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  • 01 Jun 2004
  • News

Luxe Redux

approves the hire of every sales associate at each of Thomas Pink’s ten U.S. stores. “It is the most critical position in the company,” she notes. “They mediate the interaction between the customer and the product. If that View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; luxury; Retail Trade
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

emotion regulation-mainly suppression and reappraisal-will encourage utilitarian choices in emotionally charged contexts and that this effect will be mediated by the decision maker's decreased deontological inclinations. In Study 1, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Sep 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

cover 90 percent of patients, jointly negotiate drug prices with manufacturers. In America's more fragmented and secretive system, pharmacy benefit managers act as mediators during many price negotiations. German consumers and physicians... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health
  • 02 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

trade with a high degree of market mediated objectivity—as the model for a future where managers struggle hopelessly to keep up with investor-perceived value shifts. They seem to directly challenge the precepts of Built to Last, a widely... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 21 Jan 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Managing the Family Business: Market Basket’s Lessons About Buyouts

buyout happen. Third parties often get involved in buyouts to mediate the process and keep emotions from sabotaging the buyout. A good board will recognize the importance of settling shareholder issues and help regulate differences. And,... View Details
Keywords: Retail
  • 10 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017

economic development of host countries and what is the role of local financial markets in mediating the potential benefits? We first define FDI and discuss general theories on types and drivers of FDI. This review takes a host-country... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Free Software

Iansiti says. "Traditional alliances are formed between a business development executive and an individual company like IBM or Cisco. In the open source scenario, you could say that there's an alliance between IBM or HP and every Linux developer out there. And... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer
  • 26 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Abstract Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 18

negatively valenced emotions (Experiment 2). The relationships between anxiety and advice seeking and anxiety and advice taking are mediated by self-confidence; anxiety lowers self-confidence, which increases advice seeking and reliance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

desire for a product when sweatshop labor is present. Furthermore, we present evidence for a mediated moderation where beliefs about sweatshop labor use moderates the impact of desirability on purchase intention, and moral disengagement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Apr 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

team, the courts blocked a settlement on default for several months while they watched their position weaken; last year Argentina's court-appointed mediator officially ruled that the country was in default. The experience gave the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

non-core users when they are perceived as brand tourists. The brand tourism effect is mediated by core users' pride and moderated by brand patriotism and selectiveness of the brand. August 2013 Harvard Business Review The Limits of Scale:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

which she interviewed women at several law firms, noting both positive and negative interactions among peers and supervisors. In terms of positivity versus negativity, the consistent mediating factor was whether the women considered their... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars

to submit their snipes early, which is a lot more convenient way to snipe. Of course, if eSnipe ever started to mediate a lot of eBay's auctions in this way, eBay could take all their business by offering a sealed bid option to bidders.... View Details
Keywords: by Sara Grant; Web Services; Technology
  • 06 Nov 2013
  • What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

spend between these 4 boxes - is a Corporate/Board function if only because their primary role is to mediate between the needs of the different Biz/Op units within the corporate structure." If top-down approaches to the resource... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Apr 1998
  • News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

America; Anna Lloyd, president of C200; and Andrea C. Silbert (MBA '92), founder and executive director of the Center for Women & Enterprise. A number of sessions focused on entrepreneurship. Susan Willet Bird, founder and president of the American View Details
  • 06 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy

mediated through communication channels like email, there are going to be challenges. However, if you have people who are intelligent about language, know how to manage, and know how to think about it at all levels in an organization, it... View Details
Keywords: Re: Tsedal Neeley
  • 25 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 25

alongside those offering a larger number of candidates, even though the existing literature on network effects suggests that the latter should always dominate the former. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-098.pdf Varied Experience, Team... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018

find evidence of lessened gender penalties for female-led ventures that are presented using a social impact frame. In a second study, we experimentally validate this effect and show that it is mediated by the effect of social impact... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019

readings at the conclusion of a course lowered students’ confidence in their mastery of the course material they had already learned (Study 1). Encountering an optional learning opportunity increased the FONKIA, which mediated the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman