Value Of Data - Publications - Faculty & Research

23 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 23, 2008

$800) instead of receiving lower amounts (e.g., self and other each get $500) in their transactions (Bazerman, Loewenstein & White, 1992). The present analysis, however, shows that the perceived value... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Sep 2014
What Do You Think?

Who Should Choose Your Boss?

necessarily the best team leader, because a lot of board members don't value the team leadership aspect of the position." Clifford F. Baker put it this way: "Having... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Food & Beverage

15 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult

but that makes firms vulnerable to innovative upstarts over the long haul. Would this trend also hold true for companies engaging in business processs innovation? McElheran wondered—a question not much studied by researchers. To find out, she drew on 1999 US Census... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

14 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Are You Managing To a ‘T’? Time To Break With Tradition

some provocative answers. Our in-depth examination of BP's management practices, including interviews with more than 25 business-unit and corporate managers, highlighted five specific types of View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen & Bolko Von Oetinger

13 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Market for Babies

information that is most important to us (health data, for example, or cost data or comparative studies of clinical success rates or adoption placements) and then provide these View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Biotechnology; Health; Technology

01 Oct 2001
Research & Ideas

Five Questions for James Austin

by the two organizations discovering, incrementally, opportunities for mutually beneficial value creation. The closer collaboration is fostered by a perception of shared objectives and View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

13 Oct 2003
Research & Ideas

Negotiating Challenges for Women Leaders

Below, excerpts from an interview. Lagace: What is an example of an experiment you've conducted that looks at differences in how women and men negotiate? McGinn: One of the interesting first pieces View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2001
Lessons from the Classroom

Machiavelli, Morals, and You

out later to be a horrible sham. In his efforts to be an outstanding butler, Stevens instinctively and continually chose service over other values and opportunities, irretrievably losing the opportunity for true romantic love. Kazuo... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

15 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

consumers tend to value the product more." Mohan is an author of the paper Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency, written with HBS assistant professors Ryan W.... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail

01 Dec 2003
Research & Ideas

Sometimes Success Begins at Failure

point, and by itself is unlikely to be sufficient because this process does nothing to advance learning within the project in the interim. Other processes seek to create new information after the initial negative decision, which might enable a fuller examination View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough; Health; Pharmaceutical

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

amortization from its constitution, in favor of fair value accounting. Ramanna said that there are no unequivocal villains in thin political market situations, but rather "a quilt View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

28 Jul 2016
Op-Ed

Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

addition, they regard gathering such data as a poor use of their time. There is also the adverse-selection concern that doctors might avoid difficult cases and difficult patients to boost their ratings. 2.... View Details

Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Immigrant Workers Cluster in Particular Industries

SOCIALIZATION LEAD TO CLUSTERING? In order to get a handle on how much this socialization leads to clustering, Kerr and Mandorff studied US census data on immigrant groups, using the degree of intermarriage... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Transportation; Beauty & Cosmetics; Retail

13 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants

destination for people searching for services, boasting about 163 million unique visitors monthly on its site in 2015. Luca admits to being a bit of a data nerd, a trait he says he and Donaker share. Luca... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

02 Jul 2001
What Do You Think?

Built to Last or Bought to Sell?

trade with a high degree of market mediated objectivity—as the model for a future where managers struggle hopelessly to keep up with investor-perceived value shifts. They seem to directly challenge the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Jun 2001
Research & Ideas

When In-House Research Isn’t Enough

owe their life's blood to PARC—Adobe, SynOptics, VLSI, and 3Com, for example—together recorded a market value last year five or six times greater than that of mother Xerox. "By focusing too narrowly on... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

29 Oct 2007
HBS Case

Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement

interest to Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse, be they a movie legend or a third baseman. She wrote the Sharapova case with Margarita Golod (HBS MBA '07) to study and frame classroom discussions on a favorite field of... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Sports

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

of Internet advertising on the industry as a whole. According to Silk and his colleagues, changes in the industry's external environment fit into three broad categories: technical, regulatory, and economic. Advances in technology reach... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

03 Jun 2020
Research & Ideas

Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?

categories of Health Performance Indicators can offer up objective data about the current status of a building and identify meaningful fluctuations over time. How are these... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber and Joseph Allen; Real Estate

05 Dec 2013
Op-Ed

Encourage Breakthrough Health Care by Competing on Products Rather Than Patents

individual's BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes," but the Court, wisely I believe, made thoughtful distinctions about what is and is not patentable, deciding that, "A naturally occurring DNA segment is a product of nature and not patent... View Details

Keywords: by Richard G. Hamermesh; Biotechnology; Health

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