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- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
similar behavior following periods of poor financial performance. In addition to offering promotions more frequently, we find that firms offer deeper price discounts to manage earnings during these periods. Furthermore, our results... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107028 The Virtual Entrepreneurial Team Exercise—VETE; Overview and Instructions for Participants Harvard Business School Note 806-158 PublicationsCRM Implementation: Effectiveness Issues and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
explains dramatic events in the international economy, such as recurrent banking and financial crises in several countries. Much of this explanation focuses on the role of confidence, expectations, and crowd psychology. These factors result in aggregate View Details
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
behavior on the part of government contractors and to keep a portion of any resulting settlement. Boeing, for example, has paid more than $40 million in settlements stemming from False Claim Act cases in the past five years. A detailed... View Details
- 23 Jul 2001
- Research & Ideas
How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark
While the knowledge sharing benefits of clusters takes off, the liability of institutionalization rise steadily as a function of time. These costs consist primarily of foregone flexibility resulting from persistence of established View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
The Levitt Brand
one whose insights were grounded in a profound understanding of practice.” The author or coauthor of numerous articles and eight books, Levitt left an indelible mark on the business world with two pieces in particular, both published in... View Details
- 23 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Break Your Addiction to Service Heroes
Q: You write a lot about corporate culture in companies such as Zappos. Why is culture so important? A: Morriss: A culture exists to influence how people think, so their discretionary behavior will be consistent with the values of the... View Details
- 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007
announcements on trading behavior in a simulated and real stock market setting. I find evidence that the involvement of stars impacts movies' expected theatrical revenues, and I provide insight into the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Your Customers: Use Them or Lose Them
you get customers to act in the best interests of the firm? Of my mantras, number one is: Your customer is probably your most powerful asset." To explain how certain companies jump to the head of the pack through good service, she shared highlights of her research... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Gulati's influential work on network dynamics from the last fifteen years, and presents the key findings from this extensive body of research. Gulati's insights are important for scholars, students, and practitioners interested in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Exploring Global Business Practices
a lean but deeply networked international presence, the centers enable the faculty to produce research that informs management practice around the world and have become a locus for HBS activities in their regions. The insights faculty... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
K.O. Chia: The Voice of Experience
problem.” But when a partnership works, the experience can be highly rewarding. That’s why Chia has been sharing his insights with HBS professor Dorothy Leonard, who is studying the mentoring process. Chia hopes her research will improve... View Details
- 25 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 25, 2016
Business Review To Increase Sales, Get Customers to Commit a Little at a Time By: Cespedes, Frank V., and David Hoffeld Abstract—This article discusses what behavioral research does and does not tell us about factors that aid the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
age by adapting a current business model to the new marketplace. The book offers critical insights into responding to disruptive shock with three value propositions: repositioning today’s business to maximize resilience; creating a new... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2016
the Box: 40 Stories of Leading CEOs by Aparna Piramal (MBA 2002) (Random Business) The author explores the connections between work spaces and work styles of 40 progressive leaders, capturing their quirks, individual styles of working, motivations, and leadership... View Details
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Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
play a part in addressing them. As you begin the next phase in your leadership journey, I ask you to join me in reflecting on three behaviors that I hope might be helpful to you as you go about this great task. They are Active Listening ,... View Details
- 13 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Inner Life of Leaders
To what extent does a leader's inner life affect his or her behavior and actions toward other people? HBS professor emeritus Abraham Zaleznik, skilled in the practice of psychoanalysis and an admirer of the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
this time. Toward a Theory of Behavioral Operations Authors:Francesca Gino and Gary P. Pisano Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract Human beings are critical to the functioning of the vast... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 17, 2007
Kraiselburd and Noel Watson Abstract In this paper, we seek to use quantitative models to help appreciate the behavioral processes associated with successful cross-functional and cross-firm alignment in supply/demand planning. We model... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
compensation plan. Substantively, the paper sheds insights on how different elements of the compensation plan enhance productivity. We find evidence that: (1) bonuses enhance productivity across all segments; (2) overachievement... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino