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- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
harder to gain credibility with commercial messages. “The sports marketing industry is a global business.” As a result, many of the highest-paid athletes now make more money from endorsements and other commercial activities than from... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Authors:Diwas KC, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
mechanism, which we refer to as the "clamped second price auction mechanism," into the laboratory to determine whether it helps human subjects learn to play their optimal strategy faster than the standard second price auction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2013
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Manage Our Work Time?
laid the blame at the foot of "an engineer who had difficulty forecasting simple activities and (the) time to accomplish them." Joseph Mello commented that " part of the problem comes from the view of an organization as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
Associate Professor of Business Administration at HBS. “You are losing hundreds of billions in raw economic activity each month—and that’s not even accounting for all the other forms of loss the pandemic has caused. So you can put a lot... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in executing many joint processes as... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
now expected to monitor corporate culture and take action if they learn that employees are being sexually harassed. “A board’s oversight over culture and respect in the workplace has become much more important than it was prior to... View Details
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
template; and (3) pause before elaborating the activity system. The insights from our framework contribute to research on optimal distinctiveness and to the learning and evolutionary-adjustment literature on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
extremely talented people who never do anything, really. Find out where your skills and talents lie, and then look for your "creativity intersection" — for those activities where your talents and your strongest intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Can Consumers be Trusted with Their Own Health Care?
spending more money to hire a firm like Merrill Lynch that has people actively managing their stock portfolios. “Neither one of these approaches is better or worse than the other,” Quelch said. “They cater to two different types of... View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
to plan and follow through on a goal and not related to impulsivity, suggesting that some children are poorer at holding the norm in mind and following through on enacting it. We discuss the implications of these results for education and programs that promote social... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
by differences in the information-processing activities associated with each function and apply this insight to refine and extend existing theories of centralization. We also discuss the implications of our results for organizational... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates
teach—including what moral stand (if any) to promote. As I shared my draft with colleagues in and out of the School, many noted that my descriptions of daily activities did include, however, many unspoken cues on how to behave. That's how... View Details
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders
knowledge (KNOW) and skills (DO) are highly perishable. If you don't use them today, they're gone tomorrow. And, with the world changing at breakneck speed, the knowledge and skills we learn today may be irrelevant tomorrow. Hence, our... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
Bazerman and Valley and their colleagues herald the developments in negotiation studies, they also believe that the five emerging areas will enable researchers to comprehend—most importantly—how negotiators themselves define and create the game, both psychologically... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
other aspect of my life for professional achievement, but professional achievement has been at the center of my decision-making process throughout my adult life." At first, Tony's crime and confession are hard to explain. By looking closely, however, we View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
obligations to shareholders by properly overseeing the activities of the CEO, and that the directors had conflicts of interest, because they were involved with the CEO's non-Friendly business activities. In 2003, Blake filed a lawsuit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
(shortest expected processing time). Moreover, they exercise more discretion as they accumulate experience. Exploiting random assignment of tasks to doctors’ queues, instrumental variable models reveal that these deviations erode productivity. This productivity decline... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
be driven by market mispricing to undertake activity in a highly cyclical manner, accelerating activity during periods when securities can be readily sold to other parties. While financial economists have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace