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- 01 Jun 2023
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Pet Project
for subscription options (with tracking). And Maev should keep in mind that the purchase decision is made at the shelf, so include key conversion claims right on the packaging. Success in DTC will make for a strong pitch to retail,... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
observed variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
potentially lowering wage inequality in the labor markets.” The findings come at a time that communities expect more from companies and HR departments wrestle with the vexing combination of economic concerns and labor shortages. While the View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
that allowed the Clinic to excel at patient satisfaction without jeopardizing its traditional strengths. Publisher's link: https://archive.harvardbusiness.org/cla/web/pl/product.seam?c=25931&i=25933&cs=73d8fb9a10c18f812eceaf3628cd1b24 2006 Encyclopedia of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Pfizer, as well as nonprofits and international government agencies, the authors show how successful leaders of innovation don't create a vision and try to make innovation happen themselves. Rather, they create and sustain a culture where... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
villages, small towns, and major cities, often with a sizable amount of investment or involvement by local government authorities. It is hard to find any reasonably sized Chinese company in which government authorities do not have input.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
MIT), Jean-Charles Rochet (IDEI, Toulouse), and David Evans (NERA, now LECG and University College London). It is indeed a very new area: The first two or three papers on this topic were written in 2002-2003, and I was lucky enough to be working with the View Details
- 04 Apr 2011
- HBS Case
Reinventing the National Geographic Society
e-commerce, and what authorities and what decision rights that person will have relative to the existing divisions." With Fahey listening on, the students dive in. The first few think the position... View Details
- 25 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why Unqualified Candidates Get Hired Anyway
new research paper demonstrates that the fundamental attribution error is so deeply rooted in our decision making that not even highly trained people-evaluators, such as hiring managers and school admissions officers, can defeat its... View Details
- 23 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 23
reinterpretation of ideas related to agency conflicts and a holistic view of corporate financial strategy that examines payout and capital structure decisions jointly. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
new ideas and approaches within certain zones of privacy. Organizations allow them to do that by drawing four types of boundaries: around teams of people (zones of attention), between feedback and evaluation (zones of judgment), between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 13, 2010
showing attack strategies in action. It then provides several specific counterstrategies for each basic category the authors have defined—including the following: Death-by-delay: Your enemies push discussion of your idea so far into the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21
customs and port authority data on the international shipments of all U.S. publicly-traded firms, we show that firms are significantly more likely to trade with countries that have a strong resident population near their firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
[by the disputing parties] tend to be more industry friendly. This also incents arbitrators to slant their decisions in favor of the industry to increase their chance of being selected in the future.” Building on his 2018 research of... View Details
- 22 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 22
It also shows that any Pareto-optimal mechanism must prevent unravelling, and that the ex-post stable mechanism is Pareto-optimal if and only if it prevents unravelling. Empire-Building or Bridge-Building? Evidence from New CEOs' Internal Capital Allocation View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Seven Negotiation Lessons from Amazon's HQ Disaster in Queens
consensus in a multiparty deal makes you hostage to the most extreme or reluctant party." This surprisingly common result is why an “A” is often appended to DAD: “DADA” means Decide-Announce-Defend-Abandon. An apparently irresistible deal blessed by the top View Details
- 22 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
Use Artificial Intelligence to Set Sales Targets That Motivate
by sales employees. “You get a lot of pushback at the initial stages,” says Chung. “You can see people who get a higher quota saying, this is not right.” When companies stick with the program, however, Chung has seen such resistance from employees lessen over time.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
When Your Passion Works Against You
Passion: When and How Expressing Passion Elicits Status Conferral and Support from Others, was published in July 2019 in the journal Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. “Passion, like a smile, is contagious.” In the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Case Against Racial Colorblindness
driving the current cultural discourse in race and affirmative action. It's not just that whites think blacks are getting some unfair breaks, it's that whites are thinking, 'I'm actually the victim of discrimination now.'" Multiculturalism In "Racial Colorblindness,"... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
(2) Review prior research on behavioral decision making to identify ideas that may be relevant to the domain of psychological influence; (3) Provide a series of examples of how behavioral decision research... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace