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  • 01 Sep 2007
  • News

To The Rescue

losses, at EMRI’s quarterly board meetings he focuses on the organization’s very human bottom line. “We track the number of lives saved. It’s like our earnings per share for the quarter,” Palepu explains. “It’s a very inspiring statistic View Details
Keywords: Garrett M. Graff; emergency response networks; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Back to School

There are some things you just can’t learn in an HBS classroom—what it takes to jump out of an airplane, for instance, or the experience of playing at the World Series of Poker. Yet those kinds of out-of-office pursuits are important, says HBS assistant professor Jon... View Details
Keywords: April White; illustrations by Josh Cochran
  • 03 Jun 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Platforms and Limits to Network Effects

Keywords: by Hanna Halaburda & Mikolaj Jan Piskorski
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes

By: Katherine L Milkman, Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay and Max H. Bazerman
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce this harmful consequence of loss aversion, we propose a new type of... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Policy; Government Legislation; Outcome or Result; Welfare
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Milkman, Katherine L., Mary Carol Mazza, Lisa L. Shu, Chia-Jung Tsay, and Max H. Bazerman. "Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-147, June 2009. (Revised September 2009, December 2009.)
  • January–February 2023
  • Article

The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Davide Sola and Martin Kupp
Many start-ups experience enormous popularity and runaway growth, but only a few go on to become stable giants. What separates them from the pack? They all go through a developmental stage called extrapolation, say three business school professors.
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Keywords: Entrepreneurship And Strategy; Scalability; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Entrepreneurship
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Rayport, Jeffrey F., Davide Sola, and Martin Kupp. "The Overlooked Key to a Successful Scale-Up." Harvard Business Review (January–February 2023): 56–65.
  • 26 Jun 2014
  • News

Investors Always Come Back … Even to Argentina

  • 16 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service

achieve this loftier goal, you need the second half of collaboration, which is cooperation. Cooperation—the willingness to work together—involves the alignment of "soft" phenomena: goals,... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Consumer Products

    How to Build Workplaces That Protect Employee Health

    John Macomber, senior lecturer at Harvard Business School and a veteran of the real estate industry, was studying ways to make workplaces safer for employees long before the Covid-19 crisis hit. Now that issues like air and water quality are top of... View Details
    • 20 Apr 2016
    • News

    Steps to Success

    money and take loans out of a common fund and pay it back with interest. For these women who have nothing, this was the first time it was implemented successfully,” she says. Ruhr returned to her native... View Details
    Keywords: Jill Radsken
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    Nudging: Progress to Date and Future Directions

    By: John Beshears and Harry Kosowsky
    Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made, without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper assesses past empirical research on nudging and provides recommendations for future work in... View Details
    Keywords: Nudge; Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making
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    Beshears, John, and Harry Kosowsky. "Nudging: Progress to Date and Future Directions." Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 161, Supplement (November 2020): 3–19.
    • 24 Jul 2017
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    Yes, You Can Buy Happiness-If You Spend It to Save Time

    • January–February 2025
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    Why People Resist Embracing AI: The Five Main Obstacles—and How To Overcome Them

    By: Julian De Freitas
    The success of AI depends not only on its capabilities, which are becoming more advanced each day, but on people’s willingness to harness them. Unfortunately, many people view AI negatively, fearing it will cause job losses, increase the likelihood that their personal... View Details
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    De Freitas, Julian. "Why People Resist Embracing AI: The Five Main Obstacles—and How To Overcome Them." Harvard Business Review 103, no. 1 (January–February 2025).
    • 01 Oct 2021
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    From Scholarship to Life-Saving Impact

    donors,” says Rabah. “Thanks to scholarships, I will be able to choose a career that I find impactful and meaningful rather than seek a job just to View Details
    • 02 May 2025
    • Blog Post

    How to Work with Search Firms

    one that engages and pays the firm to fill a specific position, and all the firm’s efforts are focused on meeting that client’s needs. As a candidate, you are considered a potential match for the client’s... View Details
    • 04 Apr 2023
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    Maersk’s Journey to Decarbonize Shipping

    competitive advantage while doing the right thing, rather than an imposition or a burden. According to Maersk leadership, the two keys to their decarbonization strategy are: Strong relationships with... View Details
    • 02 Aug 2021
    • News

    Americans Owe $140 Billion in Medical Debt. Here’s How to Avoid It

    • 01 Dec 2022
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    Action Plan: To the Letter

    anywhere, forever. But the business model is changing. Chacko likens it to the evolution of music sales, from analog purchases to digital purchases, to digital streaming... View Details
    Keywords: April White; design; typography; change management; leadership; Special Design Services; Professional Services
    • March–April 2015
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    Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform

    By: Lan Nguyen Chaplin and Michael I. Norton
    Theory of Mind (ToM) allows children to achieve success in the social world by understanding others' minds. A study with 3–12 year olds, however, demonstrates that gains in ToM are linked to decreases in children's desire to engage in performative behaviors associated... View Details
    Keywords: Theory Of Mind; Self-Esteem; Behavior; Attitudes; Performance; Cognition and Thinking
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    Chaplin, Lan Nguyen, and Michael I. Norton. "Why We Think We Can't Dance: Theory of Mind and Children's Desire to Perform." Child Development 86, no. 2 (March–April 2015): 651–658.
    • 13 Feb 2020
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    Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations

    success depends on the leader’s willingness to embrace both the practice and spirit of the process, Beer says. Years ago, for example, Beer was approached by HR executive Jody Edwards of Hewlett-Packard, who... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
    • 07 Oct 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

    At the beginning of the year, corporate skullduggery seemed limited to one or two egregious examples. A couple of bad apples won't spoil the whole bunch, we said to ourselves. But in the past several months,... View Details
    Keywords: by Harvard Management Update
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