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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
recent book of non-fiction that I believe will be historically important. Both my choices top 700 pages, hence my hesitancy. The first book is Vasily Grossman’s Life and Fate. It inevitably appears on the list of greatest war novels of... View Details
- 26 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 26
settings, reflects risk neutrality in choice among low-magnitude mixed gambles. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-056.pdf PublicationsConstructing the International Economy Editors:Rawi Abdelal, Mark Blyth, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 23
variety of applications and services that drive the popularity of software. The first principle focuses on enabling choice: firms should allow consumers and partners to have a real choice between complementary products and services from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 10, 2007
of what companies can and cannot do. Activist groups are also out to change corporate behavior, but they rely on social pressure to reach their goals. Many companies that compete successfully in the market environment stumble when it comes to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
December 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
anger, running on empty, and siblings speak to what it’s really like to be a caregiver. You’ll find ways to ground yourself, sustain yourself day after day, and learn how to deal with slow grief. You aren’t alone. Family Caregivers: An... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
some of our main values and make choices about society. Some of the biggest trade-offs we make are made when deciding tax policy. One of the things I've been disappointed about with the talk around this particular reform is that there... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 23, 2008
tension surrounding the case is the choice to move from the hub of commerce in central London to a relatively obscure site whose owners (Olympia & York) have a history of financial bankruptcy. What business elements (clients,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Dec 2021
- News
Higher Returns
a new purpose for a corporation. And they listed five things. And in order those five things were number one, delivering value to customers. Fair enough. Number two, investing in our employees. Okay. Number three, dealing fairly and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
a binary choice of build or buy, today's advertisers frequently pursue hybrid policies of build and buy to procure the customized bundle required to develop, produce, and implement relevant, resonant promotional campaigns. Increasing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
companies and has a financial stake in Moderna.) There was a dollars-and-cents logic to this, since the big rewards that can be had in the pharmaceutical industry come with big financial risks. “There’s really no other industry where you have to View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
company's choices in terms of strategy, control systems, and culture. It also provides an opportunity to discuss the challenges of dealing jointly with a market-wide crisis (subprime) and a company-level... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2021
- Blog Post
COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace
approach will not work if it’s left to individual choice to come in when people feel like it; it must be structured, so that people are together in predictable ways for the parts of the work that present the most interdependence. So... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 30 Jan 2018
- First Look
January 30, 2018
sales for the retailer. We refer to this phenomenon as the value of concealment. A negative value of concealment is possible and represents the event that rationally acting consumers respond to the additional uncertainty by purchasing fewer products. We develop a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 8
examine the firm's choice of business model between the proprietary model (where all software modules are proprietary), the open source model (where all modules are open source), and the mixed source model (where some—but not all—modules... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 25
facilitate efficient information sharing but can also increase the possibility of favoritism. Using the investment choices of mutual funds in China, we test whether funds with close ties to their investees make timelier investment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity
lower-skilled participants, consistent with high-skilled workers having a greater chance of winning cash prizes. In addition, the cash incentive acted most acutely by increasing the fraction of subjects who worked more than the minimum. "Workers' ability to fit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 13 Sep 2019
- News
Hollywood Ending
a lucrative deal intended to help Quibi compete with a growing pack of streaming services on the prowl for content. Netflix, for one, has been acquiring content at a pace almost no one can match and reportedly spent $12 billion on content... View Details
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
powerful, but in a centralized, technocratic system, will be very powerful, because somebody has to do the research that informs all of this. The final group is the human resource people in corporations. They turn to limiting the choice... View Details
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
different regions and urban and rural areas. The case lets students explore how these trends might impact JWT's advertising and marketing strategies in the future and how to evaluate JWT's business expansion in China dealing with local... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace