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22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

small businesses like her own, succeeded in pushing the boundaries of antitrust legislation. Edna Gleason, known as the “Mother of Fair Trade.” Courtesy of the journal Pharmacy in History. The photo first appeared in American Druggist,... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

06 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Comparing Apples to Apples Online Leads To More Fruitful Sales

display Apples to Apples and other board games, rather than attempting a cross-promotion with, say, Halloween costumes. The study results are outlined in a forthcoming Journal of Behavioral Decision Making... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Advertising

03 Jan 2008
What Do You Think?

Does Judgment Trump Experience?

Penguin Group, 2007). Warren Bennis and Noel Tichy, "Judgment Trumps Experience," The Wall Street Journal (Eastern edition), November 29, 2007, p. A19. View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

17 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?

having and what isn't." What do you think? Original Article Looking over one of my favorite weekly business magazines published a couple days before the September 11 terrorist attacks in the U.S., I am... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

06 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

The Art of American Advertising

posters, broadsides, circulars, brochures, souvenir publications, and novelty items along with trade journals and other publications. It will be on display in the north lobby... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

27 Sep 2017
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?

Teresa Amabile argues that average folks deserve careful investigation, especially in the age of user innovation and crowdsourced problem-solving, when big ideas routinely come from the masses. The article appears in a forthcoming issue... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

05 Jun 2000
What Do You Think?

What’s Happening to Our Patience?

increasing their value. Denise Rickman grabs a magazine from the rack while in the supermarket checkout lane. Imran Jafar rides his scooter to work, enjoying the benefits of close-to-the-road transportation, exercise, View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

around show business. Q: What are you working on next? A: I just released a new case on fashion magazine Vogue, which I can't wait to teach later this month, and have a few other exciting case studies in the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

12 Dec 2019
Research & Ideas

How to Turn Down the Boil on Group Conflict

Inaccurate Group Meta-Perceptions Drive Negative Out-Group Attributions in Competitive Contexts, was published in November 2019 in the journal Nature Human Behavior. We want to compromise In a series of experiments, Lees View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

27 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey

of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua

21 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them

Global health care is entering its most challenging era, with increasing demand for services from consumers newly arrived in the middle class, under-served people, and rapidly aging populations, all the while dealing with the need to... View Details

Keywords: by Paul Guttry; Health; Education

31 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Marketing’s Conventional Wisdom

HBS associate professor Youngme Moon teaches the MBA elective Consumer Marketing and several Executive Education marketing courses. With her research and course development work focusing on innovative... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Service

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

territory, all of them are looking for guidance on how to make more rational consumption decisions. Those who know me will not be surprised to learn that I have strong opinions on these issues, many of them informed by research on decision-making View Details

Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman

19 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 19, 2006

conservatism. Competitive Advantage and the Value Network Configuration: Making Decisions at a Swedish Life Insurance Company Authors:Øystein D. Fjeldstad and Christian H.M. Ketels Periodical:Long Range... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

materials that enables impoverished Mexican families to build their own housing; or in Brazil, with Kodak's no-frills camera/film packages, or the department store Magazine Luiza's merchandise, payment plans, View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

26 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations

year in the journal Group Decisions and Negotiation, authors Rebecca L. Wolfe and Kathleen McGinn found that in negotiations where participants shared relatively equal... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

18 Apr 2019
Research & Ideas

Open Innovation Contestants Build AI-Based Cancer Tool

like a trained oncologist? How about setting up an online competition to find out? An article being published April 18 in JAMA Oncology, a journal of the American Medical Association, describes the crowdsourcing contest View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

09 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Unconscious Executive

times of day compared to optimal times of day. It seems that conscious thought sometimes gets in the way of making good decisions. Q: You and your colleagues also study sleep and creative performance, as you... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

the face of a new competitive threat. HBR published comments from four management gurus on what DataClear should do. (See Close Up.) Now it's your turn. We have included an excerpt of the case and a summary of the consultants' advice. But... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

01 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

When Do Alliances Make Sense?

thousands of public documents from the Department of the Interior that detailed bid price and profits from 1954 to 1975. He reported his findings in a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities

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