Internet Of Things - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?

imagine it. On Election Day, Brand Trump will mean different things to different people but that doesn't matter if he gets their votes. Imagine you are looking at a box of Kellogg's Sugar Frosted Flakes.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

that friction in the market between what the price is and what it should be, Cohen and Malloy stress the importance of identifying a "catalyst" that will cause the market to catch up. "It's one View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

13 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

3 Ways Firms Can Profit From Environmental Investments

In the course of her work, Rebecca Henderson meets business executives who don't address the threat of climate change because they don't believe that it exists. Her recommendation: They should consider investments in environmental sustainability anyway, assuming that... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

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

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

05 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Wall Street Doesn’t Understand About International Trade

there's a correlation, and yet one thing does not cause the other." Establishing scientific proof required a situation in which the team could exogenously change the ethnic population of metropolitan areas... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

role that savings may play in a person’s decision to return to work, for instance. “It raises the question: What are the other things that are holding people back from employment?” Kluender says. “We're working on a number View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

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

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

example, the city of Cambridge has height restrictions on what people can build. Even when there’s clearly more than enough demand, developers aren’t allowed to build up. The same thing is happening in... View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

manage Internet services. Seek external licenses. Through external licensing, projects that aren't being used internally might unlock additional revenues on the outside. Procter & Gamble follows this path as part View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

09 Aug 2017
Sharpening Your Skills

Productivity Tips You Probably Haven't Considered Before

taking breaks help or hinder getting things done? The researchers also address questions you've likely never considered, such as how weather affects productivity and why collaboration may make you less able to solve problems. Hiding From... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

been watching the show long enough to notice a pattern in the self-doubt: The women tend to fret when they see the supposed man of their dreams bonding with women who are dissimilar to themselves. “One thing... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

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

23 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

to the point where he could open most locks in seconds. "Magicians learn that to do something that only has an effect of a few seconds, it can take months," he says. "You have to think of all the View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

19 Sep 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

Say Again? Uncommon Advice for Common Business Problems

iStock Much has been accomplished by business leaders who turned left when told to turn right, who reached for the door instead of for the stars, who hired A when the search committee unanimously recommended B. The following research... View Details