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- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
School Working Knowledge. [Image: iStock Photos] Related Reading How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders What has been your View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
safety can be demonstrated before consumers leave for safer substitutes. “The demand shock caused by an accident could actually be good news for companies,” says Luo. “They drive up demand for a product feature that often feels remote in consumers’ minds, making them... View Details
- 07 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: ‘The Art of Negotiation’
brittle. If we fixate on all that could go wrong, it's hard to imagine how things could go right. Stephen Nachmanovitch, author of Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, connects reluctance to experiment to "fear of being thought a... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael A. Wheeler
- 14 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides
adopted a no-telecommuting policy a month after Yahoo! did, and male CEO Hubert Joly faced significantly less media coverage for the move. Sheppard presented findings from several experiments exploring the perception that women are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’
Meg Whitman, which led to a global micro-projects strategy. With eBay, Hill says, the authors wanted to show how Whitman's willingness to experiment with rapid prototyping "broke rules to get something done," and modeled such behavior for... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
and people in the bureaucracy and government sometimes look askance at the private sector, believing them to be pursuing purely private gain." Nilekani is intent on keeping the UIDAI organization lean and mean, taking in only about 200 workers because "my own... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior
experiments with college and graduate students, which are detailed in the paper, Gino and Margolis set out to induce individuals to focus on either promotion or prevention via a series of situational cues. They then studied whether the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Female Stars Succeed in New Jobs
readers of HBS Working Knowledge who would be willing to share their experiences around any of the strategies I've just mentioned or on building successful careers in general. Their insights would further this research for myself and my... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
to best negotiate in an uncertain environment? Michael Wheeler advises looking to military science for winning strategies. Career Advancement without Experience Lacking experience, contract workers find it difficult to advance to a job... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 29, 2016
citizens’ service requests—such as potholes and broken streetlamps—and efforts by city government to address them became more trusting and supportive of government. Study 3 (N=21,986) was a natural experiment using data from a mobile... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
spending) are unleashed when givers are aware of their positive impact. In Study 1, an experiment using real charitable appeals, giving more money to charity led to higher levels of happiness only when participants gave to causes that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
Uncompromising Leadership in Tough Times
differently from the norm, too. Martha Lagace: What observations or experiences have driven you and your colleagues to study uncompromising leadership? How and why did you select the CEOs in your study? Michael Beer: My colleagues and I... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Dec 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
New Year, New Habits
bad behavior causes memories of those acts to gradually become less clear—a phenomenon they call “unethical amnesia.” Research Papers Habit Formation and Rational Addiction: A Field Experiment in Handwashing This study in rural West... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
experience in the for-profit sector? Mario Morino: My background was in the IT industry, working in systems management, which is fundamentally about tracking the performance and integrity of large computing platforms. What I experienced... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
Personalities Teixeira discovered the keys to attraction and retention through a series of lab experiments where participants viewed real ads that Teixeira selected from YouTube, while a camera recorded their facial reactions. They had... View Details
- 03 Dec 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Against the Grain
address corruption by self-reporting their experiences online. Since corruption flourishes where information is murky, the goal is transparency, leveraging the ubiquity and anonymity of the Internet. People who have endured incidents like... View Details
- 26 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 26
Development Elective, an innovative offering within the leadership curriculum of an international MBA, which gives participants the opportunity to work with a psychotherapist during the course. Our findings suggest that the interplay between student's work in the PDE... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value
government's regulatory efforts to increase shareholder power at the board level following the recent financial crisis. To help answer that question, three Harvard Business School professors performed a natural experiment made possible by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
The COVID Gender Gap: Why Fewer Women Are Dying
with women." Gender differences were also less pronounced among people who have had COVID-19 symptoms or have known others who have had them, suggesting that "first-hand experience of the pandemic enables men to bridge part of the gap... View Details
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
experiment included a computerized task in which participants viewed 20 dots inside a diagonally bisected square. They were told to indicate whether there were more dots on the right side of the square or on the left, and that their... View Details