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- 21 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
From Tigers to Kaleidoscopes: Thinking About Future Leadership
to new places to experience things quite different from normal practice Discussions with critics and challengers, or just those who hold a different world view, have different beliefs, make different assumptions Trend-tracking by asking... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
the resulting dual-process learning model experimentally, using a mixed-method design that combines two laboratory experiments with a field experiment conducted in a large... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Indulgence vs. Regret: Investing in Future Memories
ant-like and practical. "There is a well-developed literature around self-control issues in the fields of sociology, psychology, and economics," Keinan says. "We all know that people can be too impulsive and yield to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
Aversion in Queues By: Buell, Ryan W. Abstract—This paper investigates whether people exhibit last place aversion in queues and its implications for their experiences and behaviors in service environments. An observational analysis of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
How can nonprofit leaders address such conflicting demands? Harvard Business School Working Knowledge recently spoke with two leaders in the field of nonprofit performance management. Mario Morino is cofounder and chairman of Venture... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
‘Hybrid’ Organizations a Difficult Bet for Entrepreneurs
real-world problems in totally self-sustaining ways, harnessing the strengths of both for-profit and nonprofit models. But they are a difficult bet for entrepreneurs starting out in the field of business. Because hybrid social ventures... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
self-interest, is associated with greater self-interest only in the presence of a weak moral identity. Furthermore, we propose that the psychological experience of power is associated with less self-interest in the presence of a strong... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Pride Goeth Before a Profit
to employees' identity and self-worth. Caring About Accuracy Dave Thompson was appointed a measurement technician at El Segundo, CA-based Unocal's Van, TX, oil field in 1993. He was responsible for making sure that the amounts of oil and... View Details
Keywords: by Theodore Kinni
- 25 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help
from having opposing policy positions to rally around, and from, in effect, roping off the playing field from outside challengers who might outshine them. To understand how and why politics has become so disconnected from serving the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 14 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Getting Down to the Business of Creativity
"Creativity does have a reputation for being magical," says HBS professor Teresa Amabile. "One myth is that it's associated with the particular personality or genius of a person—and in fact, creativity does depend to some extent on the intelligence,... View Details
- 02 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 2
capture important information seemingly ignored by the market. A long-short portfolio based on these legislators' views earns abnormal returns of over 90 basis points per month following the passage of legislation. Industries that we classify as beneficiaries of... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 29 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 29
to everyday transactions like selling a house, buying a car, or landing a new contract. Wheeler also draws lessons on agility and creativity from fields like jazz, sports, theater, and even military science. Publisher's link: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
marigold wreaths and rafts of small oil lamps into the river. This is not like any field research I've done before. Thirty-five Harvard colleagues and I are at the Kumbh Mela in Allahabad, India, a mass pilgrimage in which tens of... View Details
- 03 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 3
steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
typically treat their costs as tightly guarded secrets. In six studies, we tested the effect of firm disclosure of the costs to produce a product (i.e., cost transparency) on purchase interest. We began with a natural field View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
incentives are removed. We conducted a field experiment with users of a pedometer-tracking app to examine whether the salience of incentives would affect their ability to produce habit formation in this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Employee Analytics: Productivity Dream or Micromanagement Nightmare?
With more data available than ever before, why would any executive gamble on a hunch—especially for decisions that involve their own employees? An emerging field that uses data to study human behavior at work, “people analytics” is... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 20 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS
learning. For example, the Immersion Experience Program and field studies engage students in hands-on activities and help them to translate knowing into doing and develop a deeper sense of their purpose as... View Details
- 05 Apr 2017
- Research & Ideas
For Women Especially, It Pays to Know What Car Repairs Should Cost
Quotes, published in the February issue of Journal of Marketing Research. The large-scale field experiment investigated whether price expectations of consumers--male or female--can influence the final price.... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
to large exogenous sources of non-systematic income risk? We use a series of randomized field experiments in rural India to test the importance of price and non-price factors in the adoption of an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel