Time Preferences - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World

eyeballs," says Zhu, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School. "Content providers are serving advertisers rather than the audience, and consumers with niche preferences will be out of luck because the content they're... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Information; Publishing; Journalism & News

19 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web

concurrent data from all members of the supply chain, and the Internet-based technologies discussed above are rapidly proving to be the preferred channels for these data. In addition to enabling rich point-to-point links, the Internet is... View Details

Keywords: by Andrew McAfee

01 Dec 2000
News

Vivek Ranadivé

that are big enough to keep them interested. "Another concern is staying nimble," he continues. "Someone in a garage right now is inventing a product that could be threatening to me. It's important to stay paranoid and avoid complacency." Which isn't to say Ranadivé... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Computer and Electronic Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Telecommunications; Information; Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

matter as well? What kind of corporate citizen you are, what kind of employer you are, whether you are a steward of and not a destroyer of the environment, and of your communities? Don’t people prefer to work for and do business with a... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

this framework for the time path of U.S. policy require central parameters of the model, namely the elasticity of taxable income or the marginal social welfare weights on top earners, to take unconventional values. We use inferred social... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research

Fellow Marco Piovesan, whose research on how temptation influences work productivity included field experiments with children tempted by soda and candy at an Italian summer camp. "Understanding where these preferences and their behavior... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Dec 2014
First Look

First Look: December 23

consequences of a range of alternative policies. Publisher's link: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-045_4e9f7d2d-24c3-4d8c-8843-1eb9016bc016.pdf December 2014 Negotiations in Times of Conflict Better Deals Through Level... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

then clearly that process was slowed by the crises of the last decade. But it is a process that is continuing and may well for some time to come. If, however, we recognize that globalization is also built upon institutional foundations,... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance

entity is controlled by a fluid disaggregated group of public shareholders. Thus, the Delaware Supreme Court ruled that a proposed merger of Time Incorporated and Warner Communications did not effect a change of control of View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

01 Feb 1999
News

Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office

accessible in other parts of the world can take on greater sensitivity at this stage of the Asia Pacific's economic restructuring. The challenge is to balance this sensitivity. We must make firms aware that the research cannot be released without their authorization... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Sep 2008
News

Balanced Equation

still true today: eBay enables users to trade with other people without regard to time and distance. It makes inefficient markets efficient. What kind of communications devices do you use? I may be the last person on earth who does not... View Details

Keywords: James Aisner;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna;Susan Young; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

28 Jan 2013
Research & Ideas

Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews

Revenue: The Case of Yelp.com, which explored how restaurant reviews on Yelp affect their bottom lines.) Reviewing The Reviewers After spending some time on Yelp, Luca questioned whether the site's star-based rating system (five stars for... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Food & Beverage

10 May 2022
News

Alumni Achievement Awards 2022

preferred me to be more academic—which was a long shot.” Continental drift: “After college I taught physical education at a school in Oxford, and some Rhodes Scholars who lived in my building encouraged me to go to the United States. I... View Details

25 May 2016
Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

age, there are more consumers than ever before suffering from chronic conditions. Most no longer see disease and the timing of their death as inevitable. Supported by the Internet, many actively seek out information to increase their odds... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

30 May 2019
What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

organizations in which he and his firm invested. The objectives to which he referred were Collins’s and Porras’s BHAGs, preferably a ten times improvement in some performance metric. In his book Exponential... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

07 Dec 2016
HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

a cab (Uber). It seems as if millennials would prefer to avoid face-to-face business interactions when there exists a more efficient way of getting what they want accomplished. “Having gone through the Great Recession, they tend to be... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

15 Jun 2021
News

From Das’s Desk

timely faculty-led sessions on the crucial theme of Managing Through Crisis, which brought together nearly 10,000 alumni from around the world. The series was especially notable because our alumni were able to benefit, in real time, from... View Details