Research - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

slightly different than the other? It's enough to give a shopper, well, a headache. The belief that variety is good "is not always true," argues Harvard Business School professor John Gourville in "Overchoice and Assortment Type: When and Why Variety... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

June 2024
Background Note

Do Companies Overvalue External Talent?

By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

When looking to fill a position above entry level, companies have two choices: transfer/promote an internal candidate, or hire from the outside. Anecdote and research alike show that external hires are usually offered a higher starting salary than internal candidates. View Details

Keywords: Compensation and Benefits; Selection and Staffing; Job Offer

Citation

Educators

Purchase

13 Nov 2014
News

How Educators Can Align Careers and Curriculum

09 May 2018
News

Research: Food Safety Inspection Scheduling Can Positively Impact Foodborne Illness Rates

21 Feb 2018
News

Bon Secours and Mercy Health Merger Creates Regional Hospital Giant

04 Oct 2017
News

Harvard’s Nancy Koehn on Courageous Leadership in Turbulent Times

02 Nov 2015
News

When Retail Prices Cross the Line

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Program Requirements - Doctoral

2020a) Microeconomic Theory II (HBS 4011/Economics 2020b) Research Methods Courses (4 courses) All Accounting and Management students are required to have completed one undergraduate or graduate course in introduction to Econometrics. If... View Details

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

other party and how that party viewed them. Wolfe is a research associate at Princeton, while McGinn is the Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. In her office at Baker Library, McGinn discussed the... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

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School Leadership | About

Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and Research William R. Kerr Dimitri V. D'Arbeloff - MBA Class of 1955 Professor of Business Administration Senior Associate Dean for Faculty Development and View Details

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Do I Dare Say Something?

recent working paper, Harvard Business School professor Amy Edmondson and Penn State professor James Detert explored the challenges employees face speaking up to internal authorities. Their research focused on behavior in large,... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

17 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

The Reputation Risks of Sharing Fake News

media would benefit their personal reputations more than spreading misleading articles, the research shows. Furthermore, when political articles are shared on Twitter (now X), accurate information tends to garner more approval, finds... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

Allen S. Grossman

Allen Grossman was appointed a Harvard Business School Professor of Management Practice in July 2000. He joined the Business School faculty in July 1998, with a concurrent appointment as a Visiting Scholar at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). He... View Details

Keywords: education industry; nonprofit industry

27 Feb 2012
News

Economist: Clean Air Regs Cost U.S. $21 Billion A Year But Produce $100 Billion In Benefits

01 Oct 2012
News

Better by the Bundle?

09 May 2011
News

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Financial Sector More Info The Impact of Pensions and Insurance on Global Yield Curves By: Robin Greenwood & Annette Vissing-Jorgensen JUN 2018 In this NBER working paper, researchers from the Behavioral Finance and Financial Stability... View Details

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

Over a dozen years ago, HBS professors Ben Shapiro and Kash Rangan conducted research with colleague John J. Sviokla, focusing on the impact that a company's order management cycle (OMC) has on customers. Think of OMC as the process that... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

Article

From Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making.

By: Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton

Due to the sheer number and variety of decisions that people make in their everyday lives-from choosing yogurts to choosing religions to choosing spouses-research in judgment and decision making has taken many forms. We suggest, however, that much of this research has... View Details

Keywords: Decision Making; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments; Research; Problems and Challenges