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- 04 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business
period—and so did in-store sales as well as sales of jigsaw puzzles and walkie-talkies. It’s not clear what we learn from panic buying. So let’s look at what was happening online before the virus of 2020. Ecommerce has been part of the internet for 30 years. Books.com... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
reduces gender inequality in organizations, yet the study of gender in negotiation has little connection to the study of gender in organizations. We review the literature on gender in job negotiations from psychology and organizational... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 12
founded Kvadrat in the 1960s. Byriel and Bendix had joined Kvadrat in 1992, and since that time, Kvadrat had grown from 19 million in annual sales to over 86 million. It had expanded its focus on selling textiles to European architects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
http://www.smi.ethz.ch/news/news/docs/ResearchAlive.pdf An Organizational Approach to Undoing Gender: The Unlikely Case of Offshore Oil Platforms Authors:R. Ely and D. E. Meyerson Publication:Research in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
can make organizational learning happen by building teams that learn. Publisher's Link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-078797093X.html The Gifts We Keep on Giving: Documenting and Destigmatizing the Regifting Taboo... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
Intervention Method, Empirical Evidence, and Theory Author:Michael Beer Publication:In Research in Organizational Change and Development. Vol. 19, edited by Richard Woodman, William Pasmore, and Abraham B. (Rami) Shani, Emerald Group... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
Working PapersManaging Functional Biases in Organizational Forecasts: A Case Study of Consensus Forecasting in Supply Chain Planning Authors:Rogelio Oliva and Noel Watson Abstract To date, little research has been done on managing the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
platform. This result helps explain why the owner of a proprietary platform such as Microsoft has chosen to contribute to the development of Linux. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/12-114_60db6865-8e08-4861-98d2-4ba4dd99352a.pdf Who... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-3-642-03109-0 Sell Side School Ties Authors:Lauren H. Cohen, Christopher J. Malloy, and Andrea Frazzini Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We study the impact of social networks... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
the current Boston Stock Exchange building, a structure that was considered something of a white elephant after Fleet Bank moved out. After buying the building for $10 million, Intercontinental invested $6.5 million in the property before View Details
- 13 Aug 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Entrepreneurs Needed for Long-Run Success
regularly change what you make and sell, and probably how you make and sell it. You must be nimble and, as certain lines of business wane, be able to identify growth opportunities in and out of the core industry and pursue them in... View Details
Keywords: by Michael J. Roberts
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
http://hbr.org/2010/10/unleashing-the-power-of-marketing/ar/1 Institutional Pressures and Organizational Characteristics: Implications for Environmental Strategy Authors:Magali A. Delmas and Michael W. Toffel Publication:In The Oxford... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Disruption: The Art of Framing
competitor's action as both a threat and an opportunity. Here are organizational and process changes that can help meet the challenge.It's one thing to recognize the importance of careful framing when you're faced with a disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
- 25 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 25
stay with the old technology as a rational, proactive choice rather than as a mark of managerial and organizational failure. We then consider the distinctive challenges and organizational dynamics that arise... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
and Creative Sparks: Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration Authors:E. Miron-Spektor, F. Gino, and L. Argote Publication:Enhancing Individual Creativity through Conflict and Integration." Organizational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 11
the next phase of his life. For the first two years after selling CircleLending—a pioneer in the person-to-person lending field—to Richard Branson, he stayed on as president and CEO of Virgin Money USA. Now resigned, he has decided to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
within these industries and show that whether or not a piece of content ends up exclusive to one platform depends crucially on whether or not the content provider maintains control over the pricing of its own good. If the content provider View Details
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Incentives versus Reciprocity: Insights from a Field Experiment By: Chung, Doug J., and Das Narayandas Abstract—We conduct a field experiment in which we vary the sales force compensation scheme at an Asian enterprise that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2002
- What Do You Think?
What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”
so few eyebrows. Comments from readers of this column suggest that marketing has, in practice, moved beyond the product development, promotion, pricing, and distribution activities that defined the field five decades ago. Alternatively, the extent to which the Internet... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
Trust Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Alisa Yu, Justin M. Berg, and Julian Zlatev “People often respond to others’ emotions using verbal acknowledgment (e.g., “You seem upset”). Yet, little is known about the... View Details