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22 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

Name Your Price. Really.

ordinarily selfish behavior and make them temporarily more generous. Into The Field It's one thing to test this theoretically, it's another to put it into practice in the real world. For their last experiment, Santana and Morwitz went... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

A Fast Start on Your New Job

What are the first things you should do in your new post? In this e-mail Q&A, Michael Watkins offers strategies that he researched while preparing his new book, The First 90 Days: Critical Success Strategies for New Leaders at All... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

21 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It

sophisticated database software, and the Internet would enable them to actually deliver on the promise of customized offerings to each individual customer. But that hasn't happened to the extent it should... View Details

Keywords: by Jean Ayers

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

that someone could start to discuss with his or her theologian? Nash: Let me back up and give you an example of the kind of thing that might cause them to say, "My... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

26 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

How Grocery Bags Manipulate Your Mind

Business School, studies factors that affect consumer choice. Bollinger, an assistant professor at NYU's Stern School of Business, studies the marketing of sustainable products.) "There are all these... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

07 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela

Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela. Video Embed Jim Aisner: What are the most important lessons you learned from your trip to India? John Macomber: I learned things on a personal level as well as lessons relevant to my interests in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Construction; Real Estate

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

Internet and of the international scope of Intel Capital's reach, currently encompassing more than 175 companies outside the United States. With stock markets floundering and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

in hospitals. One condition of funding was that she also create a tool to improve the safety climate and encourage senior managers to become more engaged in hospital safety initiatives. “It was not that senior leaders were solving... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

17 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?

industries, to name two, will be affected. And of how the Internet performed so dependably in spite of almost unimaginable demand. But what about more basic issues? Must we... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

28 Sep 2015
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Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

business strategy 101 for most entrepreneurs, so why have so many mobile money service offerings failed? It’s a question being studied by Rajiv Lal, the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. “You would think... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Spirit at Work: The Search for Deeper Meaning in the Workplace

absorbed, when everything was cooking for them. They generally say things like 'I felt incredibly motivated. I felt productive. I had no sense of time. I had fun.' That, to me, is beginning to articulate... View Details

Keywords: by Marguerite Rigoglioso

06 May 2013
Research & Ideas

How Local Events Shake Up Corporate Philanthropy

Toronto. "But more recent research shows how culture endures in spite of globalization. Networks and local regulations also significantly influence how companies react to their local environments." “For philanthropic leaders,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

20 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Moving from Supply Chains to Supply Networks

Visibility of best practices. People are realizing the enormous amounts of money they've been leaving on the table in supply chain management because they have not been doing View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

about our interpersonal relationships, when people share things with us—as long as they don't overshare—we tend to like them better," Buell says. "We find it interesting that we're seeing evidence of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

29 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business Press Is a Watchdog that Bites

likely it was to end up in a press article early. The more people that are involved, the more people may be able to observe something funny going on as well. That shows when there's lower cost, the press is more likely to do this—which makes a lot View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News; Publishing

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

first clarify, my work does not assess the success or failure of the socialization model described in Manufacturing Morals. I consider myself a process researcher, namely a scholar examining the ways in which human systems operate to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

16 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

Harvard Business School and coauthor (with Jean Tirole of the Toulouse School of Economics) of the paper Standard Essential Patents. "In the free market, where there's a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services

11 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business

results showed that some brain areas prioritized the shape of the face, grouping humans with dolls, while other brain areas prioritized whether the face was alive, grouping humans with dogs. "Even though they look nothing alike, there are... View Details