Signaling - Publications - Faculty & Research

05 Dec 2012
What Do You Think?

Should Managers Bother Listening to Predictions?

made. Three books, two just out, provide provocative perspectives on the challenge. The first, by Nate Silver, The Signal and the Noise: Why Most Predictions Fail but Some Don't, argues that methods for more accurate predictions are on... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Jun 2018
News

Incubating Ideas for the ‘Water Economy’

technologies––things like data analysis, using the internet to carry signals of information, advanced treatment technologies––things like that, and how to build sustainable businesses that improve the way water and wastewater are managed.... View Details

09 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

Who Sways the USDA on GMO Approvals?

subtle difference in perspective also has the potential to distort the agency's reliance on pure science in its approval of GMOs. In his working paper "Lords of the Harvest: Third-Party Signaling and Regulatory Approval of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Biotechnology; Agriculture & Agribusiness

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

focused on housing and household debt for good reason: In the United States, a residential housing loan collapse touched off the deep financial crisis of 2008. But in the decade-plus since, the focus on household debt may mean policymakers are overlooking an even more... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

08 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 8, 2008

the Crowd: The Visibility-Enhancing Effects of IPO-related Signals on Alliance Formation by Entrepreneurial Firms Authors:Tim Pollock and Ranjay Gulati Periodical:Strategic Organizations 5, no. 4 (November 2007). (A shorter version of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Sep 2012
First Look

First Look: September 5

PublicationsPreference Signaling in Matching Markets Authors:Peter A. Coles, Alexey Kushnir, and Muriel Niederle Publication:American Economic Journal: Microeconomics (forthcoming) Abstract Many labor markets share three stylized facts:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 2018
News

Q&A with Janet Cahill

example, gifts under $1,000 to the HBS Fund added up to $1.8 million. Gifts of any size signal donors’ pride in and gratitude for their HBS experience, demonstrate their commitment to the HBS mission, and serve as a tangible vote of... View Details

Profile

Roy Ben-Dor

Signal Processing, an enterprise that developed the cable modem chip set. "I worked on it for five or six years, then we sold it to Texas Instruments," Roy says. "I had been involved in everything: marketing, manufacturing,... View Details

01 Dec 2014
News

Faculty Q&A: The New Brand Manager: You

that will increase the value of the relationship for both of us. Social media provides a way for us to communicate with our customers, rather than just talking to them, as most marketing communications do. Both physically and virtually, consumers are constantly View Details

Keywords: April White

11 Mar 2020
News

Making It Rain

to gather weather data in an entirely new way—by extracting information from things like cell phone signals. When wireless signals hit atmospheric conditions like rain, for example, they lose strength. “We can reverse engineer the View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

15 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

The Unspoken Messages of COVID-19 Restrictions

they are also signaling to people that it might be safer to go out now,” says Michael Luca, the Lee J. Styslinger III Associate Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Policymakers trying to avoid draconian... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Food & Beverage

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Decoding the DNA of the Toyota Production System

must have built-in tests that signal problems immediately. And it is the continual response to those problems that makes this seemingly rigid system so flexible and adaptive to changing circumstances. The Experiments Of The Toyota... View Details

Keywords: by H. Kent Bowen & Steven Spear; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

25 Jul 2007
Lessons from the Classroom

The Evolution of Apple

still out on that question, says Yoffie. Even so, the iPod has altered the fundamental dynamics of Apple. In a change that signals the company's growing investment in consumer electronics, Apple dropped "Computer" from its name... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Computer; Technology

24 Mar 2017
News

Alumni New Venture Competition Finalists Named

opportunities, all with pre-negotiated flexibility from our proprietary framework. Alumna: Anna Auerbach, MBA 2010 Region: Northeastern US/New York Xtelligent: Bridging today’s traffic signals to tomorrow’s connected and autonomous... View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Feedback

Collins (MBA 1984) via LinkedIn We have removed almost all price signaling from health care. The only way to align supply and demand is by correcting this. A bureaucracy will never get it right. Only a political bureaucracy could have... View Details

Keywords: Health, Social Assistance

01 Jun 2007
News

A Juicy Story

to believe that Apple can maintain that incredible level of success.” The verdict is still out on that question, says Yoffie. Even so, the iPod has altered the fundamental dynamics of Apple. In a change that signals the company’s growing... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Sep 2024
News

Research Brief: Hear Me Out

that they have.” He also adds that the extroverts in their studies seemed unaware that others perceive them in this light. The takeaway, Zlatev says, is for us all to be more aware of how we’re coming across to others in social situations and to make sure that... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

28 Feb 2007
Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

the exceptions that scholars and policymakers had historically reserved from their embrace of open capital markets were ruled out of bounds. The norm of capital mobility was to be universal and unqualified. Deviation was a powerful signal... View Details

Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal

03 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 3

PublicationsLords of the Harvest: Symbolic Signaling and Regulatory Approval of Genetically Modified Organisms Authors:Shon R. Hiatt and Sangchan Park Publication:Best Paper Proceedings of the Academy of Management (2010) Abstract Firms... View Details