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- 07 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 7
create significant value and have modest operating costs, and network effects protect their position once established-users rarely leave a vibrant platform. But these businesses also raise significant... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 25
necessary. Yet IP address transfer rules also need to facilitate purchase by the networks that need the addresses most, from the networks that value them least. We propose a market rule that avoids excessive fragmentation while almost... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
employee, and as a result leaders hire for attitude and train for skills; (5) effective operating strategies have to create value for employees, customers and investors, so leaders ensure the achievement of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
those who bring their own bags are more likely to buy indulgent items like ice cream and cookies. Moreover, consumers tend to place a higher value on both organic products and decadent treats when they bring their own bags than when they... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
Approximately 5 percent of the sample chose to respond online. The overall response rate was 53 percent. Q: What was the overall reaction to DTCA from physicians in your sample? Weissman: Quite mixed! Overall, 40 percent felt that DTCA had a positive View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 12 Dec 2006
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First Look: December 12, 2006
initiatives goes to organizations that are structured to support specific groups of recipients, often with sophisticated solutions. Such organizations rarely reach the broader populations that could be served by simpler alternatives. There is, however, an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Developing the Global Leader
What skills do today's executives need to develop to become effective global leaders of tomorrow? And how do corporations teach these skills to their own leaders? "The shift from a country-centric corporation to one that is more... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
behavior, how unethical do you think it would be, if you were to choose to do it?" Unfailingly, the researchers found that participants were far more likely to admit to a behavior when the question was posed indirectly. Simply changing the order of the survey questions... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Aug 2018
- Research & Ideas
Supersmart Manufacturing Tools are Lowering Prices on TVs, Bulbs, and Solar Panels
can make amazingly sophisticated parts. One interesting situation that I wrote a case on was the company Rhythm & Hues, a well-known visual effects (VFX) company. The case question was what circumstances led them to (1) win four... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
an additional 5 million people full-time, non-executive employees making up to about $50,000 per year. Any number of outcomes are predicted: More jobs. Fewer jobs. More productivity. Less productivity. Lower profits. No significant effect... View Details
- 12 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 12
addition, a growing literature has begun to highlight the potential importance of overconfidence in driving entrepreneurial outcomes. Such a mechanism may appear at face value to work like a lower level of risk aversion, but there are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
compare the slant and bias of pairs of articles on identical topics of U.S. politics. Our slant measure is less (more) than zero when an article leans towards Democratic (Republican) viewpoints, while bias is the absolute value of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20
rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995 to 2002, we find that the shadow... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management by building more value in their alumni networks than in their curricula and teaching. 2) Business school curricula, if not always their teaching, reflect the demands of the market. This is or is not appropriate, but not... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 02 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 2
PublicationsThe Progress Principle: Using Small Wins to Ignite Joy, Engagement, and Creativity at Work Authors:Teresa M. Amabile and Steven J. Kramer Publication:Harvard Business Press, 2011 Abstract The most effective managers have the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Oct 2003
- What Do You Think?
Is “the Innovator’s Solution” to Sustained Corporate Growth an Unnatural Act?
be managed effectively on a continuing basis. As Richard Eckel put it, "'Disruptive' is the clue for why the proposed method of sustained growth will fail in most organizations ... B-schools graduate and laud those who are risk... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Nov 2008
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Discusses Future of the MBA
the value of business school research. Henry Mintzberg of McGill University in Montreal devoted a book to his contention that "conventional MBA programs train the wrong people in the wrong ways with the wrong consequences."... View Details
- 11 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 11, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55344 Happily Ever After: Immigration, Natives' Marriage and Fertility By: Carlana, Michela, and Marco Tabellini Abstract—In this paper, we study the effects of immigration... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
potential of new ideas could be inimical to operating a real business. All fall, the news had been sobering, as the dot-com bubble deflated, paring billions—ultimately trillions—of dollars of stock-market value from the "idea"... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-002.pdf Culture Clash: The Costs and Benefits of Homogeneity Author:Eric Van den Steen Abstract This paper develops an economic theory of the costs and benefits of corporate culture—in the sense of shared beliefs and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace