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- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
CEO-doubled during this period, this growth was driven primarily by an increase in functional managers rather than general managers, a phenomenon we term "functional centralization." Using panel data on senior management positions, we View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
the data showed that customers tended to order a higher percentage of "should" items (like leafy greens) and a lower percentage of "want" items (like candy bars) the further in advance they placed an order. For a detailed account of the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary
advance—Gupta could use that historical data to see how spending on different types of ads affected those decisions. The findings from the research were recently published in the working paper Do Display Ads Influence Search? Attribution and Dynamics in Online... View Details
- 08 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Company’s Evolving View of Gender Equity
of number of women partners. According to the paper, BigAC was soon recognized as a leading women-friendly place to work and succeed. The research shows that organizations internalize shifts in public discourse into their own beliefs and... View Details
- 09 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Unconscious Executive
process. So is driving to work—many people get to work without entirely remembering how their drive was and what they saw on the road. Lots of processes are automated and therefore very efficient. Our research shows thinking and deciding... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
series of experiments in the HBS Computer Lab for Experimental Research. The results showed that the key to success in grabbing and holding the attention of viewers lies in evoking a carefully timed mixture... View Details
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
contrast, firms in technologically stable industries on average pursue more-closed ego networks, which fosters reliable collaboration and helps preserve existing resources. We show that because of the observed cross-industry differences... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.
Business School Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee, who outlined the research findings in a recent working paper, Being the Boss: Gig Workers’ Value of Flexible Work, co-authored with HBS doctoral candidate Laura Katsnelson. The gig economy... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- What Do You Think?
Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?
still makes a statement.” Referring to the specific action of Ken Frazier, CEO of Merck, who resigned from a presidential appointment in protest, hollidsu said, “Frazier was showing true leadership. He should be commended even if the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Handicapping the Best Countries for Business
challenges and rewards of doing business globally have been a particularly fertile area of research for HBS faculty. In just the last month we've seen books from Rawi Abdelal on international finance and from Lou Wells on protecting... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Entrepreneurs: Lessons for Government Policy
business and who doesn't. Nanda also uses Danish data for his second working paper, exploring a tax reform introduced in 1987 that made the cost of external finance significantly more expensive for entrepreneurs in the middle- to higher-level tax brackets (previous... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War
Many newspapers saw the emergence of the Internet as an attack on their core business, and responded with online products of their own. Unfortunately, says HBS professor Clark Gilbert, the papers failed to take advantage of the Web as a... View Details
- 08 Jul 2015
- What Do You Think?
Do Americans Work Too Much and Think About Work Too Little?
colleagues on the Harvard Business School faculty, legendary teacher and thinker Tony Athos. In an organization with a culture of long hours and FILO (first in last out) norms (borrowing from David Physick's comment), Tony liked to sit alone on one of the benches on... View Details
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
Geen, and HBS Professor Max H. Bazerman. "This project integrates my prior work on using joint decision-making to create more ethical decisions with Iris's long-standing expertise in developing strategies to promote gender... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 22 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 22, 2016
little attention, and most articles change only mildly from their initial slant. Our study provides the first empirical evidence on the limit of Linus' Law. While many organizations believe that they could improve their knowledge production by leveraging communities,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
posted a slide show of pictures, and several of them were of me working a steam drill," Mukunda says. "I was buried under so much gear that, as I discovered weeks later, the students had no idea that was me." While Mukunda... View Details
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
evidence during those times, along with countless acts of heroism by ordinary citizens-people not empowered or trained to do great things. We are seeing this in the horrible aftermath of the current earthquake and tsunami. Consider the reports of my View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
with HBS Working Knowledge editor, Sean Silverthorne, Porter discusses the importance of cluster research and the value of the CMP. Silverthorne: How can data from the Cluster Mapping Project help corporations make better location... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Oct 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Building a Business in the Context of a Life
they already knew there had to be more to life than attaining business success. Others, who arrived at HBS with a goal of realizing financial gain, come to have their assumptions and beliefs challenged, Kraus says. "What makes the MBA... View Details