Personal Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Apr 2010
First Look

First Look: April 20

thinking and feeling to physiology and subsequent behavioral choices. That a person can, via a simple two-minute pose, embody power and instantly become more powerful has real-world, actionable implications. Download the paper: View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

05 Jun 2013
What Do You Think?

Do We Need to Extend ‘No Surprises Management?’

employees in the dark and constantly surprising them is a serious form of disrespect." Bert Baker linked it to integrity with this comment: "When I know that my manager is a person of integrity, then I know they will not... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Jan 2015
What Do You Think?

SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?

it this way, privacy has been losing ground rapidly with the ascendancy of big data and the Internet of things. The retreat of privacy has been aided by personal use of networking apps like Facebook,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

seek work once benefits ended, the authors examined a sample of low-income workers who typically have limited access to credit. Using detailed banking data from Earnin, a financial services company that offers workers access to their... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

01 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?

Ozik, and Sadka stop short of assigning a definitive explanation for this distortion of information, their research indicates that managers may provide misleading information for self-serving reasons: “The data suggest they may be... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services

02 Feb 2016
First Look

February 2, 2016

for rigorous accounting research. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50473 forthcoming Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Hiding Personal Information Reveals the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

New Winners and Losers in the Internet Economy

ecosystem has grown at an impressive rate," Deighton says. When indirect employment is calculated into the number of jobs that depend directly on the existence of the Internet, the study estimates that 5.1 million people owe their livelihoods to it. The report,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Publishing

10 May 2016
First Look

May 10, 2016

insiders trade. We conclude managers do not fully disclose their private information and instead message to shareholders and analysts something of opposite sign. The data suggest they may be motivated in part by subsequent View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Zambian Schoolgirls Receive Negotiation Training

Business Administration at HBS. “But everything is rewritten to work in a Zambian context. The data to date shows that the training’s effects are very positive.” Drawing from her own experience teaching negotiation at HBS, as well as... View Details

Keywords: Re: Kathleen L. McGinn

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)

Well-intentioned people often start the new calendar year with a long list of personal resolutions, only to abandon most of them before Valentine’s Day. Alas, it’s a lot easier to make New Year’s resolutions than to keep them. That’s one... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

contribute to this gap, Mills says, and it's where she's focusing some of her early attention. "For the bankers, there's the cost of making the loan, the fact that we have fewer banks now than we did before 2008, and the toll that the recession took on the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

21 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

benefits emanating from diversity, the two professors wanted to find a company that already had a lot of diversity in its ranks. This led them to the commercial bank. They then collected human resources data on branch demographics, the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

originated. “We are using data from regulators, writing studies, but seldom going back to the regulators to say, ‘This is what we learned,’” says Harvard Business School Professor Michael W. Toffel, whose research examines companies’... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

actually thinking. And because there are eight to twelve people, there's just not enough time for each person to talk. The maximum number for effective interpersonal communication is three." Instead, hire professional interviewers to... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

15 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

A Better Business Model for Fighting Cancer

words, create a better end-to-end consumer experience, with the result being a larger, deeper pool of data to draw on and drive progress in new therapies. Data and analytics “It takes an abundance of View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health; Pharmaceutical

02 Sep 2016
Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

spotty, thanks to continuing internecine rivalries within the Republican Party.Trump's comparative advantage is in social media. He used controversial tweets, sometimes incorporating personal attacks, to dominate the news cycle during the... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

man-made," says Associate Professor Ramana Nanda, who studies entrepreneurial financing issues in the clean energy sector. "Depending on the person I speak to, I try to then make the following two arguments: "First, I point to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

when VC firm Mohr Davidow made an investment in Navigenics, a direct competitor to personal genomics company 23andMe, a startup it had invested in previously. A year later, a similar case occurred when Andreesen Horowitz cut its... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking

16 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Unfulfilled Promise of Educational Technology

Not only has technology entered nearly every area of our personal life, it's the rare industry that isn't computerized, networked, and advertised on Facebook. Except one: education. Outside of the occasional computer lab, basic webpage,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Education

18 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 18

companies with detailed data on how CEOs allocate their time, which we define as their span of attention. CEOs with larger executive teams do not save time for personal use or to cultivate external... View Details