Pattern Avoidance - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Oct 2000
News

Rationale for Non-Rationality: Why We Make Bad Choices

problems for learning and for change." Jensen believes this tendency is the source of most so-called people problems in organizations. Jensen's model defines two regimes of behavior: the Resourceful, Evaluative, Maximizing Model (REMM) and the Pain View Details

Keywords: Laura Singleton (MBA '88)

12 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch

online videos by simply turning away, opening another browser window, or chatting with someone. "It's not at all hard to avoid an ad online even if you can't technically skip it," he says. “It's not at all hard to View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consumer Products

24 Jul 2014
Op-Ed

Reform Tax Law to Keep US Firms at Home

a) incorporation decisions by entrepreneurs that anticipate the burdens of being a US corporation, b) merger patterns that reflect the penalties of being domiciled in the US and the importance of offshore cash for US corporations, c)... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai; Pharmaceutical

16 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 16, 2018

DSMC holds as a consistent pattern in a dynamic equilibrium. Given DSMC, clusters of firms making different complementary goods, including open platforms with surrounding ecosystems, can survive and compete effectively against integrated... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

04 May 2007
What Do You Think?

How Do Managers Think?

development of an instructional program based on them. Perhaps most important, Groopman describes how and why doctors sometimes make tragic mistakes. These are mistakes that occur because of miscommunication (the failure to say "tell me again"); too heavy a... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

05 Aug 2010
What Do You Think?

What Is Customer Opinion Good For?

products arise from strong insight, gut feel and imagination. Bad ideas, lousy products or services can be avoided by serious market research." Andy Robin pointed out that in the semiconductor business "one still had to spend a lot of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Technology

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

statistical simulations to analyze drivers’ work patterns and pay. Their findings suggest that the ability to set one’s own work schedule has a significant impact on quality of life—not just for gig workers, but for everyone—and that that... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

21 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

patterns of their male colleagues," says coauthor Kolb. And without women in high places, younger women lack the role models and mentors to help them succeed. It seems the organization is signaling that being female is a liability,... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

23 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Corporate Sustainability Reporting: It’s Effective

sample of 42 others that didn't. The researchers focused on several measures that capture socially responsible management practices including the social responsibility of business leaders, sustainable development, employee training, efficiency of corporate boards,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

26 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

How Electronic Patient Records Can Slow Doctor Productivity

that you might be changing existing communication patterns among staff” One likely reason for the decline: processing electronic records can change the way staff members communicate with one another, clogging up what had been a well-oiled... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Health

01 Jun 2004
News

Massport, Back on Course

we have maintained our operating budget relatively flat, which means we’ve had to take $20 million out of other areas. And that’s quite a challenge without sacrificing safety or efficiency. What other security steps have you taken? We’ve received a lot of attention for... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Massport; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

firm-wide diversification; in contrast, a high net value of within-firm coordination is correlated with centralization. Variation across establishments within firms is widespread: most firms are neither fully centralized nor fully decentralized. Delegation View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2016
First Look

March 1, 2016

small enough to avoid extortion. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50675 Extrapolation and Bubbles By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—We present an... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 7

that the regional location decisions of these firms upon moving to western Germany were driven by non-economic factors and heuristics rather than existing industrial conditions. Relocating firms increased the likelihood of incumbent failure in destination regions, a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

too many organizations do not practice the thinking described above. Instead they fall into a pattern of only incrementally changing resource allocations from year to year. (The report doesn't, however, associate the practice with either... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

The coronavirus pandemic is spurring job applicants to seek positions at big companies and avoid startups in what new research calls an economic “flight to safety.” Job applicants using AngelList Talent, the largest online recruitment... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

12 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Investors Have More Than Money to Offer Entrepreneurs

forces, but patterns over time and how markets move and customers buy. They may not know your specific market details or the intimate buying patterns of your target customer, but as Bob Mason, managing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

06 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 6, 2008

series of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four... View Details