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- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional Investors View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It: Digital CEO Buys Traditional Media!
focus on digital innovations but kept it organizationally separate from the paper. One of the lab's most famous creations was its Social Reader, a product designed for Facebook and the first by any major paper to experiment with directly... View Details
- 26 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 26
Ashraf, Oriana Bandiera, and Kelsey Jack Abstract A substantial body of research investigates the design of incentives in firms, yet less is known about incentives in organizations that hire individuals to perform tasks with positive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Apr 2009
- Research & Ideas
Misgovernance at the World Bank
seat on the board? A: I think the main service we can provide is to show that board members can be held accountable by data that are publicly available. It would be relatively simple for the Bank to publish the amounts of development... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
Companies change strategy, operational processes, and policies all the time, each shift creating a new group of winners and losers. When Steve Jobs became CEO of Apple for the second time, the culture shifted, with designers enjoying... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
Amazon, eBay and the Bidding Wars
work in market design are interested in how the rules by which markets are organized influence the behavior of participants. So, when I noticed, back in the early days of eBay, that a lot of auctions received bids right near the end of... View Details
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
Michael Luca and Weijia (Daisy) Dai, an assistant professor of economics at Lehigh University, recently studied effectiveness of paid search ads for small businesses by designing a large-scale field experiment that involved nearly 20,000... View Details
- 21 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store
that is highly valued by them, but doesn't cost you a lot of money. For example, allocate more services to good customers. This could mean a designated line at the deli counter, or a ten items or less checkout line. You already have the... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
Abstract—In a survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council in July 2018, 42% of respondents say they think value-based reimbursement models will be the primary revenue model for U.S. health care. Indeed, this transition is already... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
we (as common people) be thinking into how to share solutions ?) ... Our ideas, our knowledge, should be public." Or do you feel, as Gaurav does, that "the creator is the owner! If not, people will not create"? (Of course,... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
manufactuer's 787 Dreamliner, designed and built using more than 100 outside partners, is perhaps the most-watched example of the use of innovation networks. But already almost two years late, the project was dealt another blow last month... View Details
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
the table in their insurance-plan choices, sometimes thousands of dollars. This is true both when consumers make active choices (e.g., they do not have a default plan) and when they make passive choices (e.g., they have a default plan). We discuss the implications of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research
us now. Preliminary results of a study Gino conducted during the coronavirus crisis shows that people with a heightened sense of curiosity feel less stress and approach their days thinking about what they might learn during this strange... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
- 16 Apr 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom
the Quartermaster General, earning the rank of captain. World War II had a significant impact on Christensen's career. The organizational challenges of warfare on a global scale encouraged the use of strategic thinking to accomplish... View Details
- 23 Jul 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Innovation Is Magic. Really
problem the product or service should be designed to solve. For example, when Walt Disney was plotting out Disneyland in the late 1940s, he didn't concern himself at first with typical amusement park issues like how many rides to build,... View Details
- 16 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16
position as the seventh-largest U.S. financial institution. It would also unlock substantial value not currently reflected in the stock. Each faced major obstacles and execution risks, however. In particular, no one knew the precise cut-off for a SIFI View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
Mattel: Getting a Toy Recall Right
design flaws in the toys with the magnets that could come loose. But Mattel deserves praise for now stepping up to its responsibilities as the leading brand in the toy industry. What has Mattel done right? The CEO has taken personal... View Details
- 17 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 17, 2015
at many non-financial firms have highlighted a "low-leverage puzzle" and raised questions about the implications of cash holdings for corporate investment and economic growth. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50095 2015 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
Are Business Schools Really Important “Crucibles of Leadership?”
Summing Up Crucibles of leadership are where you find them—or they find you. And business schools rarely create them, at least according to the respondents to the October column. Perry Miles put it most succinctly when he said, "A business school cannot and should... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett