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- 22 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Side Effects: The Case of Propecia
physicians, using the company's army of field representatives. The problem of so-called "detailing" to physicians was that the sales reps have literally a few minutes or even seconds to pitch directly to the doctor, and are... View Details
- 17 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Pro Basketball Coaches Display Racial Bias When Selecting Lineups
that coaches demonstrate less racial preference when their team is on a losing streak or in playoff games. More than any other American sport, basketball is dominated by African American players. Three-quarters of athletes running up and down the court are black,... View Details
- 18 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education
How can schools around the world educate their students better? What does the future hold? Most researchers who study these questions in the field of education peer through the lenses of sociology and public policy. HBS professor Clayton... View Details
- Research Summary
Mastering Strategy Execution
By: Robert Simons
Professor Robert Simons’ research encompasses three areas of management accountability that are the foundation for successful strategy execution: organization design, performance measurement and control, and risk management. In addition, Simons is interested in the... View Details
- 21 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill
"Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." —Abdu'l-Bahá The field of economics is rife with the concept of "capital." There's financial capital—cold hard cash or cashable assets. There's fixed capital—the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 16
environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological assumptions that vary in the extent to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
and design assignments. The education facilitated his transition into management when he was finally promoted two years later. Once in middle management, Williams's career took off; he was charged with coordinating the engineering, manufacturing, and View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 14 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Mapping Polluters, Encouraging Protectors
the site launched. Research Matters According to Toffel, 2 research projects are associated with the map: looking at what facilities do, and what the public at large is concerned about. For the first project, the researchers sent a survey... View Details
- 17 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 17, 2007
Preferences and Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between the preferences people anticipate they will have in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
In Study 2 we examined whether the sequential order of the integration condition matters. In line with our prediction, we found that integration worked best when unconscious thought followed conscious thought. Teaching Leadership:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 14
studied and how it relates to the environment in which it occurs—affect the dissemination of knowledge from subfields to the broader field of study. Micro-process research in organizational studies rests on implicit phenomenological... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
national championship game from being played if the number 1 and 2 teams were in conferences committed to different bowls. While the current organization of bowl games leaves much to be desired, it does a much better job of producing good... View Details
- 13 Jun 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rescuing Products with Stealth Positioning
2 console. The game concept was simple but groundbreaking. Standing in front of the EyeToy camera (which sits unthreateningly on top of the TV), users place themselves into the game, appearing "inside" it on the television.... View Details
Keywords: by Youngme Moon
- 18 Apr 2005
- Lessons from the Classroom
NFL Players Touch Down at HBS
each other as well as with HBS faculty and MBA students. "Usually on the field you just want to knock the crap out of each other," said Je'Rod Cherry, defensive back for the New England Patriots. "But here I can talk to... View Details
- 31 May 2016
- First Look
May 31, 2016
employees of a health benefits administrator that held a free workplace influenza vaccination clinic. Results: A 2 SD increase in functional proximity is associated with a 6.4 percentage point increase in the probability of vaccination... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
August 2018 Negotiation and Conflict Management Research Raiffa Transformed the Field of Negotiation—and Me By: Bazerman, Max Abstract—Howard Raiffa was a role model, friend, and inspiration. He transformed the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
microfinance is helping to reduce Bangladesh's poverty levels by 2 percent a year. Paying The Way With Microfinance Michael Chu, a private-equity specialist at KKR before joining ACCION International, was instrumental in spreading... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
individual, managerial, and corporate cases, many with an international perspective. All cases have been classroom-tested at the Harvard Business School; most have been developed in the field rather than in the library. Twenty-seven new... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem
something that already works [e.g. credit and debit cards], something that doesn't complain when it gets wet in the rain, something that doesn't complain when I launder my pants?" Especially, he adds, when those cards give users and additional 1 or View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
4,000 firms across 12 countries in Europe, North America, and Asia. We find that competition does indeed seem to foster greater decentralization. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-052.pdf Accountability and Control as Catalysts for Strategic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace