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- 07 Oct 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
What Environmental Ratings Miss
Keywords: by Auden Schendler & Michael Toffel
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Lillo of Swiss Reinsurance Company. To get consumers to sign onto the technology, the industry must instill trust by focusing on programming the cars to behave with the “common sense” human drivers tend to apply when navigating complex or... View Details
- 06 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Intelligence: Adapt or Die
corporate strategy, Wells has learned that the seeds of failure are often planted years before they sprout, and only by overcoming complacency and constantly adapting to the changing competitive environment can companies prosper in the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 20 Aug 2001
- Research & Ideas
Making an Ally of Uncle Sam
Goals for influencing government should flow directly from the analytic frameworks that companies use to develop business strategies. As Michael Porter noted in Competitive Strategy, "No structural analysis is complete without a... View Details
- 23 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Overcoming Nervous Nelly
Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Alison Wood Brooks. “It was surprising to see such a devious twist that people would take advantage of someone in an anxious state” "People who are perfectly healthy feel anxious many times each day," she says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?
according to new research. The researchers found that the students facing temptation were more apt to make mistakes and were less productive By banning web surfing, employers are essentially asking their workers to resist temptation until... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 04 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
A Dynamic Perspective on Ambidexterity: Structural Differentiation and Boundary Activities
Keywords: by Sebastian Raisch & Michael L. Tushman
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
percent more likely to hire women as partners for VC funds—the equivalent of a random distribution of gender diversity. “We could then identify the component of gender diversity caused exclusively by having a daughter uncorrelated to... View Details
- 18 Jul 2019
- News
Apollo 11 Astronaut Michael Collins Reflects on the 50th Anniversary of the Moon Landing
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of 1969’s successful Apollo 11 voyage, Michael Collins (AMP 69, 1974) has been sharing his memories of the famous, three-man moon mission. Collins played a critical support role while Buzz Aldrin and... View Details
- 16 Oct 2017
- News
750 Gun Deaths a Year Are Prevented by Waiting Periods, Study Finds
- 26 Apr 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Clear Eye for Innovation
the key to creating breakthrough innovations. Still others have claimed that a company may be able to shift back and forth between different organizational models, focusing on exploitation for a period and then moving into exploration mode. We recently decided to test... View Details
- October 2009
- Article
Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web
By: Jolie M. Martin and Michael I. Norton
This research explores how partitioning attributes in online search interfaces changes the valuations of those attributes-and impacts subsequent choice-such that attributes that are displayed as separate categories tend to receive greater decision weight than... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Information Management; Demand and Consumers; Research; Internet and the Web; Valuation
Martin, Jolie M., and Michael I. Norton. "Shaping Online Consumer Choice by Partitioning the Web." Psychology & Marketing 26, no. 10 (October 2009): 908–926.
- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
cluster-based approach to economic development. When firms locate near each other they can benefit by sharing knowledge, pooling resources, and establishing relationships with local educational institutions that train potential employees.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Feb 2008
- Working Paper Summaries
Embracing Commitment and Performance: CEOs and Practices Used to Manage Paradox
- July 2023
- Supplement
Sian Flowers: Fresher by Sea? – PowerPoint Supplement
By: Willy C. Shih and Michael W. Toffel
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
by consulting company Accenture, Soltes argues that such codes can be worth quite a lot to companies—but only if they go beyond generic platitudes to create a tool that employees can actually use. Author of the book Why They Do It: Inside... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
public's interest and reminded people of the multiple platforms available to see the competition," says Greyser. The biggest boon to NBC, however, was the Games themselves. Winning performances by American athletes such as swimmer View Details
- 12 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict
voting lines. While currently, committee members were appointed by the governor, a Republican, the new proposal would allow equal representation by both parties. They then asked participants to predict on a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
people into a more communal relationship, they have a higher willingness to pay” According to Shelle M. Santana, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard Business School, I may have been influenced by communal norms.... View Details