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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
that our experimental design minimizes informational social influence, homophily, and group-identity signaling to the general public. We find that there exists significant social influence within a user’s friend circles. While learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
George Serafeim, and David Wood Abstract—A new generation of corporate reporting-integrated reporting-is emerging that will help investors and other key stakeholders such as employees, customers, suppliers, and NGOs develop a deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Stories 2007
retention in this Q&A. Making the Move to General Manager Managers face a critical transition when they rise from functional expert to general manager. It's an exciting shift but it's also fraught with... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
David, Goliath, and Disruption
popular, in a way no one might have predicted. "It just depends on what behavior you're changing," said Michael Schreck (HBS MBA '96), principal of the venture firm General Catalyst, which attempts to fund potential disrupters.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55514 January–February 2019 Harvard Business Review The Hard Truth About Innovative Cultures By: Pisano, Gary P. Abstract— Innovative cultures are generally depicted as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
networks is to middle managers, who may become obsolete when layers of managers are no longer needed to convey messages up and down the organization.” A year ago many people poked fun at Facebook as a place where kids shared their latest party news. Today more than 600... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
understanding of the expertise and content of what these people were trying to transmit, and how they did it. And, to the extent that we now have data on the companies, how well the companies did. There is obviously a big gap between what... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When are the emotional benefits of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Research Papers of 2014
Quinoa-Häagen-Dazs connection? Venture Investors Prefer Funding Handsome Men Studies by Alison Wood Brooks and colleagues reveal that investors prefer pitches from male entrepreneurs over those from female entrepreneurs, even when the View Details
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
wrote. “They are too general to cause a reasonable investor to rely upon them.” That’s typical of the way that many people and even employees view codes of conduct, says Eugene F. Soltes, Jakurski Family Associate Professor of Business... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
SuperCorp: Values as Guidance System
What's good for General Motors may no longer be good for the country. In its place must arise a new model of the company, one that serves society as well as rewarding shareholders and employees, Kanter argues in her new book, SuperCorp:... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
would not stay here at any price" to "This is an extremely nice apartment; I would stay here even if it were a lot more expensive than a nice hotel room." With these ratings, the researchers controlled for apartment/room quality as seen by a View Details
- 12 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
responses interact with those of other actors, and how these individual and collective responses unfold over time to generate outcomes. Second, we call for stronger unification of theory within the entrepreneurial resource mobilization... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
through each phase of this process. The (A) case begins with background on the firm and asks the students to come up with a strategy to improve the way in which Sales and Marketing work together. In the (B) case, we see their strategy in the form of a "unified... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
& Kapoor, 2010; Iansiti & Levien, 2004; von Hippel, 1988). Ecosystems generally encompass numerous corporations, individuals, and communities that might be individually autonomous but related through their connection with an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
choice, and consumers fight back by rooting out and disseminating pricing policies that seem unfair. The problem is that companies generally think of value as a pie that is rightfully theirs. But value is not fixed, and it neither... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?
care providers such as doctors and hospitals placing profits before client needs (David Stahl, John Van Slyke, Roger Chen, Jan Fersing, Hugh Quick, among others); the agency problem separating payers such as individuals, businesses, and the Government from View Details
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
Distributed Innovation Author:Carliss Y. Baldwin Abstract Systems of distributed innovation-so-called business ecosystems-have become increasingly prevalent in many industries. These entities generally encompass numerous corporations,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
Scriplogix also polled conference attendees about their views of what the future held and the impediments, if any, to fashioning curricula which could help students best address this future. Concurrently, Herzlinger and conference coordinator Casey Covarrubias analyzed... View Details