Individuals And Teams - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Government’s Positive Role in Kick-Starting Entrepreneurship

that the temptation for individuals and organizations to take steps that benefit themselves, rather than the broader social good, is universal and minimizing that danger. Q:... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

02 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Role of Government When All Else Fails

social insurance, bankruptcy law, disaster relief, and so forth) have been studied extensively on an individual basis. What struck me, however, was that no one had ever looked across these policies View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

about $40,000. Lending Club, Prosper, Funding Circle and Fundation are using a peer-to-peer (P2P) model. Backed by individual investors, these companies make loan decisions based on proprietary credit models... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

05 Nov 2024
Research & Ideas

AI Can Help Leaders Communicate, But Can't Make Employees Listen

Choudhury and his team built a “CEO Bot” by providing a large language model with all internal and external communications from the real boss, including emails View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand; Information Technology; Technology

06 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

reality is that some days you need to drive your kid to school.” So, what’s the alternative? Beshears teamed with researchers from the University of Pennsylvania and Johns Hopkins University in 2015 to test... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

31 Oct 2014
Op-Ed

Ebola’s Call To Arms About Disaster Preparedness

and we're seeing some real heroes in our public health system, too. Once we get beyond the individual heroics, however, we should be quite concerned about breakdowns of protocol in the nation's hospitals.... View Details

Keywords: by Gautam Mukunda; Health

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

we've increasingly observed another phenomenon: ideas flowing back to the U.S. Take wireless technology in Europe, for example, where the standards are more uniform and advanced than they are here. I'm now advising a one-year field study... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Fashion Your New E-Business Model

customers, individual consumers—the actual end users—are often located inside the customer firm: This can create a two-stage adoption cycle—first the business must decide to purchase a product or service and... View Details

Keywords: by Lynda M. Applegate

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

effort? If so, what kind of training would be required for those teaching "judgment"? To what degree could this supplement and perhaps accelerate a process of individual self-discovery in the real... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action

learned" manual to apply to the 757 and 767 models. Allegheny Ludlum, meanwhile, continuously experiments with its steel products, interpreting and applying the results, while allowing work View Details

Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron

03 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

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

keep on ignoring what your peers are doing. John Beshears and colleagues looked at whether employees would contribute more money to their individual 401K plans if they learned that their peers were doing so.... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

money when those shocks occur. “They should be less concerned about that, because they can ride out those waves,” says Viceira. Thus, for investors looking beyond a 10- to 20-year time frame—including individuals saving for retirement,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

26 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

What Can the World’s Largest Refugee Camp Teach Us About the Meaning of Work?

traumatic experiences and deep uncertainty about one's future erode or elevate the psychosocial benefits of work. Starting this winter, the team will compare how 1,000 Rohingya households at the Kutupalong... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

29 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

Super Bowl Ads for Multitaskers

"With $4 million, Coke may get $40 million in people's time and attention over the course of the year," says Teixeira. The Super Bowl has always been as big a battle between advertisers as a competition between the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising; Sports

16 Sep 2014
Research & Ideas

Has Apple Reinvented the Watch?

functionality. And the market research on individuals who purchase these activity tracking devices suggests that most have the discretionary income to afford an Apple Watch. Q: Will the Apple Watch end up... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ryan L. Raffaelli; Electronics; Retail; Health

21 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

The VC Quandary: Too Much Money

for any individual companies to succeed, and valuations got pushed up…I wonder if you think that phenomenon has gone away?" Marc A. Friend, a general partner with twenty-year-old Summit Partners,... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette; Financial Services

06 Mar 2019
Sharpening Your Skills

Has the Glass Ceiling Been Broken (or at Least Cracked)?

because of social defenses at the organizational level, along with wider cultural beliefs that are resistant to change. Gender Stereotypes in Deliberation and Team DecisionsWomen are recognized less often... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

05 Dec 2007
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing

direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms'... View Details

04 Apr 2008
What Do You Think?

Who Owns Intellectual Property?

rate—a stark reminder of the perils of owning intellectual property in China at that time. Turning to the Internet itself, and particularly to content-sharing sites, the matter of ownership is challenged in a different way. Content... View Details