Filter Results:
(557)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(557)
- People (3)
- News (161)
- Research (322)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (62)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(557)
- People (3)
- News (161)
- Research (322)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (2)
- Faculty Publications (62)
- 31 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018
global venture. In particular, he wanted to ensure that WeWork continued to be a great place to work, both because he cared about WeWork's people and because a better work experience was core to the company’s brand. In the summer of 2017,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops. We show that sellers alter their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
undeniable ethical failure, people experience ethical dissonance between their moral values and their behavioral misconduct. Our findings indicate that to reduce ethical dissonance, individuals use a double-distancing mechanism. Using an... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
Jon and Lawrence saw this chaotic space as fertile ground for entrepreneurship. But the routes these entrepreneurs chose to take were different. "Killing Craigslist" explores the business Jon and Lawrence built to improve the online rental View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
when it was followed by a negative consequence. In addition, they judged the behavior as more blameworthy and to be punished more harshly. Participants' ethical judgments mediated their judgments of both blame and punishment. The results of the second View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Leading the Way
University, as well as a leader in the worlds of business and social responsibility. John Hess: My experience at HBS was transformational. HBS faculty pushed me to think differently about leadership and how to solve problems, and I was... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Banerjee and Lakshmi Iyer Publication:Natural Experiments in History, edited by Jared Diamond and James Robinson. Harvard University Press, forthcoming No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
regulation and an overview of how those changes will affect almost everyone. Publisher's link: http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-1118758714.html August 2013 Review of Economics and Statistics Savings in Transnational Households: A Field View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
(Fitch) to the competitive landscape offers a unique experiment to empirically examine how, in fact, increased competition affects the credit ratings market. Increased competition from Fitch coincides with lower-quality ratings from the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 1
been more desirable, as a policy matter, but is now a missed opportunity. Using this experience on staggered boards as a motivating case study, the article then examines a policy choice regarding Section 203 of the Delaware corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
to clarify the characteristics of successful investment and financing decisions," says Sahlman, who has taught the course for the past eleven years. "The goal in the course," he adds, "is to provide students with an accelerated dose of View Details
- Profile
Mike Maples Jr.
an early investor in Twitter, Weebly, Bazaarvoice, Twitch, Chegg, Demandforce and a raft of others, Maples has been on a long and profitable roll. Part of his success came from his personal experience as an entrepreneur. Having co-founded... View Details
- Web
What Google, Lego, and Other Brands Know About the Promise and Peril of AI | Working Knowledge
of several brands’ early AI experiments reveals that so far, the technology has produced mixed results for businesses, providing a boon for some while posing a reputation risk for others. What made the difference in whether a company’s... View Details
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
experimented with computers and with designing an electronic office of the future. It formed Xerox Computer Services, acquired Scientific Data Systems, and opened its Palo Alto Research Center (PARC) in California. These efforts were only... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
users of the competing platform—can arise from the difference in their profit foci. As the difference in the standalone utilities increases, royalties from content sales become less important to the platform owner with greater standalone... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
we show that individuals who spend money on time-saving services report greater life satisfaction. A field experiment provides causal evidence that working adults report greater happiness after spending money on a time-saving purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses
unto themselves, businesses have become involved in the pursuit of science and universities in the commercialization of science. Unlike traditional high technology, science-based businesses--especially biotech and pharmaceuticals, nanotechnology, and materials... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ reported a deficit of new idea sharing in their intercultural but not intracultural ties. In Study 3, a laboratory experiment involving a collaborative task, higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
India Arrives
environment, be that infrastructure, bureaucracy, or lack of established benchmarks in India’s corporate environment.” Less regulation clearly has unleashed market potential. Bharti, for example, has aggressively pursued the estimated 250 to 300 million members of the... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- Web
Credential of Digital Innovation and Strategy | HBS Online
Empathy and Understanding Project Week – Clarify Content Week – Ideate, Part 1: Tools for Generating Ideas Content Week – Ideate, Part 2: User Values and Behaviors Project Week – Ideate Content Week – Develop: An Experimentation Mindset... View Details