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  • 04 Mar 2014
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Innovation

breakthrough in alarm clock design since the snooze button until entrepreneur Gauri Nanda created Clocky. Her runaway hit has been the inspiration for several cases written by Professor Elie Ofek. Should I Crowdsource My Solutions?... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 2019
  • Article

Configurations of Extremal Type II Codes via Harmonic Weight Enumerators

By: Noam D. Elkies and Scott Duke Kominers
We prove configuration results for extremal Type II codes, analogous to the configuration results of Ozeki and of the second author for extremal Type II lattices. Specifically, we show that for n ∈{8,24,32,48,56,72,96} every extremal Type II code of length n is... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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  • 18 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Beyond Heroic Entrepreneurs

traditional nonprofits, what's most important is the social purpose, but hybrids also have economic objectives to generate enough revenue to sustain their operations." Echoing Green Battilana and Lee, who were designing the database... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)

to advertisers. Is this an expanding advertising strategy, or something different? Many researchers tell us that one-on-one interviews are superior to focus groups.— Gerald Zaltman A: Probing the unconscious mind of the consumer has... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney

    Using the Crowd as an Innovation Partner

    From Apple to Merck to Wikipedia, more and more organizations are turning to crowds for help in solving their most vexing innovation and research questions, but managers remain understandably cautious. It seems risky and even unnatural to push problems out to vast... View Details

    • 28 Apr 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    When Smaller Menus are Better: Variability in Menu-Setting Ability and 401(k) Plans

    Keywords: by David Goldreich & Hanna Halaburda
    • 2022
    • Book

    Healthy Buildings: How Indoor Spaces Can Make You Sick—or Keep You Well

    By: Joseph G. Allen and John D. Macomber
    For too long we’ve designed buildings that haven’t focused on the people inside—their health, their ability to work effectively, and what that means for the bottom line. An authoritative introduction to a movement whose vital importance is now all too clear, Healthy... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Buildings and Facilities; Health; Health Pandemics; Safety
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    • 17 Nov 2015
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Self-Interest: The Economist's Straitjacket

    Keywords: by Robert Simons
    • 22 Sep 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon

    Entrepreneurial success may depend on more than a great idea, plenty of connections, and financial backing, new research suggests. The entrepreneur’s job security may also play a significant role. Uncertain job prospects, such as those... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Jan 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Unexpected Exercise Advice for the Super Busy: Ditch the Rigid Routine

    daily two-hour window every weekday as their ideal exercise time. The researchers randomly assigned participants to one of three study conditions: Routine. Researchers paid these participants only if they... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • 10 May 2004
    • Research & Ideas

    Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

    For many multinational firms doing business in unfamiliar countries, it made sense to create joint ventures with local firms. After all, that local knowledge of customs, suppliers, and markets could save the newcomer months—maybe even years—of riding a painful learning... View Details
    Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
    • 02 Feb 2016
    • First Look

    February 2, 2016

    forthcoming Journal of Accounting Research Causal Inference in Accounting Research By: Gow, Ian D., David F. Larcker, and Peter C. Reiss Abstract—This paper examines the approaches accounting View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Program Details - Doctoral

    Program for Research in Markets & Organizations Program Details 14ms Program Dates The dates for Summer 2025 will be released at a later date. In past summers, the program has ranged from 9-10 weeks. For reference, Summer 2024 dates were... View Details
    • October 2009
    • Journal Article

    Testing the Commitment Hypothesis in Contractual Settings: Evidence from Soccer

    By: Oriol Carbonell and Diego A. Comin
    This paper designs and implements an empirical test to discern whether the parties to a contract are able to commit not to renegotiate their agreement. We study optimal contracts with and without commitment and derive an exclusion restriction that is useful to identify... View Details
    Keywords: Contracts; Agreements and Arrangements; Research; Sports Industry; Spain
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    • 27 Apr 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

    crowd-sourcing platform, while it transitioned away from traditional screen printing to a digital print-on-demand model. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020 accelerated the company’s transition, triggering the sale of Threadless’s office and a move to working... View Details
    • 25 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Has Occupational Licensing Outlived Its Usefulness?

    service provider has a license, their hiring decision is still more driven by price and online reviews than the quality assurance that comes with licensing. New research shows that tougher licensing requirements reduce the pool of... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Service
    • 04 Mar 2024
    • What Do You Think?

    Do People Want to Work Anymore?

    represented himself as a successful entrepreneur. The gist of the letter was that there was one thing wrong with what we wrote. It was that: “People don’t want to work any more. So I’ve designed my jobs accordingly. They can be performed... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 2010
    • Report

    Nordic Globalization Barometer 2010

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The 2010 Nordic Globalization Barometer, the third in this series, is again designed to serve as input to the discussions of the five Nordic Prime Ministers (representing Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden) at the Nordic Globalization Forum. In its first... View Details
    Keywords: Globalization; Competition; Research and Development; Policy; Financial Crisis; Denmark; Finland; Iceland; Norway; China
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    • 21 Sep 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Catherine Tucker, MIT Sloan School of Management

    • 15 Apr 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Infographic: Can I Please Speak to an Actual Person?

    Technology and Operations Management Unit. About the Authors Katherine Vizcardo is a graphic designer based in Providence, Rhode Island, and Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard Business School Working Knowledge. Related Reading:... View Details
    Keywords: by Katherine Vizcardo and Danielle Kost; Service