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14 Nov 2005
Research & Ideas

How Can Start Ups Grow?

published by the Academy of Management (August, 2005) as part of its Best Paper Proceedings. Her research on how young firms grow is based on data looking at new advertising agencies in New York and Chicago from 1977 to 1985. In this... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

devised, which paved the way for the use of quantitative analysis in formal strategic planning. In 1944, John von Neumann and Oskar Morgenstern published their classic work, The Theory of Games and Economic Behavior. This work essentially... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

paper was published in 2019. "We find that startups founded by individuals most sensitive to labor market conditions display lower financial and innovative performance than startups founded by entrepreneurs who are less... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

10 Aug 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID's Surprising Toll on Careers of Women Scientists

Business School professors Kyle R. Myers, Karim R. Lakhani, and eight colleagues from institutions including Yale and Northwestern, published in the journal Nature Human Behavior in July. There’s already a “well-documented, persistent... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Pharmaceutical; Biotechnology; Health

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

people should feel more confident about their decision making after sleep.” What they actually found was just the opposite. Sleep makes them feel better in some ways but does not boost confidence in their ability to make the best decision. They View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

19 Jun 2013
Research & Ideas

Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems

values by sharing stories about their institutions. Indeed, they have discovered that pastors of so-called megachurches publish an unusually large number of books, not only to connect to church members, but to spread the message to an... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino

01 Dec 2011
What Do You Think?

Thinking Slow: An Argument for Bureaucracy?

(New York: Little, Brown and Company, 2005) Daniel Kahneman, Thinking, Fast and Slow (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2011) Richard H. Thaler and Cass R. Sunstein, Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness (London: Penguin Books, 2008) Jim... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

wrong. We showed that Czechs are like all other Europeans, whose first interest is soccer, with erotica a close second. For that, we will never be forgiven." Second, when Lauder tried to fire Železný from TV Nova, Železný responded by declaring, "I am... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

users out of luck. Harvard Business School professor Josh Lerner and his colleagues are studying how SSOs balance the interests of users against the interest of sponsors to gain widespread acceptance of new technologies. Their paper, "Certifying New... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

delivery services should not be discounted too soon, according to HBS professor and marketing specialist John A. Deighton. As Deighton explained in the article "Who Wanted Webvan to Survive?" published last summer in The Boston... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

low-quality care,” says Edmondson, the Novartis Professor of Leadership and Management at HBS. Edmondson and her colleagues studied the survey responses of clinicians at a midwestern health organization over a four-year period; they report on the dynamics of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

02 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Harvard Business School Case 119-029 Revenue Recognition at HBP In early 2014, Paul Bills, CFO of Harvard Business Publishing (HBP), sat down with David Wan, the company’s CEO, to discuss budget preparations for the coming year. Bills... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

19 Jan 2016
First Look

January 19, 2016

market as a whole experienced high returns relative to Treasury bills. In the spirit of Fischer Black’s 1993 article “Beta and Return,” published in this journal, the author takes seriously the idea that this evidence reflects a risk... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

it into a standalone business, continue publishing in academic journals, license their content to an established medical vendor, or some combination of these? This case allows students to develop and evaluate approaches to disseminating... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107030 Joseph Pulitzer Harvard Business School Case 807-072 Biography of publisher and philanthropist Joseph Pulitzer. Purchase this case:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

15 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Find Your Pragmatic Path through Radical Uncertainty

Reprinted with permission from CommonWealth Magazine, which first published this article. These are times that none of us have seen before. Amid the radical uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic, fear has reared its ugly head medically,... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson, Eugene B. Kogan, and Shirley Spence

28 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’

"a sorry receiver," followed by a message for Crabtree: "Don't you ever talk about me!" Twitter members reacted forcefully and en masse, to the point that major news networks published stories with headlines like... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Sports

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

disappeared. In the United Kingdom, however, where no such rule exists, the effect of school ties on buy recommendations stayed markedly positive. "This provides more evidence that the alumni channel is really about information," Malloy says. The Small World Of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

28 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How to Harness Auction Fever

professor Deepak Malhotra. "These might all increase the likelihood of overbidding due to auction fever." This research comes from a recently published paper, coauthored with Gillian Ku, "Towards a Competitive Arousal Model... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Web Services; Technology

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