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  • June 2007
  • Article

Efficient Kidney Exchange: Coincidence of Wants in a Structured Market

By: A. E. Roth, Tayfun Sonmez and M. Utku Unver
Patients needing kidney transplants may have donors who cannot donate to them because of blood or tissue incompatibility. Incompatible patient-donor pairs can exchange donor kidneys with other pairs only when there is a "double coincidence of wants." Developing... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Structure; Size; Emotions; Human Needs; Health Care and Treatment; Health Testing and Trials; Infrastructure; Supply Chain Management; Fairness; Performance Improvement; Health Industry
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  • 11 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Secrets of the Successful Businesswoman

your emotional life and your commitments to others and your relationships and your commitments to an institution and [pursuing] excitement and opportunity and possibility." Each woman she described had reconciled her own multiple... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 May 2002
  • Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

  If passions are the masters of reason—as David Hume (1960) believed—then they have done a remarkable job at getting us to believe in their benign nature—their outright subservience to reason. Deception and self-deception are as critical to the narratives that the... View Details
Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria
  • September 2004
  • Article

Trust in Agency

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell
Existing models of the principal-agent relationship assume the agent works only under extrinsic incentives. However, many observed agency contracts take the form of a fixed payment. For such contracts to succeed, the principal must trust the agent to work in the... View Details
Keywords: Trust; Agency Theory; Relationships; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives; Contracts; Business Model; Emotions; Forecasting and Prediction; Ethics; Standards; Risk and Uncertainty
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  • 21 Apr 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Will American Brands Be a Casualty of War?

the technology brands such as Intel or Microsoft, which are likely to escape the new mood. The second group is the cultural icons such as Coca-Cola, Disney, Marlboro, and McDonald's. These brands depend on emotional attachment rather than... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Brands Work

world. They're no longer on that list, but Toyota now is. How did Toyota—and the other nine companies—do it? There are 5 characteristics that all top global brands have in common: 1. The same positioning worldwide. This provides a combination of functional product... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto
  • 23 Jul 2014
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Innovation Is Magic. Really

"A magician has to be very much aware of the emotional state of the audience to get that emotional buy-in," Thomke says. "You can take a trick and do it very clinically and people will sit there and say,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 06 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Power of Leadership Groups for Staying on Track

authenticity, which is the essential quality of leaders with high levels of emotional intelligence, or EQ. In my experience I have not seen leaders fail for lack of IQ, but I have observed many leaders fail who lacked EQ. Daniel Goleman,... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 16 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

  PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for Managing View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jul 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation

emotional activity, but this paper shows the benefits of factoring in a more left-brain mathematical approach as well," says Raman. "If you have 300 stores, and every day you're receiving data on how each of those stores is... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 03 Jan 2008
  • What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

creator of knowledge with a storyline (comprising ideas, values, and ways of generating emotional energy for the organization) and a teachable point of view, in addition to possessing good judgment. There is no mention of experience,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

backhanded compliment recipients. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54062 Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness By: Vuillier, Laura, Alison Wood Brooks, June Gruber,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • August 2021
  • Case

Mylestone: Can Multiple Pivots Preserve the Life of a Death Tech Startup?

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Marilyn Morgan Westner
Dave Balter and Jim Myers co-founded Mylestone, a death tech startup that applied technology to transform how grieving people memorialize the dead. The startup addressed a cultural problem and promised to solve a pressing need in the antiquated, multi-billion dollar... View Details
Keywords: Pivot; Startup; Business Model; Cryptocurrency; Ethical Decision Making; Emotions; Growth and Development Strategy; Ethics; Market Entry and Exit; Customer Relationship Management; Loss; Change Management; Relationships
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  • 15 Jan 2018
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

need for genetic testing. Business techniques employed include developing an emotive brand to draw people in; using more social media; employing jargon-free language; and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

scientists Michael Norton and Francesca Gino found that rituals alleviate and reduce grief after a devastating emotional loss—even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. In short, people who performed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 02 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019

Frame Flexibility: The Role of Cognitive and Emotional Framing in Innovation Adoption by Incumbent Firms By: Raffaelli, Ryan, Mary Ann Glynn, and Michael Tushman Abstract—Why do incumbent firms frequently reject nonincremental... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Developing the Global Leader

be intelligent. But they'll also need to have a high level of cultural and emotional intelligence." According to George, additional characteristics of a successful global leader include: An intellectual understanding of the global... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 01 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 1, 2006

business." Race is clearly "unfinished business" because of the plethora of conflicting emotions that are unleashed as we approach the taboo (Thomas, 1989). This tension speaks to the importance of this chapter as we... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

AIDS in Africa—What’s the Solution?

illneses take a financial and emotional toll on businesses operating in Africa. "This is not just a disease we're talking about. This is a disease that has the power to destroy economies," said Harvard Business School Professor... View Details
Keywords: by Julie Jette
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion By: Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood Brooks Abstract—Expressing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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