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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
to organizations seeking to improve creativity and innovation. Researchers and businesses want to know what factors facilitate or inhibit creativity in a variety of organizational settings. Individual Creativity in the Workplace... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
of seminal market research studies revealed that many people in the U.S. and Europe primarily associated Israel with military imagery, held views of the country as steeped in conflict, and believed its... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018
research to understand when and for whom cash and non-cash rewards increase intrinsic motivation, organizational commitment, and optimal functioning in order to improve the design and implementation of existing reward programs.... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
ideas, assesses their importance today, and explores their potential for the future. Through its wide historical focus, this Reader challenges the widespread assumption that creativity research is mainly a product of the second half of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19
Gender-class differences are reflected in women’s employment beliefs and behaviors. Research integrating social class with gendered experiences in homes and workplaces deepens our understanding of the complex interplay between sources of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Finding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya
- February 2000 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
Pepcid AC: Racing to the OTC Market
By: Charles King III, Alvin J. Silk, Ernst R. Berndt and Lisa R. Klein
Pepcid management must decide whether to risk all in a race to be first in the over-the-counter market with a new heartburn remedy. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Product Positioning; Markets; Research; Marketing Strategy; Product Development; Decision Choices and Conditions; Pharmaceutical Industry
King, Charles, III, Alvin J. Silk, Ernst R. Berndt, and Lisa R. Klein. "Pepcid AC: Racing to the OTC Market." Harvard Business School Case 500-073, February 2000. (Revised June 2003.)
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
the body of empirical research on entrepreneurial resource mobilization has grown, the literature has become increasingly fragmented. We review the literature on entrepreneurs’ mobilization of resources, spanning human, social, financial,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- December 2011
- Article
Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets
By: Leemore S. Dafny, David Dranove, Frank Limbrock and Fiona Scott Morton
We compare four datasets that researchers might use to study competition in the health insurance industry. We show that the two datasets most commonly used to estimate market concentration differ considerably from each other (both in levels and in changes over time),... View Details
Dafny, Leemore S., David Dranove, Frank Limbrock, and Fiona Scott Morton. "Data Impediments to Empirical Work on Health Insurance Markets." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 11, no. 2 (December 2011).
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
other outputs by autonomous machines. I argue that organizational researchers of creativity and innovation should invest significant energy in studying artificial intelligence and computer-assisted human intelligence, the ways in which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, a visiting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
2018 London: Bloomsbury Academic Global History, Globally: Research and Practice Around the World By: Beckert, Sven, and Dominic Sachsenmaier, eds. Abstract— In recent years historians in many different parts of the world have sought to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Psychology Preferences for Experienced Versus Remembered Happiness By: Mogilner, Cassie, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Consider two types of happiness: one experienced on a moment-to-moment basis, the other a reflective evaluation where people feel happy looking back.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- August 2014
- Technical Note
Conjoint Analysis: A Do it Yourself Guide
By: Elie Ofek and Olivier Toubia
Conjoint Analysis has become one of the most commonly used quantitative market research methods. It has been successfully employed across a wide variety of industries to quantify consumer preferences for products and services. This technical note is intended to provide... View Details
Keywords: Market Research; Conjoint Analysis; Consumer Preferences; Segmentation; Product Development; Demand Measurement; Demand and Consumers; Analysis; Markets
Ofek, Elie, and Olivier Toubia. "Conjoint Analysis: A Do it Yourself Guide." Harvard Business School Technical Note 515-024, August 2014.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda
By: Frank Nagle, Robert Seamans and Steve Tadelis
Transaction Cost Economics (TCE) theory has played an important role in understanding when it is more efficient for a transaction between two parties to occur within the market or within an organization. However, as more transactions occur in a digitally-mediated... View Details
Keywords: Transaction Cost Economics; Digital Economy; Economics; Cost; Markets; Research; Digital Transformation
Nagle, Frank, Robert Seamans, and Steve Tadelis. "Transaction Cost Economics in the Digital Economy: A Research Agenda." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-009, July 2020.
- July 2010 (Revised December 2011)
- Background Note
Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis
By: Thomas J. Steenburgh and Jill Avery
Pricing is one of the most difficult decisions marketers make and the one with the most direct and immediate impact on the firm's financial position. This toolkit will introduce the fundamental terminology and calculations associated with pricing and profitability... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Profit; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Marketing Strategy; Demand and Consumers; Measurement and Metrics; Strategic Planning; Mathematical Methods; Retail Industry
Steenburgh, Thomas J., and Jill Avery. "Marketing Analysis Toolkit: Pricing and Profitability Analysis." Harvard Business School Background Note 511-028, July 2010. (Revised December 2011.)