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- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
working on next? A: First, I hope to work on prize-linked projects more over the coming years. I want to learn about the demand for these products and, more importantly, find out whether they create new savings or simply substitute for... View Details
- 21 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Pandemic Conversations That Leaders Need to Have Now
top-down, generic approaches to communicating their plans with their employees. Although mass emails and newsletters are not problematic in and of themselves, they are no substitute for the kind of communication this moment calls... View Details
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
only added three substitutions to his roster, 40 percent fewer changes than his fellow turnaround coaches made that season. Only one of eight coaching positions changed when a new assistant coach replaced the departing brother of the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A World of Difference
curiosity and judgment can’t coexist; you’re either in one mode or the other. When we see things that are different—people who are different, views that are different from our own—we are quick to judge them. But when we substitute that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
help leaders learn about leading through a crisis. There they will develop much faster than they will in leading through good times, or studying how other leaders behaved in crises. As the military learned long ago, there is simply no View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Sep 2008
- HBS Case
The Value of Environmental Activists
There are many methods, most financial, to measure the success of companies in meeting goals. But the question becomes a lot harder at Harvard Business School when MBAs are challenged to measure the efforts of environmental organizations like Greenpeace and the World... View Details
- Research Summary
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Grant uses a combination of laboratory and field experiments to harness consumers' cognitive and affective resources to increase their well-being. Consumers make countless daily decisions in the pursuit of happiness -- whether and how to spend or save their money, what... View Details
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
asked me to reduce the use of informal language and substitute ‘scientific’ language,” says Greenstein. “Sometimes it is annoying because the informal writing covers topics that could be useful to others, but that is just the way it... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
services and consulting firms are increasingly substituting non-MBAs for MBAs. The numbers are small but growing. Before the crisis, a managing director at one large investment bank noted that his firm still hired 300 to 400 MBAs per year... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Happening Fast
Erdoes: "There is a little luck on the way, but there is no substitute for really superhard work, first in, last out." Photo courtesy J.P. Morgan Overseeing some $1.3 trillion as CEO of J.P. Morgan Asset Management, Mary Callahan Erdoes... View Details
- Fast Answer
Medical devices: Competitive products
What are the substitute and/or competitative medical products? You may begin with the following approaches: Check market research reports. You may begin with: BCC Research Frost & Sullivan Medical devices databases by... View Details
- Fast Answer
HBS Alumni access to the Stamps Reading Room
or as a substitute to a plastic ID for alumni visiting campus briefly. This process takes a few minutes at Baker Library during View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
commented that, in teaching implementation, "There is no substitute for experience...[implying the need to] integrate older more seasoned...mentors and coaches...into the classroom." Jesus A. Ponce de Leon reminds us... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence of stable outcomes; moreover, in contrast to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
days, because consumers' demand for information about goods and services tends to be inelastic. As the model illustrates, additional forces drive industry change as well. Alternatives to advertising, known as substitutes in Porter's... View Details
- Portrait Project
Adam Gassin
"May they be not deceived." My little girls will still be in pigtails when they first step onto the battlefield of beliefs. In a world that often mixes up what is right and wrong, I will help them fight against the counterfeits and cheap View Details
- Portrait Project
Tom Humphrey
cape, back surgery has substituted cartoon Band-Aids, and I can't remember for the life of me the last time I built a sandcastle. Today, I answer to Tom, but more than ever before I aspire to live my life with the zeal of Zac. My promise... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
explains changing bond risks but only when risk premia change endogenously as predicted by the model. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45672 Full Substitutability By: Hatfield, John William, Scott... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World
are on the increase. These substitutes compete directly with traditional media for advertisers' marketing dollars. Similarly, mergers between media providers and content suppliers (such as news and entertainment programming) also... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
- 02 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Investor Protection: The Czech Experience
resolution is a critical and underappreciated aspect of global capitalism today. CME viewed a local partner as a substitute for a local presence—I think this is a critical mistake. Finally, it's an enormously entertaining story filled... View Details