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- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
spigots too tightly, we must be prepared to accept an economy that stagnates. Absent access to credit, we must also be prepared to watch low-wage workers slide into desperate straits. On an individual level, we will see more misery. On a... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
understands foreign markets. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/512013-PDF-ENG Hengdeli: The Art of Co-existence Rohit Deshpandé and Nancy Hua DaiHarvard Business School Case 512-058 In October 2011, Zhang Yuping, founder and chairman of Hengdeli,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
experiments, we show that participants rated sharks more negatively and less positively after viewing a 60-second video clip of swimming sharks set to ominous background music, compared to participants who watched the same video clip set... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: How Wikipedia Works (or Doesn’t)
watch the governance process up close and personal on a topic that I cared a lot about," recalls McAfee. "I participated in the Article for Deletion process, and got to understand how Wikipedia works as a Wikipedian. At the end of all... View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
attests to the idea that ritual behavior stimulates goal-directed action (to consume). Experiment 3 found that performing rituals oneself enhanced consumption more than merely watching someone else perform the same ritual, suggesting that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
HP and Dell that have outsourced most of their computer product design to ODM firms like ASUSTeK, only to watch them morph into competitors. Students can also examine how organizational resources, processes, and values can shape or limit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
such as the journalists, museums, and galleries who were watching the category emerge. Although Saffronart may have originated the practice of providing discursive descriptions of the art, it was soon joined in this practice by the other... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2005
- HBS Case
Classic Cases Live On at HBS
restaurateur in Japan, Aoki eventually opened his own four-table unit in Manhattan in 1964 and called it Benihana (after a Japanese flower), the name of his father's first establishment. Watching Americans dine out, Aoki had concluded... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 08 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Newspaper Closures Open the Door to Corporate Crime
for ad revenue. Instead, the research findings contradict this notion, offering validation that the press is keeping vigilant watch and is exercising the fundamental rights assigned to them by the US Constitution. “I was surprised to see... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 13 Jun 2014
- Op-Ed
World Cup Soccer: 770 Billion Minutes of Attention
The 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil is expected to attract the attention of 3.2 billion people worldwide. During one month, 32 teams will vie for the trophy of best football (a.k.a. soccer) team in the world. With 64 matches and assuming that 3.2 billion people View Details
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
writers—to fund their work, often with the only return an advance copy of a DVD, concert tickets, or a signed thank-you note. Some companies have run with the Kickstarter concept to create products as well, the most successful being Pebble, a View Details
- 27 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
IBM Finds Profit in Diversity
has been to make the executives more accountable for spotting and grooming high-potential minority managers both in their own areas and across the business. Now that it's been made explicit that IBM executives need to watch for female and... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
especially anything incorporating electronics. It’s also instructive to watch industries China is subsidizing where there are dramatic capacity expansions. It’s actually amazing how cheap (for the level of quality you get) it is to buy a... View Details
- 08 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 8, 2008
but I Want to Watch the Comedy Now: Intrapersonal Conflict and Myopia in Online DVD Rentals Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV
its market share was around 10 percent, surpassing that of the United States. As German firms compete on quality they also compete on brand: "Glashütte watches are not competing with Timex," he notes. Brand and quality are... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
watching television can deliver higher than expected audiences at lower cost-per-thousand impressions. Brands with deep pockets may be able to negotiate favorable advertising rates and lock them in for several years. If you have to cut... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 25 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?
Credit: PhonlamaiPhoto Thirty years ago, the idea of a machine learning on its own would have stoked the worst kind of sci-fi nightmares about robots taking over the planet. These days, machine learning is so commonplace, we barely notice it. Computers routinely learn... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How Relationships are Building Biotech
Creativity (Oxford University Press) spells it all out. The Missing Link Higgins became interested in this missing link after watching a young biotech company go through two public offerings in the early 1990s. The observations she made... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Mallory Stark
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
donations to relieve medical debt. Because so little medical debt sent to collections is ever repaid, it can be purchased for pennies on the dollar. The organization has relieved more than $11 billion of debt to date. Kluender says he and his colleagues embarked on the... View Details
- 30 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018
Brazilian watch market. Its CEO had made a firm commitment to evolve the company’s marketing and commercial practices by focusing less on pushing product to retail clients and more on branding to end consumers to pull View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman