Can Paying Firms Quicker Affect Aggregate Employment?

When the United States federal government accelerated payments to a subset of small-business government contractors, each accelerated dollar of sales led to an almost 10 cent increase in payroll, according to research by Jean-Noel Barrot and Ramana Nanda.

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

Would you give your doctor a poor rating just as you might flunk a bad meal or hotel? What if you needed that physician's services again? John A. Quelch discusses why it's difficult to create a TripAdvisor for doctors.

Where will Pokémon Go with Your Personal Information?

Pokémon Go is a game sensation, no doubt about that. But users should worry about where their personal information is going as well. Willy Shih discusses what happens when technology wizardry meets personal privacy.

July 26, 2016

Looking under Disney's 'tentpole' strategy ... The right way to show distress at work ... Quick payment boosts employment growth.

Who is to Blame for 'The Great Training Robbery'?

Companies spend billions annually training their executives, yet rarely realize all the benefit they could, argue Michael Beer and colleagues. He discusses a new research paper, "The Great Training Robbery."

How Small Investors Can Bet Big on Brands They Love

How Small Investors Can Bet Big on Brands They Love

July 19, 2016

What happens to white-collar criminals? ... The real story behind Kodak's fade ... Has Walmart reached the end of its run?

Towards a Prescriptive Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategic Choice, Learning, and Competition

This paper by Gary P. Pisano explores how firms' choices about capability investments shape competitive outcomes.

Beyond Symbolic Responses to Private Politics: Examining Labor Standards Improvement in Global Supply Chains

Research by Andrea R. Hugill, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel fids that global supply chain factories improve their working conditions to a greater extent when their buyers take a cooperative approach to monitoring them, when the auditors are more highly trained, and when global supply chain factories face greater risk of poor conditions being exposed.

More Effective Sports Sponsorship-Combining and Integrating Key Resources and Capabilities of International Sports Events and Their Major Sponsors

This field-based study by Ragnar Lund and Stephen A. Greyser of the Union of European Football Associations and its main international sporting event, the European Championships, explores key organizational capabilities that underlie value creation and enhancement in an event's portfolio of sponsorship relationships.

How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers

Thales Teixeira studies three of the most successful “platform” startups to understand the chicken-and-egg challenge of how companies can attract their first customers.

July 12, 2016

Rising education costs dampen entrepreneurship ... The economic implications of biosimilars ... How to reduce government error in GDP forecasts.

Notes on Developing a Strategy and Designing a Company

Geared for practical use by managers, these notes are drawn from Kevin J. Boudreau's notes from his MBA and executive MBA courses in business strategy over the past decade.

How to Fix a Broken Global Team

How to Fix a Broken Global Team

How Do We Pay for the Costs of Globalization?

Globalization creates many benefits, but not many of those accrue to local labor, says James Heskett. Who will pay for the costs of retraining workers and rebuilding communities where jobs have been sent offshore? What do YOU think?

The Impact of Campus Scandals on College

Research by Michael Luca, Patrick Rooney, and Jonathan Smith finds links between news coverage of negative incidents at top United States colleges and a drop in applications.

Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment

Harvard Business School's Organizational Lab helps businesses solve operational problems by changing the way their company is organized. Ethan Bernstein and Clayton Christensen explain how academics and business leaders can work together to create a better org chart.