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- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
economics and her passion for gender, and my interest in working on closing gender gaps." The Experiment The trio's research included a two-stage experiment conducted at the Harvard Decision Science Laboratory involving some 654 male... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?
therefore has an incentive to police the actions of the parties to which it sells the data, and to conduct its own interactions with a degree of civility, because its interests... View Details
- 04 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City
has an obligation—and opportunity—to intervene. I'm interested in the opportunity. I'm interested in sustainability as defined by economic competitiveness and the resource-stretching aspects View Details
- 30 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Teaching The Deal
campaign outcome. Some students blatantly voice their interests across the bargaining table, while others are more guarded—and they learn through the process of getting to a deal how much information it... View Details
- 26 Sep 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation
a family business? What's the strategic way to make concessions? How Can I Negotiate More Skillfully And Confidently? Negotiating in Three Dimensions "Negotiation is increasingly a way of life for effective managers," say HBS professor... View Details
- 08 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
Unplugged: What Happened to the Smart Grid?
positions of the various players in the smart grid market—infrastructure builders, software suppliers, network providers, utilities, system operators—in an effort to figure out who might benefit. "It's View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
(president of Taiwan) and Jacinda Ardern (the prime minister of New Zealand), who took timely government actions to prevent the spread of the virus in their countries. The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
things, a person's comfort affects negotiating behaviors. If you want to drive a hard bargain, sit on a hard chair, while making your counterpart very comfortable. In short, control your surroundings and behaviors. But perhaps most View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
Summing Up The current global recession has, judging from responses to this month's column, many origins, among them housing and credit. All, of course, are traceable to human responses to both perceived opportunities and calamities,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
fall in love with Tony the Tiger and forget the product details. In 1984, Democrat candidate Walter Mondale famously questioned Gary Hart's "new ideas" by asking: "Where's the beef?" As it turned out, most of the... View Details
- 30 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions
Domingo, managing director of O&V Associates, said established Latin American companies face a situation in which their markets are no longer protected by national interests and suddenly face competition... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
- 04 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
'I Know Why You Voted for Trump' and Other Motivation Misperceptions
studies consumer decision-making, with a particular interest in how we make sense of other people’s choices. Just five days after the election, Barasz conducted an online survey that asked Trump voters what... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Where Does Apple Go From Here?
proprietary solution. (Music on the iPod can't play on non-Apple devices.) It's very interesting that Apple is allowing HP to resell iPod. It's their first baby step into trying to really get into the mass market and becoming more View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Companies Need to Start Marketing Security to Customers
boards of directors are keenly interested in the latest sustainability or corporate responsibility report. They do not routinely ask for or receive a product safety review. Risk management committees... View Details
- 27 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
Employee-Suggestion Programs That Work
policy at the Harvard School of Public Health. Trained as an industrial engineer, Tucker is interested in the perspective of frontline workers in productivity and process... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Guttry
- 03 Dec 2001
- What Do You Think?
What Happens When the Sumo Master Learns Judo?
non-business analogies to business. But one recent book, Judo Strategy, (HBSP,2001), by David Yoffie and Mary Kwak, provides interesting advice on how underpowered upstarts can compete against the sumo giants View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 31 Oct 2014
- Op-Ed
Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness
Ebola. Furthermore, in the interest of efficiency, we've decreased the number of beds available for extreme cases, leaving ourselves unable to admit patients in the face View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
company ravaged by a massive fire. "They were very upset," says Sucher, the MBA Class of 1966 Professor of Management Practice and Joseph L. Rice, III Faculty Fellow at HBS. "What upset them... View Details
- 15 Mar 2010
- HBS Case
Developing Asia’s Largest Slum
were launched in 2004; expressions of interest were invited in June 2007, but in July 2009, the government postponed the call for bids just a few hours before deadline.) Taught For The First Time The case... View Details
- 13 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Public Companies Underinvest in the Future
short-term bias, boards of public firms must be careful with the type of incentives they set or risk that managers will behave in a way that might harm the long-term interests... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish