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- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
product images. The team found that the images nudged shoppers to explore those narrower search queries. Some 5.5 percent of the test group searched for narrower queries suggested by the new refinement tool, compared to 1 percent of the... View Details
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
http://www.amazon.com/Enterprise-Analytics-Performance-Operations-Management/dp/0133039439/ Judgment Calls: Twelve Stories of Big Decisions and the Teams That Got Them Right Authors:Thomas H. Davenport and Brook Manville... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities
Hoel (hbs Mba '93) Managing Director, Menlo Ventures I always look at the market first. By that I mean a strategic view that includes evaluating market growth, market size, competition, and customer adoption rates. If a company has a great market, it doesn't need to... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Barley
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
how one CEO we’ve talked with builds in multiple perspectives to his decision-making. At his industrial products company, he has established bi-weekly meetings with his senior team focused on two questions: What do we know now that we... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
enforcement agency. Its official fact sheet read, “The primary function of the FBI is law enforcement.” Today, the fact sheet reads “national security.” LESSONS ABOUT THE INTERPLAY OF DESIGN AND IDENTITY IN TIMES OF RADICAL CHANGE At each... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: Leadership Roles
family. These groups all need their own good leaders to function well. So you can see that a family business system leadership team could number four or more people: a leader of each governance forum plus an... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Davis
- 10 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Time to Move On? Career Advice for Entrepreneurs Preparing for the Next Stage
before we fully embrace the new beginning. Think of it as that time between how you associate yourself with “we.” When you stop saying “at my last company, we ” but you have yet to associate yourself with the “we” of your new role and still refer to your new View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
level of accountability for that performance. Furthermore, the influence of senior minority managers on hiring practices may differ substantially, depending on where a manager sits in the firm's hierarchy. Examining hiring practices on coaching staffs of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
YouTube’s $28.8 billion. It will probably not be able to command that kind of revenue without going outside its present niche. “TikTok may surprise us with innovation in unexpected directions. In particular, it could build on the devotion of its billion users to add... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
growth was driven primarily by functional managers rather than general managers. Using panel data on senior management positions, we explore the relationship between changes in executive team composition,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
millions of African farmers and their families achieve food security and lift themselves out of poverty. By 2008, AGRA had assembled a strong leadership team and had funded numerous small projects ranging from seed development to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
across multiple types of necessary evils: Have pairs or teams perform these tasks together. Create ample time and space after these tasks for people to decompress and debrief. Provide the right physical environment—a quiet, private area... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2023
- Op-Ed
Building an Inclusive Workplace? Prepare to Shield It from Economic Fears
Before remote work became more common, teams were clearly defined, job descriptions identified workflow, and teams likely formed based on location, proximity to the work, or siloed View Details
Keywords: by Hise O. Gibson and Nicole Gilmore
- 12 Dec 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Clocky, the Runaway Alarm Clock
boutiques? (Nanda stuck with small museum shops and specialty catalogs at first, in spite of all the advance publicity.) Is it better to partner with an American product design firm and risk prohibitive expense, or to team up with a... View Details
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
those facts and find a solution, a team of Boston researchers reports. "When it comes to solving problems, connectedness is a double-edged sword," says Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Ethan Bernstein, co-author of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Organizing the Family-Run Business
functioning of an effective board of directors, which is legally elected by the owners and has legal responsibilities and powers. My recommendations about a board of directors also apply to a board or council of advisors, one that is... View Details
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Sendhil Mullainathan Abstract—Economists have become increasingly interested in studying the nature of production functions in social policy applications, with the goal of improving productivity. Traditionally, models have assumed workers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
necessary for eliciting effort from those affecting the quality of interdependent teamwork. We consider the role of incentives versus social processes in catalyzing collaboration. We test our hypotheses using a unique data set of 260 individuals randomly assigned to 52... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 08 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Centuries of Restrictions on Women Shed Light on Today's Abortion Debate
abortion bans. It suggests that anti-abortion attitudes share the same functional origin with the custom of restricting women in their freedom of mobility and with particularly invasive forms of female genital cutting. Limits on women’s... View Details
Keywords: by Kara Baskin