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Sep 22, 2020
The pandemic presents a unique opportunity to investigate formation of beliefs about an unprecedented, widespread, and life-threatening event. One finding: COVID-19 makes the prospect of disease and death particularly salient for the young.
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Sep 22, 2020
Research by looks at how past economic downturns forced job-insecure, high-tech entrepreneurs to rush their ventures to market. Will COVID-19 do the same?
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Sep 21, 2020
A World War II spy manual offers intriguing insights into how modern management techniques may be sabotaging your organization, says .
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Sep 21, 2020
Survey data on business owners collected by the Alignable network shows that lending to bank customers in better financial positions may have been prioritized, possibly crowding out less connected firms that would have benefitted more from the loans.
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Sep 20, 2020
Society increasingly expects businesses to help solve problems of environmental degradation, inequality, and poverty. This paper explains how the Balanced Scorecard and Strategy Map should be modified to reflect businesses' expanded role for society.
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Sep 17, 2020
Without financial relief from Congress, many American small-business owners may be forced to cut health insurance for employees, says .
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Sep 15, 2020
The COVID-19 crisis has had large impacts on local economies and government budgets. Balanced budget requirements, not mis-management, have generated a fiscal crisis and forced state and local governments to reduce service provision precisely when it is in greatest demand.
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Sep 15, 2020
This paper studies the impact of time-dependency and data perishability on a dataset's effectiveness in creating value for a business, and shows the value of data in the search engine and advertisement businesses perishes quickly.
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Sep 14, 2020
A study of 3 million people confirms what many work-from-home employees already feel, according to research by and colleagues.
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Sep 14, 2020
The experience in five cities accounts for almost all the wage inequality in IT wages in the US between 2000 and 2018. Overall that brought IT wages closer to STEM wages.
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Sep 10, 2020
Leaders today face two great questions: how to survive, and how to capitalize on new opportunities. Insights from and .
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Sep 08, 2020
Lower Prices. More innovation. Better government. Transparency fuels the basic principles of competitive business and open government. Well, most of the time.
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Sep 07, 2020
In one of the largest entrepreneurial co-working spaces in the US, startups are influenced by peer startups within a distance of 20 meters. The associated advantages for learning and innovation could be lost using at-a-distance work arrangements.
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Sep 07, 2020
For small businesses that have survived the coronavirus so far, what's next? outlines steps that business owners and government should take immediately.
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Sep 03, 2020
The United States needs a health care equivalent of the Securities and Exchange Commission to increase transparency and competition, argues .
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Sep 01, 2020
The increasing dominance of the digital economy has brought new questions about the interplay of organizations and the market-based ecosystem. Transaction Cost Economics theory is a useful lens to understand firm organization and possibly guide policy and regulation.
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Aug 31, 2020
State and local governments that rely heavily on sales tax revenue face increasing financial burden absent federal aid, says
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Aug 31, 2020
A firm's stock price volatility during times of uncertainty can significantly reduce workers' consumption and savings decisions. This paper sheds light on the economic effects of uncertainty, and in particular, how firms provide insurance to their workers during periods of turmoil.
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Aug 31, 2020
Why do organizations continue to ignore the benefits of building racial diversity into their leadership ranks? asks .
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Aug 30, 2020
In the wake of COVID-19, firms announced both employee furloughs and (typically small) CEO wage cuts. This research shows that firms' treatment of employees matters far more to consumers than executive pay cuts.
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Aug 24, 2020
A new survey suggests that at least 16 percent of employees will remain at-home workers long after COVID-19 recedes, report researchers , , and .
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Aug 24, 2020
Performance hacking (or p-hacking for short) means overzealous advocacy of positive interpretations to the point of detachment from actuals. In business as in research there are strong incentives to p-hack. If p-hacking behaviours are not checked, a crash becomes inevitable.
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Aug 24, 2020
Evidence from two field experiments concerning early-stage scientific proposals suggests that evaluators tend to systematically focus on the weaknesses of proposed work rather than its strengths.
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Aug 20, 2020
Many technologies have upended long-held beliefs about love, sex, marriage, and reproduction, says in a new book, "Work Mate Marry Love: How Machines Shape Our Human Destiny."
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Aug 20, 2020
Investors can gain substantially if investment managers choose less-diversified portfolios that tilt more towards their best ideas.
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Aug 20, 2020
Shared service delivery means that customers are served in groups rather than individually. Results from a large-scale study of glaucoma follow-up appointments at a major eye hospital indicate that shared service delivery can significantly improve patients' verbal and non-verbal engagement.
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Aug 17, 2020
Cycles of liberation and regulation of global finance follow a pattern of learning and forgetting. This essay argues that liberalization and globalization created the instability and inequality that have begun to undermine the system from within.
