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- 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8
abstract is unavailable at this time. Book: http://hbr.org/2012/05/six-myths-of-product-development/ar/1 Working PapersLearning by Supplying Authors:Juan Alcácer and Joanne Oxley Abstract Learning processes lie at the heart of our understanding of how firms build... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
What Motivates People to Give Generously—and Why We Sometimes Don't
heterogeneity. Some people are extraordinarily generous, and perhaps some folks fall on the other side of the spectrum, and then everyone else is in between. Certainly, we’d like to try to shift the distribution of generosity toward the View Details
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
innovation, by encouraging workers to cultivate their individual strengths and to speak up when they have ideas for improvements. And they can develop and empower their employees to solve problems instead of turning automatically to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
ambiguous effect on high-quality output. To evaluate this trade-off, I develop a procedure to estimate agents' effort costs and simulate counterfactuals under alternative feedback policies. The results suggest that feedback on net increases the number of high-quality... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer
studies support an economic idea known as Tournament Theory, which says that as pay differences between job levels increase, the value of receiving a promotion also rises—spurring employees to put in more effort. “People make work... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
they hoped Doug Clark, a biomechanist, and his Invention Factory team would bring a scientific approach toward building the next generation of Timberland products and ideas. The team had to convince those in the mainstream business to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
a PM was created by interactions with others,” he says. When he decided to get an MBA to “learn how to commercialize a clean tech product,” he chose HBS for its general management strengths – and its emphasis on communicating with others.... View Details
- 13 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
Picture This: Why Online Image Searches Drive Purchases
randomly provided text-and-image search refinement suggestions to only half of roughly 500,000 users, chosen randomly. A customer in the test group searching for the general term “headphones” would receive refinement suggestions, such as... View Details
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Planning a Class Session - Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning
identify teaching opportunities, such as points of tension or "fighting issues" that can be leveraged to generate engagement, debate, and deeper learning. They also can highlight teaching challenges, including aspects of the case content,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Quantum Leap
that support the current generation of small experimental quantum computers could never be scaled up to support commercially useful ones, much less data centers that contain thousands of them. SEEQC is attempting to replace all that... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Research & Ideas
Does Hybrid Work Actually Work? Insights from 30,000 Emails
and quality of work product—the hybrid group members outranked their peers. “The new working paper may be the first to generate data on the impact of hybrid work schedules on enterprise communication patterns and work quality.” Hybrid... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
"bridge the communications gap" between lawyers and managers. Sean Silverthorne: You argue that managers shouldn't just view the law as a compliance issue, but rather something that can be used actively to increase the firm's value and shareholder value.... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
investors tend to hold local stocks and older investors prefer dividend-paying stocks. Together, these tendencies generate geographically varying demand for dividends. Firms headquartered in areas in which seniors constitute a large... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 12
acres of land in southern Chile and run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for investors. Patagonia Sur planned to derive various streams of revenue from the land—including eco-tourism, sustainable land... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
The History of Beauty
or—indeed—female. Q: What are you working on now? A: I am writing a book on the origins and growth of green entrepreneurship worldwide over the last six decades. This idea originated out of my research on the beauty industry, in which I... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Rounding the Bend
bringing the idea of a circular economy within grasp. HBS alumni can be found working in ventures up and down the value chain as part of this effort; here are just a few of the ways in which these tech-enabled business models are helping... View Details
- 20 Oct 2023
- News
Highlights from the Fall 2023 Alumni Board Meeting
of upcoming on-campus alumni conferences, including a Generative AI conference in the spring. External Relations is also introducing a new tool for volunteer management, GiveCampus, that will increase transparency in the fundraising... View Details
- 01 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Choosing the Right Student Loan
At HBS, we consider getting your MBA a shared investment in your future. This means that while we offer generous financial aid, we also expect all students to contribute to their education through a combination of savings and student... View Details
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
economy. Success requires a continuous influx of new ideas, new challenges, and critical thought, and the interpersonal climate must not suppress, silence, ridicule, or intimidate. Not every idea is good, and yes there are stupid... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Outside-In Approach to Customer Service
their culture so that some of these ideas begin to permeate and shape the behaviors and actions of their employees. Level 4: At level 4, firms become agnostic about whether they produce all the inputs they provide to their customers and,... View Details