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  • 30 Sep 2019
  • News

Retirement planning must go beyond finances

  • 13 Dec 2012
  • News

Viral ads grab more Internet eyeballs

  • December 2022
  • Article

Competition, Contracts, and Creativity: Evidence from Novel Writing in a Platform Market

By: Yanhui Wu and Feng Zhu
A growing number of people today are participating in the gig economy, working as independent contractors on short-term projects. We study the effects of competition on gig workers' effort and creativity on a Chinese novel-writing platform. Authors produce and sell... View Details
Keywords: Gig Workers; Platform-based Markets; Novel Writing; Creative Production; Platform Bias; Employment; Digital Platforms; Creativity; Books; Competition; Contracts
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  • 09 Feb 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

Developing Novel Drugs

Keywords: by Joshua Krieger, Danielle Li, and Dimitris Papanikolaou; Pharmaceutical
  • 2022
  • Working Paper

Is Hybrid Work the Best of Both Worlds? Evidence from a Field Experiment

By: Prithwiraj Choudhury, Tarun Khanna, Christos A. Makridis and Kyle Schirmann
Hybrid work is emerging as a novel form of organizing work globally. This paper reports causal evidence on how the extent of hybrid work—the number of days worked from home relative to days worked from the office—affects work outcomes. Collaborating with an... View Details
Keywords: Hybrid Work; Remote Work; Work-from-home; Field Experiment; Employees; Geographic Location; Performance; Work-Life Balance
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Leadership in Routine Emergencies and Crises: The Deepwater Horizon Incident

By: Arnold M. Howitt, Dutch Leonard and David W. Giles
Leadership in emergencies is a crucial element of becoming a high-performing Coast Guard officer. In this article, we argue that emergency leadership is not a single skill or uniform set of organizational competences. Instead, we identify a spectrum of emergency... View Details
Keywords: Emergency Preparedness; Crisis Management; Leadership; Safety; Performance Effectiveness
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  • November 2012
  • Teaching Note

Groupon (TN)

By: Sunil Gupta, Ray Weaver and Yien Hao Lock
On November 4, 2011, Groupon, a marketing services company that promoted local businesses by selling deeply discounted vouchers for their products and services, completed its initial public offering that valued the company at $17 billion. Within a year Groupon's share... View Details
Keywords: Social Networking; Media; Technology; Strategy; Business Growth and Maturation; Marketing Strategy; Marketing; Internet and the Web; Social Media; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Technology Industry; North America; United States
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  • March 2011 (Revised August 2012)
  • Case

Groupon

By: Sunil Gupta, Ray Weaver and Dharmishta Rood
On November 4, 2011, Groupon, a marketing services company that promoted local businesses by selling deeply discounted vouchers for their products and services, completed its initial public offering that valued the company at $17 billion. Within a year Groupon's share... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customers; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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  • April 1995
  • Case

Minnetonka Corporation: From Softsoap to Eternity

Minnetonka Corp. which was founded in 1964, began as a niche player in the gift soap and novelty toiletries markets. In 1980, it entered--and managed to capture a piece of--the mass bar-soap market with pump-dispensed Softsoap liquid soap. In 1984, the company took on... View Details
Keywords: Innovation Strategy; Consumer Products Industry
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    Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation

    Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break things”). They’ve spent more effort on innovating than on anticipating how customers—and bad actors—might engage with products. But as digital products become... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Working Hard and Investing for an Early Retirement

    I examine consumption, leisure, and portfolio choices made over the life-cycle using a model allowing for semi-flexible leisure and an endogenously chosen retirement date. Under a Cobb-Douglas utility specification, I present closed-form expressions for optimal... View Details
    • May–June 2025
    • Article

    Balancing Digital Safety and Innovation

    By: Tomomichi Amano and Tomomi Tanaka
    Designers of consumer-facing digital products have tended to focus on novelty and speed (“move fast and break things”). They’ve spent more effort on innovating than on anticipating how customers—and bad actors—might engage with products. But as digital products become... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Cybersecurity; Demand and Consumers; Safety
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    • 20 Oct 2015
    • HBS Seminar

    Elizabeth Pontikes, University of Chicago Booth School of Business

    • 2020
    • Article

    Subjective Semantic Surprise Resulting from Divided Attention Biases Evaluations of an Idea’s Creativity

    By: Goran Calic, Nour El Shamy, Isaac Kinley, Scott Watter and Khaled Hassanein
    The evaluation of an idea’s creativity constitutes an important step in successfully responding to an unexpected problem with a new solution. Yet, distractions compete for cognitive resources with the evaluation process and may change how individuals evaluate ideas. In... View Details
    Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking
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    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Corporate Sustainability: A Strategy?

    By: George Serafeim
    We explore the conditions under which firms maintain their competitive advantage through sustainability-based differentiation when faced with imitation pressures by industry peers. We document growing intraindustry convergence on sustainability actions over time for... View Details
    Keywords: Sustainability; Corporate Performance; Industry Analysis; CSR; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Environment; Social Responsibility; Strategy And Execution; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Performance; Corporate Strategy
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    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Scientific Production: An Exploration into Organization, Resource Allocation, and Funding

    By: Jerry Thursby, Marie Thursby, Karim R. Lakhani, Kyle R. Myers, Nina Cohodes, Sarah Bratt, Dennis Byrski, Hannah Cohoon and Maria Roche
    Production of scientific knowledge is core to civilizational advancement in economic and material wellbeing of societies. Despite its fundamental importance, however, a systematic effort to quantitatively study the factors underlying scientific production, particularly... View Details
    Keywords: Funding; Science; Knowledge; Research; Information Management; Resource Allocation
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    • January 2017
    • Article

    Innovation Under Regulatory Uncertainty: Evidence from Medical Technology

    By: Ariel Dora Stern
    This paper explores how the regulatory approval process affects innovation incentives in medical technologies. Prior studies have found early mover regulatory advantages for drugs. I find the opposite for medical devices, where pioneer entrants spend 34% (7.2 months)... View Details
    Keywords: Technological Innovation; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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    • Article

    'Matter Battles': Cognitive Representations, Boundary Objects, and the Failure of Collaboration in Two Smart Cities

    By: Tiona Zuzul
    In this paper, I present a longitudinal study of two smart city projects that brought together experts from diverse knowledge domains. Both projects structured collaboration around the development of boundary objects that could integrate actors’ expertise. In both... View Details
    Keywords: Smart Cities; Interpersonal Conflict; Boundary Objects; Cooperation; Failure
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    • 10 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Architecture of Platforms: A Unified View

    Keywords: by Carliss Y. Baldwin & C. Jason Woodard
    • 29 Mar 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: March 29

      PublicationsEthical Breakdowns: Good People often Let Bad Things Happen. Why? Authors:Max H. Bazerman and Ann E. Tenbrunsel Publication:Harvard Business Review 89, no. 4 (April 2011) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne