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- 21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21
negotiation scholars—can be taught to physicians in a one-hour lecture. We found evidence that even this minimal intervention can decrease overtreatment of patients with low-risk prostate cancer. Our novel approach offers a framework to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018
associated with a 0.5% increase in housing prices. Moreover, Yelp measures of local business activity provide leading indicators for housing price changes and help to forecast which neighborhoods are gentrifying. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
improve their automated product recommendations. These recommendations are often presented as ''inspired by your browsing history'' or ''recommended for you,'' and help consumers discover new products or holiday packages that match their... View Details
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
form called a Benefit Corporation; and 3) creating an investment rating system to help drive institutional investment to the emerging asset class of "impact investments." The case considers the challenges associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
about working conditions in supply chains. Toffel also shared information about his newly launched website, which he hopes will be a helpful resource for business practitioners seeking guidance about monitoring suppliers. Danielle Kost:... View Details
- 17 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018
that had introduced an innovation to address a practice gap or anomaly. It then described the innovation in articles, cases, and public conferences and proceeded to help a new set of companies implement the management innovation, which... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 May 2017
- Research & Ideas
Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups
for startups in the software and media industries that could make use of AWS, funding increased from 375 to 700 firms, a nearly 100 percent rise. The impact of the cloud on VC funding After the 2006 introduction of Amazon Web Services, VC first-round investment in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- Research & Ideas
A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients
Kaplan and Porter are looking closely at alternative funding models that help align incentives with better patient outcomes, especially bundled payments that strongly motivate providers along a patient’s care cycle to integrate and... View Details
- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
less, but you still have to get people to your site. There is no price that will cause people to allocate between different choices, which makes this unlike any other market activity.” The bursty nature of online attention also helps... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health
to help themselves. Any public health system must respect the reality of these consumer differences and not withhold care from people simply because they do not engage and do not speak up. As Atul Gwande has stated elegantly, “Patients... View Details
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
States, women’s share of board seats on the S&P 500 is 19.2 percent.) In other words, inasmuch as the gender gap is intractable in Sweden, it’s probably more so in most other countries. It is standard practice for researchers to test for multiple variables that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
You Won't Make It If You Fake It
Goldberg, Sandberg shared a touching Facebook post, hoping her story would help others. She wrote, “I realized that to restore that closeness with my colleagues, I needed to let them in. That meant being more open and vulnerable than I... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
the Finger Lakes region of New York State, was at a crossroads. The business was poised for growth, and its owners, Laura and Alan Falk, were considering signing a deal with Groupon, the online coupon firm, to see if a Groupon deal would View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
can help companies strategize. Ideally, an advertiser that seeks acquiring customers should entertain initially to capture attention, but also introduce the brand early on, and follow up with a moderate amount of entertainment, Teixeira... View Details
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Organizations, explores the internal complexities of people in control. Plus: Book excerpt. 16. Rethinking Retirement Planning Many of us are relying on defined contribution plans to help fund retirement. But Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 22 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies
geographic office location," Stuart says. Although the research doesn't try to answer why corporate silos are so difficult to tear down, Stuart hopes the data will help managers understand, pinpoint, and remove bottlenecks within their... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
The New Real Estate
world of property derivatives. Derivatives help investors deal with the cumbersome, expensive, and timely nature of buying and selling real estate. Through synthetic derivative instruments, investors can rebalance portfolios and transport... View Details
- 23 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
Will the “Long Tail” Work for Hollywood?
which is good news for the industry because it helps save on fixed cost. But unfortunately, the level of sales that today’s blockbusters achieve is disappointing when compared with earlier hits.” Given the trends documented in Elberse and... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
interview help for APRC. Q: Europe does not have a strong history of fostering entrepreneurship. Do you see entrepreneurs gaining more success and acceptance in the future? Sjöman: Popular wisdom has it that Europe is less... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 28 Aug 2018
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New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
canonical example of quality disclosure by evaluating and helping to redesign the posting of restaurant hygiene scores on Yelp.com. We implement a two-stage intervention that separately identifies consumer response to information... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman