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- 14 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
How to Profit from Scarcity
Second, VW factories "fully loaded" the New Beetles with options to maximize the unit margin that VW and the dealers extracted on each vehicle. Third, VW incented its dealers to stock up on... 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
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
existence of rural areas not supplied by grid electricity was an important motivation for early movers in both the U.S. and Denmark. Public policy was the problem rather than the opportunity for wind... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
relationship in practice. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=38678 Exclusive Preferential Placement as Search Diversion: Evidence from Flight Search By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Zhenyu Lai Abstract—We analyze the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2012
- What Do You Think?
Will Business Management Save US Health Care?
era of a medical star system is about over. Outstanding medical institutions like Mayo Clinic and Cleveland Clinic have long avoided it. They opt instead for hiring practitioners as employees who are paid View Details
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
it even takes more effort to sign up for the program,” says Zlatev. In fact, in a follow-up study, not yet published, he and Kristal found evidence that the person who chose to use the commitment strategy was more intrinsically View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Mar 2019
- Blog Post
SEI25 Series: Misan Rewane, MBA 2013, CEO, WAVE
a social enterprise. Misan is the cofounder and CEO of WAVE (West Africa Vocational Education), an organization dedicated to tackling youth unemployment in West Africa. What motivated you to pursue a career... View Details
- 14 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
Andy Grove on the Confident Leader
to be clarified. You have to make them when you have to make them. And try not to get too depressed in the journey, because there's a professional responsibility. If you are depressed, you can't motivate... View Details
- 14 May 2013
- Blog Post
“What does it take for us to support our beliefs?” – Johnny Bowman
Before HBS I helped run digital campaigns for a labor union, the Green Bay Packers, and Lady Gaga’s non-profit at Blue State Digital. Blue State Digital made its name helping design Barack Obama’s 2008 and... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
Creativity" is scheduled to appear in the April 2001 issue. Asked by HBS Working Knowledge about her motivation for focusing on John Irving, Amabile replied, "I wanted to counteract a strong stereotype that people in business,... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
School's Cahners-Rabb Professor of Business Administration and an expert on organizational behavior. "Quite simply, without a sense of purpose, we become alienated from our work and find it harder to View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
duopoly rather than to remain a monopolist. Bias in Search Results?: Diagnosis and Response Author:Benjamin Edelman Publication:The Indian Journal of Law and Technology 7 (2011) Abstract I explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
It is a classic leadership challenge of the early twenty-first century: How do you steer your business and motivate your people to pursue breakthrough growth while giving proper attention to executing the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
relative to one-sided markets. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-011.pdf Why Do Intermediaries Divert Search? (revised) Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We analyze the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
of ethical standards are also tightly linked with how negotiators understand and define the game. Laboratory research on ethics in negotiation is starting to reveal, for instance, just how flexible and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Throwing Your Opponent: Strategies for the Internet Age
principle—and perhaps the most important—involves leveraging the size and strategy of opponents against them. "You need to find areas where your competitor will have incentives to avoid responding to... View Details
Keywords: by Daniel Penrice
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
coauthored the study with Marcella Alsan, a professor at Harvard Kennedy School; Heidi Williams, a professor at Stanford University; and Harsh Gupta and Maya Durvasula, doctoral candidates at Stanford. Why... View Details
- 23 Jun 2015
- Blog Post
What is SVMP?
SVMP alumni that I had met raved about the program, and it got me excited about being in a room full of young and motivated leaders who want to learn. What surprised you the... View Details
- 16 Jun 2014
- Blog Post
Recruiting Millennials in a Global Market
first-hand the transition from serving and advising both Generation X and Generation Y. And while all individuals are different, members of each generational group share common... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
“Historically, when the government tries to set limits it doesn't work very well.” Say on pay has been a research focus of HBS assistant professor Fabrizio Ferri, who started his career at Stern Stewart & Co specializing in performance measurement View Details