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- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
them. Our approach can also help retailers design discounts that better serve their objectives. Q: You recommend that retailers disallow the purchase of multiple discount vouchers from a single customer, or else run the risk that the... View Details
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407 forthcoming ACM SIGecom Exchanges Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors By: Kominers, Scott Duke Abstract—This article gives a (very) brief exposition of what market design is,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
together, we interpret our results such that those individuals most sensitive to business cycles are enticed to lower the quality threshold, the bar, for turning existing ideas into new ventures during downturns, resulting in negative startup performance outcomes.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
suggestions, including: 1) designing "a practicum where MBA students [with a focus] on ethics ... practice ... hiring/interviewing skills ... by interviewing 'short list' candidates that are being strongly considered for admission by... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
to do in the past. Consumers need to think beyond just the monthly cost of their premiums and consider the trade-offs involved in their decisions, especially the risks and constraints of high deductibles and narrow network plans. From... View Details
- 05 Mar 2001
- What Do You Think?
Fine Coupling: Can Human Resource Management Learn from Supply Chain Management?
will be the next logical step [in managing human resources]. I think it is win/win for employers and employees to move in this direction. The hard question is not really how can we modularize people — this can be done with testing and... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the products on that market are designed by the government, which is not exactly my idea of how products ought to be designed. I think what's going to happen is once we have an individual mandate to have... View Details
- 13 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 13, 2009
hundred customers with more casual relationships with an organization. A series of case studies is presented to illustrate ways in which organizations measure, create, sustain, and build ownership behaviors among customers and employees. This work is an extension of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
and Society, is interested in analyzing and designing social computing systems to meet economic goals. With regard to the interaction of humans with machines, Chen asked: When thinking about social... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Icebreaker, maker of merino-fiber activewear, thinks about the strengths and weaknesses of staying focused on his rapidly expanding U.S. and European markets versus broadening his attack to include China. If he enters China, should he... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
clients, and the implications for IDEO designers' everyday experience of work. As new types of client work have shifted away from the more classic design projects, there may be accompanying shifts in designers' engagement and motivation.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2017
- Research & Ideas
Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year
This study may have been more difficult to conduct if the authors were reliant on government grant funding, as is the case in many public health and medical schools. “We’re encouraged to study problems we think are important to address,”... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The Challenges of Investing in Science-Based Innovation
profoundly." Scientific innovation is moving into companies such as BofA that you wouldn't expect, she adds. "We think of automakers focusing primarily on design, but the growing emphasis on alternative fuels is causing some of... View Details
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
Until the nineteenth century, the scope for applying (imperfectly) competitive thinking to business situations appeared to be limited: Intense competition had emerged in many lines of business, but individual firms apparently often lacked... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 22 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
One Strategy: Aligning Planning and Execution
realities of the project. Q: The One Strategy approach is mirrored in your discussion of the "innovator's reality." The reality is that in designing new products innovators can't ignore the benefits users received from previous... View Details
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
of past successes to predict that more successes are in store. The theory in use is that if you find someone with a track record and with the right-stuff attributes, then he or she can successfully manage the new business venture. But in the parlance of this book,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 11 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Neuroeconomics: Eyes, Brain, Business
surprisingly, the ratings of whether a face could think or feel correlated with the animacy ratings—only the most human faces on the end of the spectrum were deemed able to perceive anything. The pleasantness ratings, on the other hand,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 16 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Earnings Calls That Get Lost in Translation
find that investors have lower confidence about the information being disclosed” The reason is easy to understand. The conference call is designed to provide context to the many figures included in financial reports, yet when the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How AI Could Ease the Refugee Crisis and Bring New Talent to Businesses
instance, Paulson says she recently had a conversation with an executive MBA student who is designing a platform for matching patients with mental health care providers and wanted to learn from the Immigration Policy Lab’s experience. “I... View Details
- 24 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Do National Security Secrets Hold Back National Innovation?
rights to commercialize their ideas in exchange for disclosing the details of their inventions in the patent document itself. The system is designed to make information about cutting-edge technology available to other inventors, in order... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz