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- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
professors are evaluated in part on the number of papers they publish in peer-reviewed journals. Primarily written for and read by other academics, many of those journals tend to reward novelty over applicability. In academia, “basic”... View Details
- 02 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
Why COVID-19 Probably Killed More People Than We Realize
but there was no real research focused on it.” Unexplained death figures vary widely The level of underreporting varied significantly from one country to the next, the research team outlined in a recent article in the Journal of Economics... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 16 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?
from one of Smith's earlier works, The Theory of Moral Sentiments, that caught the attention of Harvard Business School professor Nava Ashraf and coauthors Colin Camerer and George Loewenstein. In "Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist," published in the summer... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 27 Jun 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rituals Strengthen Couples. Here’s Why They’re Good for Business, Too
satisfied, invested in, and committed to their relationships than couples who don't bother with them, according to an April article in the Journal of the Association for Consumer Research, Rituals and Nuptials: The Emotional and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 May 2017
- HBS Seminar
Nicholas G. Hall, The Ohio State University
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
automated driverless car.” The research results, detailed in “Multitasking While Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses,” were published in the June issue of International Journal of... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Building a Better Buyer-Seller Relationship
are in an arm's-length transactional relationship, how do you move it into a fuller relationship? For the first puzzle, Narayandas and Manu Kalwani of Purdue University teamed up for an empirical study later published in The Journal of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
Contributing: Gaining Competitive Advantage Through Contribution to Crowdsourced Public Goods, published in the journal Organization Science, Nagle interviewed technology professionals and examined data from the Linux Foundation on... View Details
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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
John : Finalist for the HBR McKinsey Award for Best Article in Harvard Business Review in 2018 for "The Surprising Power of Questions" with Alison Wood Brooks. Leslie K. John : Finalist for the 2018 Paul E. Green Award from the Journal of... View Details
- 17 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Trial of Elizabeth Holmes: Visionary, Criminal, or Both?
billion. A 2015 Wall Street Journal exposé, which became the bestseller “Bad Blood,” led to several criminal and civil probes, and sanctions imposed by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Theranos dissolved in 2018. Prosecutors must... View Details
- 02 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?
bargaining power, the paper finds. Takeaways for executives and employees The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, and CBRE stated in job postings for remote workers that they wouldn’t consider for... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Feb 2021
- Book
How to Make the World Better, Not Perfect
most of his work as a professor, he spent hours each week reviewing papers for academic journals out of a sense of obligation to the profession. “Then I stopped and thought, ‘What happens if I don’t do some of these reviews?’” he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Science: The Unlikely Frontier for New Business Ideas
“Fail fast” has become the corporate innovation mantra, but new research suggests that inventions that build on science, with its systematic observation and methodical experiments, may deliver more value to companies. US patent filings that cite View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- February 1999 (Revised November 1999)
- Teaching Note
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Teaching Note for (9-598-133). View Details
- 13 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Consumer Appeal of Underdog Branding
large corporations, such as Apple and Google, are careful to retain their underdog roots in their brand biographies." A forthcoming article coauthored by Keinan for the Journal of Consumer Research, "The Underdog Effect: The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can You Buy Creativity in the Gig Economy?
workers to get their creative juices flowing. “It turns out, on average, these gig workers are very responsive to competition,” says Zhu, who co-authored the forthcoming article Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market in... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
decentralized nature of building and financing homes posed obstacles to private organizations who tried to do the same. Anecdotal accounts, like this feature in the Ladies Home Journal in 1903, suggest that most home-buyers cobbled... View Details
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
the ages of 8 and 10. For more, see their article "Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children," forthcoming in the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization.) Despite the fact that the study was done... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding