Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (4,800) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (4,800) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 133 of 4,800 Results →
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

  Working PapersMental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman (revised March 2008) Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Aug 2014
  • First Look

First Look: August 5

universities and private companies to develop technologies important to Danish industry. We assess the effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

management practices and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm organization across industries and countries. There appears to be substantial variation in View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2022
  • Book

Productive Tensions: How Every Leader Can Tackle Innovation's Toughest Trade-Offs

By: Chris Bingham and Rory McDonald
Why is leading innovation in nascent business environments so distressingly hit-or-miss? More than 90% of high-potential ventures don’t reach their projected targets. Surveys show that 80% of executives consider innovation crucial to their growth strategy, but only 6%... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation and Management; Organizational Culture; Leadership Style; Decision Making
Related
  • Web

Rafaella Sadun | About

Raffaella Sadun Senior Associate Dean for HBS Publishing Unit Strategy Contact Phone Bio Raffaella Sadun is Charles E. Wilson Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and is a Co-Chair of Harvard Business School’s Project on View Details
  • 30 Jul 2001
  • What Do You Think?

What’s the Future of Corporate Governance?

don't invest the time necessary to provide effective oversight of management activities. And many are reluctant to tread too closely to the line between oversight and management. This may help explain why... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

Management Practice in Environmental Management, Retired, Harvard Business School “Given the urgency required to reduce emissions and the political realities faced in doing so, private investors–not governments—will need to be the key... View Details
  • 24 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 24, 2006

under managerial control. Only then will vendors make appropriate short- and long-term investment decisions in their customer management effort that will not only lead to more effective individual account... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Information Technology | Harvard Business School

Information Technology AI Enhanced Learning: HBS IT and Faculty Collaborate on Research Navigator Bot Professor of Management Practice Joseph B. Fuller and HBS IT's Instructional Design team worked together to build a custom chatbot that... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

Corporate budgeting is a joke, and everyone knows it. It consumes a huge amount of executives' time, forcing them into endless rounds of dull meetings and tense negotiations. It encourages managers to lie and cheat, lowballing targets and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • 11 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 11

unobservable firm level characteristics. This enables us to circumvent the issues related to the use of manager fixed effects in the prior empirical literature. Efforts to incentivize individual employees to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business Economics Online Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Strategy track. Introduction to Economics for Managers ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Economics for Managers $1,850 Next... View Details
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 20

Business: Innovating How We Innovate Author: Gary P. Pisano Publication: Special Issue on Management Innovation-Essays in the Spirit of Alfred D. ChandlerIndustrial and Corporate Change 19, no. 2 (2010): 465-482. Abstract Science has long... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit

but also whether they were doing so before dinnertime, critical to an effective intervention. (The idea for the hidden sensors came from a scene in Jurassic World in which one of the characters smuggles dinosaur embryos in a jury-rigged... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 31 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 31

make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were increasingly adopting smart phones and using those phones to View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

let them withdraw their own money until a certain amount or date has been reached. It gives their control over to the bank to help them overcome short-term impulses to spend. The product had a large and significant effect on clients'... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 12 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 12, 2016

the effect of a single drug on multiple adverse events by analyzing data that accumulate sequentially and explicitly captures interdependencies among the multiple events. The method continuously monitors a vector-valued test-statistic... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

paper analyzes the effect of a woman's electoral victory on women's subsequent political participation. Using the regression discontinuity afforded by close elections between women and men in India's state elections, we find that a woman... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Marco E. Tabellini : Recipient of the 2020 Russell Sage Foundation Presidential Authority Grant in the Future of Work program for “The Labor Market and Political Effects of Automation” with Sydnee Caldwell. Marlous van Waijenburg : 2020:... View Details