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- 23 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2017
literary journey to far-flung places around the globe to uncover the forces that are disrupting the status quo and driving change. His travel experiences illustrate how the stage is being set for even greater disruption, View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Women at the Top
to enlist in the program-teachers who were particularly adept in the classroom, whose research could be presented in a meaningful way in just eighty minutes, and who were looking at issues relevant to...
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Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
- 2017
- Article
Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care?
By: Benjamin Handel and Joshua Schwartzstein
Consumers suffer significant losses from not acting on available information. These losses stem from frictions such as search costs, switching costs, and rational inattention, as well as what we call mental gaps resulting from wrong priors/worldviews, or relevant...
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Handel, Benjamin, and Joshua Schwartzstein. "Frictions or Mental Gaps: What's Behind the Information We (Don't) Use and When Do We Care?" Journal of Economic Perspectives 32, no. 1 (Winter 2018): 155–178.
- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
average of $1,459 per salesperson—almost 20% more than they spend on workers in all other functions. Yet, when it comes to equipping sales teams with relevant knowledge and skills, the ROI of sales training...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
How 'Small C' Change Can Beat Large-Scale Rebuilding
to deliver results to identify longstanding employees as representatives of blocked change. However, it is crucial to understand the specifics of an organization in order to act with rigor and precision....
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Business and Climate Change Course | HBS Online
Business and Climate Change is an online course that will teach you to identify and communicate climate risks and opportunities and implement...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Shaping Leaders Who Understand Business and the Environment
Michael Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management and chair of the Business and Environment Initiative Five years ago, as George Serafeim recalls, if he had walked into the...
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April White
- 10 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
HBS Summer Fellows Focus on Racial Equity and Justice
graduating. Allie O'Shea: My summer has really solidified my interest in social enterprise. I have enjoyed working on a topic area that is so important and immediately relevant to addressing one of society's...
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- May 2014
- Article
Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat
By: Leor M. Hackel, Christine E. Looser and Jay J. Van Bavel
Human faces are used as cues to the presence of social agents, and the ability to detect minds and mental states in others occupies a central role in social interaction. In the current research, we present evidence that the human propensity for mind perception is bound...
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Hackel, Leor M., Christine E. Looser, and Jay J. Van Bavel. "Group Membership Alters the Threshold for Mind Perception: The Role of Social Identity, Collective Identification, and Intergroup Threat." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 52 (May 2014): 15–23.
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Africa's Way
Each day the global economy becomes more and more like an African weaving - dozens of different, colorful, and previously isolated threads woven together, gradually becoming more tightly intertwined. Africa,...
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Susan Young and Garry Emmons
- 02 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Fast-track to Better Outcomes: Yoonjin Min and RapidSOS
for Yoonjin: “I thought it was the perfect example of public and private sector collaboration.” Subsequent interviews confirmed her opinions, and Yoonjin began her internship in June. Her role: business...
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- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
provide insights into why and how investors use reported environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information. Relevance to investment performance is the most frequent...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
How HBS Supported My Career Transitions During and After Graduation
can’t operate a business without payments!). How is the HBS curriculum relevant to your current role? There are numerous links from my HBS experience to my current job. I mentioned the need to understand my customers’ businesses View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
investors, customers, and employees. The approach aims to help managers identify relevant harms, analyze their responsibility for harms, and determine an appropriate response....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- What Do You Think?
How Do You Weigh Strategy, Execution, and Culture in an Organization’s Success?
Summing Up Strategy, execution, and culture: Do we have our priorities right? First, my thanks to all of you who weighed in on the issues of the month regarding ways of thinking and asking questions about...
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by Jim Heskett
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
In most markets, products and services compete for the consumer’s money. On the internet, however, the coin of the realm is time, not money—websites and other online services fight for the attention of...
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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
but we also know that today their relevance still resonates. And then we know that today, for example, 80 percent of all Black judges attended a historically Black college or university. We know that 50% of...
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- 09 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
OneTen: Creating a New Pathway for Black Talent
were engaged in an experiment they called ‘school desegregation.’ Being born in the inner city, my younger sister and I were put on busses and sent to better schools that happened to be almost all-white...
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- December 2022
- Article
I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure
By: Byungyeon Kim, Oded Koenigsberg and Elie Ofek
Innovations embody novel features or cutting-edge components aimed at delivering desired customer benefits.
Oftentimes, however, we observe the need to recall new products shortly after their introduction. Indeed, a firm
may rush an innovation to market in an attempt...
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Innovation Management;
Innovation And Strategy;
Product Development Strategy;
Product Introduction;
Quality Control;
Product Recalls;
Game Theory;
Market Timing;
Innovation Strategy;
Product Launch;
Product Development
Kim, Byungyeon, Oded Koenigsberg, and Elie Ofek. "I Don't 'Recall': The Decision to Delay Innovation Launch to Avoid Costly Product Failure." Management Science 68, no. 12 (December 2022): 8889–8908.