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- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
Summing Up Our perceptions of whether we do "what's right" depend on such things as the situation, the time frame, the expectations of others, and whether we are face-to-face with the object of our actions. And we are much... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
examine the effects of team familiarity and diversity in experience on performance for software development projects. We find the interaction of team familiarity and diversity in experience has a complementary effect on a project being delivered on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
Can Being the ‘Token’ Give Women and Minorities a Competitive Edge?
gender or racial minority might feel pressure to fill stereotypical roles or represent their entire group. “It was unexpected to us that people would even be willing to put themselves in these situations,” says Chang, noting the vast research showing that people View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 May 2020
- What Do You Think?
Does Remote Work Mix with Organizational Culture?
stimulates them.” She finds it “challenging to implement our ‘flexible’ mindset to our clients’ employees because upper management has not embraced it themselves.” Remote work can help some avoid a toxic culture. Alison Leuders comments, “Reasons why I love it include:... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
Prevention-focused and older individuals—who engage in processing that shifts reference points to less extreme instances—show a decreased sensitivity to variance. We discuss the marketing implications of preferences for variance. Adding... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
What You Don’t Know About Making Decisions
Unfortunately, superior decision making is distressingly difficult to assess in real time. Successful outcomes—decisions of high quality, made in a timely manner and implemented effectively—can be evaluated only after the fact. But by the... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin & Michael A. Roberto
- 29 Aug 2018
- What Do You Think?
What Should Harley-Davidson’s Management Do?
declined by about a third at a time when the general market had seen large increases. Factors contributing to these declines were lower-priced competition and a younger customer segment that could afford only used Harleys or that View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study investigates this idea empirically using personnel and lending data from a financial services organization that implemented a highly decentralized... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
examine a prominent justification for capital income taxation: goods preferred by those with high ability ought to be taxed. In an environment where commodity taxes are allowed to be nonlinear functions of income and consumption, we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
“If I increase your bargaining power over the share of household income you benefit from, I strengthen your position in the household,” she explains. “And, because you’re now in a position to assert your preferences more, traditional... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
Cashing in on the $60 billion global luxury goods market has never been tougher—or more rewarding. Competition is keen. And consumer preferences are constantly shifting, causing the concept of luxury itself to change over time. As a... View Details
- 03 Jul 2008
- What Do You Think?
Are Followers About to Get Their Due?
followership dynamics are really one and the same. Those who lead in one instance may follow in another." As C. J. Cullinane put it, "... to be a great leader you first have to be at some time in your career a great... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
Sponsorship on the Competitive Preferences of Men and Women, published in the journal Management Science. The study was co-authored by Coffman and Nancy R. Baldiga, an economics and accounting professor at the College of the Holy Cross,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Jan 2021
- Op-Ed
How Influencers, Celebrities, and FOMO Can Win Over Vaccine Skeptics
prefer not to take the trouble to protect against it” proved to be effective and led the late majority to vaccinate their children. Since multiple vaccines and data on vaccines may be available by the time... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
accrue) interest due on its unsecured debt after the filing date. The upshot of all this is that Chapter 11 is designed to give distressed companies access to significant amounts of cash when it is most needed. It buys them valuable time... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
survey done on nonprofit leaders, managers often cited a preference for growth by branching, i.e., replicating the organization from one site to another and maintaining central control and ownership of the new units. What Wei-Skillern and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Family Business: It Takes a Village
ultimate leader of the business, ownership, and family is the natural choice for most families (and most nonfamily groups) around the world. The preference for one leader seems only slightly culturally driven; it's very common in Italy,... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
have enjoyed reading his reviews of works by Thomas Cochran, Mira Wilkins, Hugh G.J. Aitken, Samuel Haber, Ray Ginger, and many others. Al preferred books with a clear core argument and had little patience with authors who failed to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Internet of Things Needs a Business Model. Here It Is
sense of confidence it starts to take off.” As customers get more used to the idea of connected sensors in their products—and see the benefits they bring—eventually they may start preferring them. From there, it’s only a matter of View Details
- 13 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Kind of Blue: Pushing Boundaries with Miles Davis
What." Since 2009 marks the 50th anniversary of the release of Kind of Blue, it's a good time to ask: How did he do it? One of the answers is "radical simplicity," according to HBS professor Robert D. Austin and Carl... View Details