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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
vehicles to America. Responding to that change and the subsequent surge in domestically produced Japanese nameplates "was not just a technological issue for American automakers, but a psychological one," Salter observes....
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- January 2006 (Revised October 2007)
- Background Note
Managing Networked Businesses: Course Overview for Students
Provides an overview for students of the MBA elective course Managing Networked Businesses (MNB). MNB focuses on management challenges in businesses that exhibit network effects. The first section of the note explains that such businesses comprise a large and growing...
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Business Model;
Capital Structure;
Business or Company Management;
Network Effects;
Organizational Design;
Business and Government Relations;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Competitive Strategy
Eisenmann, Thomas R. "Managing Networked Businesses: Course Overview for Students." Harvard Business School Background Note 806-103, January 2006. (Revised October 2007.)
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
under the Rug: How Unethical Actions Lead to Forgetting of Moral Rules Authors:Lisa L. Shu and Francesca Gino Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (in press) Abstract Dishonest behavior can have various View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
effective cross-functional work relationships, how and when they used individual and organizational resources, and how they learned to cope with the inevitable stresses of leadership. I show that becoming a manager is a profound View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 5
Motivation Authors:F. Gino and S. Wiltermuth Publication:Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract We propose that separating rewards into categories can increase motivation, even when those categories are...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago
size of its welfare state and perception of new immigrant behavior. First, the welfare state today in Europe is larger, and native-born individuals may perceive immigrants as being net consumers of public goods. While it is true that,...
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by Marco Tabellini
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
to investigate the psychological consequences and performance benefits of connecting to beneficiaries of one’s work. In a longitudinal field experiment of fruit harvesters, we find that though beneficiary contact with the overall customer...
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Carmen Nobel
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
buying?" Tv And The Internet Pressure has been building for a merging of television and the Internet, said Intel's Eric Kim. Consumers now expect Internet service everywhere, with implications for entertainment and advertising. For...
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by Martha Lagace
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
2011) Abstract In a vitally important relationship famously caricatured as the "Mad Mullahs" v. the "Great Satan," the fraught negotiating history and future of Iran and the United States demands historical, cultural, and View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
et al. Publication: British Journal of Social Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract Income inequality undermines societies: the more inequality, the more health problems, social tensions, and the lower social mobility, trust, and life...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
PublicationsFood for Thought? Trust Your Unconscious When Energy Is Low Authors:Maarten Bos, Ap Dijksterhuis, and Rick B. Van Baaren Publication:Journal of Neuroscience, Psychology and Economics 5, no. 2 (May 2012) Abstract Recent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
solving." I think it is a new model for the future. We don't rely on government to do everything, so it's natural to define a new kind of capitalism that in the minds of consumers and the public will be motivated by something other...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 2011
- Working Paper
Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects
By: Andrei Hagiu
This paper provides a simple model of platforms with direct network effects, in which users value not just the quantity (i.e., number) of other users who join, but also their average quality in some dimension. A monopoly platform is more likely to exclude low-quality...
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Multi-sided Platforms;
Exclusion;
Quality And Quantity;
Cost;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Network Effects;
Market Participation;
Digital Platforms;
Monopoly;
Quality;
Motivation and Incentives;
Strategy
Hagiu, Andrei. "Quantity vs. Quality: Exclusion by Platforms with Network Effects." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-125, May 2011.
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
innovations, or selling services—to step up and lead without a hierarchy. Consumer marketing companies are lining up to use these networks to reach their tailored demographics with highly personalized messages. Already they are...
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by Staff
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
or beat key benchmarks. This paper examines this hypothesis by testing how different types of marketing expenditures are used to boost earnings for a durable commodity consumer product which can be easily stockpiled by end-consumers as...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 27, 2018
social-psychological studies of individual creative behavior. Little is known, however, about the everyday psychological experience and associated creative behavior in the life and work of ordinary individuals. Yet evidence is mounting...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Psychology (forthcoming) Abstract This study examined the convergent and construct validity of ratings of individual creative contributions in a team context. A sample of 201 employees and supervisors, working on 26 team projects,...
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Martha Lagace
- March 2011
- Article
Cheaper Patents
By: Tom Nicholas
The 1883 Patents Act in Britain provides perspective for modern patent policy reforms because it radically changed incentives for inventors by reducing filing fees by 84 percent. Patents increased 2.5 fold after the reform, which was evenly distributed across the...
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Patents;
Global Range;
Distribution;
Demand and Consumers;
Organizational Structure;
Business Processes;
Innovation and Invention;
Innovation and Management;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Fluctuation;
Motivation and Incentives;
Distribution Industry;
United States;
Great Britain
Nicholas, Tom. "Cheaper Patents." Research Policy 40, no. 2 (March 2011).
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
press Journal of Applied Psychology Cooperation in Multicultural Negotiations: How the Cultures of People with Low and High Power Interact By: Kopelman, Shirli, Ashley E. Hardin, Christopher G. Myers, and Leigh Plunkett Tost Abstract—This...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
Washington State) and by participants with responsibility to enforce rules in an experimental lab setting. We also show that this effect is driven by psychological reactance. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications of...
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Sean Silverthlorne