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- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
setting up a thought experiment, this exercise challenges students to examine their own assumptions about the meaning of the word "public" in public education, as well as to understand competing... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 24, 2018
through word of mouth (WOM); whereas in another context (a cloud-based file storage service), customers who joined through WOM referrals tended to exhibit higher usage. Yet,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
you may not be able to learn anywhere else," says Alvin E. Roth, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets (NOM) Unit at HBS and a longtime champion of experimental economics. For example, to track how viewers watch... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are Creative People More Dishonest?
faced with ethical dilemmas. The first study tested the hypothesis that a naturally creative person is predisposed to dishonest behavior. (The week before the experiment, the participants, 71 university students, completed an online... View Details
- 03 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 3, 2006
L. Bower and Clark Gilbert Abstract Research from a set of studies conducted over thirty-five years shows that actual strategy rather than words on paper at corporate is crafted step by step as company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
the bias on a per word basis hardly differs between the sources. These results have implications for the segregation of readers in online sources and the allocation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jun 2024
- Research & Ideas
Gen AI Marketing: How Some 'Gibberish' Code Can Give Products an Edge
boundaries lie.” “Is a product getting ranked at the top because it genuinely has more desired features? Or is it just because I’m putting in some gibberish?” She says some of the urgency revolves around the fact that LLMs View Details
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
received word that he has inadvertently offended one of his students. He is pondering a possible response. Purchase the case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Horrible Boss Workarounds
fact the boss may not be sure what the solution should be and is just waiting for someone to come forward." In her classes, Kanter teaches the case of the upscale cookware retailer Williams-Sonoma, where the CEO repeatedly eschewed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
on Amazon; they help curate the kind of books I might like, I actually like that service. And if I'm looking online at a retailer for a particular shirt, I don't mind them sending me ads for shirts. That's... View Details
- 20 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 20
this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/712402-PDF-ENG Language and Globalization: 'Englishnization' at Rakuten Tsedal NeeleyHarvard Business School Case 412-002 Hiroshi Mikitani, the CEO of Rakuten (Japan's largest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
April 4, 2019 Palgrave Macmillan Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity By: Mills, Karen G. Abstract—Fintech, Small Business & the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
survey a sampling of the research questions these data help to answer. Advertising Disclosures: Measuring Labeling Alternatives in Internet Search Engines Authors:Benjamin G. Edelman and Duncan S. Gilchrist Publication:Information... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad
Super Bowl Sunday is sure to bring the usual barrage of clever soda, beer, and car ads featuring everyone from Vegas showgirls selling Coca-Cola to pop celebrity Psy charming us to buy pistachios Gangnam-style. But at a whopping $3.7... View Details
- 06 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017
expert-produced knowledge, we compare bias in these two models in the context of contested knowledge, which involves subjective, unverifiable, or controversial information. Using data from Encyclopædia Britannica, authored by experts, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Who Guarantees Your Workplace Is Safe for Return?
of equal or greater concern: Will shoppers, diners, students, and workers feel safe returning? How can they be comfortable that the space is safe beyond just taking someone’s word for it? Cautious and... View Details
- 04 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy
RealNetworks founder Rob Glaser, a veteran of doing battle with much larger Microsoft, has some words of wisdom on competing against a market giant: "If you want to beat... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
report different levels of satisfaction or enjoyment of their interactions (Study 3). Finally, in Study 4 we document that individuals’ lay beliefs are in direct opposition to our findings: participants... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 May 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is Denial Endemic to Management?
Microsoft became dominant in software for PC operating systems; and the belief by entrepreneurs and investors alike that online grocery orders to the long-gone Webvan, the largest single start-up during the Internet bubble, would become a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy
365 learn from consumer usage patterns and documents, personalizing their user interfaces by selecting which quick-access functions to display and incorporating new words and expressions into their correction dictionaries. Moreover, some... View Details