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- 30 May 2023
- Research & Ideas
Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?
really likes wine,” Ngwe explains. Might GPT also consider shifts in the decision-making ability of a restaurant-goer who had consumed a few glasses of wine? Maybe. The black-box nature of AI makes it... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 03 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Rituals in Life, Death, and Business
rituals associated with food, we next explored whether rituals could even make food taste better," Norton says. “With consumption, rituals seem to work because they increase your involvement in the experience.” In a series of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Billions of Entrepreneurs in China and India
lobbies to keep foreign investment out. There are other aspects to openness, of course, than just FDI. Traditionally, India has been more open to ideas than has China, for instance. Q: How should a foreign entrepreneur size up the potential of each country? A: First,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
Hazard Warning: The Unacceptable Cost of Toxic Workers
good corporate citizen at the end of the day, not only do they make it a nicer place to work, but they also help the profitability of the firm compared to those who are at the other extreme,” says Minor, who’s visiting from Northwestern... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
When, and How Much to Entertain Consumers in Advertisements? A Web-based Facial Tracking Field Study By: Teixeira, Thales, Rosalind Picard, and Rana el Kaliouby Abstract—The presence of positive entertainment (e.g., visual imagery, upbeat music, humor) in TV... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies
A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
a broader pool, researchers used machine learning, and turned to data firm Burning Glass Technologies, which sifts through tens of thousands of online job boards and company websites. The authors examined some 15 million job postings from... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be Happier? Spend Some Money on Avoiding Household Chores
healthier campers if we eased up on the cooking, scrubbing, and grocery shopping and instead threw a little money at these problems. “We feel like we don’t have enough time to do everything we want to do, and that makes us feel like we’re... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
protagonist? We did not find large variations by rank, nor volume. Regardless of a professor’s case output or career status, about 20 percent of cases contained a female protagonist. Faculty gender did appear to make some difference: 26... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
interdependent work is performed under conditions that make bounded stable teams infeasible, creating a need to understand factors that foster teaming in the absence of team stability. Teaming refers to coordination and mutual adjustment... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
and compare these with prior life cycle data for biopolymers as well as other fibers, and we find that nanoclay production results in lower energy use and greenhouse gas emissions than production of many common biopolymers and glass... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be
company's brand must preserve its aspirational quality while maintaining its relevance in people's daily lives. "Luxury goods are so wrapped up in the psyche and how they make us feel," he explains. "Any brand has the... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
initial survey of several thousand rural households in West Bengal, India, they discovered that people don’t wash their hands with soap for the same reason most of us don’t run three miles every morning or drink eight glasses of water... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
and economic histories to illuminate Schumpeter's life and work. A central theme details how Schumpeter's insights help us understand how the forces of capitalism, innovation, and entrepreneurship continue to transform the world today. View Details
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
morale. Has flattening delivered on its promise to push decisions downward? In this article, I present evidence suggesting that while firms have delayered, flattened firms can exhibit more control and decision making at the top. Managers... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
refusing to go to Vietnam (“I ain’t got no quarrel with them Vietcong”) and then loved him for his courage and grace. During this era, the book makes it clear that Ali didn’t change—America did. The Tyranny of Merit: Michael Sandel is one... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 17 Dec 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
‘Ted Levitt Changed My Life’
"Ted Levitt changed my life," wrote Barry Koh (HBS PMD 30, 1975). "In our very first class he opened my eyes to how people are motivated to make decisions. Before, I thought as an engineer—the best attributes and the best... View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 23
Abstract The study of leadership suffers intellectual neglect and has yet to be considered a serious academic discipline. And though the mission statements of most business schools profess to "develop leaders who make a difference in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
the book is a sequel to their 2009 work The Adventures of an IT Leader "We hope that this book inspires reflection and makes a contribution to developing our knowledge about CEO leadership in ways that can help us meet the needs of the... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
State’s David Norton, compares the phenomenon to seeing bulletproof glass at a bank. “Bulletproof glass is something meant to protect us, but sometimes its very presence can View Details