by John Macomber - Publications - Faculty & Research

Research Summary

Consumer Decision Making and Behavioral Research

John Gourville’s research focuses on consumer behavior, especially in the areas of pricing and consumer decision making. In the area of pricing, for instance, he has looked at the role of time on how consumers interpret and react to product costs and prices.... View Details

07 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?

This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Energy; Utilities

01 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making

Technology on Firm Organization," a paper she cowrote with Nicholas Bloom of Stanford University and Luis Garicano and John Van Reenen of the Centre for Economic Performance, London School of Economics. "Technologies that make... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

22 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”

uncovered significant differences in performance associated with their respective strategies for competing in that industry.10 This format of combining industry notes with company cases, which had been initiated at Harvard Business School View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

01 Oct 2001
What Do You Think?

Will Information Technology Really Turn Organizations Upside Down This Time?

inhabited by academics and consultants ...personal advancement may be better served by being provocative than by being right." Others question the importance of the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

23 Jun 2016
News

Good Health is Good for Business

01 Jan 2010
News

Kolmogorov Medal from the University of London

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

Research. The paper was coauthored by Andrei Shleifer, the John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University, and Jakob Ahm Sørensen, a doctoral fellow at the Copenhagen Business School. Avoiding the... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

09 Jan 2006
What Do You Think?

Should More Transparency Extend to Education for Management?

as a successful recruiting tool; disclosing the grades required to get there is not necessary." On the other hand, many respondents believed that transparency in management should extend in some form to the educational process. In advocating grade disclosure,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

09 Mar 2003
Research & Ideas

Education, Technology, and Business: What’s the Catch?

the Internet. By 2001, the E-Rate program had wired 87 percent of all K-12 classrooms in the U.S. If we believe that educational performance is a result of investment, it hasn't paid off.—Kosmas Kalliarekos, The Parthenon Group View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler; Education

05 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Fixing the ‘I Hate Work’ Blues

The New York Times ran a troubling story, "Why You Hate Work," in last week's "Sunday Review." The article indicated that employees work too hard and find little meaning from their work. The anecdotes we all hear about this topic are reinforced... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

03 Jun 2022
Blog Post

HiHome Sweet HiHome

The story of HiHome is really the story of all the resources available to students at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering (SEAS). Co-founders James Parker and Tony Shu met at a SEAS event in 2019. Parker was in his first... View Details

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

Wang and John Zhou, Global Portfolio Diversification for Long-Horizon Investors has become one of the top downloaded papers on the online Social Science Research Network, sparking intense interest in the value of diversification in global... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

03 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks

conversation about ways we can improve public perception of these ecologically important animals,” says Andrew Nosal, a visiting researcher at Scripps Institution of Oceanography. The Power of the Theme from “Jaws” Why do filmmakers tend to associate sharks with scary... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Media & Broadcasting

23 Jun 2020
Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

Created by the people for the people, the American political system is instead "a private industry dominated by a textbook duopoly—the Democrats and the Republicans—and plagued and perverted View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

SUMMING UP Are Computers and Tech-Driven Networks In Their Twilight Years? Issues raised by the ascendancy of network technology are many and varied, judging from responses to this month’s column based on Joshua Cooper Ramo’s book, The... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Apr 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

focus on employees and more on business and profitability." Phil Clark posited that knowledge work that deals with intangible results and hard-to-pinpoint accomplishments "just isn't as satisfying" as work used to be. John... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Mar 2008
What Do You Think?

Where Will Management Innovation Take Us?

not clear. Many suggested that the kind of management innovation described by Gary Hamel in his new book, The Future of Management, will more likely occur as a result of forces outside the organization. Tony Gattis described the... View Details