Economics Of Information System - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It

is crucial to online success. A recent research paper offers insights that carry unexpected implications for advertisers or anyone else trying to capture that attention. The Empirical Economics of Online... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail; Web Services

27 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work

the list until you run out of either time or money." But Tucker and Singer's findings diverge from previous research and theory. About half the hospitals that participated in their study chose to do some kind View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry

12 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Can Religion and Business Learn From Each Other?

support to faith and work occurs. You had doers versus thinkers. You had the business community feeling [that] business is a series of actions, and the religious community thinking it's The Market. It had a feeling View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Oct 2003
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How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth

We suspect that the mistakes happen when firms choose managers at any level—from CEO to business unit head to project manager—based on what we call "right stuff" thinking, borrowing the term from Tom Wolfe's famous book and the 1983 movie View Details

Keywords: by Michael Raynor

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

discouraging further actions. "Through this back-and-forth, the would-be leader accumulates experiences that inform his or her sense of self as a leader, as well as feedback about his or her fit for... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

23 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS

peripheral products. I wanted to explain in some detail how this happened. Nancy Koehn: Reading Al's work, I was struck by the implications of technological change for the demand side of the economy. As a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

April-May issue of the Journal of the European Economics Association. The paper addressed this central question: When does the certification provided by an SSO's endorsement... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

10 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

American Auto’s Troubled Road

For decades, the U.S. auto industry ruled America's economy, shaped the country's development, and influenced American culture and social mores. Now, buffeted by globalization and other powerful forces, it faces a moment of truth. The... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

12 Feb 2001
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John Irving’s Lessons for Business

as well as how to nurture creativity, both in individuals and in organizations. Amabile interviewed John Irving in 1986, when he agreed to share memories of his childhood as part of a research project... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

06 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

HBS Faculty Remember Nelson Mandela

Editor's note: With the death of Nelson Mandela, the words of the Roman poet Horace (65 - 27 BC) seem particularly appropriate in celebrating his life and achievements in freeing South Africa from the... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Linda Hill, Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Gautam Mukunda

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

buildings, a joint program of the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency; the National Association of Home Builders' NAHBGreen program; and the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

02 Jun 2003
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Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?

tacitly) of the negative connotations and want to avoid them. Men want to achieve within their organizations and become respected as pillars of their communities. But they don't want to be considered boring... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

24 Apr 2020
Op-Ed

Lessons from the NFL: Virtual Hiring, Leadership, Building Teams and COVID-19

system to be unfair. Today any player with four complete seasons (or more) and an expired contract is considered to be an unrestricted free agent. The 2020 free agency is notable for the veritable glut of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Abbott , Boris Groysberg, Tali Groysberg, and Abhijit Naik; Sports

31 Jan 2017
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The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

remember the subsequent bull market and how badly it ended in the fall of 2008 after the whole financial system almost collapsed. I don’t have a crystal ball, but as I’ve said, current valuations View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

private capital sources," says Dubrowski, a founding partner of The Lionstone Group, a Houston-based investment firm. They took big risks and hoped for big rewards. The 1980s brought additional players to the table, none driven by... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

20 Dec 2010
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New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

came to this country chasing the American dream. I never thought I would be Dean of Harvard Business School." When Harvard President Drew Faust called on May 4 to inform him that he was her choice,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

20 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Are Company Founders Underpaid?

information technology companies. When I analyzed founder versus non-founder compensation, I found that there is a large "founder discount" (averaging about $30,000 a year), even after controlling for all View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services; Technology

22 Jun 2021
Research & Ideas

The COVID-19 Mutiny: When Teams Leave and Take Their Clients

information provided by office culture is gone. You could wear your best suit and have a two-hour meeting in the middle of the day with the C-suite of your firm’s biggest... View Details

Keywords: by Robin Abrahams, Boris Groysberg, and Steven L. Manchel

26 Jan 2004
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How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

hypothesis that if there were more women who were venture capitalists then there would be more points of intersection with women entrepreneurs. In our research using information from 1995 and 2000, we... View Details