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Aug 17, 2020
Survey evidence from eight countries indicates strong gender differences in people's belief that COVID-19 represents a serious health risk and in their agreement and compliance with restraining policy measures.
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Aug 17, 2020
The Stockdale Paradox and survival psychology contain wisdom for how leaders can manage the coronavirus crisis, according to and .
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Aug 13, 2020
and colleagues offer managers solutions to ease the stress many employees are experiencing.
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Aug 12, 2020
Forty percent of American investors rely on financial advisers, but the COVID-19 market rollercoaster may have highlighted a weakness when disputes arise. The system favors the financial industry, says .
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Aug 10, 2020
This study of 16 cities is the first large-scale analysis of how digital communication patterns have changed in the early stages of the pandemic.
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Aug 10, 2020
Women scientists and those with young children are paying a steep career price in the pandemic, according to new research by , , and colleagues.
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Aug 06, 2020
Even the most powerful leaders need professional guidance occasionally. But with so many types of mentors to choose from, how do they find the right person? offers her own advice on advisers.
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Aug 06, 2020
Even the most powerful leaders need support and guidance occasionally. offers advice own how and where to find the right type of mentor.
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Aug 02, 2020
The United States entered World War II during one of the worst periods of racial discrimination in post-Civil War history. This paper examines the social costs of this discrimination, with clear implications for policymakers.
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Aug 02, 2020
Do companies that embrace digital experimentation hold a difficult-to-break competitive advantage? asks .
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Jul 29, 2020
Case studies about The Conservation Fund and Sonen Capital highlight three broad lessons about fresh approaches to the ownership and management of forestland.
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Jul 29, 2020
At least 16 percent of American workers will switch from office-based settings to working at home at least two days per week after COVID-19 subsides. This has significant implications for companies, employees, and policymakers alike.
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Jul 28, 2020
Poor design decisions contribute to racial discrimination on many online platforms. and colleagues offer tips for reducing the risk, used by Airbnb and other companies.
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Jul 27, 2020
Resolving uncertainty related to market demand—so called "product-market" fit—marks a key inflection point in the compensation contract for CEOs of venture-capital backed firms.
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Jul 27, 2020
studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection.
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Jul 27, 2020
Analysis of data from the largest open-access repositories for social science in the world finds that female researchers' productivity significantly dropped relative to that of male researchers as a result of the lockdown in the United States.
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Jul 27, 2020
studied classic works and interviewed 100 managers in 15 countries to learn how busy men and women find time for reflection.
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Jul 23, 2020
Developing countries have fewer fiscal tools and policy options to combat COVID-19 damage to their economies, according to research by and colleagues.
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Jul 21, 2020
Findings from a nationwide survey underscore the importance of demand projections and interdependencies among businesses for owners' reopening decisions. Businesses expect the demand for their services will be greatly depressed for many months to come.
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Jul 20, 2020
While graduating students are often exhorted to do work they love to do, those from lower socioeconomic backgrounds are less likely to feel that they are a fit for and have the skills to thrive in a job that calls for passion.
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Jul 20, 2020
and prescribe a seemingly impossible cure for battling health care options: a plan that embraces both Republican and Democratic ideas.
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Jul 19, 2020
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 source platform affects the founding of new ventures globally.
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Jul 16, 2020
Top restaurant operators share their experiences attempting to survive the pandemic, and how they see the future. Research by , , and .
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Jul 14, 2020
A survey of 50 companies across countries and industries reveals business leaders are hard at work adapting to the COVID threat. Research by and colleagues.
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Jul 13, 2020
VIDEO: , one of only four Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, speaks with Professor about the search for a coronavirus vaccine, how racism at the workplace holds back America's progress, and his own upbringing just one generation from slavery.
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Jul 13, 2020
VIDEO: , one of only four Black CEOs of Fortune 500 companies, speaks with Professor about the search for a coronavirus vaccine, how racism at the workplace holds back America's progress, and his own upbringing just one generation from slavery.
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Jul 12, 2020
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.
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Jul 12, 2020
COVID-19 affects more than physical health. and describe how the pandemic is causing psychological trauma across a broad swath of society—and innovative methods to treat it.
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Jul 12, 2020
This paper contributes to the debate over the potential for restriction of capital flows policies.
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Jul 10, 2020
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 practical fields such as engineering, medicine, and business.
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Jul 09, 2020
Clear decision-making in a crisis depends on sound methodology and gathering information from a variey of sources. Advice from and
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Jul 09, 2020
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 effectively a way of buying low-cost insurance against adverse scenarios that have become more likely.
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Jul 08, 2020
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 country.
