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- 22 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 23
engagement practices. Finally, I explore the limits and anticompetitive concerns to the theory of change presented here. Harvard Business School Case 917-019 Buffer.com Social media company Buffer wanted to establish clear company values... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Chance Encounters: What's at Stake in Return-to-Office Decisions
home. But they also used real numbers to measure productivity and saw the exact opposite in the non-subjective evaluations, so there was a disconnect between what was perceived to be going on by employees vs. what the actual numbers were... View Details
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
isolated and abandoned to the wolves. This happens despite success, and sometimes because of how success was achieved. It happens to results-producing CEOs pushed out of companies; for example, Mark Hurd of Hewlett Packard, who fudged expense reports but whose View Details
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
Wikileaks, the US State Department does not believe that the opposition has links to Tehran. Protestors want the elected parliament to have real power. So far, the signs point toward compromise. The more the Bahraini opposition gets what... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
- News
Finding a Fix for Food Allergies
photo by Stu Rosner Food allergies affect 30 million Americans and one in 12 children, sometimes triggering life-threatening reactions. Yet there are no approved FDA treatments or cures. These sobering facts became alarmingly real to... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
optional for a transaction, including travel booking networks, restaurant ordering services, online rebate services, and some kinds of insurance. Overall, the researchers find that price coherence actually leads to inflated retail prices,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
homelessness. But the affordable housing problem is especially acute in urban areas, where entire tranches of the workforce—teachers, laborers, first responders, restaurant and transit workers, for example—are squeezed out of their communities by rising View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965
twenty years ago the company was unprepared for changes in the marketplace as competitors emerged that offered clients individual pieces of the technology package, such as a database program or storage device. This brought about increased View Details
- 25 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
Hiding From Managers Can Increase Your Productivity
Real In the summers of 2008 and 2009, when he was a doctoral candidate at HBS, Bernstein hired a team of five Chinese-born Harvard undergraduates to be "embeds" at the plant. They lived in factory dorms and worked alongside... View Details
- 18 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 18, 2008
Those selecting earlier settlement options pay higher fees and interest, therefore revealing the level of credit constraints or impatience. We find that more credit constrained or impatient individuals spend their monies more quickly. The... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
New Biotech Joint Degree Program Kicks Off
Students in the second cohort of the new MS/MBA Biotechnology: Life Sciences program arrived on campus this summer. When Elisa MacColl (MS/MBA 2022), a consultant in L.E.K.’s life sciences practice, first considered graduate school, she was disappointed to find there... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
system of choosing directors to “the old Soviet-style elections” in which shareholders’ real choice is to vote for anointed nominees, abstain, or sell the stock. Of all the nominees put forward by boards, 99.7 percent win election. Also,... View Details
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with implications for the theory and practice... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 May 2002
- Research & Ideas
A Toolkit for Customer Innovation
to bolster and enhance the taste of nearly all processed foods because manufacturing techniques weaken the real flavors. The development of those added flavors requires a high degree of customization and expertise, and the practice... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke & Eric Von Hippel
- 28 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
Creating a Workplace That Supports Employees in Work and Life
real results. Equity Audits The first step is to understand where your organization needs to improve so that time and money can be put behind the right efforts. Elizabeth Zwart (MBA 2023) recommended companies “explore, and then address,... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
point that exploration is stifled and inertia sets in. We suggest that mature organizations can sustain exploration by deliberately inducing perturbations in their own processes. Our theory yields testable hypotheses about the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
Name Your Price. Really.
pricing—a phenomenon that admittedly makes no rational economic sense. When presented an opportunity for a freebie, "classical economic theory says you should pay nothing," says Santana. "Why buy something when you can get... View Details
- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits
behind one of pop culture's most successful icons. Over the past decade, Elberse, the Lincoln Filene Professor of Business Administration, has frequented star-studded galas thrown by LeBron James and Jay-Z, hung out with the CEO of Walt Disney Studios, and watched... View Details
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Weight Loss: A Randomized, Controlled Trial," published in the June 2011 edition of Journal of General Internal Medicine. TIP #3- Fill your backpack with rocks. A research team from Harvard and the University of Central Florida tested the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
networks, encouraged cable's growth, under the theory that "the enemy of my enemy is my friend." FCC Chairman Nicholas Johnson, an ardent supporter of the wired cities concept, championed a series of FCC actions helpful to the... View Details