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- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
Sox lost 18 of its last 24 games. Coming into September with a nine-game lead, the team was knocked out of a playoff berth on the last day of the season—one of the biggest flameouts in baseball history. What happened? How could all that... View Details
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
years—developing a gut reaction that a particular candidate, while spectacular on paper, isn't a good fit for his portfolio company. At the end of the day, as Leonard and Swap argue in their new book, Deep Smarts: How to Cultivate and... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
a string of experiments to test how sleep affects decision making. After all, sleep can do many things—research has shown that a good eight hours of shut-eye can help make people more creative, more attentive, less risky in their... View Details
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
people buy and read books. Steve Jobs and Apple were similarly influential in the sale and distribution of music through iPod and iTunes. Successful leaders possess the ability to understand the impact of the context on their business and to adapt their leadership... View Details
- 06 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Will Give You the Best Professional Guidance?
experience and the time they commit to the company. Some advisers work ad hoc as needed while others are more prescriptive with a set number of hours per week or month that they are available for consultation. In some cases, advisers are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
shed light on the effectiveness of paid search, we design and analyze a large-scale field experiment on the review platform Yelp.com. The experiment consists of roughly 18,000 restaurants and 24 million advertising exposures—randomly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
delivery of capital. For example, all of the biggest players emerging in the alternative lending space offer online and mobile applications, many of which can be completed in under 30 minutes. These are not just inquiries; these are actual loan agreements. This... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
Here’s one thing they learned: “Office pairs that lose one or two shared business hours due to [Daylight Savings Time] reduce their total communication volumes by 9.2 percent on average from baseline levels, an effect driven by decreases... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
a new everyday low pricing policy that aimed to fit with a radical repositioning of the J.C. Penney business model and brand. However, with sales continuing to decline, the board fired Johnson in April 2013 and appointed Johnson's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
Risk Management to Equity and Credit Analysis Author:Robert C. Merton Publication:CFA Institute Conference Proceedings Quarterly 24 (December 2007) Abstract Traditional conventions of accounting and actuarial science distort the valuation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
variable bonus. "Stable hours and stable salaries make a world of difference to lower-wage retail employees," she says. "In the United States, even full-time employees often do not know when they will work and for how long... View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
working together,” the article says. We talked to the researchers about how organizations can help employees cope with this difficult period—including everything from guaranteeing paid sick leave and gathering staff for virtual happy View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
Abstract—Using test data for all children attending Danish public schools between school years 2009–-2010 and 2012–2013, we examine how the time of the test affects performance. Test time is determined by the weekly class schedule and computer availability at the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas, April 18
terms of the proposed JV, Merck would pay Bayer $1 billion upfront for access to their pipeline of drugs and could pay up to another $1.2 billion in contingent payments based on actual sales. Alternatively, the Bayer team could hold fast on both fronts and let their... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the local agency flagging the potential... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
people, success takes long hours and unremitting effort, and Tony is trying to succeed in a wide range of activities. As a result, his life resembles the vaudeville act in which a juggler has a large number of sticks standing upright on a... View Details
- 09 Sep 2024
- HBS Case
McDonald’s and the Post #MeToo Rules of Sex in the Workplace
open bar happy hours with David Fairhurst, a personal friend he had promoted to oversee human resources, and the two men developed reputations for “flirting with female employees.” HR allegedly didn’t intervene despite knowledge of the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
you are likely to find it strange and even wrong or irrelevant. It is unlikely to fit your view of what a finance paper should be. And that will be encouraged by the fact that it is impossible to be complete on such a huge topic in one... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel