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- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
prove their worth quickly, VCs may be underfunding other more complex types of startups that require more time to bear fruit. “One of the challenges with this approach is it really directs attention View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
between 1995 and 1999. Understanding the complex interaction between the two technologies and how a second mover was able to unseat the incumbent market champion will help innovators of all stripes learn how... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
quarter in a communal "swear jar" every time they utter an obscenity. Rather than curb their cursing, they start swearing a blue streak after learning the pooled money will go toward a case of Bud Light.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Managing Alignment as a Process
like budgeting, should be part of the annual governance cycle. Whenever plans are changed at the enterprise or business unit level, executives likely need to realign the organization with the new direction. The alignment process, View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
Disney, nobody wants to see someone take the trash out, so Disney has an underground system of tunnels," Thomke says. "It's there, but you hide it because it's completely irrelevant to the customer experience." “Magicians View Details
- 17 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Litmus Test for Entrepreneurs
afford to pass on any opportunity, no matter how small. They see business much like a game of PacMan—you can bag big fish only by learning to swallow small ones. The best entrepreneurs also recognize that... View Details
Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle
- 11 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Financial Services 24/7
cannot be ignored, nor can the volume of trades that discount firms, such as E*Trade and TDAmeritrade, are now handling. Clearly the more traditional players have learned that they must be able to compete in... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
from the core business who has demonstrated a record of success? An outsider who has started and grown a successful company? The school-of-experience view suggests that both of these managers might be risky... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
business start-up. Furthermore, most women have learned that they need help to create and build their businesses. They are assembling multi-talented entrepreneurial teams that bring a broad base of... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
racial discrimination. In Digital Discrimination: The Case of Airbnb.com, Benjamin G. Edelman and Michael Luca investigate the possibility of racial discrimination against people who advertise properties on... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
What strategy do you use when making complex decisions? Do you burn the midnight oil to carefully weigh the pros and cons of each alternative? Or do you take your mind off the decision and follow the age-old wisdom View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Long-Term Fix to US Competitiveness
ecosystem of partnerships and collaborations." Three panelists outlined some of those collaborations. Mary L. Fifield, president of Bunker Hill Community College,... View Details
Keywords: by Stephanie Schorow & Harvard Gazette
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
When Dean Nitin Nohria stepped onto the Burden Auditorium stage on the morning of October 1 to welcome a standing-room-only reunion crowd back to Harvard Business School, his audience was as attentive as any he had experienced in his... View Details
- 13 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Humblebragging’ is a Bad Strategy, Especially in a Job Interview
lessons learned from the initial research—namely, admitting fallibility rather than couching it. "I think people have a tendency not to say something negative about themselves because that makes them vulnerable," she says. Since beginning... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
Frequent shopping programs that reward customers with discounts or other perks are commonplace in grocery stores, but many are not as effective in influencing buying behavior as they could be, argues HBS professor Rajiv Lal. "The Impact View Details
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
competitors can help grow the market for your products and services, thereby boosting your sales at a time when, with the U.S. slowdown entering its third year, new revenue is exceedingly hard to find. Moreover, the presence of a... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
maximize how much people learn from each other; we want to maximize transparency,” adds Lazer. “I don’t want there to be zero communication, but I do think that transparency and communication do have downsides, especially for certain... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
intended victim. (Ironically, in the meantime we have learned that the "worm" that attacked Iran's nuclear centrifuges and sent them whirling out of control and into self-destruction in all... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 29 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Research Symposium 2014
Speaking up at work; a manager's responsibility to capitalism; a strategy to fix the health care system. These were the presentation topics at the 2014 Faculty Research Symposium. At first blush, they may sound a bit disjointed. But a goal View Details