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- 11 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Price Tag Confusion
form a holistic judgment of the Apple experience. Q: A paradox you mention with partitioned prices is that while consumers are presented with more information on which to make a purchase decision, they sometimes give excess weight to... View Details
- 06 Jun 2012
- What Do You Think?
Is Something Wrong with the Way We Work?
than reactive. "Similar to Weight Watchers, we need to partner with someone who can help us change." How can we fix what's wrong with the way we work? What do you think? Original Article This month's topic was triggered in part... View Details
- 03 Feb 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Hire an 'Impostor'?
In Hiring, Should We Give Self-Confidence a Greater Weight Than Humility? Summing Up A respondent to this month’s column, Joel, provided the question for this summary. As he asked, "should we be focusing on hiring people who exude... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 02 Sep 2019
- What Do You Think?
Are Overlooked Forces Shielding the US from Severe Economic Downturns?
witnessed, but NO VIRGINIA, the business cycle is not dead.” Others cited forces that, by implication, appeared to weight more heavily as influences on expansion. They included continued reasonable increases in business earnings in... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
scale economies, entry barriers, and the ability to differentiate products matter in every industry, the weight of their importance varies from place to place. An attractive industry in your home market may turn out to be unattractive in... View Details
- 06 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine
that they can actually achieve, given the other obligations competing for their time. Focus on the habit, not the reward. Incentives, such as a small payment per workout, might have helped study participants form a fitness habit faster. And the potential to lose View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 21 Nov 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Challenge of Leading Financial Firms
twentieth century was a learning century, then the twenty-first century is a performance century." In considering whether job performance is a matter of each person's innate natural ability or a matter of how well a company trains its new employees, CEOs often... View Details
- 18 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
Tech Investment the Wise Way
market focus is needed to begin the process in order to know what technological attributes to target in the development, and how to resolve the many trade-offs that arise in the course of development, e.g. cost vs. performance, or weight... View Details
- 16 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?
37 states participate in the development and production program. The empty weight of the aircraft is 31,670 pounds and the wing area is 840 square feet. The aircraft has two engines generating 35,000 pounds of thrust, enabling the F-22 to... View Details
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and leisure) that can be used to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
results. Once we controlled for gender, the results were clean. I was surprised because we were very clear about the power manipulations. These people knew the other party had a really good alternative or a really bad alternative. And the men usually ignored it. Of... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
are quite different. You have to align their incentives, which means heavily weight the compensation of the management team to stock options, so that what makes them rich makes the shareholders rich. AG: The unstated supposition is that... View Details
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
will be accompanied by lower incentive weights based on aggregate performance when career incentives mitigate distortions caused by aggregation. Further, if performance measures become noisier due to transient shocks, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs
management gave service quality (e.g., clean bathrooms and employees greeting customers and making eye contact) a 20 percent weight in importance, as compared with 10 percent for store conditions (e.g., shelf organization, labeling, and... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
just part of the package. It must also assemble a management team that brings a combination of influential and complementary affiliations to the table." Social capital, it turns out, is truly worth its weight in gold. View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
didn’t need to be chasing more income. He built a business on the belief that the term “investment management” was an oxymoron, that an unmanaged portfolio of every stock weighted to reflect the performance of an entire market would... View Details
- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
unchanged. We find that CLV availability resulted in a significant shift in attention towards the more profitable client segments (the weight of the top segment in the portfolio of customers increases from 26% to 34%), but we do not find... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2020
- Research Event
How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Professors Ramana Nanda, co-director of the HBS Private Capital Project, Michael Toffel, faculty chair of the HBS Business and Environment Initiative (BEI), and George Serafeim, who leads the HBS Impact Weighted Accounts Project,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mission to Mars: It Really Is Rocket Science
FBC project should look like. Rather, NASA forced its managers and contractors to invent new processes and procedures by imposing a set of budget, time, and weight constraints that could not be met using traditional approaches to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Three Steps for Crisis Prevention
company pressed forward with launches of GMO food products in Europe, giving far too little weight to the fact that Europeans were still reeling from the mad cow disease crisis, reports of dioxin-contaminated chicken, and numerous other... View Details
Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman