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- 10 Jan 2005
- What Do You Think?
Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?
Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If the responses are an... View Details
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
behavior: the promotion of good deeds or the prevention of bad deeds. It turns out that employees tend to act more ethically when focused on what not to do. That can be problematic in firms where success is commonly framed in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 05 Sep 2008
- What Do You Think?
Is Case Method Instruction Due for an Overhaul?
better than others. Most recently, the question has been raised about whether the case method encourages the development of skills in framing problems prior to decision making. Traditional cases have come under fire for being... View Details
- 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
- 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
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
social impact framing that emphasizes a venture’s social-environmental welfare benefits, which research has shown to elicit stereotypically feminine attributions of warmth, diminishes these penalties. We initially investigate this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
August 2013 Journal of Experimental Social Psychology Getting the Most Out of Giving: Concretely Framing a Prosocial Goal Maximizes Happiness By: Rudd, Melanie, Jennifer Aaker, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—Across six field and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
going to pay,” says Luo. “If they get a letter saying they are not the culprit, then it may soften their legal frame of mind, and moves them into thinking, what is the right thing to do given that a mistake was made.” For some businesses,... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
are not entirely mysterious. In fact, marketers of successful brands regularly draw on a rich assortment of insights excavated from research into basic frames or orientations we have toward the world around us, according to HBS professor... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 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 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Understanding the Process of Innovation
Collins is setting his sights on the home and garden business. Clayton Christensen, professor at Harvard Business School, uses this case to frame the central questions for anyone trying to understand the sources of innovation, and what... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gray
- 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
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
effects from the GQ upgrades in either setting. These findings suggest that in the time frames that we can consider—the first five to seven years during and after upgrades—the economic effects of major highway projects contribute modestly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 9
work design and compensation and to understand the differences between compensation and motivation. The case frames the role of the general manager in setting up work structures and compensation systems in a very traditional and explicit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2007
- What Do You Think?
Will Market Forces Stop Global Warming?
Summing Up Debate on this month's questions occurred on at least three levels. Is global warming occurring? Do humans (primarily through CO2 emissions) have much to do with it? Should we rely on market forces to provide appropriate responses, or will this require... View Details
- 09 Sep 2013
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics
Harvard Business School's Business and Environment Initiative (BEI) aim to shift the debate to a practical conversation about business assessment. "It's striking that anyone frames this question in terms of 'belief,' saying things like,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2007
- HBS Case
How Magazine Luiza Courts the Poor
potential offered by underserved consumers at the bottom of the pyramid. "We used to think we could figure things out in the developed world and dumb it down for emerging markets," she says. "In fact, it needs to happen the other way around—the bottom of... View Details
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
Influence (Un)ethical Behavior Authors:F. Gino and Joshua D. Margolis Publication:Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (forthcoming) Abstract In four laboratory studies, we find that regulatory focus induced by situational cues (such as the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
considerations of social responsibility are important, executives who frame environmental problems solely in those terms may overlook the business opportunities and risks that come with such problems. Treating environmental issues like... View Details
Keywords: by Forest Reinhardt
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
separate evaluation, the employers were more likely to choose male employees for the math tasks and females for the verbal tasks. But in cases of joint evaluation, stereotypes did not seem to matter at all. The researchers attribute their findings to View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish