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- 11 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 11
demonstrates that when employees can see their customers, the beneficiaries of their efforts, the quality and efficiency of the service they deliver can actually improve. Studies in food service show how revealing customers to employees can lead employees to feel more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
strength of the country, is increasingly failing to provide stable policy decisions addressing the issues Sweden is facing. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53584 October 2017 Review of Economics and Statistics A Field Experiment on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis
Prevention programs disrupted "The pandemic threatens to dismantle all the gains made in the US in the recent six-year fight against opioids and heroin,” says Jim Langford (HBS MBA 1984), Executive Director of the Georgia Prevention Project (GPP). "Grief and trauma,... View Details
- 22 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 22
Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends in the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
data-id=_/7NDg5UAWK5opclYhgyzG][/div] Before the COVID-19 pandemic, small businesses provided almost half of the country’s private sector jobs and accounted for 44 percent of US gross domestic product. While policymakers are starting to... View Details
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
that, relative to offering free shipping, offering contingent free shipping increases basket sizes by encouraging consumers to meet the minimum order threshold. Consumers incur search costs to meet this threshold exactly; sellers may... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 16
at baseline (18%, 28%, and 33%, respectively, p0.05 for interaction between race or job type and intervention). Mean calories per beverage decreased similarly over the study period for all racial groups and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
of compostable fiber. “We thought very highly of ourselves and patted ourselves on the back for doing such an amazing job and for the impact we were going to make.” As workers began harvesting lettuce and putting it into the eco-friendly... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 03 Mar 2014
- HBS Case
Decommoditizing the Canned Tomato
through direct interaction with the growers. Each year he presents a "Golden Tomato" award at a ceremony attended by all Mutti farmers. It's an opportunity not only to recognize them for a job well done and to share ideas, but also to... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
that business schools weren’t doing their job in terms of graduating ethical business leaders? Stevenson: What I would say was there was a sense that ethics were forgotten as investor capitalism became the new business model, with... View Details
- 01 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Judgment Calls
mid-1970s, young Dal ended up with a backside full of splinters. His penance, as he searched for a pair of tweezers with needle points to pull out the painful shards of wood, was to discover the difficulty of finding any kind of suitably... View Details
- 19 Jan 2022
- In Practice
7 Trends to Watch in 2022
are distributed in the organization. As record numbers of Americans quit their jobs in search of better work and life arrangements, power sharing offers an antidote to power concentration and a pathway to... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
isn't easy. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/strategic-decisions-for-multisided-platforms/ January 2014 Harvard Business Review The New Patterns of Innovation By: Parmar, Rashik, Ian Mackenzie, David Cohn, and David Gann Abstract—The View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
LinkedIn allowed individual members to post a profile on the LinkedIn site and then to use the site's tools to search for job opportunities; to recruit job candidates; to find... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018
via arms-length transactions and contracts. Furthermore, strong or weak complementarity are not innate properties of tasks and assets but can be the result of choices regarding task networks, incentives, and job design. Supermodular... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Choose the Best Deal
alternative—in this case, continuing to search for a viable site. The next step is to double-check your calculations by comparing the hypothetical deals. If Jim discovers that he'd subjectively prefer the orchard property, then he should... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Wheeler
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
transformation of the very nature of the innovation search process. We find intermediate disclosure has the advantage of efficiently steering development towards improving existing solution approaches, but also the effect of limiting... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Nov 2007
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Moral Leader
were Ms. X, what would you do?", in literature we get to see "the rest of the story." Because we are searching for examples of moral leadership, we want to understand the impact of characters' choices on the situation they... View Details
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
weeks or days. Publisher's link: http://hbr.org/2014/03/manage-your-work-manage-your-life/ar/1 August 2013 International Journal of Industrial Organization Search Diversion and Platform Competition By: Hagiu, Andrei, and Bruno Jullien... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
taking the organization in the wrong direction. How will the divisions between the northern and southern units play out? Will they tear the organization apart, just when it is becoming a global player? Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne