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- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
of attention, and we use this framework to study the “attentional stability” of common errors and psychological biases. While many costly errors are prone to persist, in some situations a person will recognize her mistakes via “incidental learning”: when the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 25 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 25
research typically prescribes task sequences implemented by managers. Yet employees often have discretion to deviate from their prescribed sequence. Using data from 2.4 million radiological diagnoses, we find that doctors prioritize... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
What CEOs Do, and How They Can Do it Better
15 minutes. Tabulating the data, the researchers discovered that the vast majority of a CEO's time, some 85 percent, was spent working with other people through meetings, phone calls, and public appearances, while only 15 percent was... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
that improved player development. In 2014 Hopp, who had personally invested 300 million in the club, built a “footbonaut,” an automated training environment that collected data on players’ skills and strengths. The tool, one of three in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Nov 2002
- Research & Ideas
Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift
period we are in today, had witnessed a dramatic loss of confidence in business and American institutions more generally. In 1968, 70 percent of the public thought business tried to strike a fair balance between profits and the View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 28 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
How to Avoid a Price Increase
downsizing versus price increases from two perspectives: how manufacturers and the public think consumers behave, and how consumers actually behave. What did your research show? A: The research Jay Koehler and I have conducted shows that... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 17 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Managers Stifle Creativity
The slate of companies going public this year— Pinterest, Slack Technologies, and Uber, to name a few—should silence anyone who doubts the power of a bold idea. After all, one seemingly crazy brainstorm can up end an entire industry,... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 12 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Innovation Increasingly Benefits from Government Research
Innovation has always relied, to some degree, on government support. But a recent study suggests that public funding might be even more influential than it seems. “Nearly a third of US patents rely directly on US government funded... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Feb 2022
- Op-Ed
Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC
can readily include standardized trustworthy data about the surge capacity plans of individual hospitals—updated in real time. Understandability. An expert should analyze plans and frame them in a way that the View Details
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
scant direct empirical research on how human interaction patterns change as a result of these architectural changes. In two intervention-based field studies of corporate headquarters transitioning to more open office spaces, we empirically examined—using digital View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Jul 2013
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Limits of Transparency?
information is delivered." One possible line would include information about a company's strategy. Brad Keller commented that "It takes more than just sharing financials or performance review data It is really a matter of being... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
can, under certain conditions, yield immediate post-break performance increases. We test our hypotheses using productivity data from 212 fruit harvesters collected over one harvesting season yielding nearly 250,000 truckloads of fruit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 26, 2016
and clinician-reported outcomes. These need to be used for internal improvement in health care delivery organizations, as well as for public reporting, so that patients can make informed choices about their health care. We need to do a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 6, 2016
and shared significant export agribusiness sectors, but whose organic food sector became significantly larger. While the power of incumbent vested interests and unsupportive public policies emerge as major explanatory factors, the article... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
points. Pseudo-set framing changes gambling choices (Study 1), effort (Studies 2 and 3), giving behavior (Field Data and Study 4), and purchase decisions (Study 5). These effects persist in the absence of any reward, when a cost must be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
their plans for "Fame Kills." Sure enough, a media attack ensued. West pulled out of the painstakingly planned tour. And Carter had to mull a decision that would have major implications for Lady Gaga, for concert promoter Live Nation, and for her View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- What Do You Think?
Can We Train for Trust?
practice. Think, for example, of the obstacles that lawyers and public relations advisers can put in the way of leaders wishing to practice such principles. Sucher and Gupta go on to say that, “How a leader earns trust is similar to how... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 11, 2016
support, delivered by a separate, independently funded staff, which builds public will, advances policy, and mobilizes resources. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51710 forthcoming Organization Science The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2017
- HBS Case
How Should Advertisers Respond to Consumer Demand for Whiter Skin?
have remained brisk. By 2015, facial care was a $1 billion market in India, and skin lighteners represented almost half that market size. The facial care market is expected to grow to $1.96 billion—nearly doubling in size—by 2019. “The campaign has helped a lot in... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
Publications May 2015 Corporate Stewardship: Organizing for Sustainable Effectiveness Leading Socially Responsible, Value-Creating Corporations By: Brown, Daniel, and Rakesh Khurana Abstract—We explore the role of the corporate leader... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel