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- August 14, 2020
- Comment
How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey
By: Leemore S. Dafny, Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen and Christopher T. Stanton
As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches toward its third quarter, loss of health insurance coverage has not figured prominently in the public debate. Data in this report demonstrate why that is, but also suggest that the apparent stability is fragile, with potentially...
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Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Insurance;
Small Business;
Surveys;
United States
Dafny, Leemore S., Yin Wei Soon, Zoë Cullen, and Christopher T. Stanton. "How Has COVID-19 Affected Health Insurance Offered by Small Businesses in the U.S.? Early Evidence from a Survey." NEJM Catalyst (August 14, 2020). (Commentary.)
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
In their new book, Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business, coauthors Frances Frei and Anne Morriss maintain that it is possible for organizations to reduce costs while...
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- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Letters to the Editor
had no idea that it would become the most important class in my work as an Episcopal priest. I enrolled in seminary five years after graduation from HBS and discovered that real care for people was not taught nearly as well in seminary as it was View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
I am also looking at how incentive systems can be designed to promote long-run performance. Excerpt From rethinking The Mba: Business Education At A Crossroads By Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick G. View Details
- 18 Jun 2021
- News
William Watson: When not knowing pays
- 12 Dec 2023
- Book
HBS Faculty Books of 2023: Find Happiness, Fix Things, and Fail Well
mobilize organizational change quickly, untangle digital strategy, and reflect on socially responsible leadership. Take a look back at some of the books by Harvard Business School faculty members that hit the market this year: Economic...
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by Danielle Kost
- 09 Dec 2019
- News
Smoking With the Boys May Be Leaving Women Executives Behind
- June 1992 (Revised September 1993)
- Case
Serendipity Software
Two partners, Anne Salpryn and Tom Hilliard, successfully develop a creative software company. While Anne becomes more managerially oriented, Tom wants to remain a software project creator. The partnership becomes jeopardized as Tom's personal life begins to fall apart...
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Partners and Partnerships;
Entrepreneurship;
Software;
Leadership Style;
Gender Characteristics;
Conflict and Resolution;
Information Technology Industry
Barnes, Louis B. "Serendipity Software." Harvard Business School Case 493-001, June 1992. (Revised September 1993.)
- 08 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder
were recently published in How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons, co-written by Zoë B. Cullen, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Ricardo Perez-Truglia, an assistant professor at UCLA’s...
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by Rachel Layne
- 04 Jun 2020
- Book
It’s Not About You: Why Leaders Need to Look Outward
Unapologetic Leader's Guide to Empowering Everyone Around You By Frances X. Frei and Anne Morriss The foundation of Leadership We think about trust as rare and precious, and yet it’s the basis for almost...
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by Kristen Senz
- 22 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
How to Learn from the Big Mistake You Almost Make
and express the value of resilience to their teams, the likelihood that workers will report such incidents increases. That was the main finding of Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in...
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- 04 Mar 2020
- News
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
typically adopt the strategy of remaining silent about race and inequality to avoid being labeled “agitators.” In a 2017 study by Sylvia Ann Hewlett and colleagues, 78 percent of black professionals said...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
BalanceYounger workers are rejecting the idea of sticking with one employer for the long haul and are instead finding happiness by job-hopping and creating dramatically different boundaries with work. In a new book, Christina M. Wallace...
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by Danielle Kost
- 10 Jul 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Much of Leadership Is About Control, Delegation, or Theater?
excites, and pushes the team or, you could say, choreographs an output that (moves) the company towards the vision." The mix of control, delegation, and theater employed by successful leaders depends on the timing and circumstances...
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by Jim Heskett
- 07 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much
the winner, but many consumers would choose Target, the research suggests. "People's perception is that brands that sacrifice relatively more of their earnings seem more generous." The findings come as many companies—reassured by a...
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by Pamela Reynolds
- 20 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Blind Spots: We’re Not as Ethical as We Think
of the trap is the subject of the new book, Blind Spots: Why We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It, by Max H. Bazerman, a professor at Harvard Business School, and Ann E. Tenbrunsel, a professor...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- February 2001 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch
JetBlue Airways shows how an entrepreneurial venture is able to use human resource management, specifically a values-centered approach to managing people, as a source of competitive advantage. The major challenge faced by Ann Rhoades is to grow this people-centered...
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Leadership;
Values and Beliefs;
Competitive Advantage;
Entrepreneurship;
Human Resources;
Business Startups;
Air Transportation Industry
Gittell, Jody H., and Charles A. O'Reilly III. "JetBlue Airways: Starting from Scratch." Harvard Business School Case 801-354, February 2001. (Revised October 2001.)
- 03 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2010
Judging by the most-read articles and faculty working papers over the last year, our readers continue to be fascinated by the emergence of social networks and their potential impacts on business and...
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by Staff
- 05 Jul 2012
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Trust So Hard to Achieve in Management?
that lead to damaged trust may well be "plans and intentions (that are) overtaken by circumstances beyond control." There were even more suggestions about what to do about the trust deficit, other than just making sure that all...
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by James Heskett