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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Quantum Leap
partnered with IBM Q Network, Rigetti, and Honeywell Quantum Solutions. They are among a growing crowd of enterprises—including Alibaba, Amazon, Baidu, Intel, Google, and Microsoft—diving in headlong. Although he was initially circumspect... View Details
- 21 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
Music Downloads: Pirates—or Customers?
Strumpf call "samplers"—an older crowd who downloads a song or two and then, if they like what they hear, go out and buy the music. Interestingly, the first half of this year saw the release of numbers seemingly supporting this... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
disregard—advice all the time. A widely recommended strategy for figuring out the most accurate solution to a complex problem is to reach out to multiple people to leverage the wisdom of the crowds in weighing alternatives. Prior research... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Collective Wisdom
prize. In a community-based setting, you give up IP in exchange for complementary assets that create value for customers. Then there's the fear that my competitors will find out what I'm working on. Open companies have adopted a nuanced attitude that embraces... View Details
- 15 Feb 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Right Connections
From genome research to e-commerce, new ventures are popping up everywhere, competing for the cash needed to turn them into successful enterprises. But when vying against others in industries where high uncertainty, long development cycles, View Details
Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
- 20 Jul 2016
- Research & Ideas
Airplane Design Brings Out the Class Warfare in Us All
buckle up, and general rule-breaking, like smoking in the bathroom. Popular explanations for bad behavior include crowded conditions, long delays, and shrinking seats. The researchers also evaluated other possible rage-inducing factors,... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
agents, for whom the relative value of the reward is higher. Second, contrary to existing laboratory evidence, financial incentives do not appear to crowd out intrinsic motivation in this setting. Third, non-financial rewards elicit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 08 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 8, 2015
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=39914 Incentives for Prosocial Behavior: The Role of Reputations By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Do monetary incentives encourage volunteering? Or, do they introduce a "greedy" signal and hence View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
hours available to maximize ad revenue—the shift to popular content crowds out niche shows. (The researchers did not study the effects on viewing habits created by digital video recorders and on-demand programming.) Online, there are no... View Details
- Web
Trade Catalogs - The Art of American Advertising
including Profitable Advertising , Printers’ Ink , and the Inland Printer , offered advice on designing trade catalogs that were both informative and inviting. Fowlers Publicity Encyclopedia provided such guidelines as: “Do not crowd... View Details
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
relationships." However, the increased viewing behavior did not lead to increased messaging behavior. Piskorski found that the older, shorter, overweight crowd sent out relatively few messages after viewing hundreds of profiles, as... View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
against and refusing service to WikiLeaks. The attacker and the cause? A crowd (I don't know what else to call it, since it is not an organized group) that calls itself Anonymous and that was spawned by ideas exchanged on an Internet... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
on that need. For line-holders, a higher bribe meant the jumper was more desperate. But there were limits to that generosity. When Oberholzer-Gee tried to cut into the same line a second time, the crowd grew hostile and he felt forced to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Cleveland Global Alumni Conference a Sold-Out Success
"Build it and they will come," announced Donald Hastings (MBA '53), chair of the HBS Global Alumni Conference held May 15-18 at the Renaissance Cleveland Hotel. Greeting a record-breaking crowd of more than one thousand participants, he... View Details
- 30 Sep 2009
- Research & Ideas
Harvard and HBS: The Next 100 Years
experiment" during a time of deep recession. In today's crowded marketplace of MBA programs, Harvard Business School remains distinctive. The intellectual agenda for Harvard Business School must become even more global. In coming... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 7 PM – 9 PM EDT, 29 Sep 2016
Alumnae Circles Open House: Washington D.C.
Women's groups are launching- are you interested?
Register for this upcoming open house to learn more. View Details
- 16 May 2017
- News
Facing the Board
addressed the crowd at Shad, highlighting the importance of these types of pilot programs. “If we don’t experiment, if we don’t try new things, we aren’t doing what we owe you,” he said. “What more can we do to make you better prepared?”... View Details
- 23 Sep 2019
- Blog Post
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
an effective solution for companies. She co-wrote the journal article with HBS doctoral student Grace Cormier, as well as three employees of Happify, Allison L. Williams, Acacia C. Parks, and Julia Stafford. Happify, which funded the research, competes in an... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 21 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Get Buried in Customer Data—Use It
With the advent of customer relationship management (CRM) in the late 1990s, companies came to believe that by using technology to tailor their offerings to individual consumers' needs, customer loyalty—and company profits—would skyrocket. But in today's View Details
Keywords: by Jean Ayers