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- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
advertisements by shifting from 30-second to 15-second advertisements, substituting radio for television advertising, or increasing the use of direct marketing, which gives more immediate sales impact. 4. Adjust product portfolios.... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 12 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
How Crowds and Experts Kickstart the Arts
crowdfunding is a substitute to grant-making bodies such as the NEA." Receiving Funding Is An Art Itself There are a number of extensions of the study Nanda says would be especially interesting and revealing if pursued. Those include... View Details
- 04 Aug 2003
- What Do You Think?
Are We Facing an Attitude Shortage?
the job. Others have employed support systems, aided by significant progress in the development of more sophisticated technology, either to substitute for management judgement or to constrain managers' behaviors. Still others haven't... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1865878 The Flexible Substitution Logit: Uncovering Category Expansion and Share Impacts of Marketing Instruments Authors:Qiang Liu, Thomas J. Steenburgh, and Sachin Gupta Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018
family and societal levels: family-of-origin social class moderates effects of maternal employment, and childhood exposure to female employment within society can substitute for the influence of maternal employment on daughters and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
technology-adoption decisions, I’ve been examining how the virtual space can substitute for the physical space, by looking at tech adoption at Stack Overflow, which is like a Q&A website for coders. It’s been surprising to see that... View Details
- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
course of action). It shows that persuasion and authority are complements at low levels of effectiveness but substitutes at high levels. Furthermore, the principal will rely more on persuasion when agent motivation is more important for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
strategy, creating high levels of customer satisfaction, or motivating people to navigate complex matrix organizations. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-051.pdf Substitution Patterns of the Random Coefficients Logit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
The Exchange: Chance Encounters
Assistant Professor Maria Roche and Associate Professor Andy Wu; image by John Ritter Late one day in the fall of 2021, as she was packing up to head home, Assistant Professor Maria Roche bumped into Andy Wu, a colleague in the Strategy Unit whose office is next to... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
modularity and software evolution, which can be used for description, prediction, and prescription. According to Baldwin and Clark's theory, modular architectures add value to system designs by creating options to improve the system by View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
interpersonal authority to get an employee to "do the right thing" from the manager's perspective (when the manager and employee disagree on the right course of action). It shows that persuasion and authority are complements at low levels of effectiveness but... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Sep 2009
- What Do You Think?
Are Retention Bonuses Worth the Investment?
for sale. But as a more regular form of compensation are they worth the investment? Or do they do more harm than good? To what extent, for example, are they a substitute for good management? Do they, along with other forms of pay for... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
While IT provides "very good, detailed, fact-based data," according to Berg, nothing substitutes for walking the stores to get an intuitive sense of how things are working out. Added conference participant Paul Kastner of... View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 04 May 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Do Managers Think?
suggested that " doctors rush when the illness is serious managers, when faced with little time and pressure to get things done, fail to think well and so make poor decisions." Itamar Offer, a physician, said that "information is always partial in both... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Mar 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: Tata Power - Trombay Thermal Power Plant Takeaways
red tape to secure land rights and permits. Second, and more difficult to surmount, is the fact that without significant electricity storage capacity, the intermittent nature of renewable power makes it an imperfect substitute for... View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
Decline by Steven Rosefielde and Daniel Quinn Mills Cambridge University Press This book reveals that American politicians have usurped their constitutional authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the... View Details
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
more or fewer decision-making responsibilities to managers. By simultaneously addressing the choice of both competitive actions and organizational design, the paper makes an attempt at bringing economic theory and management strategy closer together. An increase in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 27, 2018
predicting digital innovation. While venture capital funding appears to play a role in supporting innovative entrants, closer analysis suggests that this funding selects on other variables that predict digital innovation; in this regulated industry, financial resources... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
some may have hoped. "The birth of every new technology leads to some kind of hype, and when the hype settles it will be clear that crowdfunding is here to say," concludes Nanda. "But I don't think it will substitute for... View Details
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
doing is greater than the value of thinking about how to do. Cheap and rapid iteration allows us to substitute experience for planning. Rather than "Get it right the first time," our battle cry becomes "Make it great before... View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin