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- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
search engine marketing and social media help? In 2008 Slanket CEO, Gary Clegg, found that his product, a blanket with sleeves, had been eclipsed by The Snuggie, another sleeved blanket. Snuggie made a brazen entry into the market with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
well as domestic companies have found success in emerging markets by positioning themselves as partners in progress—building businesses that also advance market development. Initiatives along these lines can take a number of forms—from... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments
overly narrow goals. Consider the experience of Airbnb, which ran experiments to evaluate booking strategies but ignored the potential for discrimination. After research by Luca and colleagues found evidence of widespread discrimination... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 27 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 27
identified relevant articles using the search terms team, teamwork, work groups, or collaboration, in combination with survey or questionnaire. Principal findings. We found 36 scales that measured teamwork; only 9 scales met all of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608170 Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A) Harvard Business School Case 408-057 Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 12, 2007
sharing networks, Danone had helped managers connect with each other and share good practices peer-to-peer, rather than relying on traditional hierarchical lines of communication or IT repositories. From 2004 to 2007, Mougin and his team had View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 21, 2009
setting or a more general oligopoly context. Most past research has found two-part tariffs to be optimal in many settings. More recent research has begun to investigate the limits of such optimality and when a more general pricing scheme... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Women at Work
working mother had an unusual start. Gruver, a vice president at Bain Consulting, found out she was pregnant just when her husband was being relocated to Chicago from Boston. She didn't want to stop working, so flew back and forth for a... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
year in the journal Group Decisions and Negotiation, authors Rebecca L. Wolfe and Kathleen McGinn found that in negotiations where participants shared relatively equal perceived power, the outcome tended to address the needs of both... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
advisors. By examining this data in detail, they found that financial misconduct is widespread within the financial industry, with one in 12 financial advisors in the US censured for abuses. “A lot of this is driven by consumers who lack... View Details
- 06 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work
did you focus on those people who carry out "necessary evils" in the workplace? Joshua Margolis and Andrew Molinsky: We became interested in necessary evils because students in our undergraduate, MBA, and executive education classes were being called upon to... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Rewriting the Rules of Service Competition
India, and Southwest Airlines in the U.S. have done it. Amazon, while achieving much of this, hasn’t yet realized it fully. What must leaders know and do to deliver breakthrough service? Several things stand out. Among the things we’ve View Details
- 19 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Studying How Income Inequality Shapes Behavior
financial stability, political representation, and average health and educational outcomes. But this research has done little to demonstrate the effects of inequality. Some researchers have found no effects at all, while others have... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Oct 2009
- Research Event
HBS Past and Present
ever to the way the School thinks and operates. Key concepts include: Harvard Business School was founded on the idea of helping people make a decent profit, decently. Eight common themes, rooted in HBS's history, characterize the... View Details
- 14 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests
on the frequency of names from birth certificates of babies born in Massachusetts in the mid-1970s. Using these twenty guest accounts, the researchers sent some 6,400 to Airbnb hosts over a period of three weeks in July, 2015. Then they waited for responses from the... View Details
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
found a direct link between creativity and unethical behavior. According to the findings, inducing creativity in employees also inadvertently induces unethical behavior—a sobering thought in a corporate culture that champions... View Details
- 17 Mar 2021
- Research & Ideas
Beyond Pajamas: Sizing Up the Pandemic Shopper
data-id=_/5WV9qIO851dKEzcCnWEy][/div] We found that roughly 33 percent of US shoppers and 20 percent of those in the UK had not purchased from online retailers before the pandemic. In March, that figure decreased slightly to 32 percent... View Details
- 27 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Family CEOs Spend Less Time at Work
family-owned businesses employ a family member as the CEO. Sam Walton founded and the Walton family still owns Wal-Mart Stores, Inc., for example, and the founder's son Rob Walton is chairman of the board, but the company's president and... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Founder of Modern Venture Capital
creation of new products for the welfare of American soldiers. For decades, as president of American Research & Development Corporation, an early venture capital firm founded in 1946, he fostered the development of startup companies... View Details
- 18 Jul 2018
- Research & Ideas
No More General Tso's? A Threat to 'Knowledge Recombination'
patents filed between 1977 and 2013, then compared the firms that received exemptions versus those that didn’t during the 1999 to 2003 shock. In the period when H1-B quotas were increased, they found a 4.5 percent increase in herbal... View Details