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- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
advertisers) wanted to know, which is: What would happen to their business if restaurants bought an advertising package? Luca proposed a large-scale experiment in which Yelp would give away several months of advertising spots for free to randomly selected businesses.... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
culture. It was very controversial. We’re talking about a movie about a relationship between two sisters-in-law. Even Hollywood has only recently begun addressing these sorts of topics. She took a big risk that her mainstream audience... View Details
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
short as possible. The TARP money and the flexible terms on which it was legislated were critical to the rapid funding of administration decisions. The uniqueness of TARP, however, probably ensures that another intervention of this sort... View Details
- 28 Jun 2010
- HBS Case
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center
vision for the hospital as, "We will be the best at getting better." How CCHMC accomplishes just that is an object lesson for MBA students who hope to help lead substantive change in any sort of organization. The improvement... View Details
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
primarily looking for their entrepreneurial tendencies and collecting a lot of demographic data as well. When I began to sort by gender, I found that the career paths taken by women from HBS were very, very different. It led me to start... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
socioeconomic disparities in health and mortality is a well-established fact. Many pathways have been adduced to explain inequality in life spans. In this article we examine one factor that has been somewhat neglected: people with different levels of education get... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Excessive Executive Pay: What’s the Solution?
accounting expense. But if you paid them in stock or anything else, there was an expense. That's sort of silly. Now all forms of compensation are expensed. And sure enough, just as I predicted, there's not been a cutback in the amount of... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 29 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites
able to sort out what the framing is and what the real issue is. Q: What's next for you? A: This is part of an overall study in financial communication. In the financial communication framework I use, there's information content that... View Details
- 08 May 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 8, 2018
1979). Counter to this notion, results from six experiments show that lay people adhere more to advice when they think it comes from an algorithm than from a person. People showed this sort of algorithm appreciation when making numeric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
to existing competitors in a local market. We provide evidence that these results are due to a sorting effect, whereby firms trade-off service quality and price, and in turn, the incumbent attracts service (price) sensitive customers in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Advertisers Get Serious About Playing With Their Brands
At last year's Grammy Awards, singer Pharrell Williams wore such an outlandish hat—a cross between Smokey the Bear's forest-brown lid and The Sorting Hat at Gryffindor—that it quickly received its own Twitter account. Then some marketing... View Details
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
process? I think that these sorts of scenarios, along with doubts about the effectiveness of recent US foreign policy decisions regarding Syria and Iran, have had a negative effect on how we're viewed by business and government leaders in... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more likely to use decision-making... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
of the use of venture capital investment. Do you think the use of project finance is affected by market cycles as well? And if so, what economic factors do you feel would influence a boost in interest in this sort of finance? A: The field... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
entrepreneur, he had overseen employees in a few of his earlier jobs and ventures, and had developed some appreciation of the difference that good people—or bad people—could make to a company. As he recalls, looking back, "I sort of... View Details
- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
stimulate high quality reflection among managers, of the sort that can stimulate future organizational learning and help managers manage the ongoing tension between learning and performance. View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan
successes. Dell is doing 18 million dollars of revenue a day on the Internet. There are these colossal shifts in spending to the Internet. And yet the public seems to have no interest in that sort of activity. The apparent explanation is... View Details
- 30 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Market Makers Bid for Success
communications or architecture. Randall: Right. In fact, I think it's gotten more complicated as people try to sort out how to improve the capability, speed, and capacity of the existing network. Meakem: Exactly. In our application,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for Japan
Vogel was the most hopeful about Japan's ability to recover, but saw it as a tough job for Japan's policymakers. "It is not clear how you combine the best of their old system with the new," he cautioned. "That is still going to take a few years to View Details
Keywords: by Hilah Geer