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- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
charitable giving, crowding out intrinsic motivations to give by corrupting a purely social act with economic considerations. Purchase the Book: http://www.psypress.com/the-science-of-giving-9781848728851 Americans Do I.T. Better: U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way
metal through intense heat. "The bakery allows us to bring our mission to others. Normally the people who would interact with Haley House are either in need or are very socially radical. We can then... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 30 Mar 2009
- Research & Ideas
Professional Networks in China and America
States a rich field of study and one that's a specialty for Harvard Business School professor Roy Chua. Chua, a native of Singapore who speaks fluent Mandarin, draws on human psychology to better understand important social processes in... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
whose members have many prior ties interact less frequently with proximate peers, and thus their performance is unaffected by nearby teams. Our findings highlight how prior social connections, which are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
Publications December 2014 Academy of Management Journal Harnessing Productive Tensions in Hybrid Organizations: The Case of Work Integration Social Enterprises By: Battilana, Julie, Metin Sengul, Anne-claire Pache, and Jacob Model... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ethics Bots and Other Ways to Move Your Code of Business Conduct Beyond Puffery
to mitigate sanctions. “Perhaps even more important in today’s environment, you are also limiting reputational risk,” Soltes says, pointing to negative news stories or error-filled posts on social media that can undermine a company’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
"shaped" by many things—colleagues and friends, homes, climate, culture, and even our machines and gadgets—as well as our jobs. As he put it, "We are the product of a set of genes and their interaction with a myriad of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
a mutual course benefiting each of their strategies, HBS professor James Austin, head of the School's Initiative on Social Enterprise (ISE), took note. "Here was a new arena," he says, "in which the goals of different kinds of... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
Breaks in Interaction Improve Collective Intelligence By: Bernstein, Ethan, Jesse Shore, and David Lazer Abstract— People influence each other when they interact to solve problems. Such View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2006
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First Look: November 7, 2006
Ruhr [The Future of the Past: German Capitalism from the Viewpoint of the Rhine and Ruhr] Author:Jeffrey Fear Publication:In Uberschreitungen. Das Wechselspiel von Wirtschaft und Kunst im 19. Jahrhundert [Crossings: The Interaction... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
"open fare" system; and Panera Bread runs four nonprofit "Panera Cares" locations with PWYW pricing. Oftentimes, businesses use the strategy as a promotion to get new customers, sometimes with a social tie-in for extra... View Details
- 13 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Ignore This Advice at Your Own Peril
maintaining a good relationship,” Blunden says. “So you should consider how ignoring someone’s advice might impact that relationship and be aware from a connection and career standpoint that these interactions could have a detrimental... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Is Your iPhone Turning You Into a Wimp?
Affects Our Behavior. It turns out that working on a relatively large machine (like a desktop computer) causes users to act more assertively than working on a small one (like an iPad). “We wanted to study how interacting with a device... View Details
- 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10
Publications August 2013 Strategic Management Journal Location Choices under Strategic Interactions By: Alcácer, Juan, Minyuan Zhao, and Cristian Dezso Abstract—The literature on location choices has mostly emphasized the impact of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2020
- Research & Ideas
COVID Not Slowing VC Investment
the end of the year. Venture funding in a socially distanced world Discouraged entrepreneurs shouldn’t put away their pitch decks yet. For one thing, funding commitments are still outpacing those of past periods of economic distress, the... View Details
- 05 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless
sorts, on an epic scale. “If you have a local leader who is from your social category, you are probably more likely to approach him or her for help.” As Harvard Business School professor Lakshmi Iyer and her colleagues discovered, it's... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
latter to price lower and thereby increase total consumer traffic. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-010.pdf Exclusivity and Control Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Robin S. Lee Abstract We analyze platform competition for content in the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
consequences that come from brokerage—occupying a bridging position between disconnected others in a network. By contrast, emerging models underscore social interactions and focus on brokering—the behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman