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- 05 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 5, 2006
psychological mechanism whereby price format determines how many product attributes are actively processed at the time of valuation. Three studies support the hypothesis that price partitioning acts as an incentive to process multiple product dimensions. This process... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Is Group Loyalty a Force for Good or Evil?
or where they are crossing ethical boundaries for the good of their own group.” Gino and colleagues write about this paradox in a new paper forthcoming in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes with a decidedly... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Who Rises to Power in American Business?
have far greater access to opportunities. But, who has access to these elite programs? Are they simply part of a long feeder system for the privileged class that starts in private nursery schools? Are they truly open to all? Education has thus had a View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
innovation. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-099.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsDoug Rauch: Solving the American Food Paradox José B. Alvarez and Ryan JohnsonHarvard Business School Case 512-022 Doug Rauch, the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 25, 2007
Divergent Organizational Change: The Enabling Role of Actors' Social Position Author:Julie Battilana Periodical:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2007) Abstract This study addresses the paradox of embedded human agency,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?
paradox in a recent paper called "Rich versus King: The Entrepreneur's Dilemma," an early draft of which was featured in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2006 Academy of Management Conference and the 2005 Babson-Kauffman... View Details
- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
paradoxes of venture financing. Entrepreneurs have found, for instance, that venture capitalists provide cash only in stages, rather than in an initial lump sum (E Ink's $200-million problem). In supporting inherently risky start-ups,... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
defend their core market from attack, newspaper companies were missing the new emerging market altogether. This paradox can be summarized: absent a sense of threat, response to disruptive opportunities is inadequate; but with threat, the... View Details
- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
to the theoretical, empirical, and managerial problems salient at that time and comment on the likely reasons the paper has had a sustained influence in the field. Looking forward, we first ask whether the paradoxes and inconsistencies we... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Facing the New World Order
prospects in the medium and long terms are probably the hardest hit right now. —Jeffrey Sachs There's almost a paradox of the current situation, which is that many of the countries that we regard as having the most favorable prospects in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
All For One
breath, then begins to recount her first excited trips to unlock the paradox of what made Pixar special. At the time, the company was in the midst of producing the movie Ratatouille—an unlikely story about a rat in Paris who yearns to be... View Details
- 17 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
Pandemic Self-Care for CEOs: Rituals, Running, and Cognitive Restructuring
less.” LEADING IN TIMES OF UNCERTAINTY More Stories in This Series How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the world safe for “capitalists.” The word “socialists” was first used in Northern Italy as a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
trillion mandate and no assurance of reversing the inexorable rise in health care costs. Paradoxically, although America has the most technologically advanced and expensive health care system in the world, its citizens continue to get sicker. The reason for this View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
knowledge. Using a multi-method field study across two professional service firms to refine and test the proposed model, I also find that only the use of client-specific expertise (not the expertise of high-status members) enhances client-rated performance. This paper... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders... View Details
- 09 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 9
there is a paradox inherent in the social imprinting of WISEs: although it directly enhances their social performance, it also indirectly weakens it by negatively affecting economic productivity. Results based on panel data of French... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization
primarily focused on states and intergovernmental organizations. The upshot has been that there has been remarkably little concern with the role of firms in creating markets, shaping policies, and diffusing globalization. Q: An interesting View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
highlight the paradox that managed globalization has been a force for liberalization. Strategies to Fight Ad-sponsored Rivals Authors: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Feng Zhu Publication: Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract We analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
States, where the ability to fund infrastructure is less obvious than it may seem at first glance. The infrastructure paradox There is plenty of capital in the global financial system: upward of US $20 trillion invested in fixed income... View Details