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- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
have skills to cope. And it’s when workplaces need to make sure employees are getting the help they need.” Stressed-out workers seek online tools Whillans decided to explore whether an internet-based platform called Happify, which coaches... View Details
- 18 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!
sufficiently graphic don’t work. “San Francisco policymakers are devoting lots of time and money to fighting it out in court, and they’re operating on the assumption that text warning labels are going to work,” says HBS Marvin Bower... View Details
- 09 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Cultural Disharmony Undermines Workplace Creativity
study, he asked a group of online participants to list the important people in their social networks, noting their cultural backgrounds and whether they liked each other. Then he asked them to do a word association exercise that compared... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
other American cities as well. Too many people were left out and left behind, despite their grit and determination,” says Kanter, who cowrote the case with HBS Research Associate Joyce Kim. Miami’s gender and race roadblocks Miami, once... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
Clayton M. Christensen and Tara DonovanHarvard Business School Case 610-065 Bill Hambrecht faces a dilemma: should he accept a high profile client for his online Dutch auction IPO? Though it would be viewed as a real coup, what would... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving
automated driverless car.” The research results, detailed in “Multitasking While Driving: A Time Use Study of Commuting Knowledge Workers to Assess Current and Future Uses,” were published in the June issue of International Journal of Human-Computer Studies. The study... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 10 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Little Understood Problem Confronting Diverse Workplaces
diverse urban charter school were at first frustrated in their attempts to connect with and socialize students, but learned valuable lessons about asking questions and sharing information about themselves to break down barriers. The paper is currently available View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 19 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Isn't Business Research More Relevant to Business Practitioners?
challenging, is achievable. Take HBS colleague Benjamin G. Edelman, an expert in online markets whose research focuses on consumer protection related to online businesses. “My... View Details
- 02 Aug 2020
- What Do You Think?
Is the 'Experimentation Organization' Becoming the Competitive Gold Standard?
the probability of success for ideas central to a strategy. Frequent testing has been especially relevant for retailers, whose merchandise displays offer endless opportunities to test product placement ideas. Now organizations whose businesses are primarily View Details
- 22 May 2017
- Lessons from the Classroom
A Luxury Industry Veteran Teaches the Importance of Aesthetics to Budding Business Leaders
Pauline Brown joined the HBS faculty following a tenure as Chairman of North America at the French luxury goods conglomerate, LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton. (Photo credit: Albert Cheung) To future CEOs who want to succeed in the... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
In 1997, a young entrepreneur visited a class at Harvard Business School taught by my colleague, Len Schlesinger. The class discussed a case based on the visitor’s fledgling online retailing company that had rapidly expanded sales to $100... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
NGOs, and business associations in order to understand the challenges from multiple perspectives: psychology, sociology, law, and insurance. The group used these insights to create an open-source online guidebook. TurkFurnit translated... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
platforms may coexist without the market tipping. Our model helps explain why platforms with different business models coexist in markets, including online dating, housing, and labor markets. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
fund founded by two HBS MBA's that raised $500,000 to finance a search for a company that they could purchase and then run for the next five to ten years. The case examines the search fund structure, the two-year search, and two potential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
their products and downplay risks, fearing that any negative sentiment might hurt demand. But research led by Ryan W. Buell, a professor in the HBS Technology and Operations Management Unit, and doctoral student MoonSoo Choi found that... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
competitive context. This support translates into purchase intention, real purchase, and more favorable online reviews in a study of over 10,000 Yelp posts. We argue that this "framing the game effect" is mediated by consumers'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Esperanza Mikołaj Jan Piskorski, Andreea Gorbatai, and Tiona ZuzulHarvard Business School Case 712-493 In October 2006, Wikipedia was the largest volunteer-run online encyclopedia, which could be freely read and edited by anyone with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
advance—Gupta could use that historical data to see how spending on different types of ads affected those decisions. The findings from the research were recently published in the working paper Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in View Details
- 26 Oct 2017
- Research Event
In an Era of 'Fake News,' What is the Future of Advertising and Publishing?
White House popularized the term “fake news,” the influence of social media advertising and online publishing requires serious reexamination. That began to happen October 24 at the The Future of Advertising and Publishing conference held... View Details
- 27 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Social Network Marketing: What Works?
the research with HBS Working Knowledge. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Your research attempted to answer this question: Do friends within a social network influence online buying behaviors of others in the group? What... View Details