Publications

06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

assistant professor in the Marketing Unit at Harvard Business School and an affiliate of Harvard’s Center for Brain Sciences, who studies the neural and psychological factors... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

November 2007
Supplement

Differences at Work: Ben (B)

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Rachel Gordon

In Differences at Work: Ben (B) HBS Case No. 9-408-043 Ben shares his colleague's comment with another colleague who empathizes with Ben's discomfort but dismisses the remark as a joke, leaving Ben to decide whether he wants to confront his colleague. View Details

Keywords: Employees; Conflict and Resolution; Perception

May 2001 (Revised April 2005)
Exercise

Betonn Corporation: Confidential Negotiation Information

By: James K. Sebenius

A two-party, multiple-issue dollar-scoring negotiation exercise dealing with the formation and terms of an IT-industry joint venture. Subordinates have made some progress on several issues but have reached an impasse. Division heads will now attempt to reach a... View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Types; Joint Ventures; Conflict Management; Information Technology; Information Technology Industry

01 Dec 2012
News

Rival Visions

United States awaited development . In deciding to come to America, Gallatin and his two young friends were acting on a psychological impulse rooted in a romantic dream.... They were three young men in a... View Details

October 2024
Case

Edizione

By: Cynthia A. Montgomery, Dante Roscini, Elena Corsi and Hugo Etchegoyhen

This case study examines the diversification and transformation of Edizione, the Benetton family's holding company originally established to reinvest dividends from the Benetton clothing brand. Edizione expanded significantly in the late 1990s and early 2000s,... View Details

20 Jan 2003
Research & Ideas

Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School

With corporate America rocked by revelations of conflict of interest, malfeasance, negligence, and greed, a group of HBS professors recently gathered to review the current crisis. Is it a case of dé jà vu or an unprecedented, systemic... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

01 Sep 2005
News

Predictable Surprises

Administration at HBS and is also formally affiliated with Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, Psychology Department, Center on the Environment, and Program on Negotiation.... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

25 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

& McKenzie, the largest law firm in the world by employees, with offices in 38 different countries. Facing an intensifying war for talent and associate retention concerns in some offices, Conroy has... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

Direct Investment in Times of Crisis Authors:Louis T. Wells Publication:Chap. 12 in The Yearbook on International Investment Law and Policy 2009-2010, edited by Karl P. Sauvant, 477-504. New York: Oxford... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2013
News

C.D. Spangler's School of Thought

C.D. Spangler At HBS, C.D. ("Dick") Spangler Jr. (MBA 1956) has long been known as "both gracious and wise." In May, a Harvard University citation made it official, describing Spangler in those words as he was awarded an honorary doctor... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

November 2007 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Creativity under the Gun at Litmus Corporation

By: Teresa M. Amabile and Yana Litovsky

Teaches students to diagnose the circumstances under which time pressure can facilitate or hinder creativity. A team's creative "genius", Miles Grady, who previously conceptualized a revolutionary material for an important new product, must now significantly change... View Details

Keywords: Situation or Environment; Creativity; Innovation and Management; Problems and Challenges

July 2014
Article

Winners in the Spotlight: Media Coverage of Fund Holdings as a Driver of Flows

By: David H. Solomon, Eugene F. Soltes and Denis Sosyura

We show that media coverage of mutual fund holdings affects how investors allocate money across funds. Controlling for fund performance, fund holdings with high past returns attract extra flows only if these stocks were recently featured in major newspapers. In... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Media; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry

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February 2022
Article

Borrowing to Save? The Impact of Automatic Enrollment on Debt

By: John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian and William L. Skimmyhorn

Does automatic enrollment into a retirement plan increase financial distress due to increased borrowing outside the plan? We study a natural experiment created when the U.S. Army began automatically enrolling newly hired civilian employees into the Thrift Savings Plan.... View Details

Keywords: Retirement Savings; Automatic Enrollment; Choice Architecture; Nudge; Financial Distress; Retirement; Saving; Borrowing and Debt; Behavior

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Book

Environmental Dispute Resolution

By: Lawrence Bacow and Michael A. Wheeler

Keywords: Conflict and Resolution

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15 Mar 2016
First Look

March 15, 2016

evidence that such “CEO activism” can influence public opinion and consumer attitudes. Our field experiment examines the impact of Apple CEO Tim Cook’s public statements opposing a pending religious freedom View Details

01 Jun 2007
News

Faculty Books

Getting Unstuck: How Dead Ends Become New Paths by Timothy Butler (HBS Press) Acknowledging that people may feel stuck or psychologically paralyzed at times in their lives, Butler, director of Career Development Programs, offers... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

November 2005
Background Note

Allemeier Commissioner

By: Henry B. Reiling and Kevin Wall

An employee who worked full time while pursuing an MBA wishes to deduct his tuition expenses in computing his federal income tax. The IRS denied the deduction as a violation of several of its policies interpreting the relevant statute. Are the expenses deductible? View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Policy; Taxation; Employees; Law