Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever
Almost a decade after writing Capitalism at Risk,Joseph Bower, Herman Leonard, and Lynn Paine argue that not enough companies are stepping up to fix big global problems.
View ArticleScaling Up Behavioral Science Interventions in Online Education
Online courses can lack support structures that are often bundled with traditional higher education. Short pre-course interventions can have short-term benefits, but more innovation throughout the...
View ArticleSocial Interactions in Pandemics: Fear, Altruism, and Reciprocity
An empirical analysis of 89 cities worldwide shows that partial or targeted lockdown policies to combat a pandemic are efficient only when it is possible to identify infected individuals.
View ArticleInflation with COVID Consumption Baskets
Examining the impact that changes in expenditure patterns are having on the measurement of consumer price indices (CPI) inflation in 17 countries, this study finds that the cost of living for the...
View ArticleThe Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
Many companies actively manage customer churn but aren't seeking out the best customers to retain, warns Sunil Gupta.
View ArticlePredictable Financial Crises
This paper estimates the probability of financial crises as a function of past credit and asset price growth. Findings favor the Kindleberger-Minsky view of credit cycles and financial crises, which...
View ArticleCOVID-19 and the Workplace: Implications, Issues, and Insights for Future...
Assembling a large, diverse team of researchers to make sense of COVID-19’s impact on issues of work and organizational psychology, this project explores changes that are unfolding for practitioners...
View ArticleMarket Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies
During a market collapse, investors will pay up for companies considered resilient in their response, according to George Serafeim.
View ArticleInventing the Endless Frontier: The Effects of the World War II Research...
Investments made in World War II by the United States Office of Scientific Research and Development powered decades of subsequent innovation and the take-off of regional technology hubs around the...
View ArticleIt’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
Clear decision-making in a crisis depends on sound methodology and gathering information from a variey of sources. Advice from Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott.
View ArticleHow Should US Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?
Instead of the "watchful waiting" approach taken by US bank regulators to the pandemic crisis, they should use their prudential authorities to encourage banks to increase their equity capital. This is...
View ArticleSolving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
COVID-19 affects more than physical health. Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence describe how the pandemic is causing psychological trauma across a broad swath of society—and innovative methods to treat...
View ArticleMaking Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help
This paper shows how tools such as simulations, used to design new technologies, can facilitate collaborative economic policy judgments. The paper forms part of a broader, ongoing study of knowledge in...
View ArticleMerck CEO Ken Frazier Discusses a COVID Cure, Racism, and Why Leaders Need to...
VIDEO: Ken Frazier, one of only four Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, speaks with Professor Tsedal Neeley about the search for a coronavirus vaccine, how racism at the workplace holds back...
View ArticleSticky Capital Controls
This paper contributes to the debate over the potential for restriction of capital flows policies.
View ArticleThe Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader
Harvard Business School faculty are both voracious book readers and frequent book authors. Here is what they are reading this summer, and what they have written over the last year.
View ArticleRestarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by Raffaella Sadun and colleagues.
View ArticleRestaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
Top restaurant operators share their experiences attempting to survive the pandemic, and how they see the future. Research by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery.
View ArticleOpen Source Software and Global Entrepreneurship
Does more activity in open source software development lead to increased entrepreneurial activity and, if so, how much, and in what direction? This study measures how participation on the GitHub open...
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