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- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Until the close of the last decade, health consumers received much of their knowledge and advice about prescription drugs from their physicians or other health care professionals. Today, pharmaceutical companies are spending several... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Sep 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?
knowledge exchange... This is a huge setback for the global economy." At the personal level one respondent commented that perceptions rather than reality have changed: "The reality is that we were always at risk and were either... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
to answer: Would negative publicity from the accident affect future innovation in that segment of the medical device industry? Would people’s perception of safety issues reduce demand for products using radiation? Do accidents chill... View Details
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion By: Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood Brooks Abstract—Expressing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2015
- What Do You Think?
Are Technology Companies Ripe for Disruption?
close proximity to one another, frequenting the same restaurants, and speaking a language of their own? They represent a classic "cluster" from the world of competitive strategy. But are they denied exposure to consumers who are... View Details
- 05 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: iPads, Kindles, and the Close of a Chapter in Book Publishing
after Macmillan indicated it would begin setting higher consumer prices for e-books than Amazon's standard charge of $9.99 for new releases. Amazon capitulated after a few days: Under Macmillan's new terms, the publisher will set the... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
increases demand by seven percentage points. Consumer Response to Versioning: How Brands' Production Methods Affect Perceptions of Unfairness Authors:Andrew Gershoff, Ran Kivetz, and Anat Keinan... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2024
- In Practice
The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities
administration and is a reaction to the Chinese Communist Party’s own perception of insecurity at home and in the global economy. Increasing restrictions to transnational commerce in and with China are best understood in terms of security... View Details
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
When, and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements? A Web-based Facial Tracking Field Study By: Teixeira, Thales, Rosalind Picard, and Rana el Kaliouby Abstract—The presence of positive entertainment (e.g., visual imagery, upbeat... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 6
of a hypothetical $1,000 to introduce the idea that context, history, and values shape perceptions and expectations. These phenomena can propel behaviors that can lead to circumstances improving or deteriorating-upward or downward... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
Business School Press), a new book by HBS professor Dorothy Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University. The authors not only disprove the stereotypical perception of group creativity as an oxymoron but show how the group... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 26 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
lengths—60, 30, and 10 seconds—and in 10-second silent videos and 10-second audio clips. We find that perceptions of collective properties of groups, including cohesion, affective trust, and cognitive trust partially mediate perceivers’... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior Psychological Safety: The History, Renaissance, and Future of an Interpersonal Construct By: Edmondson, Amy C., and Zhike Lei Abstract—Psychological safety describes people's View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
benign envy in addition to decreasing their perceptions of the entrepreneur’s hubristic pride (i.e., arrogance) while increasing their perceptions of the entrepreneur’s authentic pride (i.e., confidence).... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
out enough or you had too much sun—what sort of picture has it painted of you? Grana: I'm often wrong in terms of my expectations of—of my perception of myself versus the reality of myself. One is the example I just mentioned—the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2016
with comical tales are perceptive looks at things as different as family Christmas rituals, and the impact of 40 years of communism on society. When Climate Change Hits Home by Diogo Castro Freire (MBA 2012) (Amazon Digital Services LLC)... View Details
- 27 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
There Are No HBS People, Just People Who Happen to Go to HBS
totally against changing my major, so when I got back to school, I started applying to jobs that accepted engineers for non-engineering roles. I applied to Nielsen for a consumer data analytics role, to engineering internships that would... View Details
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
investors and he’s the “flag,” the name. Given that case, that would inform a world view that has a high sensitivity to perceptions in what we call in real estate “the real economy.” Are the rooms full, and in which locations? Hotel... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
downside, what legal actions can we expect from workers or shoppers or diners? In the best upside, what perceptions and indicators of healthy environments led to more productivity and confidence (and revenue)? Right now, assessments of... View Details
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The... View Details