Filter Results
:
(143)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(196)
- News (29)
- Research (143)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (21)
Show Results For
-
All HBS Web
(196)
- News (29)
- Research (143)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (21)
Sort by
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter
clear that this is the case, and it is certainly not clear that every leader matters. Sometimes leaders have no choice. No president could have avoided declaring war on Japan after Pearl Harbor. But a president other than George W. Bush...
View Details
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
map the innovation network and its strength. Past innovation network structures are calculated using citation patterns across technology classes during 1975 to 1994. The interaction of this preexisting network structure with patent growth...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
judgment tasks and underweighting of rare events in decisions from experience. The current paper presents three laboratory experiments and a field study that explore this pattern. The results suggest that the overestimation and underweighting View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
development of an instructional program based on them. Perhaps most important, Groopman describes how and why doctors sometimes make tragic mistakes. These are mistakes that occur because of miscommunication (the failure to say "tell me again"); too heavy a...
View Details
Keywords:
by Jim Heskett
- 26 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward
negotiations be secret or open, separate or collective? How can you avoid being harmed by the sequencing tactics of others? Here's some advice: Study Patterns Of Influence And Deference Would-be coalition...
View Details
Keywords:
by James K. Sebenius
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
online videos by simply turning away, opening another browser window, or chatting with someone. "It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even if you can't technically skip it," he says. “It's not at all hard to View Details
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
there are not diffuse shareholders in the multinational-subsidiaries. Surprisingly, many of the same puzzling patterns we see in dividend policies more generally—smoothed payments, a willingness to incur View Details
Keywords:
by Cynthia Churchwell
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
can be reallocated to lower-tax jurisdictions with a fair amount of ease. Finally, changing patterns of incentive compensation have sharpened incentives to squeeze profits out of parts of the organization that were heretofore not profit...
View Details
Keywords:
by Ann Cullen
- 05 Aug 2010
- What Do You Think?
What Is Customer Opinion Good For?
products arise from strong insight, gut feel and imagination. Bad ideas, lousy products or services can be avoided by serious market research." Andy Robin pointed out that in the semiconductor business "one still had to spend a lot of...
View Details
- 24 Jul 2014
- Op-Ed
Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home
a) incorporation decisions by entrepreneurs that anticipate the burdens of being a US corporation, b) merger patterns that reflect the penalties of being domiciled in the US and the importance of offshore cash for US corporations, c)...
View Details
- 23 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective
sample of 42 others that didn't. The researchers focused on several measures that capture socially responsible management practices including the social responsibility of business leaders, sustainable development, employee training, efficiency of corporate boards,...
View Details
Keywords:
by Michael Blanding
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that...
View Details
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
work pace patterns provide evidence for a time discounting mechanism: workers discount idle time when it is relatively distant but act to avoid it increasingly as it becomes more proximate. Finally, Study 4...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 16, 2018
from analytics when they haven’t declared it themselves. If marketers avoid those tactics, use data judiciously, focus on increasing trust and transparency, and offer people control over their personal data, their ads are much more likely...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 1, 2016
small enough to avoid extortion. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50675 Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff” One likely reason for the decline: processing electronic records can change the way staff members communicate with one another, clogging up what had been a well-oiled...
View Details
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
firm-wide diversification; in contrast, a high net value of within-firm coordination is correlated with centralization. Variation across establishments within firms is widespread: most firms are neither fully centralized nor fully decentralized. Delegation View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
magnitude than the actual increase in inequality, but it is nonetheless positive and substantial in size. Weighing against this, growth in inequality is met with greater support for government-led redistribution to the poor. These View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups
The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment...
View Details
Keywords:
by Rachel Layne