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- 29 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Managing Innovation is Like Theater
length every time. And although art-based processes realize the full capabilities of talented workers and can benefit from great worker talent, by no means do they require exceptional or especially creative individuals. Nor does great View Details
Keywords: by Rob Austin & Lee Devin
- 16 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 16
networks of personal relationships: 1) Change agents who were central in the organization's informal network had a clear advantage, regardless of their position in the formal hierarchy. 2) People who bridged disconnected groups or View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 11 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Road Map to Fix America’s Transportation Infrastructure
Any highway commuter who has wasted hours stuck in traffic can see the cracks in the United States' transportation system, as can any airline passenger who has been stranded overnight in an airport. Yet while many agree that the need for infrastructure change is... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
investigation into many aspects of service management. For example, while product design and development have received a great deal of attention, the subject of service design has not been very visible in the research literature. There are many View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 15, 2008
susceptible to fleeting situational factors; problematically, individuals are insensitive to the impact of such factors on their behavior, misattributing utility caused by these irrelevant factors to stable... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
Ernesto SchargrodskyNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15602, December 2009 Abstract We study the re-arrest rates for two groups: individuals formerly in prison and individuals formerly under electronic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
long-run consumption and dividend growth should be highly persistent and predictable from stock prices. BKY's calibration does better in this respect by greatly increasing the persistence of volatility fluctuations and their impact on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
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First Look: September 17
impact people's feelings about their decisions. We compare post-choice satisfaction from choices made by mind wandering to reason based choices and randomly assigned outcomes. Participants chose a poster by mind wandering or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
interviews of over 80 individuals from 6 service delivery units and 8 support departments that provide them with equipment and supplies, we find that a lack of interconnectedness among interdependent departments-rather than errors or... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 10, 2018
religiosity at the individual level and employing a religious prime. That is, the more religious people are, the less willing they are to follow through on novel purchase opportunities that arise during their grocery shopping trips. This... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Women’s Summit Celebrates ‘Sisterhood of the Traveling Pantsuit’
Over time, the media conversation about work-life balance has shifted slightly, Ely said, from discussing women's individual choices to showing "a whole set of experiences that look less like women opting out and more like women... View Details
Keywords: by Katie Koch & Harvard Gazette
- 24 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 24, 2007
and the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA). Although these laws account for less than 7 percent of U.S. public funding for education, their mandates strongly influence the activities of schools and school districts.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Entrepreneurial Hospital Pioneers New Model
established an insurance plan that insures many rural poor in two large, populous states in India for the equivalent of ten cents a day: "The numbers of people are so large, that for ten cents a day the people who become ill are insured for just about any... View Details
- 27 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The ‘Promotion’ That Makes You Feel Bad
insecurity and guilt. ©iStock.com "Life changed for the better without any of their individual efforts just because one day the strategy shifted, and they happened to be on the favored side of that strategy," Neeley says of the US... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 25 Jan 2000
- Research & Ideas
Strategic Alliances
Timberland's sponsorship of City Year events and City Year–organized projects for Timberland employees—that made clear their mutual interest in making a positive impact on society. By the third, or integrative, stage of a relationship... View Details
Keywords: by Nancy O. Perry
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Bright Ideas: The Creative Power of Groups
individuals willingly succumbing to "group think," waving through a lukewarm idea rather than disrupting the comfort of the status quo. "Questioning long-held beliefs and traditional ways of doing things is a painful but... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
Your Skills: Managing Teams The ability to lead teams is fast becoming a critical skill for all managers in the 21st century. Here are four HBS Working Knowledge stories from the archives that address everything from how teams learn to turning View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
returned to debt within six weeks. One to two years after intervention, treatment individuals were borrowing at the same rate as control households. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54587 Show or Tell?... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 19
has a positive effect on quality performance. We then distinguish between positive spillovers and complementarities to examine the following: (1) the extent to which a hospital's specialization in areas related to cardiovascular care directly View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne