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- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Beshears, Katherine Lyford Milkman, Max H. Bazerman, and Lisa Sutherland Abstract Background—Research over the last several decades indicates the failure of existing nutritional labels to substantially improve the healthiness of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp
Naik’s images with household income levels for some 2,400 blocks, provided by the city online. “The incomes act as labels for the images, and then the machine learns the association between how the features relate to those incomes,” says... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
requires careful dosing, consideration of harmful side effects, and close supervision. We offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-083.pdf Virtual Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
being integrated into the consumption process) promoted the choice of healthy food over unhealthy food (Experiments 3a and 3b). The positive effect of rituals on self-control held even when a set of ritualized gestures enacted were not explicitly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
we theorize and then test that under conditions of increased workload, individuals may choose to complete easier tasks in order to manage their workload. We label this behavior Task Completion Bias (TCB). Using two years of data from a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
We label these two alternative modes Leviathan as a majority investor and Leviathan as a minority investor, respectively. Next we differentiate between these two modes by describing their key fundamental traits and the conditions that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
businesses. Consider, for example, the debate about Napster, the online service for sharing digital and music files. Napster triggered a firestorm of outrage in the music industry about piracy of music. The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA)—the major... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Biotech
labeling of bioengineered foods. Another source of controversy and confusion is the patenting of genes and access to data from the human genome. "As a company, we believe that genetic information should be available to anyone for... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
offer a warning label to accompany the practice of setting goals. Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation Authors:Lucy White and Alan Morrison Publication:Journal of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
literature on globalization. At the crudest level, historical evidence avoids spurious labeling of some phenomena as "new," and by so doing can challenge current explanations of their determinants. Historical evidence is crucial... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
advocates labeled our “national suicide” well before Donald Trump began his Presidential campaign. The latent demand was so great that there were serious proposals like Blueseeds to build large ships parked off of the California coast to... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
advantage to Trump of the Ryan-Brady plan may well be the ability to characterize the border tax adjustments as tariffs. The box he put himself in regarding protectionist measures can be escaped by implementing the plan and labeling those... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 10 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers
price. More recently, Mohan, Norton, and Deshpandé have been exploring the idea of actively marketing low- pay-ratio information to consumers. In one experiment, consumers shopped for flat-screen televisions. Along with the common "Energy Star" View Details
- 13 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments
sustainability efforts to consumers," she says. "Part of the challenge is figuring out why they care." For instance, MIT and Harvard researchers studied whether jeans would sell better if labeled with information that they had been... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
Microsoft's case this conflict eventually led to control over the new business being given to the old and that in both cases effectively crippled the new business. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-077.pdf 'Sponsored Links' or 'Advertisements'?:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Nov 2024
- Research & Ideas
AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen
response: “At Hershey, our capacity expansion plans are focused on several key areas to support our growth and meet increasing consumer demand. ” In this phase, however, the labels on the answers were randomized. Choudhury and his team... View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
others acknowledge your gestures of goodwill and reciprocate in kind. Four strategies for building good will and reciprocity are to label your concessions and make them salient to the other party, demand and define reciprocity, make... View Details
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
the strategy and marketing literature on the importance of creating customer value. In our everyday language, we think of a customer as someone who buys goods or services. But we have recently witnessed an explosion in the definition of a customer. By View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons