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- 10 Mar 2015
- News
Women in Tech: Breaking the Digital Ceiling
leadership, computer science education is a place to start. That’s the logic behind groups like Girls Who Code that combine the power of role modeling with an early introduction to computer programming and other science, technology,... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
fruitful new agendas for research on the political-economic nexus as it has developed in the Western world since the end of the Middle Ages. New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy brings together a select group of young and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Improve Decision-Making in Hiring: Common Pitfalls and How to Avoid Them - Recruiting
important work. Review Job Descriptions Job descriptions have always been an important element of the hiring process. They serve as a marketing tool to attract candidates and the language used can unconsciously tell people or groups that... View Details
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
predict the health care needs of patients, continually enhance patient outcomes, and drive transformative solutions to import community access to health care. For example, using patient data including emergency department visits and sodium levels, the analytics View Details
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
group but get confounding questions, inane comments, and verbal bullets in return. Before you know what's happened, your idea is dead, shot down. You're furious. Everyone has lost: Those who would have benefited from your proposal. You.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
that inequality affects the psyche of both haves and have-nots. For those with lower status, perceptions of their socioeconomic standing can have a strong impact. If they can see what others have, it becomes obvious that they are missing... View Details
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
pleasant"). In a related experiment, 29 of the participants returned two months later to repeat the same experiment, but this time they were asked to gauge whether a face could formulate a plan, feel pain, and had a mind. The results showed that participants' View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 14, 2006
source software ("OSS"). What drives companies with large, proprietary software portfolios to invest hundreds of millions of dollars in OSS? We approach this question by grouping a sample of OSS projects into clusters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
"self-reporting in surveys and focus groups is a limited tool, and I have no doubt that in the future brain scans will augment traditional research methods." But for Mark Spellmann, research of the kind associated with neuro... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
project has surveyed HBS alumni and other business leaders to assess perceptions about which aspects of the country, such as the economy or education, they see as thriving and which as lacking. The survey results consistently showed that... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 08 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 8, 2015
and women alike rated power as one of the main consequences of professional advancement. Our findings reveal that men and women have different perceptions of what the experience of holding a high-level position will be like, with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
in press Journal of Experimental Psychology: General Pseudo-Set Framing By: Barasz, Kate, Leslie John, Elizabeth A. Keenan, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Pseudo-set framing—arbitrarily grouping items or tasks together as part of an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 20 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
When CEOs Become Activists
controversial issues like civil rights and climate change? Two, in terms of consumer response, does CEO activism affect customer perceptions about the company? (They recently discussed the paper in the New York Times.) “What prompted this... View Details
- 18 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
1910. Black arrivals increased both the effort exerted by immigrants to assimilate and their eventual Americanization. These average effects mask substantial heterogeneity: while initially less integrated groups (i.e., Southern and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Nov 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating a Global Business Code
were asking, 'What standards are we supposed to be adhering to?' " Paine recalls, adding that she heard the same question from executives who, at the time, were facing pressures from many external groups to follow various codes of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 20 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 20
was in the midst of a brand revitalization program. Landor Associates, a leading brand consultancy, had identified three areas of concern: the shrinking differentiation opportunity provided by the boutique hotel positioning, consumers' negative View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
in the country's economy during the past two decades, have brought together a group of economists and political scientists to systematically examine the impact of a wide range of factors affecting the economy's collapse, from the cost of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
create value by introducing visual transparency between consumers and producers. Although operational transparency has been shown to improve consumer perceptions of service value, existing theory posits that increased contact between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
teamwork in decision-making, the challenges of group decision-making, and the strategies for engaging team learning skills and attitudes to improve both the quality of and commitment to group decisions.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs
categories are far from homogeneous and substantial variation exists between consumers in the same category. So tailor-made loyalty systems go way beyond these heterogeneous customer groupings by offering propositions at an individual... View Details