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  • 06 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 6

in which matching is made contingent on the percentage of others who give (e.g., "if X% of others give, we will match all donations"). A field experiment shows that a 75% contingent match (where matches "kick in" only... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2006
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

investment reasons make the decision an important one. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507025 Tim Keller at Katzenbach Partners LLC (A) Harvard Business School Case 407-037 Tracks of the first 6 months of a recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a little more complicated than... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 05 Feb 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

Freeman would ask, "... how will the selected individual handle power?" Edward Hare suggested that results fall short of expectations "... because we don't understand motives (of the candidate for the leadership position)... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

MBA: Business Education at a Crossroads Authors:Srikant M. Datar, David A. Garvin, and Patrick Cullen Publication:Journal of Management Development 30, no. 5 (2011) Abstract The paper seeks to examine major challenges facing MBA programs... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018

religiosity at the individual level and employing a religious prime. That is, the more religious people are, the less willing they are to follow through on novel purchase opportunities that arise during their grocery shopping trips. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

Schneider, Tufano proposes a slight renovation of the program that will make it easier for asset-poor families to use savings bonds to build a nest egg for the future. Families living paycheck to paycheck rarely squirrel away funds to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

organization, but was far from broken. "Women's progress has really leveled off, and has been stuck for at least 10 years," says Robin J. Ely, the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and senior associate View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 11 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Wired and Black: Focus on Careers

sometimes may need to be convinced. "You may find yourself selling what an MBA can do at some smaller companies," he said. Big or small, Butler and the other panelists said job applicants should carefully research any company... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
  • 15 Aug 2005
  • HBS Case

Classic Cases Live On at HBS

Everyone talks about how quickly business changes, yet some HBS cases remain reliably relevant decades after they are written. We take a behind-the-scenes look at five cases that are at least twenty years old, are still regularly taught in View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

new strategy. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/908416-PDF-ENG Toby Johnson (A): Leading After School Boris Groysberg, Leslie Danford, Amy Lodge, and Tereh SaylesHarvard Business School Case 410-103 After completing her View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15

but related through their connection with an underlying, evolving technical system. In the future, I believe the key problem for organization design will be the management of distributed innovation in such dynamic systems. Organization... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2016
  • Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

already been done, especially when a costly court battle drags on for as long as 18 months. “If you’re a small, innovative firm, you don’t have that kind of time. Your technology will be obsolete,” Cohen said. Cohen said it makes sense to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Solving COVID'S Mental Health Crisis

ongoing state support and federal emergency aid will be required to avoid a crisis.” Telepsychiatry may increase patient access David Theobald (HBS MBA 1991)’s interest in mental health technology... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Health
  • 23 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 23

Ramarajan Publication:In Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations: Building a Theoretical and Research Foundation, edited by Laura M. Roberts and Jane E. Dutton. Psychology Press, 2009 Abstract In this chapter we examine factors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Building Bridges Between Education and Business

clarify what exactly the case will need from the business. Some businesses discover that the task is greater than they had imagined at the start. But it's also important to emphasize to the business what it can learn from the process."... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

organizations around the world was delivered to the IMF's managing director in the first week of September, 2009 (Lombardi, 2009). Long-term governance reforms are central to the Bank's legitimacy as a global public institution. At the... View Details
Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim
  • 07 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

confronts the challenge of whether its business model will continue to be viable under radically altered market conditions and a new regulatory regime. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/310056-PDF-ENG Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jan 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 25

number of competitors increases. Greater rivalry reduces the incentives of all competitors in a contest to exert effort and make investments. At the same time, adding competitors increases the likelihood that at least one competitor will... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Where is Home for the Global Firm?

well-integrated will not be able to handle such reallocations, as trust and preexisting relationships will be particularly critical in these settings. Growing a culture is also much more challenging in such... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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