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- January 2017
- Teaching Note
The Park Hotels: Revitalizing an Iconic Indian Brand
By: Jill Avery and Chekitan S. Dev
Priya Paul, chairwoman of The Park Hotels, an award-winning portfolio of thirteen boutique hotels scattered across India, was in the midst of a brand revitalization program. Landor Associates, a leading brand consultancy, had identified three areas of concern: the... View Details
- March–April 2017
- Article
Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior
By: Sheila M. Reddy, Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher and Stanley T. Asah
Behavioral sciences can advance conservation by systematically identifying behavioral barriers to conservation and how to best overcome them. Behavioral sciences have informed policy in many other realms (e.g., health, savings), but they are a largely untapped resource... View Details
Keywords: Adaptive Management; Awareness; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Conservation Intervention; Conservation Planning; Decision-making; Incentives; Nudge; Management; Motivation and Incentives; Behavior; Marketing; Decision Making; Environmental Sustainability; Economics
Reddy, Sheila M., Jensen Montambault, Yuta J. Masuda, Ayelet Gneezy, Elizabeth Keenan, William Butler, Jonathan R. Fisher, and Stanley T. Asah. "Advancing Conservation by Understanding and Influencing Human Behavior." Conservation Letters 10, no. 2 (March–April 2017): 248–256. (doi:10.1111/conl.12252.)
- August 2021
- Article
Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap
By: Abhishek Nagaraj
The wild success of a few online communities (like Wikipedia) has obscured the fact that most attempts at forming such communities fail. This study evaluates information seeding, an early-stage intervention to bootstrap online communities that enables contributors to... View Details
Keywords: Online Communities; Knowledge Production; Crowdsourcing; Innovation; Digitization; Internet and the Web; Digital Platforms; Social and Collaborative Networks; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Dissemination
Nagaraj, Abhishek. "Information Seeding and Knowledge Production in Online Communities: Evidence from OpenStreetMap." Management Science 67, no. 8 (August 2021).
- 16 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity
- 12 Sep 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
The Ethnic Composition of U.S. Inventors
Keywords: by William R. Kerr
- 10 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Feeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior
- 04 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 4
From Crowds to Collaborators: Initiating Effort & Catalyzing Interactions Among Online Creative Workers By: Boudreau, Kevin J., Patrick Gaule, Karim R. Lakhani, Christoph Riedl, and Anita Williams Woolley Abstract—Online collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
- 14 Dec 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America
Keywords: by Gunnar Trumbull
- 30 May 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Non-Standard Matches and Charitable Giving
- 15 May 2007
- Working Paper Summaries
How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment
- March 2018 (Revised March 2018)
- Teaching Note
OpenInvest
By: Boris Vallee and Caitlin Reimers Brumme
Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolio to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapon manufacturers stocks or overweighting LGBTQ... View Details
- 23 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
How to Brand a Next-Generation Product
Gourville and Ofek teamed up with London Business School professor Marco Bertini (HBS DBA '06) to suss out the best practices for branding next-generation products. "For managers, this is not a trivial decision," Ofek says.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
This separate-yet-connected structure allows leaders to provide freedom to some to blaze a new trail, while protecting the ability of others to stay on the tried-and-true path. "You need to separate out your innovators and let them... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
commissioned his CFO Bonnie Tu to open the first all-women's bicycle store in Taipei and charged her not only with figuring out the needs of women customers, but also mandating that she turn a profit. "Because your only customers are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2023
- HBS Case
From P.T. Barnum to Mary Kay: Lessons From 5 Leaders Who Changed the World
circus, was in fact the father of modern advertising, Simons’ case shows. As a child working in his father’s general store, Barnum learned to hustle, promote, and barter. He didn’t care if his tactics earned him jail time as long as they drew a View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
- 26 Apr 2024
- HBS Case
Deion Sanders' Prime Lessons for Leading a Team to Victory
game? Sanders sets high expectations, clearly lays out the plan, checks to make sure people are following through, and provides all the logistical support the team needs to succeed both on and off the field. “Deion reminds me of military... View Details
- 30 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
‘Intrinsic Joy’ Sparks Ideas Better than Cash
It seems obvious: If you want to boost innovation from a crowd writing and improving software code, just dangle a cash incentive. When GitHub began offering matching funds to open source software users who snagged outside sponsors in... View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- HBS Case
How Uber, Airbnb, and Etsy Attracted Their First 1,000 Customers
biggest discrepancy between supply and demand for taxis. They then launched during times when that demand was likely to be the highest, for example during the holidays when people tend to stay out late partying. It also ran promotions... View Details
- 25 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 25
by the nature of contracts available to the vertically integrated firm and the MSP, and whether professionals hold private information. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-037_4d9f8cf9-28b6-482e-9c18-0422d4553c8e.pdf The Search for... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits
of material concerns as an organization doesn’t crowd out the goal of contributing to the broader welfare,” Ramarajan says. You’ll likely get better results, too. One journalist told the authors that,... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis