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05 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

stocks and mutual funds. An "investment bar" offered personal computers where the customer could do her banking, check her investment portfolio, or just surf the Internet. There were comfortable couches, where she could relax,... View Details

Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services

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

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

23 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

answer many basic questions asked by families in business. Some topics like succession have been well covered. There is a respected journal in the field, the Family Business Review, and other academic View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman

12 Sep 2016
Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

Adherence to Global Labor Standards and published in the journal Regulation & Governance, was authored by Toffel, UC Hastings Law Professor Jodi L. Short, and former HBS... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

When Reputation Trumps Regulation

A recent study by HBS assistant professor Jordan Siegel tests whether foreign firms can leapfrog their countries' weak legal institutions by listing equities in New York and voluntarily abiding by U.S. securities law. The study, which... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

22 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

Amabile spearheaded a study of more than 200 knowledge workers over a three-year period, asking them to keep journal entries of their successes and frustrations at work. What she found was unexpected: It... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

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

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

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

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

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

18 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Leading Innovation is the Art of Creating ‘Collective Genius’

Nayar led HCL as president and then CEO, the company's sales, market cap, and profits increased six fold, according to the book. Fortune magazine wrote that the HCL had "the... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard

05 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Why Don't More People Get Flu Shots at Work?

With a yearly price tag of roughly $87 billion in lost productivity and adverse health consequences, the flu is nothing to sneeze at. It’s no surprise that workplace flu vaccination clinics have gained popularity as employers try to keep... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Health

17 Sep 2001
Research & Ideas

Why E-commerce Didn’t Die With the Fall of Webvan

they just don't seem to get the front-page coverage. I got a call from someone from Wired magazine just the other day on what's happening as people go back to school. The story is that people are going to take the same old courses they... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Consumer Products; Retail

25 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

Software giant Microsoft is launching the Windows 8 version of its operating system this week, and suffice it to say that it's radically different from Windows 7. The familiar Start button and menu are gone,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products

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

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

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