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- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
fashionistas? And if companies focus more on these consumers, how is the broader consumer pool impacted? Farronato studies these questions in a working paper recently published by the National Bureau of Economic Research. Written along... View Details
- 04 Apr 2023
- What Do You Think?
How Does Remote Work Affect Innovation?
printed out the pages containing the results he didn’t like, highlighted the offending ads, posted them on a bulletin board on the wall of the kitchen by the pool table, and wrote THESE ADS SUCK in big letters across the top. Then he went... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 May 2021
- Research & Ideas
Who Has Potential? For Many White Men, It’s Often Other White Men
people—other white men. Meanwhile, white women and people of color who were recruited from the same competitive MBA pool received more mundane work, including tasks they had already mastered. This disparity in development had long-term... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
The researchers asked 655 participants recruited from an online participant pool to think about a “familiar stranger”—someone they had seen a few times in the last couple of months but never interacted with, like a fellow passenger on a... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
business than others, as the obstacles to entry for female entrepreneurs have been and continue to be higher for women than men in other industries, like construction, for example. So there is a lot of female entrepreneurial talent View Details
- 29 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Are You Paying a Tip--or a Bribe?
expect. When Torfason and his colleagues asked 51 participants from a national online pool about their impressions of the relationship between tipping and bribery, just 5.9 percent said they thought they were "probably positively... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
shared costs of buyers having to compensate sellers for a product or service. Operating systems save the shared costs of providing the low-level functionalities that all applications can use. Shopping malls save on shared costs by pooling... View Details
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
blocking power. So let’s assume that, with many contenders, Amazon had powerful reasons to choose New York. Comparative advantages presumably ranged from a large and highly educated employee pool to big incentives and to local... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner
its upper ranks. Having amassed a dataset of estimated social status and managerial levels for the large pool of GE managers, Nicholas then ran his data through various statistical models. He found that the likelihood of a death for upper... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
as well as manufacturers.” To study the safety of a wide variety of medications, the researchers collected FDA data between 2006 and 2018, focusing on 396 new drugs. Among this pool were therapies that had received the FDA’s Breakthrough... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
and says it may never make money. Businesses need to figure out where the profits can pool and how they can sustain themselves over time. Yes, there’s opportunity everywhere, but it’s tricky because some will lead to a sustainable... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons to Design a Better Corporate Culture
pool of prospective employees grows. -- The cost of selecting among many applicants is offset by cost savings as prospective employees sort themselves into and out of consideration for jobs. -- This self-selection process reduces the... View Details
- 09 Jun 2022
- HBS Case
From Truck Driver to Manager: US Foods’ Novel Approach to Staff Shortages
each night. “We can’t afford to have our veteran employees leaving,” explains Rob Koppenhaver, senior vice president of US Food’s field operations, in the case study. From dead-end jobs to management roles With those two basic changes in place, Satriano sought to... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
IPO or M&A? How Venture Capital Shapes a Startup's Future
Experience and Start-Up Exits, a forthcoming study in the Academy of Management Journal. Startup founders, pick your path Past research about the degree of collaboration among investors offers mixed messages. On one hand, investors who have worked together might View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
incidents amounted to about 5 percent of the pool of workers studied over the three-year period. “If I was [studying] paper clip stealing and all that, then it should probably be 75 percent,” Minor says. Minor’s co-author, Michael... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
became a paramount concern. The MPEG-2 patent pool was thus formed in 1993 to develop a unified approach to licensing. Led by CableLabs, an R&D consortium for the cable industry, the group established a patent View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Op-Ed
Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?
minimum coverage are relegated to shopping in the higher-priced “nonstandard market,” which pools them with high-risk drivers who have been denied coverage by standard carriers, even if they have a clean driving record. [div... View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Where to Find Remote Work Now: 250 Million Job Postings Paint a Complex Picture
company is based is another big factor, Sadun says. “What's in the San Francisco and Boston talent pool is likely very different from what is in Savannah or Miami Beach,” she says. “You will compete for talent based on whether you offer... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 17 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Blue Skies, Distractions Arise: How Weather Affects Productivity
study gives you the reality of the phenomenon. A lab study answers the question, why is this happening?" The team recruited 136 college students through the study pool at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory in Cambridge,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel