Demand Response - Publications - Faculty & Research

03 Nov 2015
First Look

November 3, 2015

these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jun 2020
What Do You Think?

Is a Business School-Industry Collaboration Needed to Attract Black Talent to Campus?

SUMMING UP Do We Need Business School Courses On Inclusion and ‘Voice’? Responses to this month’s column suggest that the issue it raised—recruitment of minority talent into business careers—was somewhat narrow and off-target. Kristin... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

11 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

It Pays to Hire Women in Countries That Won’t

women. “It appears that increasing your female managers leads to higher profitability over time” In the study, the researchers set out to prove the following hypothesis: "Firms, both foreign and domestic, that do more to hire and promote women to positions of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

03 Jan 2017
First Look

January 3, 2017

response to policies that maintain low interest rates, money funds change their product offerings by investing in riskier asset classes, are more likely to exit the market, and reduce the fees they charge their investors. The consequence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Nov 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

regimes that reduce bias in quality assessments in domains such as food safety, process quality, occupational safety, working conditions, and regulatory compliance. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52570 View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

The Benefits of “Not Invented Here”

competition into one's own innovation system. Internal researchers must compete with external sources to meet the demands of the business, and business units must compete with outsiders to make use of available technologies. The net... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

04 Nov 2008
First Look

First Look: November 4, 2008

certification strategies. In the model, certifiers respond to the sellers' desire to get a chance to be highly rated and to limit the stigma from rejection. We find conditions under which sellers opt for an ambitious certification strategy, in which they apply to a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 29, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808128 Linden Lab: Opening Second Life Harvard Business School Case 808-114 In early 2008, managers in Linden Lab, creator of the virtual world Second Life, faced decisions about the company's strategy.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018

Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

26 Mar 2012
Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

result of neural activity. By attaching electrodes to subjects' heads and evaluating the electrical patterns of their brain waves, researchers can track the intensity of visceral responses such as anger, lust, disgust, and excitement.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

08 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’

your smartphone to how to earn a seat on a corporate board and make socially responsible investments. They gathered Thursday evening to watch a screening of a new documentary on the history of women at HBS, "A Woman's Place."... View Details

Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette

14 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Agenda for Corporate Accountability Reporting

How do you measure corporate accountability? And can you do it credibly? Since the financial crisis of 2008-2009, for-profit corporations are facing greater demand to disclose more than revenues and expenses on annual financial reports.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting; Energy; Utilities

20 Aug 2007
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

"While the energy industry has been in the forefront of a demand for more information from a broad group of stakeholders, this demand is becoming more and more common across almost all firms. Thus, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

first big-city innovation offices in the United States. In April 2013, he helped guide the mayor’s office’s response to the attacks on the Boston Marathon. At HBS, he has helped build the Young American Leaders Program and is an adviser... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of Crowdsourcing

quality responses from the community. A beverage company client for Tongal initially asked for an ad that would convince people that its product was healthier than competitors. But if the question were posed in that way, many of the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

28 May 2007
Research & Ideas

How Property Ownership Changes Your World View

is true. When Di Tella benchmarked these results against a sample of residents from the Buenos Aires metropolitan area with generally higher income and education levels, their responses tallied closely to the beliefs of squatters who hold... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

26 Sep 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Negotiation

strategy is an aligned combination of set-up moves that occur away from the table, deal design moves, and tactics at the table, all designed to overcome the barriers you've identified. The best response to a barrier in one dimension may... View Details

19 Sep 2012
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: “The Architecture of Innovation”

investment team, and the rewards can be scaled down accordingly. "One frequent manifestation of these confused objectives is a difficulty in killing projects” But in most programs, the demands on the corporate venturing team are... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

08 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Negotiate “Yes” Across Cultural Boundaries

interact—everything from how people view the role of the individual versus the group to their attitudes, say, about the importance of time or relationships. In response to these challenges, a great body of literature has emerged to help... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

How Women Can Get More Venture Capital

women who will say, "You know what? All my personal needs and all my family's needs are taken care of, and if I'm no longer enjoying the environment or the work, I'm gone." If there are other demands on women that are really... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace

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