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- 12 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Link Between Cadavers and Careers
If you happen to be in need of human cadavers, you'll have more success targeting married nursery school teachers than, say, married cowboys or firefighters. That's essentially the implication of a new study that explores a previously unstudied subset of the American... View Details
- 02 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News
don't seem to understand this," he says. "This is all perfectly knowable-the transcripts are available 15 minutes after the call is over--yet we still find that returns aren't down until three months later, when the bad news comes out in the next call." There are a... View Details
- 18 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
Prosper with Multi-Channel Retailing
It is important for managers and executives to "help people in the organization understand it's both things working together." "One of our big challenges is simply inventory management," Nuzzo said. "For the last View Details
- 07 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 7
Between Architecture Coupling and Software Vulnerabilities: A Google Chrome Case By: Lagerström, Robert, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack, Dan Sturtevant, and Lee Doolan Abstract—Employing software metrics, such as size and complexity,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Competitive Advantage Through Operations
throughout the ranks; everybody in the organization must understand what they're doing and why they're doing it. In Managers as Teachers, we use a couple of examples — Alcoa and Toyota — to show how to disseminate the lessons of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 05 Jun 2000
- What Do You Think?
What’s Happening to Our Patience?
brain that records time. Further, it measures the time associated with a task and sets our expectations in subsequently performing similar tasks. That's why we become so impatient when it takes a couple of extra seconds to access our... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
not enough; it must also be coupled with a positive outcome. Norton compares it to results in their online dating research in which users were more satisfied when they saw the website working hard for them during searching-but only if... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
unexpected ways. One of the students self-assembled a team in the very early stages of the course. He assessed classmates' strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The... View Details
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
new digital economy, coupled with the growing size of the EC and IT sectors within the overall economy, we can no longer afford to further postpone attention to efficient business process interfaces between supply-chain trading partners.... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 09 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Stock Options Are Not All Created Equal
the price drops 70%, his options are worth a mere $211,000, less than 8% of the original stake. Disney's Michael Eisner is perhaps the best known CEO who has received megagrants. Every few years since 1984, Eisner has received a megagrant of several million shares. It... View Details
Keywords: by Brian Hall
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
Stability and Incentives in Large Markets Authors:Fuhito Kojima, Parag A. Pathak, and Alvin E. Roth Abstract Accommodating couples has been a longstanding issue in the design of centralized labor market clearinghouses for doctors and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
facial tracking study. Pepsi Max's First Date, an ad portraying gender differences of a couple on their first date, fared a bit better. Viewers found it extremely entertaining—as she judges him as possible marriage material, he is... View Details
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
decreasing vacancies) coupled with continuing low interest rates. During the last year, we saw four big stories in real estate that underscore this continuing-to-boom market: record prices, new capital market instruments, and growing... View Details
- 03 Feb 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Business Schools Teach the Craft of Getting Things Done?
development of theory regarding strategic planning coupled with the proliferation of courses on the subject, are we sending the right signals to managers in training? Or should we just admit that formal training only begins to prepare... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Free Software
about exactly what to give away and how to couple it with complementary products and services than you do anything else." Wooing Open-source Developers Another focus centers on determining how to make it easier for the open source... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research Event
What Does 'Diversity' Really Mean?
to talk the talk before you walk the walk. But talk is often infuriatingly cheap.” Holmes said it’s irritating that some business leaders seem to equate hiring a couple minority employees with making sweeping changes to corporate hiring... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Nov 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Marijuana
effort to achieve early market share and economies of scale that would position them to be bought out later by national players. Unlike craft beer, marijuana would be inexpensive to transport across state lines to retail outlets across the country. "I think you'll... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
where to focus their efforts was an easy one. "It seemed natural for us to look at how the investment behavior of public and private firms differs," Farre-Mensa says. The fact that there were no similar studies, coupled with the... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 06 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Renewable Energy: Winds at Our Back?
When American energy entrepreneur Jim Gordon envisioned the first offshore wind farm lining the horizon a few miles off the coast of the eastern United States, he perhaps did not factor in blowback from almost every angle. Gordon's nearly 10-year battle to gain... View Details
- 10 Nov 2008
- Research Event
Social Media Leads the Future of Technology
electronic device nearby, and married couples usually do not share cell phones. Innovation will serve people who want simplicity of technology usage. As the network gets larger it becomes less relevant to individuals, she said, so people... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace