Perspective Taking - Publications - Faculty & Research

22 Feb 2022
Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

to do that. We have to let people go vertical so that we can declutter the roads. There are a lot of people who don’t want to do it; they don’t want to see more density in their backyard. I’m hopeful that the policymakers will begin to change their View Details

Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

should, nor do we have many cases about business leaders operating in that high-conflict, low-authority domain." Giving students a broader perspective outside the HBS classroom is another possibility, such as pairing B-school students... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

11 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 11

Perspectives on Organizational Social Networks Bringing Agency Back Into Network Research: Constrained Agency and Network Action By: Gulati, Ranjay, and Sameer B. Srivastava Abstract—We propose a framework of constrained agency grounded... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

outline the key questions on the research frontier from the behavioral decision-making perspective and debunk the myth that behavioral and neoclassical economic perspectives need be in conflict. Download the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008

characterization. They demand multiple epistemologies, theoretical orientations (e.g., construction, analysis, or intervention), and value considerations. As our understanding of this emerging field of study grows, we become aware that the sciences of design require a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Aug 2004
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New Challenges for Long-Term Investors

both. A long-term view of investing does take into consideration reinvestment risk. This changes dramatically our perspective on what constitutes the "riskless asset" for a long-term investor. If... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

in support of eight things that great service leaders know and do. Great service leaders know that (1) leading a breakthrough service is different, and they take steps to ensure repeated memorable service encounters; (2) customers buy... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Rich or Royal: What Do Founders Want?

equity for themselves) versus giving potential co-founders a large share of the equity to come on board. The choices were: taking money from angel investors, who would let the entrepreneur continue controlling the board; View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Financial Services

17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

asymmetry in message strength in turn permits cutoff equilibria, where players take action after receiving a minimum number of confirmations. Good Morning Creativity: Task Reactivation During Sleep Enhances Beneficial Effect of Sleep on... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2014
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Climbing Down from the Ivory Tower

elective course, Managing Global Health: Applying Behavioral Economics to Create Impact, which she teaches to second-year MBA students at HBS and select students from Harvard Medical School and the Kennedy School of Government. The User's View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education; Health

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

to capital, which was a primary focus of hers at the SBA. Spreading The Wealth Having spent over 25 years in private equity and venture capital firms before becoming SBA Administrator, Mills has perspective on challenges and opportunities... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

According to experts at the conference session titled "From Bubble to Recession: The Current State of the Venture Capital Industry," none of the answers are simple, but a sense of perspective remains one highly valuable... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

08 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Who Is the Chief Sustainability Officer?

efforts. But despite dozens of individuals in some of the world's largest companies taking on these duties, the role has been little studied. Just what are chief sustainability officers (CSO), where do they come from, and how much... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

07 Apr 2003
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How the U.S. Army Develops Leaders

peacekeeper?" We take thousands of young recruits every month and train them to operate some of the most sophisticated equipment in the world under some of the most challenging conditions imaginable.— Scott A. Snook Such an identity... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10

positioned to take action. When Should a Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them? Authors:Mikołaj Piskorski and Hanna Halaburda Publication:The CPI Antitrust Journal 6, no. 2 (autumn 2010) An abstract is not available... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Mar 2000
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Putting Health Care Consumers in the Driver’s Seat

A mid-November conference on consumer-driven health care attracted nearly two hundred providers of health-care services, technology, and information; government professionals; and insurance executives to the HBS campus for a two-day exchange of View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

spends millions or even billions in developing a product to reveal its costs," Buell says. Raw Honesty Appreciated Yet in the retail industry—and perhaps in other industries where customers may take for granted how much effort and money... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

27 Jul 2011
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Customer Loyalty Programs That Work

encourage the continued patronage of customers. They allow retailers to gather data on customer behavior in order to decipher trends, appropriately reward loyalty, and influence shopping behavior. Loyalty schemes take many forms; some of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Retail

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

the life of the consumer. An important assumption of the perspective developed in this paper is that we can identify what is rational for consumers. There are strong views about the appropriateness of rationality as a criterion. I use... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

06 Nov 2017
Research Event

Who is Responsible for the Future of Cities?

have to make sense of this.” It was a fitting introduction to a multidisciplinary panel called The Future of Cities, which considered urban growth from as many diverse perspectives as there were panelists. Hosted by the Harvard Business... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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