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- 13 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Business Get Done the Same Way in Emerging and Developed Countries?
On September 12, 1980, the military launched a coup on the government in Turkey. For many executives, such instability is the worst nightmare of doing business in a developing country. But for Turkish entrepreneur Hamdi Akin, usually on the outside looking in, suddenly... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 12
organizational networks, and new avenues of sustainable business growth. Providing comprehensive coverage of the field of management, the encyclopedia spans fourteen subject volumes providing a landmark work of reference for scholars,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Lessons for Retailers from the Rebirth of Indie Bookstores
and focus groups with booksellers, authors, and publishers, and scoured 30 years of news articles to understand how bookstores have phoenixed themselves from the ashes. He even attended a course on how to open an independent bookstore. “As a View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
Norton conducted a field experiment in which employees at a large corporation had the opportunity to exercise on slow-moving treadmills attached to standing desks. The goal of the employees: To get in shape... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2019
- Research & Ideas
Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool
LISH team: LISH has longstanding interest in and experience with solving problems in computer vision, image analysis, and advanced analytics through crowdsourcing. We have extended our work and research into the View Details
- 27 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 27
enculturating new employees such that they develop pride in their new organization and internalize its values. Drawing on authenticity research, we propose that socialization leads to more effective employment relationships when it starts with newcomers expressing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
theory building. ML strengths include replicable identification of novel patterns in the data. Additionally, ML methods address several concerns (such as “p-hacking” and confounding local effects for global effects) raised by scholars relative to the norms of empirical... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 16
authority. This three-level structure closely parallels that of all organized team sports. The play on the field is like the markets of capitalism, and the actions of the players are regulated by referees who enforce a set of rules... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Fixing Corporate Governance: A Roundtable Discussion at Harvard Business School
problems—particularly by business itself — will help keep our system of capitalism democratic and in sync with the larger interests of the nation. Paul Healy: We may have been through these experiences before, but it's shocking where we... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
research on potential employers. 19. The Next Marketing Challenge: Selling to 'Simplifiers' The mass consumption of the 1990s is fast fading in the rearview mirror. Now a growing number of people want to declutter their lives and invest in View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
2, a social network survey, found that managers lower in metacognitive CQ reported a deficit of new idea sharing in their intercultural but not intracultural ties. In Study 3, a laboratory experiment involving a collaborative task, higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Come Fly with Me: A History of Airline Leadership
industry grows, the playing field is leveled, where one or two business models gain dominance, and managers who thrive in maximizing opportunities become the primary leadership archetype. The growth phase of the airline industry was... View Details
- 12 Apr 2016
- First Look
April 12, 2016
sellers treat consumers differently on the basis of how well informed consumers appear to be. We implement a large-scale field experiment in which callers request price quotes from automotive repair shops.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Trachtman had learned how to manage founders who had strong relationships, but those experiences had not prepared him for the current situation. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=807173... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 It's Not the Size of the Gift; It's How You Present It: New Evidence on Gift Exchange from a Field Experiment By: Gilchrist, Duncan, Michael Luca, and Deepak Malhotra... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
endogenous vertical differentiation concerns. We discuss how our study helps improve our understanding of notions of strategy, business model, and tactics in the field of strategy. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be missed too. But the real... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
the performance effects of those choices. We find that, on average, deviations lead to slower read times. Doctors tend to deviate more with experience and when they have more variety within their queue. Interestingly, deviations tend to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Apr 2016
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April 19, 2016
a friend likes a brand, in the offline sense. Taken together, five experiments and two meta-analyses (N > 14,000) suggest that turning “liking” into improved brand attitudes and increased purchasing by either consumers or their friends... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
as on how it should evolve. Since 1980 General Electric, for instance, has continued to reinvent itself in every field from wind energy to medical diagnostics; and it enjoyed a $22.5 billion profit in 2007. Organizations that foster... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace