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- 03 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 3
organizations use incident-reporting systems to encourage employees to communicate about the operational problems they witness. Using data on nearly 7,500 reported incidents, we find that information campaigns encouraging process... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
prepared to make a snap judgment; collecting and analyzing the data across two firms took nearly a year. But by offering them my initial observations about team behaviors and combining it with some basic insights from the team surveys, I... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 06 Dec 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Popular Stock Metric That Can Lead Investors Astray
find out how accurately this ratio predicted a stock’s returns, the authors gathered data from Standard & Poor’s Compustat and The Center for Research in Security Prices, or CRSP, and mutual fund holdings from Thomson Reuters S12.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
it a week in advance rather than a day in advance of delivery. Indeed, the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of healthy items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of unhealthy items (like candy bars) the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
paper. The Research The researchers studied data from OutsourceCo (a pseudonym), a major provider of outsourced teleradiology services in the United States, with more than 1,400 client sites, mainly hospitals and radiology group... View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon
presentation, "Management Matters in Health Care," which proved, using data from randomly selected hospitals in seven countries, including the United States, that it absolutely does. Her research showed a definitive link between... View Details
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
Danish labor market across time (the data tracks when a person enters a company and when he or she moves between periods of employment and self-employment), Nanda and Sørensen found that rates of entrepreneurship are higher in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
his research, few managers know how to channel innovative thinking into practice by making sense of the overwhelming amount of market, financial, and technical data now available and then sharing discoveries and strategies with other... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 19 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 19, 2016
reducing the optimal taxation level. We find evidence consistent with these predictions and the entrepreneurial channel using data from the Longitudinal Business Database of the U.S. Census Bureau. The marginal effect of taxation for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Mar 2008
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Disaster!
had all the data and insight they needed to recognize the potential of major problems but failed to respond with preventative action. Psychological, organizational, and political factors conspire to keep us from dealing with potential... View Details
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
School Case 716-462 A Note on Activist Investors and the Tech Sector This short note provides background and data on the growing role of corporate activists, especially in high-technology industries. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
specialized). We also examine whether team familiarity—team members' prior experience working with one another—helps teams to better manage challenges created by task changes and greater interpersonal team diversity. Using detailed project—and individual—level View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 11, 2009
A Study of Online Grocery Purchases and Order Lead Time Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max Bazerman Publication:Marketing Letters (in press) Abstract How do decisions made for tomorrow or two days in the future differ from decisions made for several... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
hand, kept putting its knowledge and profits from every new product back into the company. From manufacturing punched-card data processors, it progressed along what I call the learning path to make the System 360 in 1964 and the System... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 03 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 3, 2009
applicants, have a strong influence on citation data and merit additional research. Open vs. Closed Innovation: A Model of Discovery and Divergence Authors:Esteve Almirall and Ramon Casadesus-Masanell Periodical:The Academy of Management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20
golden age of U.S. innovation by undertaking a major data collection exercise linking inventors from historical U.S. patents to Federal Censuses between 1880 and 1940 and to regional economic aggregates. We provide a theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
allocated. Clickstream data was provided by ComScore, an audience measurement firm. In the development of the internet, 2008 and 2013 were landmark years. Netflix and Hulu began offering streaming services in 2008, and YouTube videos were... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of "should" items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of "want" items (like candy bars) the further in advance they placed an order. For a detailed account of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: November 15
market-listed and privately held firms in the United States using a rich new data source on private firms. Listed firms invest less and are less responsive to changes in investment opportunities compared to observably similar, matched... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne