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- 23 Nov 2021
- Book
What It Takes to Build an Organizational Culture That Wins
with a major competitive advantage, allowing for higher employee and customer engagement and loyalty, all of which translate into greater growth and profits. Although many business leaders are aware of these benefits, too few are focused... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Thinking Ahead
consumer-fitness experience and grounded it in medical science for a chronic disease population?” asks Lee, a 2023–2024 Blavatnik Fellow who will spend her fellowship year developing and testing an on-demand video prototype. Exercise can... View Details
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
imminent new product and pricing plans, as well as its existing brand power, could greatly hamper AMD's growth and thwart its new initiatives—which included opening up its architecture for end users to customize and recast its brand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Money Does Grow on (Family) Trees
For 17 years, Andre Kearns (MBA 1999) has been tracing his family tree. One by one, he has added branches, grounding himself in a long and sometimes complicated lineage. Through family stories, forgotten heirlooms, and vital records, Kearns has traveled back through... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
a force, the cost of creating a new design must be within the reach of a single user. User innovations occur when customers of a product improve on that product with their own designs. In rodeo kayaking, the early participants built... View Details
- 27 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)
Companies struggling with diversity, equity, and inclusion might be tempted to hide their workforce data. Why shine a light on a company’s limited progress—or worse, risk a public-relations headache? It turns out, all news is good news when it comes to letting View Details
Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
about the causes of regional variations in health care expenditures. We use vignettes from patient and physician surveys linked to fee-for-service Medicare expenditures to test whether patient demand-side factors or physician supply-side... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- April 2024
- Article
Speaking up and Taking Action: Psychological Safety and Joint Problem-solving Orientation in Safety Improvement
By: Hassina Bahadurzada, Michaela J. Kerrissey and Amy C. Edmondson
Healthcare organizations face stubborn challenges in ensuring patient safety and mitigating clinician turnover. This paper aims to advance theory and research on patient safety by elucidating how the role of psychological safety in patient safety can be enhanced with... View Details
Keywords: Healthcare Operations; Psychological Safety; Teams; Retention; Safety; Customer Satisfaction; Organizational Culture; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry
Bahadurzada, Hassina, Michaela J. Kerrissey, and Amy C. Edmondson. "Speaking up and Taking Action: Psychological Safety and Joint Problem-solving Orientation in Safety Improvement." Art. 812. Healthcare 12, no. 8 (April 2024).
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
customers over a period of four months. We predict and find that should DVDs (e.g., documentaries) are held significantly longer than want DVDs (e.g., action films) within-customer. Similarly, we also predict and find that people are more... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
On the Radar
When the firm started in 2008 with a group of funders that included Bill Gates, Ginkgo Bioworks focused on engineering cells for applications in food, pharmaceuticals, cosmetics, and more. The company employs more than a thousand people, and its View Details
- 05 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 5, 2006
Science Foundation. The developed platform offers an unprecedented view of the R&D-to-patenting innovation process and a close analysis of the strengths and limitations of the Industry R&D Survey. The files are linked through a name-matching algorithm View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 5, 2016
a direct test proves otherwise. Women appear to positively select into negotiations and to know when to ask. By contrast, we find no significant evidence of such a positive selection for men. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 05 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: January 5
are not driven by reverse causality. These patterns are not driven solely by common law nations such as the United Kingdom and United States, but also hold in Continental Europe. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-045.pdf Going Through the Motions:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 30
video ads. In a controlled experiment, joy and surprise were assessed through automated facial expression detection for a sample of ads. Concentration of attention was assessed through eye tracking and retention of viewers by recording zapping behavior. This allows... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
technology—from AI to advanced batteries—to create value for their customers. Yet, this technology is still primarily built in developed economies for customers in these economies, and even within countries like the US, there remain stark... View Details
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
Ariely Publication:Health Affairs 31 (February 2012) Abstract Policies that mandate calorie labeling in fast-food and chain restaurants have had little or no observable impact on calorie consumption to date. In three field experiments, we View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
variation in value across banks. Variation in productivity is driven by differences across banks in technology, customer demographics, and market power. Their findings suggest that there is significant heterogeneity in banks’ ability to... View Details
- 23 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
After High-Profile Failures, Can Investors Still Trust Credit Ratings?
answers the question, ‘Should we continue to rely on ratings, given all the times that ratings have been shown not to be correct?” Harvard Business School assistant professor Anywhere Sikochi and colleagues crunched thousands of ratings between 2003 and 2015 to View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 24 Apr 2018
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: What Mark Zuckerberg Can Learn About Crisis Leadership from Starbucks
things. After those first days, the moment had passed and other voices were crowding out his company’s messages. Leading in crisis is the real test for leaders. Zuckerberg failed his big test and will... View Details
- 04 Sep 2013
- What Do You Think?
How Relevant is Long-Range Strategic Planning?
employee and customer mind sets, and innovations, evolve at a rapid rate. The conversation was stimulated (can it be 16 years ago?) by Clayton Christensen's work leading to his book, The Innovator's Dilemma. In one sense, the book was... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett