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- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
entrepreneurial thinking has become a primary goal throughout the world. Surprisingly, there has been little systematic research or comparative analysis to show how the growth of entrepreneurship differs among countries in various stages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 11
http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0470634251.html Thinking Too Little to Thinking Too Much: A Continuum of Decision Making Authors:Dan Ariely and Michael I. Norton Publication:Wiley... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 25
Authors:Eric J. Van den Steen Publication:Management Science (forthcoming) Abstract This paper derives two mechanisms through which Bayesian-rational individuals with differing priors will tend to be relatively overconfident about their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
10 Trends to Watch in 2024
The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 25 Jan 2012
- Research & Ideas
A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.
in the twisted web of Washington fundraising and lobbying that can definitively prove dollar x bought result y. Perhaps that's why there has been such little empirical research among economists on the issue. "The whole perspective of how firms influence policy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
2018 Independently published Unlocked: Keys to Improve Your Thinking By: Zaltman, Gerald Abstract—What’s the best way to change your life? Change how you think, says marketing guru Gerald Zaltman. While most of us are accustomed to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Where is Home for the Global Firm?
[PDF]. To start, responding strategically to these changes requires a reconceptualization of what a corporate home is, says Desai. "Managers need to make conscious choices about how to unbundle the activities that have traditionally been centered in a home country... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound changes in academic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
Do Online Dating Platforms Help Those Who Need Them Most?
showed that older, shorter, and relatively overweight men tended to view more profiles than their younger, taller, slimmer counterparts. With the female sample, tall women were the ones who tended to view the most profiles. (In the... View Details
- 08 Aug 2023
- Research & Ideas
Black Employees Not Only Earn Less, But Deal with Bad Bosses and Poor Conditions
positive work culture, and a healthy work-life balance. “When we think about racial gaps in the United States, we tend to mostly measure relative income levels.” At a time when many companies are looking to... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 26 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Strategic Way to Go to Market
supplier thinks about ways to get the product/service out to the customer. If the company achieves its sales goals, it lulls the company into the assumption that the channels must be right. For all you know an alternate channel might have... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 22 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 22, 2007
J. Gomes, Laurence J. Kotlikoff, and Luis M. Viceira Abstract Governments are known for procrastinating when it comes to resolving painful policy problems. Whatever the political motives for waiting to decide, procrastination distorts economic decisions View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee
competition." But as new research from Harvard Business School demonstrates, the customers you think are your best and most loyal are likely to be the first to cast you aside when a challenger to your service superiority barges into... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
so different from those found in other countries. Sean Silverthorne: Why has this issue on taxing foreign profit become so central? Mihir Desai: I think there are several reasons for these developments. First, the integrated, global... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”
marginal thinking led him down an inconceivable path. In hindsight, it all started with one small step: a relatively small error. But he didn't want to admit to it. Instead, he covered it up by hiding the... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- HBS Case
Beyond Goals: David Beckham's Playbook for Mobilizing Star Talent
eyewear, Maseratis, and EA Sports video games. Soon, opportunities to film documentaries for Netflix and Disney+ followed. “Beckham has managed to keep his brand at a very steady level,” Elberse says. “Usually, it tapers off relatively... View Details
- 14 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Clay Christensen’s Milkshake Marketing
was hired in lieu of a bagel or doughnut because it was relatively tidy and appetite-quenching, and because trying to suck a thick liquid through a thin straw gave customers something to do with their boring commute. Understanding the job... View Details
- 10 Jan 2011
- Research & Ideas
Is Groupon Good for Retailers?
eligible; "not valid on major holidays" raises the question of which days are "major." We've been surprised to see such imprecise wording on vouchers, and we think merchants and voucher services can do better.... View Details
- 31 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
Why the Largest Minority Group Faces the Most Hate—and How to Push Back
the relative rank of a group in any given community. A minority group ranked as the largest experiences the most discrimination, followed by the second-largest group, and so on, explains Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Marco... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds