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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
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders
Challenges for Women Leaders," a chapter in the forthcoming book Psychology of Leadership: Some New Approaches, edited by David Messick and Roderick Kramer (Lawrence Erlbaum Press). As influential experts on negotiation who examine... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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 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
- 17 Jun 2016
- News
Companies Need to Start Marketing Safety to Customers
- 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
- 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
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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
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 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
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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
- 25 Sep 2016
- News
This company raised minimum wage to $70,000 — and it helped business
- 22 Mar 2017
- News
Stemming the Tide of the World's Water Shortage
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Growing CEOs from the Inside
them a lame duck. At worst, they may want to avoid leaving. So a board member might ask, "Don't you think we should discuss succession? You might get hit by a truck." And the CEO will say, "I have a successor in mind, and... View Details
- 23 Feb 2021
- Research & Ideas
COVID-19 Shines New Light on Working Conditions in Supply Chains
invent their own standards?” he says. “It's because federal and state safety regulators haven’t set up clear rules and guidance.” We recently talked to Toffel, the Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management, about how the... View Details