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  • 29 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Is the Digital Age Making Us Petty?

amount is objectively more than $5,” Zhang says. In cases in which a seemingly petty amount is exchanged, but the giver does not intend to focus on precision, an explanation of the true motivation helps mitigate the negative effects, the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
  • 28 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur

investment banking, and many other jobs. So the question was, how do you attract talented people and motivate them? For Kapur, it was by the monetary incentive, by the nature of the work, and by instilling the ambition and aspiration that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Advertising
  • 20 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 20

for designing such mechanisms—how the stakeholders are motivated to participate and how the company uses their inputs and makes decisions. For any choice there are trade-offs to be considered. He concludes by identifying the design most... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

A Year as Co-Presidents: Q+A with AASU's Bukie Adebo (MBA 2021) and Alexis Jackson (MBA 2021)

financing. If you teach marketing, understand how Black images are portrayed and exploited. Treat it like any other area. For alumni, give resources to support the Black community at HBS and beyond. Use your money and your time to create... View Details
  • 20 Jul 2017
  • News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

stereotype and expand their image of what’s possible for them.” Since 2014, Owusu-Kesse has served as COO of the Harlem Children’s Zone (HCZ), a path-breaking New York nonprofit known for its multifaceted approach to ending... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • Web

Black History Month | Baker Library

surrogate in Harvard Library licensed resources, but can be viewed on-site via our microforms reader. Images in the highlighted content below have been digitally enhanced, where possible, to increase the legibility of Black faces. "On... View Details
  • 26 Mar 2012
  • Research & Ideas

What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire

or even how much they will pay for an item. But they aren't very good at accessing where that value comes from, or how and when it is influenced by factors like store displays or brands.” Most humans are a little more complicated than rats, of course. But we are... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Rediscovering America

ingenuity built this country. New ideas involve a kind of thinking where you’re able to challenge orthodoxy and look at the world in a different light, from a different angle, and sometimes combine existing elements in a different way. I like the View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 19 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?

labs and venture capital-backed firms, you see that there are both very real strengths and some serious limitations," Lerner says. "Much of the motivation for writing this book was to bridge the gap between the two models."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 27 Oct 2016
  • News

Paying It Forward

software works by interpreting patterns in the pixels of digital video images that signal attempts to override or skip checkout scanners. ScanItAll can also detect fraud at self-checkout counters, a growing problem in retail worldwide.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Insights from the Post-Macho Workplace

race and gender relations decides to study workers on an oil rig, an isolated setting with low gender diversity? In our research on gender, my colleague from Stanford, Debra Meyer-son, and I have written about how organizations often conflate concepts of leadership... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 22 Sep 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Businesses Can Respond to AIDS

out of efficiency, cost, and risk mitigation issues. The elements are interdependent, yet not all stakeholders face the same image and branding exposure. Supply chains also translate to attenuated control; that is, your company can exert... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 05 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

public's interest and reminded people of the multiple platforms available to see the competition," says Greyser. The biggest boon to NBC, however, was the Games themselves. Winning performances by American athletes such as swimmer Michael Phelps and gymnast Gabby... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising
  • 06 Aug 2024
  • Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

Immigration will be a central issue in the upcoming US presidential election, just as it motivated the recent snap elections in France. After all, the number of migrants rose 27 percent to 281 million globally in 2020, compared with 2010,... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Tabellini
  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

The Exchange: Micro Management

Image by John Ritter 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... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 27 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

image of invulnerability by putting on a guise of being technically infallible, which meant refusing to admit to or reveal evidence of failures, mistakes, or lack of knowledge. In the emotional realm, presenting oneself as emotionally... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities
  • 15 Dec 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Deconstructing the Price Tag

cost transparency would be helpful [in motivating buyers] if the price of the shirt was $10. But even at $35, we still saw an advantage to revealing the cost of production, which is interesting because the markup was five times the cost."... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 31 May 2016
  • First Look

May 31, 2016

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51099 May 2016 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Copyright Infringement in the Market for Digital Images By: Luo, Hong, and Julie Holland Mortimer Abstract—Digital technologies... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jul 2024
  • In Practice

The New Rules of Trade with China: Navigating Tariffs, Turmoil, and Opportunities

economic interdependence is the primary motivation for insecurity and policy actions to manage competition with China. In work I coauthored with Margaret Pearson of the University of Maryland and Kellee Tsai of Northeastern University, we... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Manufacturing; Retail; Fashion; Industrial Products; Consumer Products; Steel; Transportation; Telecommunications
  • 08 Nov 2024
  • HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

Walt Disney’s time in Paris during the waning days of World War I helped shape him into a visionary entrepreneur who would ultimately build a beloved international brand. Dwight Eisenhower and Robert McNamara discovered the importance of humility and how to View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation
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