Filter Results:
(1,155)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,155)
- Faculty Publications (222)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (1,155)
- Faculty Publications (222)
- Web
Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
particularly volatile century of economic history. These four crises were so far-reaching that they affected virtually everyone involved in the U. S. market economy. Yet each was so complex that their causes... View Details
- 01 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People
be harmful to consumers). Our second study to some extent clarifies the psychological dynamics that arise from luxury. Luxury does not necessarily induce one to do harm to others, but simply causes one to be less concerned or considerate... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 Jun 2022
- Book
The Moral Enterprise: How Two Companies Profit with Purpose
How can government and business work together in this fractious political moment, when finding solutions to pressing problems like inequality and climate change are more urgent than ever? Rebecca Henderson, Harvard University’s John and Natty McArthur University... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?
and Ester Faia explore the unraveling of GVCs and related disruptions to money flows caused by the coronavirus. Their paper is titled Pandemics Fragilities: The Double-Coincidence of a Halt in Hyper-specialized GVC and the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Aug 2009
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn
Kasturi "Kash" Rangan, the Malcolm P. McNair Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, argues that corporate social responsibility (CSR) initiatives are more necessary than ever. Rangan says that when carefully planned... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 17 Aug 2021
- Research & Ideas
Can Autonomous Vehicles Drive with Common Sense?
Human error causes at least 90 percent of the 5.25 million accidents in the United States annually. Could driverless cars save lives? Yes, but it may take a long road to get there. “Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are never drunk or tired or... View Details
- 12 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Pay Workers More So They Steal Less
workers' different socioeconomic environments, the amount of monitoring that managers performed, and employee characteristics such as how many people typically worked in the stores. Is There A Payoff? As expected, Sandino and Chen confirmed that overpaying workers... View Details
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
home after a nearly 16-hour meeting. He was grappling with whether to take the global sales and marketing team manager position that had been offered to him and had spent the entire day with the senior leadership of his potential new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2014
- What Do You Think?
Is Too Much Focus a Problem?
he continued, businesses can be 'raced' by drivers whose peripheral vision has failed. "They could see the clear track ahead of them as they initially led their markets but failed to notice the competitor coming up on the inside... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Aug 1998
- News
High Honors
Valleydene provided Barford with the flexibility he needed to spend more time with his ailing wife (who died in 1991 after a long struggle with multiple sclerosis) and six children. Beyond the boardroom, Barford has been associated in various capacities with View Details
- 07 Apr 2015
- News
Warrior Spirit
as full-blown panic hit in 1997, causing a run on Thailand’s uninsured banks. Overnight, the family lost everything. Sityodtong’s father eventually abandoned his wife and two sons, forcing them to move to a concrete-floor shack found... View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
Working PapersFinding Missing Markets (and a disturbing epilogue): Evidence from an Export Crop Adoption and Marketing Intervention in Kenya Authors:Nava Ashraf, Xavier Gine, and Dean Karlan Abstract In... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 25
transfer of IP addresses, numeric identifiers required by all computers connected to the Internet. Excessive fragmentation of IP address blocks causes growth in the Internet's routing table, which is socially costly, so an IP address... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- Web
Research - Health Care
medications? We study the health consequences of drug interruptions caused by large, abrupt, and arbitrary changes in price. Medicare’s prescription drug benefit as-if-randomly assigns 65-year-olds a drug budget as a... October 16, 2024... View Details
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
time actually causes more happiness. They conducted an experiment with 60 working adults in Vancouver, Canada, over two weekends. During one weekend, they gave participants $40 to spend on a time-saving purchase. Some had groceries... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures
startup to tackle product accessibility for the disability community. Many products and websites today are inaccessible to people with disabilities despite over 30 years of the Americans Disabilities Act which prohibits disability discrimination. Very few of the... View Details
- 18 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 18, 2009
efficiency benefits of market transactions Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-091.pdf Leveraging Waste: Implications for Competition and Welfare (revised) Author:Deishin Lee Abstract We study the competitive and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Feb 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 13, 2018
2018 Pearson Education Horngren's Cost Accounting: A Managerial Emphasis By: Datar, Srikant M., and Madhav Rajan Abstract—Horngren’s Cost Accounting defines the cost accounting market and continues to innovate today by consistently... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54823 June 2018 Strategy Science Integrated Strategy: Residual Market and Exchange Imperfections as the Foundation of Sustainable Competitive Advantage By: Oberholzer-Gee,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne