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- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
change the structure, processes, and behavior of an organization while at the same time developing commitment that ensures execution. SFP is also a research method. By applying SFP iteratively to new and challenging situations,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
these characteristics to influence prices. For example, consider an advertiser that is the sole bidder for a given term, e.g., a product that it alone sells. That advertiser's payment to Google does not reflect bidding to beat a... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
to physically turn their backs to him and verbally shut him down during discussions; the team leader became more directive; and the customer-expert himself eventually minimized his contributions to the dialogue. In this way, everyone and no one was responsible for the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
part from massive outsourcing on the part of companies in developed markets. They were moving production to China in droves because labor was cheap, so the economy grew very, very fast. In the process of becoming the “factory of the... View Details
- 11 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 11, 2007
future lock-in can arise without changing the structure of a should-choice, but by just changing people's temporal focus. Finally, we provide evidence that the should self operates at a higher construal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
extrapolating past returns. Such beliefs are hard to reconcile with existing models of the aggregate stock market. We study a consumption-based asset pricing model in which some investors form beliefs about future price changes in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
social returns when they succeed. The problem, says Esty, is that many of the largest products have hit financial turbulence. Esty, whose new book Modern Project Finance: A Casebook, was published recently, teaches the "Large-Scale... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
New Paths to Success in Asia
with developing China's first all-fiber-optic broadband Internet infrastructure. "The region is rich with research opportunities," McFarlan notes. And the growing number of HBS faculty members who are studying companies throughout this rapidly View Details
Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
retail trading areas. We hypothesize two effects, cannibalization and complementarity, and conjecture that the magnitude of these effects may change over time and may differ between the catalog and online channels. We find that opening... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
the productivity of busy professionals. For workplace settings devoid of perks, small non-cash rewards like access to valuable online classes or fitness programs can also contribute to well-being. Other non-cash rewards, such as notes of... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
changed drastically in recent years. The growth in the e-commerce market had declined significantly. Furthermore, the advancement of AI and big data was turning shopping into a boundaryless experience—consumers could purchase View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Passion for another kind of far-reaching change was the driving force behind Diagnostics For All (DFA), a nonprofit offering a low-cost, point-of-care diagnostic tool that won top honors in the 2008 social venture track in addition to... View Details
- 15 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
High Ambition Leadership
what products or services to offer by first looking inside. Contrary to most companies that begin by looking at markets and competition, these CEOs looked inside to define "who" the company was—where was the most powerful intersection... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
Technology May Change the Game By: Mills, Karen, and Brayden McCarthy Abstract—Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce-about 120 million... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
voting. Plan-making prompts are simple, inexpensive, and powerful tools for changing behavior, which preserve the autonomy of decision makers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50157 November 2015... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 8
simply begin with the direction you want to go and take a small step. Thinking alone will never change your life-you must ACT. Then evaluate the lessons you learn from that first step, build on them, and take another step in your desired... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
the two tendencies can be explained as a product of a contingent recency effect: although the estimations reflect negative recency, choice behavior reflects positive recency. A similar pattern is observed in the field study: immediately... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 28
firms that historically issued frequent guidance, breaks in guidance following CEO turnovers are relatively permanent and are potentially attributable to firm-initiated changes in guidance policy. Breaks following CFO turnovers, however,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
to become a major product family. His success in that position propelled him to a series of other assignments, including a temporary one in strategic planning, that eventually landed him a promotion to vice president and general manager,... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas