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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
deliver this spring’s Commencement address. As he greets a visitor to his bare-bones office in Mountain View, California, there’s little evidence of this former hedge-fund analyst’s meteoric rise to rock-star status as a kind of online... View Details
- 24 Apr 2020
- Op-Ed
Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19
scheduled dates—albeit in a modified (virtual) form. NFL scouts had the entire 2019 college football season to evaluate prospects. The NFL Combine, another opportunity to see select recruits in action, went ahead as planned at the start of the year, and recruits are... View Details
- 03 Jan 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
5 Career-Related New Year’s Resolutions (and 5 Tips for Keeping Them)
getting the help they need.” To that end, Simons created a free online job design optimization tool. Try it out to see if your job is offering a healthy mix of responsibility and support. If the answer is no, then talk to your supervisor... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
protection than SOEs. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51975 December 2016 Harvard Business Review Fixing Discrimination in Online Marketplaces By: Fisman, Ray, and Michael Luca Abstract—Online marketplaces... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for growth for a state at the 10th or 25th percentile of corruption is significantly positive; on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
simplified access to the online world, transforming the Internet from a communications vehicle for academics into a mass consumer phenomenon. At the same time, the growing usefulness of the Internet drove sales of personal computers off... View Details
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
people are a smaller number of big decisions: buying a house, buying a car, dealing with a building contractor, investing for retirement, etc. These consumption decisions tend to be made on an irregular and infrequent basis or are new in structure because of a change... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
institutions. It explores as well new efforts to understand the micro mechanisms and channels by which host countries can benefit from multinational activity, within and between firm productivity increases. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
the last decade, a variety of novel patent intermediaries have emerged. We discuss how several online platforms have started services for buying and selling patents but have failed to gain meaningful traction. And new intermediaries that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
Established enterprises have customer relationships, channels to market, technical capabilities, critical data and information about consumers, along with a myriad other factors that will increase the impact of any innovation they come up... View Details
- Web
Year in Review | Annual Report 2024
while ensuring HBP’s continuing commitment to DEI. McConvillewas part of the team that launched HBP in 1992, and she has been instrumental in shaping the organization’s transformation and growth over time. She served as Chief Marketing Officer, leading cohesive... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
whether or not employees are selected via channels that are likely to sort on the alignment of their preferences with organizational objectives. I find that employees selected through such channels are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2020
channels have been steadily increasing, and a much larger fraction of sales at brick-and-mortar channels is affected by online channels. Shopper behavior and expectations have... View Details
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
platforms may coexist without the market tipping. Our model helps explain why platforms with different business models coexist in markets, including online dating, housing, and labor markets. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’
benefit. In the first instance, observing that millions of people connect to friends and strangers on social platforms, some companies have chosen to enter the fray in a similar way, by trying to build relationships with people online as... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
March 2018 Review of Economics and Statistics Scraped Data and Sticky Prices By: Cavallo, Alberto Abstract—I use daily prices collected from online retailers in five countries to study the impact of measurement bias on three common price... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2016
- First Look
First Look - November 1, 2016
and/or number of display-only items have no significant impact on these decisions. These findings reveal a novel choice behavior in commonly encountered settings such as online marketplaces. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
more quickly from in-person services to virtual. Call center workers, for example, had access to the Kyruus scheduling function online so that, Gardner says, “Overnight, they switched from working with 400 others in a large building to... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
Best Practices for Creating a Successful Virtual Internship
situation. Students with particularly positive experiences often remark that they felt integrated into the work of the team and that people in the organization cared about what they were working on.” To replicate this integration, consider how you can create an View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Laura Scher of Working Assets
into a much-needed windfall for a host of cash-strapped nonprofits. Since cofounding Working Assets in 1985, Laura Scher has helped the company channel nearly $20 million to organizations such as Greenpeace, Oxfam America, Amnesty... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso