Heskett reflects on 20 years of writing his monthly business management column for "HBS Working Knowledge."

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Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On

Experts from Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative offer advice to nonprofits struggling to survive the coronavirus pandemic.

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Corporate Environmental Impact: Measurement, Data and Information

This paper proposes a methodology for investors, companies, or regulators to use established environmental resources, reasonably accessible in the public domain, to measure an organization’s...

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Targeting High Ability Entrepreneurs Using Community Information: Mechanism...

Based on a field experiment involving 1,345 microentrepreneurs in India, this study provides insight into the depth and breadth of social knowledge contained in rural and peri-urban social networks.

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Immigration Policies Threaten American Competitiveness

At this time of crisis, America risks signaling to global innovators and entrepreneurs that they have no future here, says William R. Kerr.

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Autonomous Vehicles Are Ready to Disrupt Society, Business—and You

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Elusive Safety: The New Geography of Capital Flows and Risk

Examining motives and incentives behind the growing international flows of US-denominated securities, this study finds that dollar-denominated capital flows are increasingly intermediated by tax haven...

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It’s Time To Relaunch Your Remote Team

Now that workers have learned the basics of working from home, managers need to relaunch their teams in the new reality of how work gets done, advises Tsedal Neeley.

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What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

600 CEOs tell Boris Groysberg and team what coronavirus worries keep them up at night. Now comes the hard part: preparing body and mind to meet the challenges.

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Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

The challenge during times of radical uncertainty is to find a pragmatic middle ground between acting thoughtlessly and not acting at all, say Howard Stevenson and colleagues.

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No Line Left Behind: Assortative Matching Inside the Firm

How do firms pair workers with managers, and which constraints affect the allocation of labor within the firm?

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Why Privacy Notices Turn Off Shoppers

It seems counterintuitive, but website privacy notices appear to discourage shoppers from buying, according to Leslie John.

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