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  • 19 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Why Are Web Sites So Confusing?

Do you sometimes get the feeling that Internet portals, search pages, social networks, e-commerce, and other Web sites are not necessarily designed in order to maximize user convenience and benefits? We do, too. Why—you might ask? For a... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu & Bruno Jullien
  • Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

They show that funding loans to these borrowers lead to better economic outcomes for the borrowers and higher returns for the fintech platform. See Marco’s other research here , Dimuthu’s other research here , and Don’s other research... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Reducing Risk with Online Advertising

How can online advertising fraud be detected and prevented? What should we look at, where should we look, and what methods and tools should we use? These questions are relevant to anyone who buys online advertising. According to HBS professor Ben Edelman, an expert on... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Video Game; Web Services
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

Economists: A Market Design Perspective Authors:Peter A. Coles, John Cawley, Phillip B. Levine, Muriel Niederle, Alvin E. Roth, and John J. Siegfried Publication:Journal of Economic Perspectives... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies

March 11. Tokyo, and indeed much of eastern Japan, is an epicenter of high-tech manufacturing. But dozens of suppliers in other industries are located in the region as well, and the loss of their production may have far-reaching effects in many View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Auto; Technology; Computer; Electronics
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

and staggered board membership (designed to preserve continuity in governance, but criticized by shareholders as a means of preserving the status quo), and, in the minds of its advocates, greater management accountability. Agency theory has been associated with... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Strategy and the Internet

for competitors to imitate information systems. The openness of the Internet, combined with advances in software architecture, development tools, and modularity, makes it much easier for companies to design and implement applications. The... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter
  • 22 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 22

Dharmapala Publication:The Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract This paper investigates how dividend taxes influence portfolio choices, using the response to the distinctive treatment of a subset of foreign dividends... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2006 (Revised October 2006)
  • Case

Best Buy Co., Inc.: Customer-Centricity

By: Rajiv Lal, Carin-Isabel Knoop and Irina Tarsis
With FY2005 sales of $27.3 billion, Richfield, Minn.-based Best Buy Co., Inc. was the leading retailer of consumer electronics, home-office products, and related services in North America. Its operations included the distinct store formats Best Buy, Future Shop in... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Service Operations; Business Earnings; Financial Crisis; Failure; Business Model; Leadership; Segmentation; Value Creation; Electronics Industry; United States; Canada; Mongolia
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Reconceiving Products & Markets - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

needs and new markets open up opportunities to differentiate , innovate , and grow . A new generation of social entrepreneurs is capturing these opportunities, and mainstream businesses must keep up to stay competitive by: Designing... View Details
  • 26 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 26

whether the testimonial's efficacy increases when information is added about an affiliation the quoted individual shares with the recipient. Research Design and Methods: A total of 5,498 union members were randomly assigned to receive 1... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Pagliuca Harvard Life Lab | About

companies and is adjacent to the Harvard i-lab and Launch Lab. The first floor consists of 50 coworking spaces designed to be family friendly with a fully stocked kitchen, office supply center, conference rooms, lockers, filing cabinets,... View Details
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Aldrich Hall | About

eliminated from the 1920s campus construction for economic reasons, and growing enrollments in the wake of World War II stretched the limits of provisional facilities in Baker and Carpenter Halls. With extensive input from Dean Donald K.... View Details
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

The coronavirus pandemic has not only disrupted lives and businesses, it has illuminated underlying fragilities in the global value chain (GVC) that drives economies around the world. The smartphone you use many times daily is a product of a global value chain, View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • July 2003
  • Case

De La Salle Academy

By: Thomas J. DeLong and David Ager
Brother Brian Carty, headmaster and founder of De La Salle Academy, a private school for academically talented, economically disadvantaged children in grades six to eight in New York City, is scheduled to meet with the school's board of directors to discuss how the... View Details
Keywords: Middle School Education; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Design; Management Succession; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Community Relations; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Education Industry
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  • 09 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations

like that was explicitly designed to engage the drives, the skills, the smarts, and the emotions of such people in a collaborative effort to design, produce, and sell products and services of value to the wider world? After we have... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
  • 30 May 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Can AI Predict Whether Shoppers Would Pick Crest or Colgate?

value of AI as an important tool for increasing productivity, reducing costs, and improving the quality of survey designs and insights generated within the fast-growing, $80 billion market research industry. “We’re not saying everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 10 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: First Look: October 10

Economics and Ethics (Zeitschrift fur Wirtschafts- und Unternehmensethik) 8, no. 1 (2007): 29-32 No abstract available. The Art of Designing Markets Author:Alvin E. Roth Periodical:Harvard Business Review... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of IT Consulting

expertise in designing and coding complex computer applications. SAP and Seibel have developed unique package software, and have provided specialized consulting services to assist in the implementation of the package software. A third... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

change, energy policy, and economic development. Most recently, Gordon served under California Governor Gavin Newsom as the Director of the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research (OPR) and Senior Policy Advisor to the Governor on... View Details