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- 27 Sep 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Salience in Quality Disclosure: Evidence from the U.S. News College Rankings
- 21 Mar 2019
- HBS Case
The Ferrari Way
competitors, including Porsche and Lamborghini, responded by adding cutting-edge technologies, increasing production, and venturing into untraditional models, such as (gasp!) sport utility vehicles. Ferrari so far has remained true to its... View Details
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
Airbnb Adopts Rules to Fight Discrimination by Its Hosts
- 05 Jan 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
The Integrity of Private Third-party Compliance Monitoring
- 28 Jul 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
The Three Foundations of a Great Life, Great Leadership, and a Great Organization
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 12 Feb 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Enhancing the Practical Relevance of Research
- 02 Nov 2006
- Working Paper Summaries
Resolving Information Asymmetries in Markets: The Role of Certified Management Programs
Keywords: by Michael W. Toffel
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
medical radiation safety. "The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies." “There was suddenly a huge spike in the public’s attention on medical radiation risk,” says Hong Luo, James Dinan and... View Details
- 22 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
Want Hybrid Work to Succeed? Trust, Don’t Track, Employees
workers during the pandemic. “You have to trust that they are intelligent enough and well-intentioned enough to get work done no matter what it takes,” she says. This means managers should be careful not to treat workers like children by... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 03 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
Some companies have begun relying more on computer-administered tests than human interviewers to find the best applicants. New research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Danielle Li and colleagues suggests that in this case,... View Details
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
ferrantraite The Muslim ban. The Wall. Children separated from their parents at the Mexican border. The past two years have seen an aggressive push by the Trump administration against both legal and illegal immigration. But it’s not just... View Details
- 26 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
National Health Costs Could Decrease if Managers Reduce Work Stress
world mathematically and use that to make decisions is very interesting to me," he says. "The world is not deterministic—there is a randomness built into it. And yet, by using robust optimization techniques we can tackle a wide... View Details
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to improve the performance of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Online Retailers Should Hide Their Best Discounts
to adapt it to an online environment,” says Ngwe. Their study gauges the effect of so-called search frictions that make it harder to find discounted items or require additional clicks by consumers to find bargains. “We want to see how... View Details
- 26 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Match Human Ingenuity in Creative Problem-Solving?
When ChatGPT and other large language models began entering the mainstream two years ago, it quickly became apparent the technology could excel at certain business functions, yet it was less clear how well artificial intelligence could handle more creative tasks. Sure,... View Details
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
they spend any more money or do any additional work. The only thing we are suggesting is that they change their algorithm.” About the Author Michael Blanding is a writer based in Boston. [Image: RyanJLane ] Related Reading The Profit... View Details
- 08 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records
required to disclose any whiff of misbehavior to the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA), an independent monitoring organization regulated by the Securities and Exchange Commission. A research team examined those records to... View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
Doctors are afraid of getting sued. According to some accounts, 75 percent of them perform more tests and procedures than necessary to avoid potential lawsuits over medical malpractice. The phenomenon of “defensive medicine” has been examined exhaustively View Details
- 29 Feb 2016
- HBS Case
Bigbelly's Big Bet on the Digital Trash Can
Weiss. “My second thought was, what are you doing to your company?” Selling hardware to budget-crunched cities can difficult. Bigbelly’s early pitch was that by providing trash compacting in the units (solar powered to boot), additional... View Details