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- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago Do Social Movements Sway Voters? Not Really, Except for One What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
workers; and the production of knowledge, including the idea of the economy, among other topics. Together, the essays suggest emerging themes in the field: a fascination with capitalism as it is made by political authority, how it is... View Details
- 24 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Kayak Users Built a New Industry
motivated to "search" in the new design space. They will look for ways to improve on the original innovation. However, from the users' perspective, designs are what economists call "nonrival" goods. As Thomas Jefferson said, "he who receives an... View Details
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
Wolfgang Pauli once derided a colleague's idea by saying that it wasn't even wrong. Similarly, Tony's previous life was neither good nor bad. It was submoral because it was on autopilot. The bribe is wrong, of course, but by taking it... View Details
- 30 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Use the Psychology of Pricing To Keep Customers Returning
the idea that people will use a product or service more right after they pay for it. How can companies make this work for them? A: Sunk costs are a curious bit of psychology. Economists say that attending to sunk costs is not... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
What did people do before ATMs? That's a question that causes most twentysomethings to draw a blank. They don't remember the days when people conducted their banking—face-to-face with a teller—between 9 a.m. and 3 p.m. on weekdays. The View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
potential stopgaps. “It’s something we thought might help at the margins with the immediate liquidity crisis,” he said. As it turns out, Yelp had similar ideas and ended up making changes to the platform. The company has now made it... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
devices to medical devices that didn’t use radiation, they also found a 30 percent increase. “We expected to see something, but we had no idea of the magnitude,” says Galasso. Moreover, when they began examining detailed FDA filings of CT... View Details
- 29 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Hunting for a Hot Job in High Tech? Try 'Digitization Economist'
digital marketing. At HBS, Luca will teach a new MBA elective this spring focusing on experiments from a manager’s perspective. Twenty years ago, the idea would have been unheard of in most business schools. But in an era of increasingly... View Details
- 17 Apr 2017
- Research Event
The Most Pressing Issues for Platform Providers in the Sharing Economy
and those with the most up-votes rose to the top of a list next to the moderators. Among the most popular questions, which drew a laugh from both the panelists and the audience: How do you compete in a winner-take-all market when you’re not the winner? Panelists mostly... View Details
- 22 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
What's the Ideal Frequency for a Sales Quota?
monthly quotas.” Chung says the same ideas apply in school classrooms, where some students are intrinsically motivated to shine no matter the class structure, and others need a little more help. “If you have one exam or multiple exams... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can We Hold the “Leadership Industry” Accountable?
do all they can to uplift the performance of others, the focus changes and the behaviours improve. This is a collective responsibility. Leadership is a position you collectively occupy on the excellence ladder, not a person or a role “ These are interesting View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
When Your Classmate is an NBA Superstar (or Fashion Model, or Movie Actress)
June session have already been filled. The acceptance process is a selective one. “We say ‘no’ quite a bit,” Elberse says. “We want to have a mix of different industries with a certain level of experience. The idea is to create the best... View Details
- 11 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In the Future of Sports Investing, Media Is the Best Bet
"Sports fans like statistics," he says. He is also looking at ways to incorporate his sports media expertise into the classroom. "I am percolating the idea of a course on sports media," Higgins says, explaining that... View Details
- 25 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8
fear change because it can be truly dangerous, posing a threat not only to old ideas but jobs as well. In the case of the Windows 8 launch, there's a threat to Microsoft's competitors-including Apple, Google Inc., and Amazon.com—who could... View Details
- 26 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
When Other Companies Compete Like Crazy, Dare to Be Different
after category, achieved their success simply by figuring out a way to be radically and dramatically different from the rest of the crowd. The idea in the book is not only to celebrate these mavericks; it is to deconstruct and demystify... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 09 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 9
corporate governance in emerging economies, and we think the conventional wisdom about the economically important topics of tunneling and business groups will need to be significantly questioned and reformulated in light of new findings, data, and methodology presented... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
the ideas in High Commitment, High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage. Says Beer, "CEOs of HCHP companies think very differently about their employees. They see them as an asset and care about... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
undermines creative thinking in tasks that draw on knowledge from multiple cultures. Three studies (a network survey and two experiments) found that ambient cultural disharmony decreased individuals' effectiveness at connecting ideas from... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
practice, and at a personal level, the impact she has had on each of our lives. Innovative ideas and novel methods have been the hallmarks of Linda's research on diverse topics: the impact of self‐serving conceptions of fairness on... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman