Publications

July 1998 (Revised January 2009)
Case

Display Technologies, Inc. (Abridged)

By: H. Kent Bowen and Jonathan West

Display Technologies, Inc. (DTI) is a new joint venture between Toshiba and IBM Japan that is manufacturing the most advanced form of flat panel displays. With success in achieving significant production volumes, DTI has been asked to double its output as quickly as... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership Style; Production; Outcome or Result; Performance Capacity; Strategy; Hardware; Electronics Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Japan

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

their hypothetical choices were organic milk and vegetables. "We could support some of the story but not all of it yet," Karmarkar says. And so she and Bollinger conducted a second experiment, in which participants reported how... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

the paper The Small World of Investing: Board Connections and Mutual Fund Returns, the three scholars found that portfolio managers placed larger bets on firms when there was an alumni connection, and that these bets performed especially well. The paper examines... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

12 Jun 2012
First Look

First Look: June 12

article provides conceptual foundations for analyzing organizations comprising multiple legally autonomous entities, which we call meta-organizations. We assess the antecedents of the emergence of such collectives and the design choices... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing

methods are highly unscientific and that any results that indicate that certain products will be unsuccessful are often ignored. Merchants often believe their products will sell well despite unfavorable test results; they blame the weather (bad or good), the poor View Details

Keywords: by Marshall L. Fisher, Ananth Raman & Anna Sheen McClelland; Retail

04 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

individuals have the choice to enact a variety of communication styles. We test the differential impact of being “warm and friendly” versus “tough and firm” in a distributive negotiation, when first offers are held constant and concession... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

feature-level entry choices. In addition, we contribute to work on dominant designs, going beyond characterizing a dominant design as a set of technological choices to understanding cognitive convergence on a standard set of demand-side... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

consider: Is that experience transferable to this investment? Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209110 SAP AG: Orchestrating the Ecosystem Harvard Business School Case 609-069 Business ecosystems require careful... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 26, 2008

by truncating her true ranking. We show that in symmetric information environments this result is identical for all priority mechanisms and all linear programming mechanisms introduced in British entry-level medical markets and in public school View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

gradyreese Always on, always connected isn’t always better when it comes to solving problems at work. In fact, teams get better results when they collaborate only intermittently, according to recent research. Insights on work collaboration highlight the study, How... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
Case

The Market and the Mountain Kingdom: Change in Lesotho's Textile Industry

By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Regina M. Abrami, Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio

In Maseru, the capital of the Kingdom of Lesotho, the stirrings of industrialization and modernization were promising, and more than 50,000 workers, mostly women, were employed in the textile sector; the figure reflected more than a threefold increase in just a few... View Details

Keywords: History; Labor Unions; Trade; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Financial Crisis; Globalized Markets and Industries; Business and Government Relations; Decision Choices and Conditions; Foreign Direct Investment; Developing Countries and Economies; Fashion Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Lesotho

July 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Activision: The 'Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer' Project

By: Alan D. MacCormack, Enrico D"Angelo and Kerry Herman

Mike Ward, the producer in charge of developing the Kelly Slater's Pro Surfer game for Activision, must decide whether to launch the game in time for the 2002 Christmas season. Complicating his decision are the lukewarm response from consumers to TV test spots of the... View Details

Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Product Development; Customer Satisfaction; Projects; Business or Company Management; Product Launch; Marketing Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Industry Structures; Innovation Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

might not like particular policies). This will give a big boost to business and consumer confidence. Under Biden and Harris, drama and uncertainty will be replaced by goal clarity and communication transparency. President-elect Biden’s Cabinet and advisor View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019

reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this definition contributes to the existing proposed... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

choice of program recipient, and that some kind of trade occurs. Financial trades are not between the donors and the programs since donors and their families cannot receive financial compensation for donations but rather between the... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

09 May 2017
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

index-based benchmarks perform 14% worse in their time-series return-regression R2 and 16% worse in measurement error variance; firms' choices of specific peers only modestly underperform. Calibration estimates suggest that, in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

27 Feb 2019
Working Paper Summaries

Judgment Aggregation in Creative Production: Evidence from the Movie Industry

Keywords: by Hong Luo, Jeffrey T. Macher, and Michael Wahlen; Motion Pictures & Video

2009
Working Paper

The Devil Wears Prada: Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making

By: Roy Y.J. Chua and Xi Zou

Although the concept of luxury has been widely discussed in social theories and marketing research, relatively little research has directly examined the psychological consequences of exposure to luxury goods. This paper demonstrates that mere exposure to luxury goods... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Ethics; Marketing; Behavior; Power and Influence; Luxury

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March 2008 (Revised June 2008)
Case

Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer

Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the scientific founder and CEO of a promising, early stage bio-pharmaceuticals company. Should the company establish a proposed alliance with a pharmaceutical firm? Should it create a nutraceuticals business in parallel... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Risk Management; Brands and Branding; Pharmaceutical Industry