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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
component of meaning, community. Work can play an important role in designating and maintaining social relationships. When our activity at work produces an acute sense of awareness with those with whom we share the same circumstances and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?
Farronato, Andrey Fradkin, Boston University; Bradley Larsen, Stanford University; and Erik Brynjolfsson, MIT Sloan School of Management. We asked Farronato, whose interests include economics, innovation, electronic commerce, and electronic markets, to View Details
- 08 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 8, 2019
midst of a deep crisis, having lost a third of its market share over the previous three years. Bill Kozek, the new president of Navistar North America Truck and Sales division needs to develop his division’s strategy as part of the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
airlines increase their retail prices. So all buyers essentially end up sharing the fees, even if they choose to forego the intermediary. Thus begins a vicious cycle of increasing costs. With price coherence in place, intermediaries need... View Details
- 30 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 30
regularly advises executives and students on how to tackle these questions. In this indispensable new book, Kaplan shares a specific and actionable approach to defining your own success and reaching your potential. Drawing on his years of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
become more economically significant than manufacturing industries, and as knowledge work supplants other kinds of labor, the need for sophisticated ways to process and share information grows more acute. Second, there is organizational... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
activism and unwillingness to compromise, however, makes him a divisive character among business leaders who share his principles but question the ultimate effectiveness of his approach. Is it in their firms' best interests to support... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
Business School Supplement 611-079 The (C) case provides an update on the B-case decision and describes the introduction of Dan 2.0, an internal social virtual network for the purpose of knowledge sharing in a company that was only used... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
Examples include gift exchanges, shared meals and drinks, and really getting to know each other on a personal level. It is not easy. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am studying the effects of multicultural networks on innovation and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
more, expanding companies are hiring high-functioning groups of people who have been working together effectively within one company and can rapidly come up to speed in a new environment. These lifted-out teams don't need to get acquainted with one another or to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
of investment greatly matters. Accordingly, prior studies find that cash holdings enable firms to increase product market share at the expense of their rivals. Recently, however, U.S. multinational firms have received a lot of attention... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
characteristic. A reluctance to discriminate emerges if workers share the gender or birth month of the worker from the worse-performing group, but even then, a small "excuse" counters this reluctance. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2015
- HBS Case
Consumer-centered Health Care Depends on Accessible Medical Records
IT systems that handle a good chunk of the work, Quelch says. Yet consumer trust when it comes to data privacy is not always a given, and consumers want to have a say. Some people fear that information about a serious disease diagnosis or a visit with a mental health... View Details
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
habits as well, such as a growing preference for sharing items rather than owning them, and encouraging "showrooming" where shoppers visit stores only to test products—then buy them more cheaply online. The user benefits from lower cost,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
they're so much in the background and taken for granted within each society. Q: How will nationalisms play out in the future vis-à-vis globalization? A: If we were to think about how societies think about themselves in terms of national identities, View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
determine the direction workplace envy takes. Contributors are drawn from many countries and from an extraordinary range of disciplines to share their insight: experimental social psychologists offer insights from lab studies,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
sequence of actions can have different psychological effects due to the role of mutual agreement. Finally, we contribute to research on consumers’ shared experiences by suggesting a novel mechanism for committing to such experiences:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
looking at observational data on user traffic to Yelp from search engines, we find that Google’s exclusion of downstream competitors may have been effective. The share of Yelp’s traffic coming from Google has declined over this period,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman