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- 10 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 10
and then go further to consider ways the domain of innovation itself has changed. We suggest that because of fundamental shifts in communication and information processing costs and the increasing modularity... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 16 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Contribute Globalization of Markets Papers
way to combine the best of both? Yes, if marketers are willing to dig below superficial benefits and attributes to connect products and services to emotions and schemes of thoughts that are almost universally shared among human beings. "The View Details
Keywords: by Working Knowledge editors
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and G.J. Fitzsimons Abstract—Gifts... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
context of the health-care industry drew instant attention. Preventable medical errors resulting in injury cost the industry somewhere between $9 billion and $15 billion a year, the report stated. Even more shockingly, by some measures... View Details
- 16 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs
work in exploring the forces that govern the process of CEO change. I have conducted research in four interrelated areas: factors that lead to vacancies in the CEO position; factors that affect the choice of successors; the role of market... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 23, 2019
process of learning from experience. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55991 forthcoming Organization & Environment Assessing the Impact of CEO Activism By: Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
remedies, and between discrete campaigns and continuous processes for managing retention. We identify several areas of research where further investigation will significantly enhance retention management. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2) substantial economic and reputational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
money-maximizing evaluation procedure. Our findings are compatible with a behavioral model of information processing and with the System 1/System 2 distinction in behavioral decision research where people have two distinct modes of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
Policies that would create net benefits for society but would also involve costs frequently lack the necessary support to be enacted because losses loom larger than gains psychologically. To reduce the harmful consequence of loss... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for James Austin
For example, the AMA broke off a cause-related marketing agreement with Sunbeam Corporation after its members decided that it was not appropriate to its social mission. This ended up costing the nonprofit association over $10 million in... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 03 Oct 2005
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Future of Globally Organized Labor?
is arguably the strongest these days, appears not to be competitive in many global industries in which labor costs are still important. Germany, in particular, where workers and union members routinely occupy seats on boards of the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Aug 2017
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First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent characteristic) at one end of the spectrum and high frequency reversal at the other. Unlike low-turnover tilts, a full history... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 23
(e.g., with "compensation provisions"), one side can help the other, and vice versa, via a number of devices, alone or in combination. These include a) shaping the form of the agreement (e.g., tacit v. explicit, process v.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 15, 2015
health care cannot be delegated to the finance function. The most successful implementations have had strong executive support, exceptional clinical leaders, and dedicated, multi-disciplinary project teams. The paper describes the disciplined six-step View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?
Bazerman The consumer decision-making literature has paid great attention to the information processing and decision making (or choice) of consumers. In the vast majority of this literature, the dependent variable is some variation of a... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
- 20 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways
bargaining agreements with organized labor. Thus, while in bankruptcy, American was able to negotiate new labor agreements with its three largest unions, generating what some expect will be hundreds of millions of dollars in additional annual View Details
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
change agendas Plan execution of the strategy—through portfolios of strategic initiatives linked to strategy maps and Balanced Scorecards Put your strategy into action—by integrating operational tools such as process dashboards, rolling... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
international competition means we should expect industries to come and go. Even if this is sometimes painful, it is, in fact, a healthy process by which resources flow to their most productive uses. When a commons erodes, however, it... View Details