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  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

In the early 1950s, two scientists at McGill University inadvertently discovered an area of the rodent brain dubbed "the pleasure center," located deep in the nucleus accumbens. When a group of lab... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

expertise affirmation as a dimension of psychological safety is a promising avenue through which to integrate positive identity with existing theory on interpersonal collaboration. Psychological safety is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2024 (Revised August 2024)
  • Case

Darktrace: Scaling Cybersecurity and AI (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Alexis Lefort
In 2023, Darktrace CEO Poppy Gustafsson was contemplating her growth strategy at a leading U.K.-based cybersecurity venture, launched in 2013 by a group of anti-terror cyber specialists, University of Cambridge mathematicians, and artificial intelligence (AI) experts.... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Talent; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Cybersecurity; Leadership; Business Growth and Maturation; Recruitment; Resignation and Termination; AI and Machine Learning; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Going Public; Technology Industry; United Kingdom; Europe; United States
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  • 27 Jun 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Would Have Applied to the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program

think the technical SEAS programming would have been a value add to your MBA? "I think the technical programming would have added huge value. Many of the methods in data science and machine learning... View Details
  • 07 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Forgotten Book that Helped Shape the Modern Economy

curiously thought to be representative of his age. This historiographical problem was clear to many historians in the 1920s and '30s, but was again unfortunately forgotten because of the direction in which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2007

largest ice cream and tea businesses. The study supports recent resource-based theory which argues that complementary rather than related acquisitions add value. It identifies the importance of local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jun 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

discuss how they define creativity, the kinds of questions they have addressed, theories they have proposed, and they provide a description of their research including the most... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jun 2016
  • First Look

June 7, 2016

frictions. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51088 forthcoming The Accounting Review Institutional Ownership and Corporate Tax Avoidance: New Evidence By: Khan, Mozaffar N., Suraj Srinivasan, and Liang Tan Abstract—We provide new evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Article

AI Companions Reduce Loneliness

By: Julian De Freitas, Zeliha Oğuz-Uğuralp, Ahmet K. Uğuralp and Stefano Puntoni
Chatbots are now able to engage in sophisticated conversations with consumers in the domain of relationships, providing a potential coping solution to widescale societal loneliness. Behavioral research provides little insight into whether these applications are... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Well-being; Emotions; Applications and Software
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  • 09 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 9

compensation to strategy relies on agency theory economics and focuses on executive pay. Departing from this work, in this paper we focus on the strategic compensation of non-executive employees and argue... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 16

economic theory of GAAP under the assumption that GAAP's objective is to facilitate efficient capital allocation within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP, as shaped by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • July 1990
  • Case

Ceramics Process Systems Corp. (B)

By: Kim B. Clark and Brent D. Barnett
Ceramics Process Systems (CPS) is an advanced ceramics company facing problems with lead time in product/process development, and late delivery of prototype parts to its customers. Engineering is confronted with difficult technical problems and multiple objectives... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Business Processes; Management Practices and Processes; Supply Chain Management; Machinery and Machining; Goals and Objectives; Resource Allocation; Customer Satisfaction; Customer Value and Value Chain; Manufacturing Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Books

analysis of the differing perspectives. As a result of the conference, Beer and Nohria have mapped out two dominant and conflicting archetypal theories View Details
Keywords: Rogelio Fussa; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 22 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 22, 2015

examples. The article claims that by focusing on agency, learning, intentionality, and demand-side factors, our approach complements and also challenges extant sometimes static, supply-side, agent-agnostic theories View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2025
  • Working Paper

Global Evidence on Gender Gaps and Generative AI

By: Nicholas G. Otis, Solène Delecourt, Katelynn Cranney and Rembrand Koning
Generative AI has the potential to transform productivity and reduce inequality, but only if adopted broadly. In this paper, we show that recently identified gender gaps in generative AI use are nearly universal. Synthesizing data from 18 studies covering more than... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Behavior
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  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

Conclusions. "Teamwork" can refer to many different behavioral processes and emergent states, making it challenging and critical for researchers to develop a theory of teamwork consistent with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Problem Solving and Search in Networks

By: David Lazer and Ethan Bernstein
This chapter examines the role that networks play in facilitating or inhibiting search for solutions to problems at both the individual and collective levels. At the individual level, search in networks enables individuals to transport themselves to a very different... View Details
Keywords: Network Organizations; Search; Problem Solving; Individual; Individuals And Teams; Collective; Cognitive Search; Network Search; Search Typology; Networks; Social and Collaborative Networks; Theory; Knowledge Sharing
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  • 23 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

for Understanding and Applying the Science of Decision Making By: Hamilton, Ryan, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—Scientists have spent decades creating powerful and detailed descriptions of how people make... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 Aug 2008
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: History Matters

decades have generated rich empirical data on firms and business systems that can confirm or challenge many of today's fashionable theories and assumptions by other disciplines. Business history has... View Details
Keywords: Re: Geoffrey G. Jones & Anthony Mayo
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

Structure Matrices and Design Rule Theory Authors:Matthew J. LaMantia, Yuanfang Cai, Alan David MacCormack, and John Rusnak Abstract Designers often seek modular architectures to better accommodate expected changes and to enable parallel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace