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- 05 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018
to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated markets as a repeated extensive form game and show that standard intuitions from industrial organization can be reversed: collusion may become easier as market... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 12, 2016
case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-048 Intuit: Turbo Tax Personal Pro—A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs The case tells the story of a product manager within Intuit who develops an idea... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 18
Working PapersFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior Authors:Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract While lay intuitions and pop psychology... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Really Drives Your Strategy?
process at every level happens in ways that are not always intuitive to people who think about strategy as a top-down planning process. For example, customers can capture what gets considered in a formal budgeting meeting because the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
course? Michael Luca: A deeper appreciation of the ways in which small—and sometimes subtle—changes in the way a process or product is structured can make a difference. Our intuition about these effects can also be off, which is why... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Matchmaker of the Modern Economy
result would be a stronger country with a growing supply of well-paying jobs. In forming ARD, its founders were guided by an intuitive understanding of the dynamics of entrepreneurship. They realized that organizations with "enormous... View Details
Keywords: by Spencer E. Ante
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Wine to the World
exploring how they cope with intuitive doubts that emerge as they try to make critical, high-stakes decisions. I'm also working with my colleagues Amy Edmondson and Richard Bohmer on a paper that examines the flawed decision-making that... View Details
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
competing imperatives or resolve the tension among them. Although individuals intuitively consider the question “What should I do?” when contemplating moral dilemmas, we find that prompting people to consider “What could I do?” helps them... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Inexperienced Investors and Market Bubbles
younger investors were lured in. If you read historical accounts of the Tulip Bubble, as well as other famous examples, it turns out that this is pervasive. Our intuition was that this might explain how these stocks became overvalued in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Joy of Work
of their work each day on a numerical scale and to describe briefly one work-related event that stood out in some way. What have you discovered about the relationship between creativity and time pressure? Most managers I’ve talked with are View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
conducted by [Mareike] Wieth and [Rose] Zacks has shown people are very good at making intuitive decisions at times when they are not at their best according to their circadian clock. In this research participants showed greater insight... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- Web
Educating Leaders - Georges F. Doriot:Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
understand every situation is what I felt Manufacturing was all about." 24 8 George E. McCown, "Assistant's Lecture," 9 October 1962, 5. GFD-HBS. 9 Jean-Louis Barsoux, INSEAD: From Intuition to Institution (New York: St. Martin's Press,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
they do, think what they think, and why they like or don't like your products. Getting that level of insight requires more intensive interactions with customers than CRM tools permit." It requires that you develop a "poetic insight into customers—a deep... View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
scope. The case only meant for one discussion pasture to review the Hayes-Wheelwright product-process matrix and the impact of variability on line performance. While comparative numbers for the process choices are provided, the hope would be to develop students' View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
alpha-test of the service and completed an in-depth survey of potential customers to explore the market. Most of the feedback was positive, which confirmed Berger's intuition about this market opportunity. Berger had found a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
revenue effect (increased payment from higher-ranked advertisers like A can exceed the direct effect (increased payment by the lowest-ranked advertiser, i.e., B. So minimum bids matter even more than intuition suggests. Other Google... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
to help fuel what typically would be a good number of investing years going forward. Are entrepreneurs born or made? It’s a combination. There are some gifted entrepreneurs who have an intuitive sense of how products, customers, and... View Details
- 02 Jan 2007
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2006
Trust Your Gut Most of us trust our intuition more than we should, especially when the pressure is on in negotiations. Professors Max Bazerman and Deepak Malhotra on negotiating more rationally. From Negotiation. On Managing with Bobby... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 28, 2016
alpha test of the service and completed an in-depth survey of potential customers to explore the market. Most of the feedback was positive, which confirmed Berger's intuition about this market opportunity. Berger had found a more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
some ways in which firms' business models may impact their negotiation outcomes. Several of the proposed pathways work intuitively through the intrinsic characteristics (motivation, personality, etc.) of agents negotiating on behalf of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel