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Consumer-Brand Relationships

Susan M. Fournier is conducting extensive research into the relationships consumers form with brands. Her work builds on the premise that, although marketers espouse the notion of relationships in current thought and practice, none have theoretically maximized the... View Details
  • September 2012
  • Article

The Size and Composition of Corporate Headquarters in Multinational Companies: Empirical Evidence

By: David J. Collis, David Young and Michael Goold
Based on a six-country survey of nearly 250 multinationals (MNCs), this paper is the first empirical analysis to describe the size and composition of MNC headquarters and to account for differences among them. Findings are as follows: MNC corporate headquarters are... View Details
Keywords: Headquarters; Subsidiaries; Multinational Corporations; Organization Design; Administrative Heritage; International Strategy; Business Subsidiaries; Organizational Design; Multinational Firms and Management; Size; Business Headquarters; Global Strategy
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  • 27 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

When Researchers Cheat (Just a Little)

and her coauthors surveyed more than 2,000 research psychologists at major US universities and told them that the more truthful they were about their transgressions, the more money would be donated to a charity of their choice. The 10... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Johnston; Education
  • March 2024
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Investigation of Divergent Thinking among Surgeons and Surgeon Trainees in Canada (IDEAS): A Mixed-methods Study

By: Alex Thabane, Tyler McKechnie, Vikram Arora, Goran Calic, Jason W Busse, Ranil Sonnadara and Mohit Bhandari
Objective: To assess the creative potential of surgeons and surgeon trainees, as measured by divergent thinking. The secondary objectives were to identify factors associated with divergent thinking, assess confidence in creative problem-solving and the perceived effect... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Cognition and Thinking; Surveys; Health Industry
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  • 2019
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Can Big Data Improve Firm Decision Quality? The Role of Data Quality and Data Diagnosticity

By: Maryam Ghasemaghaei and Goran Calic
Anecdotal evidence suggests that, despite the large variety of data, the huge volume of generated data, and the fast velocity of obtaining data (i.e., big data), quality of big data is far from perfect. Therefore, many firms defer collecting and integrating big data as... View Details
Keywords: Big Data; Analytics and Data Science; Decisions; Quality
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  • 12 Mar 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Publish or Perish: What the Research Says About Productivity in Academia

on things like the publication record and grant databases, which are not designed for us to see how science is operating.” Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Kyle Myers and seven colleagues surveyed professor-level researchers at... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Education
  • 17 Feb 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

How Entrepreneurs Can Find the Right Problem to Solve

discovery to validate a problem but don’t yet have a product, my follow-up question is: “How do you know people or companies will use your product?” Answers are equally discouraging. More often than not, I hear examples of interest tests,... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 21

26, no. 1 (February 2012). For the last decade we have been using double-blind survey techniques and randomized sampling to construct management data on over 10,000 organizations across 20 countries. On average, we find that in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 May 2023
  • HBS Case

How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

KKR sold CHI in 2022 for 10 times the equity it had invested, it amounted to the company’s most successful deal in more than two decades—and a payout of $360 million to its 800 employees. It was validation that changing the mindset of... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 27 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These Management Practices, Like Certain Technologies, Boost Company Performance

fielded inquiries from companies all over the world eager to improve their management practices. “It’s validating when you get calls and emails from people in many different countries who want to survey... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 14 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curiosity, Not Coding: 6 Skills Leaders Need in the Digital Age

digitally literate, right? In actuality, our research highlighted that none of these characteristics matter as much as you might think when it comes to leading digital transformation. In fact, 71 percent of 1,500 executives we surveyed in... View Details
Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards; Technology
  • 06 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Skills and Behaviors that Make Entrepreneurs Successful

Owners & Entrepreneurs. The answers are already starting to come in, thanks to initial results from a pilot test of “The Entrepreneurial Leader: Self Assessment” survey taken by 1,300 HBS alumni. Results allowed the researchers to... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Working Knowledge
  • 01 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

cares about their well-being. Many realize that this needs to change. Practicing active, habitual kindness can transform the remote workplace and it can start today. A little reassurance, compassionate listening, a conscious effort to View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

the misuse of moment conditions that leads to incorrect inference. Theoretical illustrations and Monte Carlo simulations are provided for validation Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54889 "Incentives... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 14 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When the Rubber Meets the Road, Most Commuters Text and Email While Driving

listening to podcasts, according to a survey of hundreds of drivers who commute to work each day conducted by a group of interdisciplinary researchers, including Raffaella Sadun, the Charles Edward Wilson Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 04 Aug 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Dangerous Is Common Sense to Managers?

learned something from it that we can use in making future decisions. As a result, we give unwarranted credit to such things as experience, intuition, and even common sense. Watts challenges our ability to assess the validity of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 24 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 24

Surveys differed in the dimensions of teamwork that they assessed. The most commonly assessed dimensions were communication, coordination, and respect. Of the 35 surveys, 9 met all of the criteria for psychometric View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping

advisers that what I was seeing was reproducible and scientifically valid. It also just happened to be personally valid for me." “Having the net made these people more willing to walk on the high wire.” Olds focused his initial study... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health
  • 09 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Catching Up With Boards--Jay Lorsch

at length about the The Pay Problem posed by executive compensation in a May/June 2010 article in Harvard Magazine. There we argued that evidence of the link between executive compensation and company performance is not clear. We noted, for example, that one... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 16 Jun 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Peeling Back the Global Brand

Hans-Willi Schroiff, vice president of market research and business intelligence for the German company Henkel, described why detergent has made a valuable case study for new and edgy marketing. (They cautioned that they are not ready to claim any View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

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