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- 01 Sep 2011
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Faculty Books
favorable opinions of the organization, their work, and their colleagues. It’s forward momentum in meaningful work — progress — that creates the best inner work lives. Amabile, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration,... View Details
- 20 Feb 2019
- News
Building an Ecosystem for African Entrepreneurs
the 21st century. “Africapitalism calls on the private sector to make long-term investment in industries that can create economic prosperity and social wealth.” The idea was inspired by Professor Michael... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Profits and Purpose
Professor George Serafeim (left) and Professor Rebecca Henderson (right); image by John Ritter CEOs are increasingly being asked to take the lead on some of the most vexing problems of our time, from climate... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 1996
- News
Faculty Symposium Honors McArthur
symposium will be collected and published at a later date. The following is a list of the papers' authors: Business History Professor Thomas K. McCraw and Assistant Professor Nancy F. Koehn Competition and... View Details
Keywords: Daniel Penrice
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Releases
hiring executives from outside rather than promoting from within. But, note HBS associate professor Michael Watkins and consultant Dan Ciampa in their new book, Right from the Start: Taking Charge in a New... View Details
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Tulsa Massacre | Information Technology
A. Desai , Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance Previous Previous Next Previous Next More Featured Cases Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk – Making an Impact Professors Richard Ruback and Marco Di Maggio,... View Details
- April 2022
- Article
Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others
By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams and Michael I. Norton
Many products and services are designed to make caregiving easier, from premade meals for feeding families to robo-cribs that automatically rock babies to sleep. Yet, using these products may come with a cost: consumers may feel they have not exerted enough effort.... View Details
Keywords: Effor; Caregiving; Close Relationships; Symbolic Meaning; Signaling; Relationships; Consumer Behavior; Perception
Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Mary Steffel, Elanor F. Williams, and Michael I. Norton. "Consumers Value Effort over Ease When Caring for Close Others." Journal of Consumer Research 48, no. 6 (April 2022): 970–990.
- May 2012
- Article
Do Social Deal Sites Really Work?
By: Marco Bertini, Luc Wathieu, Betsy Page Sigman and Michael I. Norton
Bertini, Marco, Luc Wathieu, Betsy Page Sigman, and Michael I. Norton. "Do Social Deal Sites Really Work?" Harvard Business Review 90, no. 5 (May 2012): 139–141.
- 2024
- Working Paper
The Revised-Is-Quality Heuristic: Why Consumers Prefer Products Labeled as Revised
By: Ximena Garcia-Rada, Leslie K. John, Ed O’Brien and Michael I. Norton
From downloading never-ending updates to tracking ever-newer releases, consumers
today are surrounded by revised products that purport to have improved upon their predecessors.
Seven experiments examine when and why consumers rely on a “revised-is-quality”... View Details
Keywords: Product Change; Versioning; Expectancy Effects; Heuristics; Intuitive Processing; Product Marketing; Change; Perception; Consumer Behavior
Garcia-Rada, Ximena, Leslie K. John, Ed O’Brien, and Michael I. Norton. "The Revised-Is-Quality Heuristic: Why Consumers Prefer Products Labeled as Revised." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 19-087, February 2019. (Revised September 2024. Revise and resubmit, Journal of Marketing Research.)
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Books
with the job, to getting it done well. It’s not much time — even the president of the United States gets one hundred days — but HBS associate professor Michael Watkins insists that it can be done. In his new... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
in Barared. As cofounder of the IGNIA Fund, along with HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu, Rodríguez looks for investments that serve what he calls “the base of the pyramid.” In 2010, IGNIA invested $3.1 million in Barared, helping it... View Details
- 02 Jul 2008
- News
No Pulp Fiction Allowed
managed [the typical MBA student] is like trying to teach psychology to someone who has never met another human being," says Mintzberg. In the first half of his book, he sharpens his claws on HBS professor View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
transactions; and a sufficient level of redistribution to suit current preferences. David Bradford's proposed X-Tax is interesting. And, if we constrain ourselves to the world in which we live, Michael Graetz's plan is pretty darn good.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
think about these subjects. High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage by Michael Beer (Jossey-Bass) Drawing on many management studies and his work with senior managers, View Details
- 22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
who also holds an MPA from Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, worked on independent research with Professor Michael Porter at HBS, a collaboration that led to Duch’s career in competitiveness... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Health-Care Forum's Rx for US System
Lawrence University Professor Michael Porter offered several ideas for coordinating and economizing, including assigning patient care to holistic, integrated practice units, instead of treatment by... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
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Lupoli Companies: Riverwalk – Making an Impact | Information Technology
Ruback , Baker Foundation Professor Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance, Emeritus Previous Previous Next Previous Next More Featured Cases Leadership, Culture, and Transition at lululemon... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Justifying and Rationalizing Questionable Preferences Authors:Zoë Chance and Michael I. Norton An abstract is unavailable at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-018.pdf The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2015
- News
Five-Star Research
When Assistant Professor Michael Luca began studying online consumer reviews in 2008, then four-year-old Yelp.com, cofounded by Jeremy Stoppelman (MBA 2005), had 10 million reviews. Today, it has more than... View Details