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- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806086 Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce Harvard Business School Case 505-016 BP's IR director has begun a program to use information regarding external views of BP and the industry as part... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
These practices can generate substantial revenues for firms, and while price discrimination, targeted ads, and information sharing need not be detrimental to welfare, consumers are generally uncomfortable... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
actions on performance. However, standard regression models estimate only the average effects of these actions across firms. Our paper discusses how random coefficient models (RCMs) may generate new insights about firm heterogeneity and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
higher cost of goods sold, giving them less room to discount. And if they don't sell a product one day, they can hold it in inventory for future sale. So marginal business is less urgent for them. We're not prepared to say Gap's Groupon was a mistake. Getting customers... View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
General (forthcoming) Abstract Previous research suggests that children develop an increasing concern with fairness over the course of development. Research with adults suggests that the concern with fairness has at least two distinct... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
"Deep smarts," as Harvard Business School professor emerita Dorothy Leonard and collaborator Walter Swap see the term, is the intuition, judgement, and knowledge, both explicit and tacit, that is stored in the heads and hands of... View Details
Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
of collective action. While the available evidence is generally consistent with these theories, there is a dearth of quality evidence. Moreover, a large part of the variation in access to public goods seems to have nothing to do with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
psychological discomfort of dissonance. Similarly, physically cleansing oneself eliminated the relationship between inauthenticity and prosocial compensation. Finally, we demonstrated additional evidence for discriminant validity: these effects were not driven by View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2019
- Blog Post
Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees
Whillans and her team conducted of more than 92,000 job ads found that the more benefits an employer described, the higher the application rates. Plus, when employers described benefits in detail, such as generous family leave policies,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
diagnosis and treatment. We’re Crazy!: A Memoir About U.S. Values by Bert McLachlan (MBA 1959) (CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform) McLachlan has written a personal guidebook for future generations that explains the confusion of... View Details
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
the consumer's name, credit card number or security code because Apple uses a fingerprint reader on its recent iPhones to confirm identities. And when consumers add a credit or debit card with Apple Pay, the card number is not stored by... View Details
- 26 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity
where informal but highly effective relationships may exist, introducing an EHR system might generate formal processes that, at a certain level, become counterproductive. "In large practices, where staff might be less likely to interact... View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Reality to News Biz: Drop Dead
Good luck with that. Industry fundamentals are corroding so rapidly that they will eat through even the noblest of cross-financing oblige. Newspapers, for one, are seeing the wholesale kneecapping of each ad driver, from classifieds to inserts to department View Details
- 11 May 2017
- News
Going with the Flow
liquid, the observation refers to her involvement in, first, the 1993 launch of ViaCord, a company that enabled parents to store their newborn’s umbilical cord blood as a source of stem cells that help treat life-threatening diseases like... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley
- 14 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 14
and on the probability distribution over the sets of feasible alternatives that the society will face. Our methods generalize the well-known Kemeny Rule. In the Kemeny Rule, it is known a priori that the subset of feasible alternatives... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
firms jump on the new technology bandwagon to the coming of rules and governance. Would you elaborate on that? Spar: Since Professor Chandler has mentioned RCA, let me use that as an example. In 1926, along with General Electric and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
expected to generate social value in addition to profit. As a result, they also increasingly face the distinct challenge of pursuing social and financial goals at the same time. Social enterprises have a great deal of experience dealing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 Jul 2013
- Op-Ed
Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In
Research Triangle in North Carolina think very hard about focus in order to create a virtuous cycle of complementary successful ventures. The results have been extraordinary. A generation ago, it would have seemed farfetched to predict... View Details
- 13 Feb 2019
- News
We’re All Going to Get Hacked
But they didn’t turn them off, and because that data had been stored in the memory of the computer—not necessarily on it—it was on the hard drives, but wiped. Seeing their memory, hot and live, the malware finds it and says, “Oh, this... View Details
- 17 Jun 2020
- News
Toronto Copes with COVID-19 Via Webinars; Alumni Respond to Pandemic in Philippines
facility by converting pier terminals and passenger ships. FPH has committed to provide $2 million to this effort. Finally, in collaboration with the Philippine General Hospital, FPH is set to increase their laboratory capacity from 150... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley