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- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
(reported revenues before they were earned) or otherwise manipulated the books to make their earnings look better, were more likely to cast a call. "If you've been engaging in somewhat shady activity in your... View Details
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
will be a hit or a flop.) Tricks of the Trade When tracking brain functions, neuroscientists generally use either electroencephalography (EEG) or functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) technology. EEG measures fluctuations in the electrical View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
How Activist Investors Became Respectable
investment banks, and consultancies that once shunned the practice and from the increasing influence of proxy advisory firms. But it was the many institutional investors who eventually embraced activists in their search for better returns who gave these hedge funds... View Details
- 21 Mar 2016
- HBS Case
Can Customer Reviews Be 'Managed?'
They spend much more time paying attention to reviews of other people like them and trying to understand and gauge in an unbiased fashion what the real quality is of these products and services, particularly those in which you can’t... View Details
- 19 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Codeacademy’s Delicate Work of Adding Monetization Without Crushing Mission
It seems to suggest a real unmet need in educational systems. How integral will coding skills be going forward, and what role should government play in attending to those needs? A: Analytical skills and comfort with technology are... View Details
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
activities. These activities, and the secrecy they demanded, became the cover for activities that were not in shareholders' best interests. Oversight of tax planning, much like accounting, can no longer be relegated to specialists within... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
and Julie Battilana Abstract—This paper examines the critical role of gender in the commercialization of social ventures. We argue that cultural beliefs about what is perceived to be appropriate work for each gender influence how founders of social ventures incorporate... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
from customers. In response, BBA's CEO Julian Boyden and VP of Technology John Wright investigated the option of shifting more innovation activities to customers. The company developed an Internet-based tool containing a large database of... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
entry) as a means of reconciling non-monotonic incentive responses to competition, effectively manipulating the number and skills distribution of contestants facing one another. February 2015 GfK Marketing Intelligence Review Beyond... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along
Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Minor says it was illuminating to use “regular” subjects as opposed to undergrads, who aren’t necessarily representative of a broad swath of the United States. Equally important was using View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Debora L. Spar
enables individuals—a teen manipulating the stock market—to overthrow established players. The old rules no longer apply. You argue that during these periods of change the old rules may not apply for a period of time, but in the end the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
of experiments—including a field experiment where she posed with students as snack bar employees—Santana found that by subtly manipulating the environment, sellers can dramatically change what some buyers are willing to pay. Retailers are... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
of the various parties involved, and the manner in which the key issues of structure, management, implementation, and accountability have been addressed. The Omidyar-Tufts Microfinance Fund seeks to have a catalytic effect on the expansion of an View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
members who are young, plugged in, and likely influencers in their peer groups. But do advertisers buying space on these sites face danger from the backlash of negative publicity? A: It poses dangers to youth, but paradoxically, less than the View Details
- 23 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 23, 2016
placement around this sales cutoff. Moreover, managers appear to exploit this by manipulating sales to be just over the cutoff in favorable industries. Further evidence suggests that managers then engage in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Nov 2016
- What Do You Think?
Are Employees Becoming Job 'Renters' Instead of 'Owners'?
Rosen added, “If you really want people to act like owners, combine real employee ownership and an ownership culture.” Employees may approach their work with a renter’s mentality. Casual MBA observed that, “From running a retail... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 1
marketplace-mode) or by the intermediary (the reseller-mode). Whether the marketplace- or the reseller-mode is preferred depends on whether independent suppliers or the intermediary have more important information relevant to the optimal tailoring of marketing View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
and Max H. Bazerman Abstract In this paper, we predict and find that self-perceptions of environmentalism are changed by subtle manipulations of context and, in turn, affect environmental behavior. In Study 1, we found that people exhibit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Apr 2020
- Book
Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings
things like “strategy,” “focused activity level,” and “crisis response,” performance was dramatically improved when study subjects worked in the optimal conditions (with high rates of ventilation and low concentrations of carbon dioxide... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne