Framing - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

on mainframes. DEC moved up-market with a much lower cost structure and eventually attacked IBM. In the newspaper industry, we saw that firms can overcome this resource commitment problem by recognizing the challenge and framing the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

08 Dec 2015
Research Event

Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference

is important, attendees said, because after all, a glimpse at India’s past can provide a way of understanding where business is heading in the future. Social scientists in a business school are always looking for intelligent ways to interpret data, and history provides... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

01 Jun 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation

advance their agendas fall across several key areas, including strategy, organizational design, decision-making, and resource allocation. "The level of investment required to drive scientific innovation is greater, the time frame for... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Auto; Pharmaceutical

24 Nov 2009
First Look

First Look: Nov. 24

Working PapersWalking the Talk in Multiparty Bargaining: An Experimental Investigation Authors:Kathleen L. McGinn, Katherine L. Milkman, and Markus Nöth Abstract We study the framing effects of communication in multiparty bargaining.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

service. In the other 24, the material emphasized career advancement. "Importantly, neither [campaign] talked about salary," Ashraf says. "All that changed was emphasizing different aspects of the same job. But by framing the task... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

08 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Is That Really Your Best Offer?

hints of emotion leak out in facial movements—a momentary blush or twitch that might be caught in a couple frames of film but would escape the notice of most untrained observers. Evidence suggests that micro-expressions are there to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Wheeler

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

goes, ‘Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its students.’ So, if time is of the essence, how to best think and frame the problems we need to solve with our teams to survive this crisis? What is sequence of those... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: ‘Collective Genius’

in figure 1-2 of the real CG movie-making process. Since innovation is a problem-solving process, it's really about searching for a solution by creating and testing a portfolio of ideas. It often takes time even to frame a problem in the... View Details

Keywords: by Linda Hill; Entertainment & Recreation

15 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

High Ambition Leadership

outliers: CEOs who produced outstanding economic and social value. Every successful CEO produces the first, but too few frame the purpose of their firm or behave in a way that illustrates their concern with social value. So we had two... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

transactions are a way of life. The case illustrates a classic dilemma: should organizations conform to the environment they're in, or should they export their ethical standards to other lands? In Paine's view, framing the issue as... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a longing for 'being there.'"... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

right." "Those spaces that you mentioned don't fit the venture profile for time frame and liquidity," said Kapoor. "They require a ten-year, $100 million investment. With that said, the profile around energy,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

11 Oct 2022
Research & Ideas

Shrinking the Racial Wealth Gap, One Mortgage at a Time

sellers, leaving people of color out of a crucial means of wealth building. The national dearth of minority loan officers is considerable. In 2019, just 15 percent of mortgage loan officers were minorities, compared to 39 percent of the total US population, write... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

Lorsch: People talk about curbing the power of CEOs, but I frame the issue in terms of enhancing the power of boards. Over the last decade, I think there's been a lot of progress made in boardrooms. Problems remain, of course, but... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

06 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success

venture capitalists received and the degree of autonomy similar, but XTV operated under the same ten-year time frame employed in the typical partnership agreement. Under certain conditions, however, Xerox could dissolve the partnership... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner

11 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Fixing Price Tag Confusion

says Groceries $88, Delivery $8? In a recent working paper titled "The Framing Effect of Price Format," HBS Associate Professor Luc Wathieu and coauthor Marco Bertini of the London Business School attempt to understand the consumer... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

successful redevelopment of the surrounding area. Further, we have created a chart that we think can be used to evaluate the risk level of Olympic sites becoming white elephants soon after their Games end. Download working paper:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

maniacal 'toon,"' screams Dr. Doom in Steven Spielberg's Who Framed Roger Rabbit. His eyes are red and sinister and pop out of his head. His dream is to build the modern highway, with restaurants and gasoline stations pouring their... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

coevolutionary model of technological frames and the technology life cycle to explain sources of variation in the era of ferment, conditions under which a dominant design may be achieved, the underlying architecture of the era of... View Details