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...
View ArticleThe 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."
View ArticleFighting 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.
View ArticleDoes 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.
View ArticleCOVID-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.
View ArticlePredictions, 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.
View ArticleChina 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.
View ArticleThe One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso see risk-mitigating innovation everywhere the virus spreads.
View ArticleWe’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."
View ArticleNonprofits 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.
View ArticleCorporate 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...
View ArticleTargeting 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.
View ArticleImmigration 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.
View ArticleElusive 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...
View ArticleIt’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.
View ArticleWhat 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.
View ArticleFind 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.
View ArticleNo 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?
View ArticleWhy 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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