advice - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

short-changed, or disappointed ” Other comments reflected the nature of the dilemma, with some advice about what she should do. Philippe Gouamba’s comment framed the dilemma nicely: “As this Nation still believes in freedom of speech and... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

mistakes and pressures. All of us without exception make mistakes and will capitulate under enough pressure. The key is being open with others, taking them into your confidence, admitting your mistakes, and looking to them for advice and... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

authors explain the fundamentals of platforms, different strategies and business models, common errors, and platform battlegrounds of the future that involve competing technologies and implications for organizations. There is advice for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Jan 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Human Decision Processes Seeker Beware: The Interpersonal Costs of Ignoring Advice By: Blunden, Hayley, Jennifer M. Logg, Alison Wood Brooks, Leslie John, and Francesca Gino Abstract—Prior advice research... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

The Right Way to Restructure Conglomerates in Emerging Markets

businesses and governments in emerging economies have all been pressing for a closer convergence of first- and third-world business models for the private sector. The details differ, but the advice boils down to the same thing in... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna & Krishna Palepu

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

Entrepreneurs have an incredible backstop of management experience and wisdom available to them that, too often, they ignore. Why don’t startup founders make more use of their investors? Many entrepreneurs are hesitant to ask advice from... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

23 Feb 2015
Research & Ideas

How to Break the Expert’s Curse

not gain access to their diaries; they were told to recall their experiences from memory. After completing the questionnaire, all the veteran interns were asked to provide some advice to interns of the future. Zhang then hired 93 other... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Education

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

Experiments 1A and 1B found that advice influenced participants more when they thought it came from an algorithm than when they thought it came from other people. This effect was robust to presenting the advisor jointly or separately... View Details

09 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

client service and threatens to further accelerate misguided growth. The way forward There appears to be a misalignment between management consulting firms’ internal practices and the advice they offer their clients. While most are taking... View Details

Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting

09 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 9, 2018

forthcoming Strategic Management Journal When Does Advice Impact Startup Performance? By: Chatterji, Aaron, Solene Delecourt, Sharique Hasan, and Rembrand Koning Abstract—Why do some entrepreneurs thrive while others fail? We explore... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

"modern times" with books, accountants, and accountabilities all the way from the supply source to the table.” What makes the advice noteworthy for me is that the commentor is a business instructor in Dubai, offering View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Apr 2016
What Do You Think?

As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?

for CEO Tim Cook. Responses to this month’s column provided a range of advice that centered around whether or not product security is as important as some other features of the Company’s strategy. Since the Government’s request for help,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Computer

10 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Women at Work

differently, she said. "I would have worked part-time right from the beginning." Her advice for women contemplating supporting a family and a having a fulfilling career? "Don't spend too much time away from work."... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

26 Aug 2014
First Look

First Look: August 26

Publications August 2014 Management Science Smart People Ask for (My) Advice: Seeking Advice Boosts Perceptions of Competence By: Brooks, A.W., F. Gino, and M.E. Schweitzer Abstract—Although individuals can derive substantial benefits... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

When Product Variety Backfires

Gourville discusses the cause of "variety backfire" and gives practical advice to avoid it. Poping Lin: Traditionally, companies have followed the "more is better" route when offering customers choices. Your research... View Details

Keywords: by Poping Lin; Consumer Products

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

diffusion of new technologies. A networked incubator can provide tremendous value to a start-up team through connections that help forge crucial strategic partnerships, recruit highly talented people, and obtain important advice from... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

As a professor of decision making and negotiation, I often receive unsolicited phone calls from relatives, friends, and acquaintances seeking my advice on consumer matters such as negotiating for a house, bidding on eBay, and investing in... View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

12 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Break the Rules of How Business is Done

it’s the best way to do business and it certainly won’t set you apart from your competitors. Many entrepreneurs are getting advice from old-school investors and advisors who saw it done a certain way that worked in their day, but that... View Details

Keywords: by Julia B. Austin

28 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Online Match-Making with Virtual Dates

environments, can they self-sort to find others?" asks Frost. "If we give people different kinds of content, are they going to navigate toward common interests? In a virtual space maybe they could actually find others by virtue of interacting in an... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Publishing

05 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis

longer-horizon payoffs and favoring shorter-term investments. Steinwender compares it to the advice a grandmother would give: When you hit a crisis, cut back on what you can but not on what you need. “It’s perfectly rational to do that,”... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking

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