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Negotiation

Managerial success requires the ability to negotiate. Whether you are forging an agreement with your suppliers, trying to ink a deal with potential customers, raising money from investors, managing a conflict inside your firm, or resolving a dispute that is headed... View Details

21 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 21

agenda would, in our opinion, undermine the efforts we will recommend in our second and third papers. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2592630 Is No News (Perceived as) Bad News? An Experimental Investigation of... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

way or if it's time to part ways–the company has outgrown them. I once had a talented engineer on my team who was a great prototyper but not strong writing production-level code. Each time he tried to follow a project from the View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

07 May 2020
Research & Ideas

The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation

Learning from forced experimentation and investment in risk-mitigating technologies may help firms become smarter and more flexible. For example, before the crisis, firms may have regarded the investment of time and resources to... View Details

Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso

November, 2016
Article

Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces

By: Ray Fisman and Michael Luca

Online marketplaces such as eBay, Uber, and Airbnb have the potential to reduce racial, gender, and other forms of bias that affect the off-line world. And in the early days of Internet commerce, the relative anonymity of transactions did make it harder for... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Digital Platforms; Internet and the Web; Race; Gender

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01 Dec 2023
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A Continuum of Innovation

As senior associate dean and chair of the MBA Program, Matt Weinzierl has a running list of questions that he and Jana P. Kierstead, the executive director of MBA and Doctoral programs, always keep in mind. They range from the curricular (How can we ensure that the MBA... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

Think of the last time you went shopping. By the time you decided to buy a product, you knew both what you were buying and how much it cost. But was your decision affected by whether you saw the price or the product first? That's the question at the heart of new View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

28 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination

incorporate efforts to measure discrimination into their experimental testing to understand the impact of different design choices. Be transparent. Platforms should make their work on issues of discrimination transparent and open up lines... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Travel; Entertainment & Recreation; Service

02 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving

reimagining the restaurant experience, allowing consumers to enjoy restaurant-quality food from the comfort and convenience of their homes, and allowing restaurants to increase their customer base beyond their physical locations. Cloud kitchens were part of this trend,... View Details

Keywords: by Lena Ye and Geoffrey Jones; Food & Beverage

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Gender & Race in Organizations Research Group - Race, Gender & Equity

experimental and computational research methodologies. Tina Opie Tina Opie is an Associate Professor in the Management Division at Babson College as well as an author and consultant. Professor Opie's research focuses primarily on how... View Details

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Automotive Product Development

At present, my primary research focus is studying product development in the auto industry. I am working with Stefan Thomke (HBS) and Takahiro Fujimoto (University of Tokyo) on the 4th Round of the Global Automotive Development Study. The first round of this... View Details

01 Dec 2015
HBS Seminar

Nicola Lacetera, University of Toronto

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

conducted the sessions of the study to take advantage of natural variation, and then we experimentally manipulated subjects' exposure to outside options," the authors explain in the paper. Half of the participants were asked to come to... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

Professional Networking Makes People Feel Dirty

more intent than the other—and that intent might contribute to feelings of being selfish." Putting The Hypotheses To The Test The researchers conducted a series of experimental and field studies to test the extent to which networking... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

01 Mar 2024
News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

wield in order to reclaim its destiny, with Judeo-Christian heritage forming the center of America’s rebirth. The Experimentation Field Book: A Step-by-Step Project Guide By Jeanne Liedtka (MBA 1981), Elizabeth Chen, Natalie Foley and... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

30 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Soroush Saghafian, Assistant Professor of Public Policy - Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard University

06 Oct 2020
Sharpening Your Skills

18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters

administration. Tip: Learn from what other managers are doing successfully While we are still far from knowing what constitutes a “best practice,” there is already a great deal of experimentation emerging globally. To provide an early... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

Arthur Schleifer

Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; financial services; grocery; insurance industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; restaurant; retailing; software; tire; tobacco; wine

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Design Thinking Course | HBS Online

Develop: An Experimentation Mindset Develop, assess, and strengthen innovation concepts, and guide prototyping by creating critical questions related to a concept's desirability, feasibility, and viability. Highlights Impact, Difficulty,... View Details

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Introductory Reading for Being a Leader and the Effective Exercise of Leadership: An Ontological Model

By: Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron and Kari L. Granger

This paper is the sixth of six pre-course reading assignments for an experimental leadership course developed by the authors over five years (2004-2008) at the U. of Rochester Simon School of Business working with students, alumni, executives, and faculty from various... View Details

Keywords: Leadership Development; Curriculum and Courses; Strategy; Performance Capacity; Attitudes; Behavior; United States; Netherlands; Texas