Tracking - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity

true in the corporate world, the researchers looked at preexisting field data at a midsize bank in Tokyo. The bank had tracked employee productivity for two-and-a-half years following the launch of a new mortgage-processing system in June... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

track the blood flow throughout the brain as test subjects respond to sensory cues. In this case, participants were responding to pictures of products and their prices. A new neuroscience study looks at how our brains make purchasing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

12 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

How Scale Changes a Manager's Responsibilities

level—major products within product lines and with clear, measurable outcomes. Your job is to set the tone at the top, and at fewer than 100 employees, you can stay pretty close to the details. Once teams get bigger, you will rely on this roadmap and the measurable... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

Web

About the Project - U.S. Competitiveness

% of business leaders expect U.S. firms to be less able to compete, pay well, or both in three years. More from “Problems Unsolved and a Nation Divided” Research Tracks Core Readings PK–12 Education Transportation Infrastructure Cluster... View Details

Research Summary

Reforming Social Science

By: Max H. Bazerman

Social science research affects all of us. When researchers learned organ donation rates are higher in countries where human organs are automatically available for donation unless you specifically “opt-out” of the system, as opposed to countries like the U.S., where... View Details

25 Oct 2020
Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

you put the results into the context that most of the fintech companies claim that they use alternative data, it’s very surprising that their borrowers are more likely to default,” Di Maggio says. Di Maggio and Yao tracked 3.79 million... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

21 May 2024
News

A New Chapter

own pace. Each tablet is used by an average of five students per day and supplements teacher instruction. Data from the tablets fuels continuous improvement of the software and tracks student progress. The annual cost per child is less... View Details

Keywords: Catherine O’Neill Grace; photo by Cayce Clifford

24 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

group of households that did not receive a soap dispenser; altogether, 1,400 of the 2,943 households received dispensers. “The monitoring experiment tried to understand the beginnings of social norm formation: whether third-party observation through active View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Oct 2021
Research & Ideas

Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees

managers shift to three key measures of performance: results, group cohesion, and employee learning and satisfaction. Focusing on those measures, she says, ensures managers are tracking what is actually being accomplished, rather than... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

18 Nov 2022
HBS Case

What Does It Take to Safeguard a Legacy in Asset Management?

professionals with an existing track record.” New employees relocate to Baltimore, where the firm is based. Investment teams are composed of generalists, not specialists, which maximizes knowledge sharing. The approach breaks with the... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

22 Oct 2014
HBS Seminar

Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business

02 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top

they have tackled each however, differs in nature. In terms of recognizing potential threats, Microsoft has built-in "sensing" mechanisms to keep abreast of what is happening in the broader technological context. Much of this ability comes from their tools... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2023
News

Striving for Imperfection

there’s lots of learning or capability building, you’re on track to fly, test, fail, fix. JF: You say that we make a lot of assumptions about where solutions might come from within an organization—you’ve just been talking about, kind of... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

18 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

'Likes' Lead to Nothing—and Other Hard-Learned Lessons of Social Media Marketing

They’ve tracked it down, and now you’ve got this bond, and you’ve engaged with a brand in a self-directed way.” More recently, Wendy’s has taken a lighter touch on Twitter with customers: Find new friends. — Wendy's (@Wendys) January 3,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Technology

Fast Answer

Hedge funds: screening, performance, & rankings

tracked in Bloomberg, type Hedge Fund, hit the HELP key, and then select #11 Funds from the menu. For Portfolio holdings information type PSRT hit GO, and then fill in the relevant menu options. For screening and other options, type HFND... View Details

07 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The Better Way to Forecast the Future

and how likely each outcome is, conveying richer information related to business decisions. Its use is on the rise, but businesses are still learning how best to leverage it. Examples of this technique are everywhere. When meteorologists View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Air Transportation; Transportation

04 Mar 2019
What Do You Think?

What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?

peterhowell Summing Up: Can Single Nations Counter the Threat of Surveillance Capitalism? We’re on our own, with the possible support of government, in any efforts to counter the effects of surveillance capitalism. It’s only natural that businesses today use big data... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Advertising; Consumer Products

01 Mar 2023
News

Toward a Life Well Lived

Illustration by Valerie Chiang Illustration by Valerie Chiang In many states, you’re required by law to get your car inspected annually, and if there’s something wrong, you get the car serviced, says Professor Leslie Perlow. But how many of us bring that level of... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

21 Jul 2022
Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

speculation. How to follow the ‘stimmy’ money There’s no direct way to track how stimulus funds went from American pockets into the market, so researchers looked at a wide range of signals, including surveys, US Census and Treasury data,... View Details