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- 03 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 3, 2009
Working Papers Goals Gone Wild: The Systematic Side Effects of Over-Prescribing Goal Setting Authors: Lisa D. Ordonez, Maurice E. Schweitzer, Adam D. Galinsky, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract Goal setting is one of the most replicated and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Jul 2023
- Research & Ideas
Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?
markets. As an HBS marketing professor, he understands the mindset of the average pharmaceutical executive, who obsesses about protecting their organization’s inventions to drive profits. But as the world emerges from the coronavirus,... View Details
- 31 Mar 2022
- Op-Ed
Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services
large scale helps distribute the fixed costs, reducing per-transaction cost. Narayana Hrudalaya, for instance, has installed cutting-edge expensive equipment for heart procedures, but the high volume of its operations drives down... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
- 11 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 11
decreases the compassion that individuals express to others in need, that this effect is mediated by dampened feelings of empathy and heightened perceptions of unprofessionalism, and that it is circumscribed to bad news that has economic... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
In the 50 years since modern microfinance was introduced as a tool to fight poverty, institutions have distributed hundreds of millions of loans to people in developing countries. Such loans are repaid at rates often as high as 98... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
financial management and the usefulness of formal hedging of agricultural production risks was offered to randomly selected farmers in Gujarat, India. The authors evaluate the effect of the financial literacy training and three marketing... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 21 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 21, 2018
the incentives of brokers, and brokers price discriminate based on a consumer's level of sophistication. The model estimates indicate that costly search is a key friction in retail financial markets, but the effects of search costs are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 31 Jul 2019
- Research & Ideas
Distressed Employees? Try Resilience Training
Every year depression affects one in every five employees and costs American businesses $210 billion in medical bills and lost productivity. In fact, for every worker with a depressive disorder, a company loses an average of 32 productive... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
profitable when it decided to do its spin-off. What can be done to encourage companies to restructure sooner rather than later? In the case of United Air Lines, management in effect created a crisis that made employees more willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 28 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 28, 2015
literature on disability insurance does not account for this intertemporal channel, it may underestimate the total work-disincentive effect of SSDI. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49390 Working Papers... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, October 3, 2017
which a time-stamped sensor is embedded. We randomize distribution of these soap dispensers as well as provision of monitoring (feedback reports) or monitoring and incentives for daily handwashing. Relative to a control arm in which... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
person's view of the water privatization (relative to other privatizations) was 16% more negative if he/she was read a vignette with some of the negative statements about the water privatization that Argentina's President expressed during the nationalization process.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
demand information that the dealer obtains through the initial assessment and subsequent learning in the selling process. With the dealer's average net profit per car in the estimation sample being around $1150, the initial assessment is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Feb 2018
- Sharpening Your Skills
Master the Team Meeting
losing people, you’re wasting everyone’s time and you’re costing the company money. (Do the math. The average team meeting can cost a company thousands of dollars every week!). Tell people to put their phones or laptops away if they are... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Austin
- December 2010
- Case
Oral Rehydration Therapy
By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
Ashraf, Nava, and Claire Qureshi. "Oral Rehydration Therapy." Harvard Business School Case 911-035, December 2010. (Request a courtesy copy.)
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
is related to higher UK CEO pay; however, the effect is similar when UK firms have a listing in any foreign country implying a foreign listing effect not unique to the U.S. Product market relationships... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
or as an effort of managers to massage metrics. The salutary effects of activist investors can be appreciated, just as one also appreciates the information and incentive problems that plague their money management industry. The channeling... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 4, 2008
tax avoidance activity. These "book-tax" gaps are shown to be larger when firms are alleged to be involved in tax shelters. OLS estimates indicate that the average effect of tax avoidance on firm... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive
It’s never been easy to make money in the restaurant industry. A highly fragmented sector dominated by 70 percent independent owners and operators, the average restaurant’s annual revenue hovers around $1 million and generates an... View Details
- 29 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
Will Demand for Women Executives Finally Shrink the Gender Pay Gap?
effect that job-hopping had on salaries, Healy and colleagues studied data based on 2,000 senior-level job switches from executive placement firms, LinkedIn career information, and interviewing search professionals. Overall, the research... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz