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- 28 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Football Stars Debate ‘The Social Capital of the Savvy Athlete’
Nobody understands the power of Twitter better than Seattle Seahawks cornerback Richard Sherman. In a now-infamous television interview in January after a National Football League playoff game, Sherman briefly ranted against rival Michael Crabtree, referring to the San... View Details
- 30 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men
If you're in search of startup funding, it pays to be a good-looking guy. A series of three studies reveals that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the content of the pitches is identical. Attractive men are... View Details
- 26 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind
There's a classic cartoon plot device that represents a struggle with temptation. A tiny angel pops up on the conflicted character's left shoulder, urging him to follow the path of righteousness. A tiny devil sits on his right shoulder, pressing him to give into his... View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Companies all over the world have striven for transparency in the workplace, literally tearing down walls in an effort to let managers and employees observe each other. Take, for example, one of the 14 key principles of The Toyota Way, Toyota Motor Corp.'s managerial... View Details
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
It probably won't shock you that the most popular YouTube video in the past month was "Gentleman," the latest hit from South Korean rapper PSY, whose "Gangnam Style" is the most-watched video of all time. More surprising: among the other most-watched videos was an... View Details
- 04 Mar 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Lessons from Running GM’s OnStar
Among the most popular elective courses at Harvard Business School is Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise (BSSE). Developed by Professor Clayton M. Christensen, the course teaches future leaders how to use well-researched academic theories to understand... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
Over the past decade, socially-focused websites have attracted hundreds of millions of users and changed the social fabric in fundamental ways. The likes of eHarmony and Match.com enable us meet new people. Platforms including Facebook, Path, and Zynga help us... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
In the early 1950s, two scientists at McGill University inadvertently discovered an area of the rodent brain dubbed "the pleasure center," located deep in the nucleus accumbens. When a group of lab rats had the opportunity to stimulate their own pleasure... View Details
- 30 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
Measuring the Efficacy of the World’s Managers
Firms in the United States, Japan, and Germany tend to be managed especially well, while firms in Brazil, China, and India tend to be managed poorly. Those are among the initial findings of the World Management Survey (WMS), a huge international research initiative to... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
In the fall of 2009, baseball's Anaheim Angels knocked the Boston Red Sox out of the American League Division Series in a humiliating three straight games. Within a matter of weeks, Sox general manager Theo Epstein had launched one of the most expensive retooling... View Details
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
The turn of the 21st century has been laden with high-profile corporate scandals, prompting widespread concern about the standards of conduct followed by big business. Intrigued by the complexity of managing corporate behavior in a global context, three Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
A worldwide economic crisis. Intense scrutiny from board members, customers, and government regulators. Expanding global markets. Public protests aimed squarely at your industry. Running a financial institution, never easy to begin with, has quickly become one of the... View Details
- 29 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums
An old adage says that it's not what you know, it's whom you know. But outsiders can take heart: even for those who don't belong to a high-power social network, there's power in simply keeping track of who went to school with whom. Associate Professors Lauren H. Cohen... View Details
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
The House Subcommittee on Immigration Policy and Enforcement met recently to hash out concerns related to the H-1B program, one of the most controversial of foreign visa topics in the United States. At issue was a stubborn question that politicians, corporations,... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market value of the firm? The answer is important because it... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Feb 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Creating the Founders’ Dilemmas Course
If Noam Wasserman's entrepreneurship elective were a start-up company, investors would be delighted with its growth. When the Harvard Business School professor first offered his Founders' Dilemmas course in 2009, a mere 42 second-year MBA students signed up. Two years... View Details
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such as Enterprise Resource... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Ticktock
this be the subject of a third case? “Time will tell,” Ofek quips. In the meantime, he invites Nanda to attend his class when the Clocky cases are taught. “I think she likes it because it gives her a chance to have people poke at her ideas and propose new ones,” he... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
PublicationsHow Leaders Kill Meaning at Work Authors:Teresa Amabile and Steven Kramer Publication:The McKinsey Quarterly, no. 1 (January 2012) Abstract Senior executives routinely undermine creativity, productivity, and commitment by damaging the inner work lives of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Publications April 2015 John Wiley & Sons The Integrated Reporting Movement: Meaning, Momentum, Motives, and Materiality By: Eccles, Robert G., and Michael P. Krzus Abstract—The Integrated Reporting Movement explores the meaning of the concept, explains the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne