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  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

office employees from their work, surfing the web is arguably the most irresistible time-waster of all. In order to deal with that problem, many companies either prohibit Internet use during working hours, or closely monitor employees' web activity. This means workers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=407006 Slots, Tables, and All that Jazz: Managing Customer Profitability at the MGM Grand Hotel Harvard Business School Case 106-029 The MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas had detailed information on loyal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Oct 2000
  • Research & Ideas

The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation

customers on Valentine's Day, so we decided to offer the best customer service ever. We called every single customer and explained that our reshipment would be late. We sent a follow-up letter of apology from me and included a discount coupon on a future purchase. It... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Book

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2020

leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

displace incumbents. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-033.pdf Cases & Course Materials AFL-CIO: Office of Investment and Home Depot Harvard Business School Case 407-097 Describes the AFL-CIO: Office of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Nov 2011
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Organizational Design

managers still need to seek other drivers of creativity. I Want My Functional Experts To Influence High-level Strategy Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer New research by HBS professor Anette Mikes and colleagues looks into how... View Details
Keywords: Re: Ranjay Gulati & Raffaella Sadun
  • 02 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

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

identity crisis of sorts because their jobs and their family roles no longer allow for the authoritative (some would say patriarchal) roles of the past. To compensate for this felt emasculation on the work and home fronts, men are now... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 14 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 14

Finally, we overcome the computational burden of solving games of complete information with multiple equilibria by utilizing the GPGPU technology, using multiple processing cores in a graphics processing unit to noticeably increase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

considered to have fixed national identities. While firms have reallocated various activities around the world in response to value creation opportunities, they have largely retained their national identities, and their headquarter activities remained bundled in their... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis

blame game engulfed politicians and S&P itself. In the midst of all this angst, four Harvard Business School faculty members offer their views on what went wrong and what needs to be done to right the US ship of state. bo Becker,... View Details
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  • 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007

paper on studying the circumstances under which alignment will or will not happen. Using game theory, we find that, although misaligned economic incentives can play a role in explaining misalignment of planning behaviors, there is another... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

developed a revolutionary video pill for imaging the small bowel in the gastro-intestinal tract. The development has required the integration of a wide variety of technologies. GI founder and CEO Gabriel Meron must determine GI's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2015
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November 3, 2015

of the setting and that participants who pool are rewarded by the less informed party with higher payoffs. Finally, we demonstrate through a reexamination of Lai et al. (2012) and Cachon and Lariviere (2001) how pooling outcomes can substantively extend the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 2

our time period. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/tnicholas/Anna_tom.pdf 2006 pub How Caesars Entertainment Is Betting on Sustainability: Response By: Toffel, Michael W Abstract—One of the largest gaming companies in the world... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 14 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 14

founded Netflix to provide a home movie service that would do a better job satisfying customers than the traditional retail rental model. But as it encountered challenges it underwent several major strategy shifts, ultimately developing a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

when several other similar services with big name sponsors such as Google have failed to gain much traction? Apple has a chicken-and-egg game to solve. Consumers won't use the service unless it's in use at a compelling number of stores.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail
  • 08 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Death of the Global Manager

consumer trend or technological development may be emerging in Germany or Japan, not your home market," Bartlett says. "Having eyes and ears around the world is critical, as is having the response capabilities to tap into the... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 19 Jan 2016
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January 19, 2016

Mums the Word! Cross-national Relationship between Maternal Employment and Gender Inequalities at Work and at Home By: McGinn, Kathleen L., Mayra Ruiz Castro, and Elizabeth Long Lingo Abstract—Our research considers how childhood exposure... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

All the video calls are especially exhausting,” Whillans says. Take time off, if you can. The demands of work haven’t slowed for many. And even in the best of times, people who report greater “time scarcity”—those who feel overwhelmed by... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

Does correlation in consumer valuations make bundling more or less effective? Does bundling serve as a complement or substitute to network effects? To address these questions, we develop a consumer-choice model from micro-foundations to capture the essentials of our... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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