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  • 12 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

installation/repair is $3K/home [16,17]. Electrical paneling: Electrification of the home requires 100-200A of electrical service, meaning most homes will need some type of... View Details
  • 10 Sep 2019
  • News

New Survey Shows U.S. Businesses Taking Steps to Foster Culture Of Health, But Room to Grow

    Effects of an Information Sharing System on Employee Creativity, Engagement, and Performance

    Many service organizations rely on information sharing systems to boost employee creativity to meet customer needs. We conducted a field experiment in a retail chain, based on a registered report accepted by JAR, to test whether an information sharing system recording... View Details
    • 01 Dec 1997
    • News

    A Piece of the Action

    There is electricity in the air at 7:00 a.m. at Il Fornaio, Palo Alto's hottest breakfast spot. The cappuccino maker runs nonstop, the energetic waitstaff hustles to and from the kitchen, a steady stream of Silicon Valley celebs walk in... View Details
    Keywords: Susan Young
    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    The Operational Consequences of Private Equity Buyouts: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry

    By: Albert W. Sheen and Shai Bernstein
    What, if anything, do private equity firms do with businesses they acquire? We find evidence of significant operational changes in 101 restaurant chain buyouts between 2002 and 2012. Analysis of health inspections conducted for over 50,000 stores in Florida shows that... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Quality; Private Equity; Food; Management Practices and Processes; Leveraged Buyouts; Performance Efficiency; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Florida
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    Sheen, Albert W., and Shai Bernstein. "The Operational Consequences of Private Equity Buyouts: Evidence from the Restaurant Industry." Working Paper, June 2013.
    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting

    By: Julia Rose Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer and Michael W. Toffel
    Operational failures occur in all industries with consequences that range from minor inconveniences to major catastrophes. Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Strategy; Legal Liability; Management Practices and Processes; Service Operations; Failure; Health Industry
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    Adler-Milstein, Julia Rose, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel. "Operational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-017, September 2009. (August 2009.)
    • Article

    Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness

    By: Tami Kim, Kate Barasz and Leslie K. John
    Given the increasingly specific ways marketers can target ads, many consumers and regulators are demanding ad transparency: disclosure of how consumers’ personal information was used to generate ads. We investigate how and why ad transparency impacts ad effectiveness.... View Details
    Keywords: Digital Marketing; Customization and Personalization; Information; Trust; Performance Effectiveness
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    Kim, Tami, Kate Barasz, and Leslie K. John. "Why Am I Seeing This Ad? The Effect of Ad Transparency on Ad Effectiveness." Journal of Consumer Research 45, no. 5 (February 2019): 906–932.
    • March 2022
    • Article

    How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons

    By: Zoë B. Cullen and Ricardo Perez-Truglia
    The vast majority of the pay inequality in an organization comes from differences in pay between employees and their bosses. But are employees aware of these pay disparities? Are employees demotivated by this inequality? To address these questions, we conducted a... View Details
    Keywords: Salary; Inequality; Managers; Career Concerns; Pay Transparency; Wages; Equality and Inequality; Perception; Behavior
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    Cullen, Zoë B., and Ricardo Perez-Truglia. "How Much Does Your Boss Make? The Effects of Salary Comparisons." Journal of Political Economy 130, no. 3 (March 2022): 766–822.
    • Research Summary

    Do Leaders Lead in Business Process Innovation? The Case(s) of E-Business Adoption

    This paper investigates how market position influences firm propensity to adopt new process innovations. Using detailed data from the U.S. Census of Manufactures, I study the adoption of frontier e-business practices during the early diffusion of the commercial... View Details

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    "Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation

    By: Lauren Cohen, John Golden, Umit Gurun and Scott Duke Kominers
    The patent system is commonly justified as a way to promote social welfare and, more specifically, technological progress. For years, however, there has been concern that patent litigation is undermining, rather than furthering, these goals. Particularly in the United... View Details
    Keywords: Patent Trolls; Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation
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    Cohen, Lauren, John Golden, Umit Gurun, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Troll" Check? A Proposal for Administrative Review of Patent Litigation. Boston University Law Review 97, no. 5 (October 2017): 1775–1841.
    • 01 Apr 1996
    • News

    Stewards of the Seventh Generation

    chairman of the privately held S.C. Johnson & Son, Inc. (more popularly known as SC Johnson Wax), thinks of the story as more than a charming anecdote. "In my dreams I fantasize that someday Johnson Wax will... View Details
    Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb
    • 11 Aug 2014
    • HBS Case

    The Business of Behavioral Economics

    of these principles with individuals, can they be used by companies to help employees meet their health and other goals? Norton has been experimenting with one behavioral economic principle—social norming—in order to test incentives for... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
    • 20 Sep 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time

    years ago, he found the last serious analysis on firm growth was conducted in 1959, in Edith Penrose’s book The Theory of the Growth of the Firm. “I’d like to think we’ve... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Manufacturing
    • 01 Dec 2017
    • News

    The Power of Cultural Understanding

    years. As an endorsement of this international focus, Jafar has established a fund to support the MENA Research Center in Istanbul, its Dubai Research Office, and other HBS activities throughout the region. The expansion View Details
    • May 2022
    • Article

    Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

    By: Dan Amiram, Evgeny Lyandres and Daniel Rabetti
    This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers. The... View Details
    Keywords: Blockchain; Bitcoin; Accounting; AI and Machine Learning; National Security; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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    Amiram, Dan, Evgeny Lyandres, and Daniel Rabetti. "Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks." Journal of Accounting Research 60, no. 2 (May 2022): 427–466.

      Coins for Bombs: The Predictive Ability of On-Chain Transfers for Terrorist Attacks

      This study examines whether we can learn from the behavior of blockchain-based transfers to predict the financing of terrorist attacks. We exploit blockchain transaction transparency to map millions of transfers for hundreds of large on-chain service providers.... View Details
      • 16 Apr 2008
      • Lessons from the Classroom

      Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

      In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen... View Details
      Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
      • 22 Sep 2010
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Task and Temporal Microstructure of Productivity: Evidence from Japanese Financial Services

      Keywords: by Bradley R. Staats & Francesca Gino; Banking
      • 11 Jul 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      The New International Style of Management

      international norms in the area of stakeholder relations (e.g., human- and workers-rights issues, and environmental matters). Thus, among its other ramifications, globalization is forcing companies to operate and View Details
      Keywords: by Garry Emmons
      • 19 Dec 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Climbing the Great Wall of Trust

      of assessing ability and reliability," says Chua. "Affective trust is trust that comes from the 'heart.' This type of trust involves considerable emotional investments." To test the... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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