Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (457) Arrow Down

Show Results For

← Page 16 of 457 Results →
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

new book, Career Imprints: Creating Leaders Across an Industry, is scheduled to be published in April by Jossey-Bass. Mallory Stark: What is career imprinting? Monica Higgins: Career imprinting refers to the process by which individuals... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 18 Feb 2014
  • News

Stick with Plan A

world. Initially, Maddy pursued an early dream of working for the United Nations Development Program. "Soon, however, I became very disillusioned that economic aid was the path to economic development," she says. "I found that it actually had the very opposite View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Waleed Iskandar (MBA 1993); Telecommunications
  • 30 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 30, 2007

  Working PapersRecognizing the New: A Multi-Agent Model of Analogy in Strategic Decision-Making Authors:Giovanni Gavetti and Massimo Warglien Abstract In novel environments, strategic decision-making is often premised on analogy, and recognition lies at its heart.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The State of Customer Service Leadership

service. And at the same time, they have been shown to register three times the profitability of S&P 500 firms in recent years. Aisner: That’s a perfect lead-in to the next question. In a 1994 Harvard Business Review article, you all pioneered the “service profit... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner; Retail
  • 25 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 25, 2006

bring a gentler capitalism to post-apartheid South Africa. Like her other colleagues on the Black Economic Empowerment (BEE) Commission, Charnley believed that each black business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

Language Authors:Jerry Green and Laurence J. Kotlikoff Abstract A century ago, everyone thought time and distance were well-defined physical concepts. But neither proved absolute. Instead, measures/reports of time and distance were found to depend on one's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Prospective Students Steer Clear of Schools Rocked by Scandal

assistant professor at Harvard Business School; Patrick Rooney, an HBS research associate; and Jonathan Smith, a policy research scientist at The College Board. “The effects we see for widely covered scandals are large, which speaks to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education
  • 15 Apr 2002
  • Research & Ideas

In the Virtual Dressing Room Returns Are A Real Problem

sense of self. Thus the decision can be laden with emotional factors that are less important in decisions to buy books, music, groceries, and electronics. Ample evidence suggests that current B2C sites are unable to characterize their products adequately to allow... View Details
Keywords: by Jan Hammond & Kristin Kohler; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Consumer Products; Manufacturing; Retail
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Blog Post

Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)

community. These MBA learnings have framed the way I approach my work at CHAI. By investigating the various forces at play behind malaria prevalence and incidence, I am better able to help colleagues and partners develop nuanced, View Details
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

effectively within the newly merged entities. No PDF is available at this time. Reputation and Competition: Evidence from the Credit Rating Industry Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract Fair and accurate credit ratings arguably... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

information aggregation treatments do not affect total equity investment when we make the investment environment more realistic than in prior experiments. Previously documented aggregation effects are not robust to changes in the risky... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 22, 2016

overweighting its representative types, which we formally define to be the types that occur more frequently in that group than in a baseline reference group. Stereotypes formed in this way contain a "kernel of truth": they are rooted in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

contracts, and accounting and finance. The span of accountability. The second span refers to the range of trade-offs affecting the measures used to evaluate a manager's achievements. For example, a person who is accountable for head count... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 10 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt--‘Accelerate: Building Strategic Agility for a Faster-Moving World’

make a distinction in meaning, it is usually in reference to levels in a hierarchy. People at the very top provide "leadership"—whatever that is—or at least they are supposed to. People in the middle do the "management," again with little... View Details
Keywords: Re: John P. Kotter
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 8, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50668 forthcoming Journal of Marketing Research Design of Search Engine Services: Channel Interdependence in Search Engine Results By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—The authors examine prominent placement of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

studies were less likely to criticize the actions of others when their behavior eroded gradually, over time, rather than in one abrupt shift. We refer to this phenomenon as the slippery slope effect. Our studies also demonstrate that at... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 02 Jun 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Spending on Happiness

happiness, would we be more likely to spend money on others instead of on ourselves? A: We were actually most worried about the opposite problem, whether knowing about the effect of prosocial spending might erase it, if people engaged in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

http://www.amazon.com/Business-History-Elgar-Walter-Friedman/dp/1781955263/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1389789862&sr=1-2&keywords=Business+History+Jones+and+Friedman August 2013 Management Science The Distinct Effects... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

(2003): "Exploitation, Exploration, and Process Management: The Productivity Dilemma Revisited." Our paper received the Academy of Management Review's best paper award in 2003 and the decade award in 2013. We consider the context within which the paper was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 May 2016
  • First Look

May 10, 2016

build a literature more effectively than they could with less diverse approaches to gathering data. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51015 April 29, 2016 Science The Growing Problem of Patent Trolling By:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel