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- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
sells music titles for 99 cents each, compete with free music downloads on peer-to-peer networks? Do the two approaches to distributing digital content complement each other? What can the music industry, which aggressively fights p2p downloaders, View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
fail to detect dodges when speakers answer similar—but objectively incorrect—questions (the "artful dodge"), a detection failure that goes hand in hand with a failure to rate dodgers more negatively. We propose that dodges go undetected because listeners'... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work
notice, such as managers and their direct reports. “What characterizes these nonroutine tasks is ambiguity,” Choudhury explains. “You have more intermittent and sudden problems, so you need to be able to talk without advanced warning.”... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
foreign markets. Following a reduction in tariffs on trade between the two foreign countries, the model predicts growth in the number of source-country firms engaging in foreign direct investment, growth in the size of affiliates that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Reforming New Orleans Schools After Katrina
When Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Gulf Coast region of the United States in August 2005, it destroyed homes and lives. A paradoxical effect, however, is that the storm's aftermath created an opening in New Orleans for school leaders to consider anew the View Details
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
Working PapersDigital Interactivity: Unanticipated Consequences for Markets, Marketing, and Consumers Authors:John A. Deighton and Leora Kornfeld Abstract The digital interactive transformation in marketing is not unfolding, as many thought it would, on the model of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
advice was rejected rated themselves as more inept and expressed more concern about their social worth than advisors whose recommendations were followed. Discounting the advice of an “expert” can have even worse consequences. In one study, the research team View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
festival, or mela, for the millions of pilgrims. The Maha Kumbh Mela is happening right now. It's expected to draw close to 200 million people over almost eight weeks, and as many as 30 million in a single day. The Harvard team is here to View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
Effects of Performance Pressure on Teams' Knowledge Use and Performance". Her research on more than seventy audit and consulting teams—combining survey data, hundreds of interviews, and direct observation at meetings—reveals insights into... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 20 Aug 2013
- First Look
First Look: August 20
narratives and frames that influence the perception of green building; and future directions for the theory and practice of sustainable construction. The essays offer uniquely multidisciplinary insights into the transformative potential... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 03 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 3
organizations and in society disrupts the learning cycle at the heart of becoming a leader. Women must establish credibility in a culture that is deeply conflicted about whether, when, and how they should exercise authority. Practices... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Pragmatic Alternative for Creating a Corporate Social Responsibility Strategy
various directions within different departments. For example, human resources might initiate a United Way gift program that involves a company match; operations might work on waste reduction; and marketing might collect an extra dime from... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
are several rungs on the ladder of expertise: novice, apprentice, journeyman, and then master. Each individual reaching a rung above novice has knowledge to impart to those on the lower rungs of the ladder, although it is likely incomplete. A nudge in the right View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
let the incumbent's actual development plans leak out and allow the entrant to wait and learn these plans prior to setting an R&D level. We identify conditions for the entrant to postpone development despite the risk of being late to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
responsibilities—including product management, marketing, growth, and sales—to help you figure out if you want to join a startup and what to expect if you do. You'll gain insight into how successful startups operate and learn to assess... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 14
Abstract—This paper examines the direct private equity investment strategies across sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) and their relationship to the funds' organizational structures. SWFs seem to engage in a form of trend chasing, since they... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
for another ... we have no choice but to let things be as they will, no matter how ludicrous and painful, until the understanding becomes knowledge." Tom Dolembo put it this way: "Nudge this back? Never ... As dumb as we are, we the people have View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
product information standards makes the current aggregation and dissemination of such content an expensive and inefficient proposition—an effort duplicated by each distributor in the channel. This problem is further compounded by content's explosive rate of change.... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
Authors:Diwas KC, Bradley R. Staats, and Francesca Gino Abstract Learning from past experience is central to an organization's adaptation and survival. A key dimension of prior experience is whether an outcome was successful or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Bias of Wall Street Analysts
If it's one lesson the individual investor learned the hard way from the collapse of Enron, it is that the recommendations of Wall Street stock analysts can be influenced by much more than purely objective research. Just look at the large... View Details