Waiting Period - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Airbnb Hosts Discriminate Against African-American Guests

on the frequency of names from birth certificates of babies born in Massachusetts in the mid-1970s. Using these twenty guest accounts, the researchers sent some 6,400 to Airbnb hosts over a period of three weeks in July, 2015. Then they... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accommodations; Web Services

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

ad, followed by a longer period of joy, in order to get the most 'attention' bang for the buck," Teixeira says. This finding flies in the face of focus groups of the past, which found that viewers responded most positively to ads that had... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals

from origin to destination" still do so quite effectively. To ease circulation and shorten waits at the dining halls, class periods for different student groups are staggered. Second-year students'... View Details

Keywords: Education

22 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

the quality threshold that the idea underlying the startup needs to pass may be lower than during normal times. Considering our findings from other periods of economic distress, lowering the idea-quality bar may then imply long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Companies Shouldn't Delay Software Updates—Even After CrowdStrike's Flaw

issued and new fixes made available. Then again, roughly half of firms were “way back from the frontier,” says Greenstein, not performing updates for long periods of time, such as two years, if ever, following Apache alerts about software... View Details

Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald; Technology; Information Technology; Computer; Web Services

02 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

The Curse of Double-Digit Growth

for example. Investors may secure a promising iron ore asset but drag their feet in developing it while waiting for mines elsewhere to deplete. Even after a decision is made to mine, the infrastructure must be built to bring the resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

are perishable and you need to wait at home for them to be delivered. In that light, do you think there's a future for online grocery shopping? A: Home-delivered groceries? Never. Online communication, auto-replenishment services,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

24 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Who Sets Your Benchmarks?

spoken with and advised a steady stream of young, middle-, and later-stage professionals who excelled for a period but then began to struggle professionally and to experience doubt about what they wanted. In the early stages of their... View Details

18 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Wrap-up: Software, Telecom, and Recovery

managing investments the same way in both areas. "We're helping them stay alive during a horrible economic downturn so they can last on a minimum amount of capital during a period in which their top line is not going to grow very... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Martha Lagace; Financial Services; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

diseases, treatments, and procedures. The data would be made publicly available after a waiting period during which providers could correct any errors. Over time, information about providers' risk-adjusted... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

02 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Companies Choreograph Earnings Calls to Hide Bad News

The quarterly earnings conference call is a traditional way for public companies to disclose information regarding performance and strategy from the prior quarter. Wall Street analysts and other company watchers dial in, identify themselves, and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

19 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

found that when work schedules clash, real-time communication drops, and some workers feel pressure to shift their work-related conversations to early or late periods of the day when they should be off the clock. Yet talking after hours... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

08 Aug 2006
First Look

First Look: August 8, 2006

predictions of several models of learning and related models. We find that equilibrium becomes a better predictor of observed play as the players become more experienced, but that simple models of learning predict more accurately, over the 500 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

12 Nov 2018
Research & Ideas

'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making

and high performers draw on them less. NEXT UP: NEW COLLABORATION TOOLS Not all intermittency is gone, despite management trends and collaboration tools pushing the always-on ethos. Sprints used by agile teams are an example of structuring people to come together for a... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

We asked Harvard Business School experts who study well-being to share strategies for coping with this unsettling period to prevent the coronavirus blues from taking a huge toll, both personally and professionally. “You're not going to be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

how to change it? Designate distraction-free time for ‘deep work’ The first rule is to assign generous periods of time to important tasks exclusively, isolated from distraction (welcome or not). Workers capable of performing what... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

14 May 2020
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

call may be having a dramatic experience during this crisis is an important subtext for how they are navigating the conversation with me.” “[Pacing] ourselves as leaders to remain strong for all the people that depend on us, [managing] organizational stress and fatigue... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams

21 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

project versus waiting for more extended periods when a blown deadline or budget can't be overcome quickly. This reduction in uncertainty and increase in rapid iterative feedback between teams, customers,... View Details

Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo

13 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Making Biotech Work as a Business

create safer and more effective treatments and, of course, reap profits—industry executives, like hopeful patients, still restlessly wait for relief. Given its scientific potential, said Pisano, biotech continues to bump against several... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

How else would you possibly explain it?" Instead of waiting for the tectonic plates of society to shift, we would rather ask what we can do in the interim. How can we change the situation through negotiation?— Hannah Riley Bowles... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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