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Jul 07, 2020
Assembling a large, diverse team of researchers to make sense of COVID-19's for issues of work and organizational psychology, this project explores changes that are unfolding for practitioners and human resources professionals.
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Jul 07, 2020
During a market collapse, investors will pay up for companies considered resilient in their response, according to .
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Jul 07, 2020
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 argues for more proactive measures in macro-financial policy.
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Jul 06, 2020
Many companies actively manage customer churn but aren't seeking out the best customers to retain, warns .
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Jul 06, 2020
Many companies actively manage customer churn but aren't seeking out the best customers to retain, warns .
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Jul 02, 2020
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 average consumer is higher than estimated by the official CPI. This implies that real consumption is falling more quickly over time.
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Jul 01, 2020
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.
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Jul 01, 2020
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 course is needed to have sustained impact on student success.
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Jun 30, 2020
Almost a decade after writing "Capitalism at Risk," , , and argue that not enough companies are stepping up to fix big global problems.
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Jun 30, 2020
Business schools need to be better recruiters of Black students. How can past, unsuccessful outreach attempts be improved? asks .
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Jun 29, 2020
This paper proposes a novel measure of corporate bond market liquidity based on portfolio holdings instead of transaction data.
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Jun 26, 2020
Using novel data from 1,240 credit agreements, researchers investigate sources of contractual complexity in the leveraged loan market.
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Jun 26, 2020
As demonstrated after the 2011 earthquake and tsunami, Japanese businesses have a unique capability for long-term survival. explains their strategy of investing in community over profits during turbulent times.
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Jun 23, 2020
In a new book, and argue for a new way of electing political leaders, the Final-Five Voting System, to revitalize America's fossilized political process.
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Jun 23, 2020
COVID-19 has enhanced already existing fissures undermining some societies' commitments to globalization. Governments and firms need to act decisively to make the models of capitalism in the United States and Europe more friendly to small- and medium-sized firms, more equal in opportunity, and more meritocratic.
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Jun 22, 2020
Do Agile methodologies promote innovation? Results of a field experiment with Google show that increasing the frequency and goal orientation of stand-up meetings reinforces integration and value but reduces specialization and novelty in outcomes.
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Jun 18, 2020
Phone or flour? People with lower incomes are judged more harshly for what they choose to buy, say and
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Jun 18, 2020
Researchers document and explain the rise of a novel form of intervention on the part of the Chinese state: the expansion of state capital beyond ownership of state firms.
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Jun 16, 2020
The coronavirus makes your customers less able and less willing to spend than before. How should you re-engage with them? Advice from and colleagues.
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Jun 16, 2020
Even though many public policy efforts on entrepreneurship are well intentioned, the success rate has been disappointing. This essay explores these policies, focusing on financial incentives to entrepreneurs and the intermediaries who fund them.
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Jun 15, 2020
Liberia trains communiy workers to help medical professionals on the front lines of disease control, says .Could the model work elsewhere?
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Jun 15, 2020
Researcherstest the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today.
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Jun 15, 2020
Researcherstest the relationship between historical immigration to the United States and political ideology today.
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Jun 12, 2020
Investors look for evidence during a market crisis that a company is resilient. This study includes findings that challenge the notion that companies need to adopt practices that hurt their employees because investors want them to do so.
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Jun 11, 2020
Experts from Harvard Business School's Digital Initiative discuss how technology is helping leading companies gain an edge during the coronavirus pandemic.
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Jun 11, 2020
Without a vaccine for COVID-19, the medical community has turned to a century-old therapy. This paper discusses a market design approach for expanding the collection and distribution of convalescent plasma.
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Jun 09, 2020
This paper explains the seemingly conflicting narratives from the stock and labor market about the underlying state of the economy.
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Jun 08, 2020
COVID-19 represents not only a health crisis but a crisis of food insecurity and starvation for migrants. Central governments should ensure that food security policies are implemented effectively and engage with local governments and local stakeholders to distribute food to migrants in the immediate term.
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Jun 08, 2020
Practitioners commonly refer to four distinct loan types: asset-based loans, cash flow loans, trade financing, and leasing. It is important to account for these differences in loan type in order to analyze the economic significance of credit market disruptions.
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Jun 07, 2020
Common wisdom holds that VC investment and VC-backed startups are relatively insulated from downturns. This study shows that the relative quantity and quality of innovation declines more for VC-backed firms than for other types of firms during downturns.
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Jun 05, 2020
A startup fund's ability to attract a major first investor is a signal to others that the investment pool is just fine for entering. and answer questions about anchor investors.
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Jun 05, 2020
A startup's ability to attract a major first investor is a signal to others that the investment pool is just fine for entering. and answer questions about anchor investors.
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