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- 22 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
Recessions Push Some Entrepreneurs to Launch Too Soon
to improve their financial situation by rushing new ventures to market. In doing so, they sacrifice quality standards and ultimately underperform their peers. This is particularly problematic in high tech, where entrants need strong... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
are hospitalized, and 3,000 die due to foodborne illnesses, according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. The research is detailed in the paper “How Scheduling Can Bias Quality Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections,” co-written View Details
- 25 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
HBS Cases: Beauty Entrepreneur Madam Walker
glad to have it out there and to be telling that story because I think leaders learn by inspiration and by other examples of leadership at... View Details
- 07 Mar 2023
- HBS Case
ChatGPT: Did Big Tech Set Up the World for an AI Bias Disaster?
study. “Just seeing this race for the sake of it. And so we wanted to write a paper to help slow it down and just think through the risks and harms.” While the paper had already been reviewed by Google and... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
of creative productivity. "We found that of all the events that characterized the best inner work life days, by far the most prominent was making progress," Amabile says. "And of all the events that characterized the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2018
- Research & Ideas
Why Artificial Intelligence Isn't a Sure Thing to Increase Productivity
future, 50 percent of all tasks currently done by humans could be done by machine learning and artificial intelligence,” says Prithwiraj (Raj) Choudhury, assistant professor at... View Details
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
sales productivity is not only about profit maximization and shareholder value—which, by the way, I don't think a CEO or Harvard Business School needs to apologize for—it also affects growth, civic... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 22 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
Seven Strategy Questions: A Simple Approach for Better Execution
your primary customer will allow you to devote all possible resources to meeting their needs and minimize resources devoted to everything else. This is the path to competitive success. It's easy to try to duck the tough choice implied by... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
by society, rather than by the parents themselves. A third framework would relate to equity. As a society, we need to think about what fairness means in this realm. Is the... View Details
- 31 Aug 2021
- Book
Feeling Powerless at Work? Time to Agitate, Innovate, and Orchestrate
pernicious effects that power has." Sharing some of their power with their employees, for example by giving them more autonomy or allowing them to contribute to the decision-making process, can actually lead to better results: higher... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 15 Aug 2022
- Book
University of the Future: Finding the Next World Leaders in Higher Ed
superb scholars and among the world’s most talented students. China’s university leaders have been among the best in the world. But in recent ideological campaigns, its students are forced to sit through required courses in Party ideology, and they View Details
- 01 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Retail Execs Underplay Current Performance to Investors--but Why?
the paper says. With some evidence that “a few are behaving badly,” Froot says the findings might prompt the US Securities and Exchange Commission to scrutinize weaknesses in the announcement process. “We definitely think this merits... View Details
- 29 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Read Our Most Popular Research Stories of 2019
them—and all soon-to-be managers—make the shift. These 4 CEOs Created a New Standard of Leadership At the height of the 2008 financial crisis, these four corporate leaders stepped forward—and changed how we think of leadership forever.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
Think of the last time you went shopping. By the time you decided to buy a product, you knew both what you were buying and how much it cost. But was your decision affected by... View Details
- 15 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
Deconstructing the Price Tag
when a firm does share this information, consumers consider it a form of "intimate disclosure"--and people are often more attracted to brands that disclose intimate information. Shoppers have greater affinity for brands that advertise how muchit costs to make a... View Details
- 05 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Benefit of Giving Back to Open Source Software
productivity from using the software by as much as 100 percent, when compared with free-riding competitors. "Companies that contribute and give back learn how to better use the open source software in... View Details
- 20 Mar 2019
- Research & Ideas
Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced
context. Q2: In brief, what did you learn? How much of diversity and performance is consistent across study areas, and how much is driven by context? Zhang: We learned that the social context matters, a lot!... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Mar 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Luxury Hotels in Tanzania
- 19 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving
how much good the donation will achieve. “That gives you some moral wiggle room to pursue the more selfish action,” says Exley, an assistant professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. Her research attempts to improve the performance of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
that a business leader would come in and say, 'I know how to run my business so I know how to run your school.'" The attitude that superintendents desired of business leaders was quite different: "I'm going to learn first,... View Details