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- 24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24
PublicationsiPhones for Friends, Refrigerators for Family: How Products Prime Social Networks Authors:Lalin Anik and Michael I. Norton Publication:Social Influence (forthcoming). Abstract We show that priming consumers with products... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Feb 2009
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First Look: February 24, 2009
support the change, and evaluating the change implementation). We examine this relationship using data from 89 clinical managers at the United Kingdom National Health Service who implemented change projects between 2003 and 2004. Our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
women in 21 countries found that women’s gains in economic power and social influence have come at a heavy price: women feeling stressed out, time-starved, and overburdened. This book argues that the growing market for products and... View Details
- 04 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 4, 2007
a platform-based market socially efficient? We analyze a dynamic model where an entrant with superior quality competes with an incumbent platform, and examine long-run market outcomes. We find that the answers to these questions depend... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
more economically developed countries. But they do have something else: each other. "Peer groups are often used as a commitment device to achieve personal goals, but there has been little empirical evidence evaluating their... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report
(or lifelong learning) is critical if one is to keep up with a rapidly changing business and social environment. All agreed that the School is in a unique position to strengthen connectedness by offering educational programs that meet the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Down the Memory Chute
terms of direct practical benefits.” But report-writing courses were dogged over the years by confusion about what they should accomplish and how; shifting standards of evaluation and grading; faculty ambivalence about the courses’ role... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 15, 2008
two centuries. We evaluate the implications of our estimates for aggregate TFP and per capita income. Our results reveal that, on average, countries have adopted technologies 47 years after their invention. There is substantial variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
research. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w15319 PublicationsSuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good Author:Rosabeth M. Kanter Publication:New York: Crown,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
but at the expense of the outgroup. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52113 in press Journal of Personality and Social Psychology It Doesn’t Hurt to Ask: Question-asking Increases Liking By: Huang, K., M.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
What’s Next
of HBS scholars have identified new perspectives for evaluating complex problems, launching new fields like strategy and new concepts like the balanced scorecard in the process. Research infuses our curriculum, where ideas are tested and... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Extraordinary People
pianist. Meeting with colleagues at Baupost. Enjoying a Red Sox game with his wife, Beth. For 30 years, Seth Klarman has exercised an investment strategy of evaluating businesses based on their worth and of seeking out bargains. “It’s... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
The Rankings Game
school in one ranking fail to make the top five in others? The answer lies in the methods the publications use to evaluate schools. The big five — Bloomberg Businessweek, U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, the Financial Times, and the... View Details
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
proposals, and quality evaluations for more than 12,000 evaluator-proposal pairs. The analysis shows that solicitations offering a personal reward for top submissions boost participation rates without affecting submission quality. We show... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
New Cluster Mapping Project Helps Companies Locate Facilities
towards enhancing its cluster, both individually and collectively through trade organizations. The Cluster Mapping Project reveals the detailed patterns of cluster location across the United States. It allows an evaluation of whether a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
Going Green Makes Good Business Sense
Press in 2000. Reinhardt evaluated current trends and tensions for managers, and outlined tactics that managers use to try to reconcile what at face value seem competing objectives: how to maximize shareholder value while at the same time... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 18 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Unseen Link Between Savings and National Growth
research has evaluated this alternative view and developed a theory based on the effect of past savings on growth through the adoption of new technologies (mostly through foreign direct investment: FDI). Q: What is the technological... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 13 May 2008
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First Look: May 13, 2008
small firms, not-for-profits, and social enterprises have successfully leveraged deep metaphors to solve a wide variety of marketing problems. Marketing Metaphoria should convince you that everything consumers think and do is influenced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Articles - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
Health Delivery Project The Institute for Cancer Care Innovation MOC Network ICIC U.S. Cluster Mapping Project U.S. Competitiveness Project FSG Shared Value Initiative Social Progress Imperative AllWorld Network VBHCD Initiative VBHCD... View Details
- 28 Nov 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should Pay-for-Performance Compensation be Replaced?
compensation at least since proponents of agency theory 25 years ago began advocating the use of stock options in compensation packages. Its use is a source of praise in the evaluation of governance by rating agencies that provide... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett