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- 07 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
'Be Yourself (Within Reason)' and Other Job Search Survival Tips
libraries are full of novels of unhappy people who married for money. I have a friend who recently turned down a big promotion, which went to her former employee. At first, she felt like a slacker, watching those around her rise through... View Details
- 09 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
In This Classroom, Beer Can Improve Your Grade
Casadesus-Masanell says. At the end of the week the teams make brief presentations, faculty present aggregate data, and students discuss what they learned. During last year’s simulation Casadesus-Masanell watched as teams, surrounded by a... View Details
- 03 Nov 2014
- Research & Ideas
Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize
in the first sentence of the obit, "BLANK, who won a Nobel Prize for his work in BLANK ." Greyser says. "I've been watching the obits of laureates ever since we started this work. And to a person, that is in the first sentence." The Nobel... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
the immediate persuasiveness of ads, it isn't much help to measure their impact over time. The only way to truly determine the efficacy of display ads versus search ads is to watch the effects over time, and to see how modifications in... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- HBS Case
Who Owns Space?
five-year-old Jeff Bezos, who watched Neil Armstrong take humankind’s first steps on the moon, an experience Bezos said “deeply imprinted” him. It fostered his interest in and admiration for the space sector and the work NASA was doing... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Deflategate and the Sustained Success of the New England Patriots
footballs should be.” “I don’t think this is about football at all. I think this is about human nature and organizations and performance” As Iansiti watched the AFC title game in January 2015, and the ensuing uproar, he was hooked. As an... View Details
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
sound like beginners. After playing for a minute, all the expert guitarists watched a YouTube video clip of a true beginner, who struggled to play a series of chords. They each wrote a few sentences of advice for the beginner, and then... View Details
- 15 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 15
Retail Inventory: Managing the Canary in the Coal Mine! By: Gaur, Vishal, Saravanan Kesavan, and Ananth Raman Abstract—Retail inventory is a statistic that is closely watched by retailers as well as their investors, lenders, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
CEO Succession: The Case at Ford
for them to start making great products again? A: I would guess so. I'm not a car person, but yes. I think that's probably what appealed to them about Mulally because everybody was singing the praises of Airbus and then, five years later, Boeing has recaptured its... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
peripheral products. I wanted to explain in some detail how this happened. Nancy Koehn: Reading Al's work, I was struck by the implications of technological change for the demand side of the economy. As a historian watching the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 06 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales
display-target similarity—one with low similarity that displayed a watch and computer mouse; another with moderate similarity that pictured other bathroom accessories; and a third with high similarity that showed other towels. The results... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
unbundling that allows customers to pick and choose the content they consume (be it articles, music tracks, or airline tickets), Teixeira identifies the fueling factor in this case as "decoupling"—separating out activities that customers want from those that they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Tricky Business of Managing Web Advertising Affiliates
When the FBI charged Shawn Hogan and two others with defrauding eBay of about $21 million in affiliate marketing sales, Benjamin G. Edelman was watching closely behind the scenes. Edelman's name rarely came up at the time of the 2010... View Details
- 07 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence
organization through the actions and the silence of leadership. Not only can ethics be taught, it is being taught every time people watch what you do and what you don't do. The issue is not whether ethics can be taught, it's whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Let Customers Call the Shots
reveals that "filtering" is limited. At this point, TiVo has a few real limitations: for instance, you can't watch whatever you want to watch, simply because you can't watch/record two shows that are broadcast simultaneously.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
privately for a talk about why the behavior isn’t OK. “If you can tell your friend that he’s drinking too much and you need to drive, you can tell someone if they persist in making comments that make women uncomfortable,” Kanter says. “Some workers need to be taught to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
associated with improved productivity are also linked to lower greenhouse gas emissions. Download the paper: http://www.stanford.edu/~nbloom/BloomGenakosMartinSadun.pdf Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation.... View Details
- 09 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Manager in Red Sneakers
station—to answer survey questions about potential clients entering a luxury boutique, some dressed down in gym clothes and a Swatch watch and others wearing elegant dresses, fur coats, and Rolex watches. Shop assistants well aware that... View Details
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
encouraged and instructed teens how to safely dispose of unused prescription medications in their homes. “Several thousand teens participated online or watched replays,” Langford says. SUD treatment providers are also searching for ways... View Details