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- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
industries and geographies, this collection provides students with an appreciation for the importance of consumer empowerment and consumer behavior in shaping both health and corporate outcomes. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions
Harvard Business School Professor J. Gunnar Trumbull balks at the ubiquitous idea that the concentrated power of a few billionaires controls public policy and government regulation. Exaggeration of the impact of big business on public... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
comparative advantage of clusters located in one region versus another. Under this scenario, geographic concentration is still valuable, but the center of production activity can shift from one location to another. The paper then analyzes how firm supply chain... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
maximize the impact of their strategies. However, the notion of strategic integrity is particularly important in times of change. Our past is littered with firms that failed to adapt to competitive changes. Obtaining One Strategy in times... View Details
- 13 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 13, 2007
paradox by considering the enabling role of actors' social position. Adopting a relational view of human agency, I model the impact of their social position on the likelihood that actors will initiate changes that diverge from the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 14
2016 Scientists Making a Difference: One Hundred Eminent Behavioral and Brain Scientists Talk about Their Most Important Contributions The Motivation for Creativity By: Amabile, Teresa M. Abstract—Scientists Making a Difference is a fascinating View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
challenge lies in attempting to heal a nation that is bitterly divided. We asked members of Harvard Business School's faculty two questions: First, how do you expect Biden’s presidency to impact businesses? And second, what leadership... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Navigating Tradeoffs: How Purpose Becomes a Company's ‘Lighthouse in the Storm’
of compostable fiber. “We thought very highly of ourselves and patted ourselves on the back for doing such an amazing job and for the impact we were going to make.” As workers began harvesting lettuce and putting it into the eco-friendly... View Details
Keywords: by Ranjay Gulati
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Abstract—We collect data on operations, targets, and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
Quarterly Do Experts or Collective Intelligence Write with More Bias? Evidence from Encyclopædia Britannica and Wikipedia By: Greenstein, Shane, and Feng Zhu Abstract—Organizations today can use both crowds and experts to produce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
detailed in Cohen’s new working paper, The Impact of Forced Migration on Modern Cities: Evidence from 1930s Crop Failures, co-written by HBS finance professor Christopher J. Malloy and Quoc Nguyen, an assistant finance professor at the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2021
- What Do You Think?
How Will the Metaverse Affect Productivity?
that had little impact on productivity. Even today, one can argue that the internet gives and takes away productivity (in terms of mind-numbing activities that contribute little to productivity). However, like the space program, we have... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine published To Err is Human, a groundbreaking report that pushed the issue of medical errors into the public spotlight. That we all make mistakes was certainly nothing new: Operational failures occur across all industries. But the... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
engineers, for example, brought in anthropologists to help them design copiers that were more user-friendly. And Genzyme leavened the impact of the lawyers on its regulatory team with a sprinkling of scientists and liberal arts graduates.... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
Breakups Author:Stuart C. Gilson Publication:2nd ed. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2010 Abstract A collection of case studies illustrates real-world techniques, implementation, and strategies on corporate restructuring. Over the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
incompatibility. We also investigate how factors such as exclusive content and hardware-only adopters affect compatibility incentives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55682 January 4, 2019 Harvard Business Review How Companies Can... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
examine the direct entry of platform owners into complementors’ product spaces. It finds that both the motivation and impact of such entries on complementors are multifaceted. The motivation behind platform owners’ direct entry goes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
Industry: A Historical Perspective By: Jones, G. Abstract—This chapter explores the impact of the global beauty industry on beauty ideals. It shows that as the industry internationalized from the late nineteenth century, there was a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
in tastes. Our framework allows us to characterize matching equilibrium in a flexible way that includes as special cases the classic fully- and non-transferable utility models, collective models, and settings with taxes on transfers,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 15 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction
paragraphs to Google, which, by 2001, already was the 15th largest website in the United States. Despite this traffic, Google’s ecosystem impact was still modest at the time. The company was still a year away from adopting the paid search... View Details