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- 24 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 24
Colgate. Policy Bundling to Overcome Risk Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman Publication:Organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 6, 2008
rentals, their "dynamic inconsistency" is attenuated. We interpret our results as evidence that myopia has a meaningful impact on decisions in the field and that people learn about their myopia... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Admit It: You’re in Denial
the line in order to retool his factories for its successor, the Model A. To make the change, he shut down production for months, at a cost of close to $250 million. This chain of events was disastrous for the company because it allowed... View Details
- 02 Jan 2013
- What Do You Think?
Should We Rethink the Promise of Teams?
importance of measuring the quality of the contribution that individuals make to a team. Tom Dolembo pointed out that "Teamwork isn't about falling backwards into a mattress, it is about a specific skill Unless teaming is approached as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 511-036 AMD management needs to make a critical decision on the launch sequence of its next-generation technology called Fusion. The Fusion processor concept merges the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The New Math of Customer Relationships
only loyal and willing to recommend the organization to others, but who make referrals, influence others to join as customers or employees, test new products or services and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Two Presidents, One Goal: Building on the Club of Chicago
and Baskin led various programs), neither was ready to be “the Lone Ranger” and plunge into a solo presidency. Ultimately, the decision to become copresidents was a pragmatic... View Details
Keywords: Amy Burton
- 10 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal
decisions” It’s not good news in other ways. “Having fewer applicants can impact rankings and prestige but may also make it difficult to craft the ideal class, whether it be falling short in enrollment View Details
- 30 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Tracks of My Tears: Reconstructing Digital Music
marketing strategies (such as, say, the labels placing more emphasis on less popular music genres over time), that could also put a downward pressure on music revenues. This makes the estimated drop in revenues all the more dramatic. Q:... View Details
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
distinctive methods of prediction to investors and businesses and thrived in the boom years that followed World War I. Yet, almost to a man, they failed to predict the devastating crash of 1929. Despite... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
weakening both consumer confidence and the consumer spending—much of it on credit—that has been buoying the U.S. economy. Companies should bear eight factors in mind when making their marketing plans for... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Oct 2006
- Op-Ed
Fixing Executive Options: The Veil of Ignorance
option practices remains unknown, this most recent scandal has deepened the sense in many quarters that option contracts given to managers distort behavior in destructive ways. The ability to play with, and... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai & Joshua Margolis
- Student-Faculty-Profile
Michelle Shell & Ryan Buell
best decisions and undermine our service experiences in the process. Behavioral science and economics has identified choice architecture as one... View Details
- Career Coach
Phil Wong
cross-sector and cross-asset class team focused on data-driven decision making, and launching an internal portfolio analytics platform. Phil’s journey to becoming a HBS career... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Financial Services (All); Investment Banking; Financial Services (All); Investment Management; Financial Services (All); Private Equity; Financial Services (All); Venture Capital; Financial Services (All); Health Care; Startup - Founder; Entrepreneurship
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century
we could only dream of just a few years ago, ranging from unobtrusive physiological and neurological measures to massive databases on billions of individuals' decisions about consuming, saving, investing,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
When You Speak, This Group Listens
succeed those whose three-year terms have expired. For information on nominations, visit the board’s Web site: www.alumni.hbs.edu/volunteers/alumniboard.html. — Saquib Shirazi (MBA ’95) is CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, where he lives with his wife View Details
- April 2008 (Revised March 2014)
- Case
Flying J (A)
By: Rohit Deshpande and Lauren Barley
The largest retailer of diesel fuel in the U.S., Flying J, is rethinking its growth strategy as the economy goes into a recession. Its major customer base, owner-operated truck drivers, are facing increasing costs of doing business. Yet Flying J is considering whether... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Growth and Development Strategy; Price; Consumer Behavior; Non-Renewable Energy; Energy Industry; United States
Deshpande, Rohit, and Lauren Barley. "Flying J (A)." Harvard Business School Case 508-074, April 2008. (Revised March 2014.)
- 04 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Org Chart Stuck in a Rut? Try a Scientific Experiment
Digital Initiative and the HBX Live virtual classroom, the o-Lab aims to help businesses solve their problems by changing the way their company is organized, and to make that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Do I Dare Say Something?
recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert