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- 15 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Don't Bring Me Down: Probing Why People Tune Out Bad News
versions, Exley and Judd Kessler, a professor at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, took a new approach to exploring reasons people avoid information. Separating excuses from other motives The research, detailed in the...
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by Kristen Senz
- 26 Apr 2022
- Book
What Does Your Business Stand For? Why Building Trust Starts with Purpose
sends them into the field to help distribute glasses to children in need. The departing team member went to a school in a tough neighborhood in the Bronx to present a new pair of eyeglasses to an eighth grader with severely impaired...
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by Ranjay Gulati
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
A legendary professor at Harvard Business School for 40 years, Georges Doriot was a pivotal player in the founding of the modern venture capital industry. As Spencer E. Ante's new book notes, venture capital per se is as old as commercial...
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by Spencer E. Ante
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
might be appropriate to redesign (“refactor”) a system, to reduce what has been called “architectural debt.” Unfortunately, we lack robust data by which to evaluate the relationship between architectural design choices and system...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Has #MeToo Changed How Hollywood Hires?
Business School and Zhang is Assistant Professor of Strategy and Innovation at Boston University’s Questrom School of Business. Although the study results show the #MeToo movement has prompted meaningful...
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- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
allocation such as heuristics, decision rules, and "bottom up" approaches still effective in today's complex marketing environment? To help practicioners answer this question, Harvard Business School professors Sunil Gupta and Tom...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Democracy Need a Marketing Manager?
Very little scholarship has been done around the subject of marketing and democracy. In fact, many believe that politics needs less marketing. Harvard Business School professor John A. Quelch and research associate Katherine E. Jocz see...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 8, 2006
positive recency in choices. At the same time, there remains an overall consistency between choices and assessments. A third study validates the results in a field study. The results show that, after a negative rare-event (i.e., a suicide...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2022
- Book
How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray
Harvard Business School visiting professor J. S. Nelson in her new book Business Ethics: What Everyone Needs to Know, which will be released on April 21. Nelson, a Villanova University law and business faculty member, co-wrote the book...
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by Lane Lambert
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
more "collaborative." Too often, however, companies fail to distinguish among the various choices they face with respect to alternative modes of collaboration. Collaborative innovation can take a wide variety of forms, each with...
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Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
decisions a firm makes when designing systems to support these workers are 1) what guidance to deliver and 2) what kind of training (if any) to provide. We examine these choices in the context of mobile money platforms—systems that allow...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
School Professor Julie Battilana. The crux of the problem is that CEOs and other leaders often get such a power trip that they lack empathy and humility, which inhibits their ability to understand and respect what their employees value....
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by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
research studies by Harvard Business School faculty explore this brave new world of "oversharing" — asking what it means to organizations and to reputation when we decide to buck the trend and keep personal information, well,...
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by Michael Blanding
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
after identifying a structural weakness. “Apple has shown the way in how to build a market of external innovators.” According to Harvard Business School professor Karim R. Lakhani, Boeing's approach is an excellent example of how not to...
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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
Microfinance—essentially small loans that help impoverished individuals create jobs, small businesses, and stronger communities—may offer a window on new methods for widening access to healthcare for the poor. Led by Harvard Business View Details
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
worth using. But today, says Harvard Business School professor Alan MacCormack and his research collaborators, "not invented here" is becoming a badge of honor—and more than that, a source of competitive advantage. To design the 787...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 26, 2007
also apparent using only portfolio investment responses to within-country corporate tax rate changes in a panel from 1994 to 2005. Investors appear to alter their portfolio choices to circumvent home and host country institutional...
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Martha Lagace
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
local, regional, and national competitiveness. “Former entrepreneurs offer a positive impression of what it's like to own your own business.” In recent research, Harvard Business School professor Ramana Nanda analyzes these deeper layers...
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by Julia Hanna
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
Abstract—We estimate a structural model that takes into account the entry decisions of retail stores and their corollary effects on total shopping mall sales. By understanding the endogenous behavior of individual store entry, we provide guidance on location View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2022
- Op-Ed
Inclusive Leadership Advice: Get Comfortable With the Uncomfortable
we can come to prefer difference, with time—to become comfortable with being uncomfortable. We took on this idea while teaching Inclusive Leadership to first-year MBA students at Harvard Business School last academic year. I teach the...
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by Francesca Gino