The Importance Of Progress - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

Human Behavior & Decision-Making - Faculty & Research

Placing cookie options behind extra clicks strongly influences choices, shifting users toward more easily accessible alternatives. Many users dismiss banners without making an explicit choice, underscoring the View Details

2015
Working Paper

Match Your Own Price? Self-Matching as a Retailer's Multichannel Pricing Strategy

By: Pavel Kireyev, Vineet Kumar and Elie Ofek

Multichannel retailing has created several new strategic choices for firms. With respect to pricing, an important decision is whether to offer a "self-matching policy." Self-matching allows a multichannel retailer to offer the lowest of its online and in-store prices... View Details

Keywords: Price Self-matching; Multichannel Retailing; Pricing Strategy; Marketing Strategy; Price; Distribution Channels; Supply and Industry; Retail Industry

Citation

Read Now

01 Nov 2013
HBS Seminar

Eric Olson, Chief Scientific Officer at Syros Pharmaceuticals

20 Feb 2009
Working Paper Summaries

When Does Domestic Saving Matter for Economic Growth?

Keywords: by Philippe Aghion, Diego Comin, Peter Howitt & Isabel Tecu

28 Oct 2011
Working Paper Summaries

Fairness, Efficiency, and Flexibility in Organ Allocation for Kidney Transplantation

Keywords: by Dimitris Bertsimas, Vivek F. Farias & Nikolaos Trichakis; Health

Research Summary

Financing New Business Formation

By: Paul A. Gompers

New business creation has become a potent force for economicdevelopment in the United States. Prior to 1980, large firms created the majority of new jobs in the American economy. While considerable debate rages over whether small firms are the source of recent job... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

In My Humble Opinion: Career Change

When Wakana Tanaka (MBA 2003) was 13 years old, her father’s new job took the family from their home in Tokyo to Jakarta. It was a big change, not just geographically but also culturally. Tanaka enrolled in an international school where she was encouraged to have her... View Details

Keywords: Michelle Cassidy; recruitment; demographics; Japan

05 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Connecting with Consumers Using Deep Metaphors

baby aspirin to home computers to the meaning of quality health care. Q: Why are these metaphors important for effective marketing? What happens when marketing does not give... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products

31 Mar 2011
Working Paper Summaries

What Do CEOs Do?

Keywords: by Oriana Bandiera, Luigi Guiso, Andrea Prat & Raffaella Sadun

14 Aug 2006
HBS Case

On Managing with Bobby Knight and “Coach K”

because of it." The story also illustrates the importance of matching management style with View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Sports

17 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

How Managers Stifle Creativity

matters. If people lack that meaning, it's very hard for them to stay intrinsically motivated and creative. Many managers don't realize how necessary it is to help people understand the importance View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

October 2008
Article

It's Time to Make Management a True Profession

By: Nitin Nohria and Rakesh Khurana

In the face of the recent institutional breakdown of trust in business, managers are losing legitimacy. To regain public trust, management needs to become a true profession in much the way medicine and law have, argue Khurana and Nohria of Harvard Business School. True... View Details

Keywords: Competency and Skills; Education; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Management; Trust; Value Creation

Citation

Find at Harvard

08 Feb 2008
Working Paper Summaries

Psychological Influence in Negotiation: An Introduction Long Overdue

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra & Max H. Bazerman

02 Oct 2017
What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

technology underpinning Bitcoin is the important part of the story. This technology will transform many aspects of... View Details

Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services

07 Mar 2023
Blog Post

Deconstructing LEGO’s Decarbonization

sustainability campaign Instead of a central sustainability team, LEGO Group’s emissions, water use, and landfill reduction strategies are woven into the organization’s operations, packaging, materials, and... View Details

06 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Cheese Moving: Effecting Change Rather Than Accepting It

would take to escape the kinds of mazes in which we are always subject to the designs of others. The book is as... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Nov 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Walking Through Jelly: Language Proficiency, Emotions, and Disrupted Collaboration in Global Work

Keywords: by Tsedal Neeley, Pamela J. Hinds & Catherine Durnell Cramton

01 Dec 2023
News

Venturing Forth

the rager happening around us,” she jokes. The slowdown in deal flow is felt by everyone now. “Almost all of our companies have needed more runway,” Rupp says. “Partly that’s... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

2022
Article

Towards Robust Off-Policy Evaluation via Human Inputs

By: Harvineet Singh, Shalmali Joshi, Finale Doshi-Velez and Himabindu Lakkaraju

Off-policy Evaluation (OPE) methods are crucial tools for evaluating policies in high-stakes domains such as healthcare, where direct deployment is often infeasible, unethical, or expensive. When deployment environments are expected to undergo changes (that is, dataset... View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Research

Citation

Find at Harvard

Purchase