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- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
of 1906 further assisted the management of product color in the food business by regulating and endorsing the industry's color control practices. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 18, 2016
innovation from a game of chance to one in which they develop products and services that customers want to buy and are willing to purchase at a premium price. How do companies know how to grow? How can they create products that they are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Ethical Can We Be?
pursues." Joe Schmid commented that "the 'highest behavior' any leader can expect from those they lead is the 'lowest behavior' they demonstrate." To the extent that fairness and ethical behaviors are in the eye of the beholder, View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018
the threshold for research and development (R&D) investment in an economically viable product. Further, the small size of patient populations for orphan drugs, together with the increasing prevalence of biologics among orphan drugs,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Blog
Inside the Learning: Boston By the Season
a Red Sox game at Fenway Park. This historic baseball park built in 1912 is one of the cathedrals of the sport. You’ll want to get tickets in advance! Visit Cape Cod, Martha's Vineyard, or Nantucket. If you have time, head east for a few... View Details
- 26 Nov 2001
- Op-Ed
Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed
able to realize the sales before the end of the quarter and thus fulfill their budget goal and make their bonuses. But the high cost of assembling the goods at a distant location—it required not only the rental of the warehouse but also... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
the United States, the time, cost, and complications of patent suits provide openings for opportunistic assertions of infringement. This article proposes a way to address information problems that facilitate opportunistic assertion: an automatic process of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54407 forthcoming ACM SIGecom Exchanges Good Markets (Really Do) Make Good Neighbors By: Kominers, Scott Duke Abstract—This article gives a (very) brief... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
evidence that “short-termism" and “quarterly capitalism" are impairing firms' ability to invest, innovate, and provide good wages. We explain why S&P 500 shareholder-payout figures provide a misleadingly incomplete picture... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online
Continued: The Business Model What Does the Research Say? Show Hide Details Concepts Infectious Change Public Goods Problems Cooperation in the Real Economy Expanding on Purpose Featured Exercises View Details
- 30 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019
Evidence from the Hospital Industry By: Dafny, Leemore S., Katherine Ho, and Robin S. Lee Abstract—We consider the effect of mergers between firms whose products are not viewed as direct substitutes for the same good or service but are... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism
opportunity that are essential to legitimizing that deployment of self-interest." In other words, capitalism earns its legitimacy through the idea that the pursuit of self-interest explicitly delivers on certain moral goods for... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018
the City as having “poor” operating conditions with “high-risk” hygiene violations (using the same low score threshold as above)—and find a further 7% decrease in purchase intentions. Moreover, the presence of an alert reduces the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 03 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Box Office Power of Stars
buyers? And in an interesting plot twist, Elberse decided to design her research not around actual box office receipts, but rather around a Hollywood simulation game that has over half a million players. The results were published in her... View Details
- 21 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Voter ID Laws Don't Work (But They Don't Hurt Anything, Either)
editor-in-chief of HBS Working Knowledge. Image: adamkaz Related Reading: Why People Don’t Vote—and How a Good Ground Game Helps Research Paper: Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement Ground Game,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 27
Publications August 2013 Princeton University Press A Social Strategy: How We Profit from Social Media By: Piskorski, Mikołaj Jan Abstract—Almost no one had heard of social media a decade ago, but today websites such as Facebook,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
people. The rollout of the new technology is garnering a good deal of public attention, not just for the unfamiliar new “dialing” process that customers are required to learn, but also because of the mass... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Oct 2009
- Research & Ideas
7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm
“Crises offer rare opportunities to make major changes in an organization because they lessen the resistance that exists in good times.” "Leaders must be willing to ask for help," he continues. "They should rely on a... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2015
- HBS Case
Tate’s Digital Makeover Transforms the Traditional Museum
response is predominantly awe at the magnitude of what Tate has been able to pull off” It also created the Magic Tate Ball and a dozen other apps and online games to tie-in with exhibitions, available on iTunes and Android stores for free... View Details
- 15 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Remembering Alfred Chandler
academics talk a good game about the need for interdisciplinary thinking, but we usually fall back on the strengths (or prejudices) of our primary discipline. Chandler was heavily influenced by sociologists... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne