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- 09 Apr 2024
- Book
Why Work Rituals Bring Teams Together and Create More Meaning
Think about all the routines you follow on a regular basis: When you’re getting ready for work, you brush your teeth, go for a 20-minute walk, then take a shower. Before giving a big presentation in the office, you might repeat a mantra to mentally prepare. And at the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
New Research Explores Multi-Sided Markets
School, defines these multi-sided markets as platforms that serve two or more distinct groups of customers who value each other's participation. Examples: EBay provides markets for both buyers and sellers, dating club clients are both men... View Details
- Apr 25 2012
- Testimonial
OPM: Learning That Transforms
- April 1995
- Supplement
Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)
By: David J. Collis and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson
Brings students up to date regarding a recent decision by the chairman. View Details
Collis, David J., and Elizabeth Wynne Johnson. "Cooper Industries' Corporate Strategy (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 795-154, April 1995.
- 2020
- Working Paper
Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies
By: Robert D. Austin and Richard L. Nolan
August 7, 1955 is an important date in commercial aviation history. You could say it began the jet airliner age, though other dates might also qualify. Jet engines had proven successful in military aircraft. But no one knew then whether members of the general public... View Details
Austin, Robert D., and Richard L. Nolan. "Performance Hacking: The Contagious Business Practice that Corrodes Corporate Culture, Undermines Core Values, and Damages Great Companies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-003, July 2020.
- Research Summary
By: Youngme Moon
This information is currently being updated. Please check back at a later date for more information. View Details
- 19 Jun 2012
- News
A Brief History of Doing Well by Doing Good
- August 2000
- Supplement
A Conversation with Dirk McMahon: Head of Ground Operations at Northwest Airlines, March 16, 2000
A classroom appearance dated March 16, 2000, at Harvard Business School, by Dirk McMahon, head of Ground Operations at Northwest Airlines. View Details
Hallowell, Roger H. "A Conversation with Dirk McMahon: Head of Ground Operations at Northwest Airlines, March 16, 2000." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 801-802, August 2000.
- June 28, 2011
- Article
Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates
By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Nudge; Libertarian Paternalism; Public Health; Flu Shot; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking
Milkman, Katherine L., John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson, and Brigitte C. Madrian. "Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108, no. 26 (June 28, 2011): 10415–10420.
- 04 May 2021
- Book
Best Buy: How Human Connection Saved a Failing Retailer
In 2019, a three-year-old boy walked with his mother into a Florida Best Buy store, clutching a toy dinosaur that Santa had given him for Christmas. Only, the dinosaur’s head had broken, and now tears were streaming down the boy’s face as his mother explained to two... View Details
- 21 Apr 2017
- News
Why telling the truth 'warts and all' could help you find love
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How an Order Views Your Company
Over a dozen years ago, HBS professors Ben Shapiro and Kash Rangan conducted research with colleague John J. Sviokla, focusing on the impact that a company's order management cycle (OMC) has on customers. Think of OMC as the process that manages the customer's order... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston
- 10 Sep 2019
- News
Trump’s tariffs puts Apple’s golden goose at risk
- 04 Feb 2016
- News
Research Explores Consequences Of Revealing Embarrassing Details
- 2009
- Book
Too Big to Save?: How to Fix the U.S. Financial System
By: Robert C. Pozen
Too Big To Save? provides a comprehensive review of the financial crisis, explaining not only the factors causing the crisis but also evaluating the government responses to date and suggesting practical reforms for the future. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; United States
Pozen, Robert C. Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System. John Wiley & Sons, 2009.
- 16 Jul 2020
- News
Aid for US economy is expiring – at just the wrong moment
- 2019
- Chapter
Resource Allocation Theory
By: Joseph L. Bower
This article considers the process of resource allocation, whereby an organization determines how best to apportion its factors of production between the various productive activities in which it wishes to engage. It is suggested that none of the academic approaches to... View Details
Keywords: Resource Allocation
Bower, Joseph L. "Resource Allocation Theory." In The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management. Continuously updated edition, edited by Mie Augier and David J. Teece. Palgrave Macmillan, 2017. Electronic. (Pre-published, July 2016.)
- 12 Feb 2016
- News