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  • 02 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2011

that arises from merely purchasing a product. Labor increases valuation of completed products not just for consumers who profess an interest in "do-it-yourself" projects, but even for those who... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 02 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 2, 2009

their help. This concern is particularly acute when making contributions to organizations that serve heterogeneous populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Jul 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

months. Marketing for the program was also eliminated. While all banks sell bonds, the $.50 to $.85 they earn for each transaction gives them little financial incentive to make the process easy View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services
  • 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5

value creation for shareholders overall. August 2013 Quarterly Journal of Economics Last-place Aversion: Evidence and Redistributive Implications By: Kuziemko, Ilyana, Ryan Buell, Taly Reich, and Michael... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5

coefficients aggregate discrete choice model-which accommodates heterogeneity in preferences for school quality and athletic success-and an extensive set of school fixed effects to control View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 14

value on average quality and less value on total quantity. With competing platforms, the effect of user preferences for quantity is reversed. Furthermore, exclusion incentives depend in a non-trivial way on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Oct 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Management Education’s Unanswered Questions

beneficial for society. This theme was later replaced by preference for disciplinary knowledge, and finally by a market logic that regards business education as a marketable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

competition law and, where appropriate, suggest remedies to right the violations we uncover. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51875 2016 Transformational Change in Environmental and Natural Resource Management: Guidelines View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 21

Harvard Business School Case 515-024 Conjoint Analysis: A Do It Yourself Guide Conjoint Analysis has become one of the most commonly used quantitative market research methods. It has been successfully employed across a wide variety of industries to quantify consumer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jul 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

decision-making and even to the future and viability of capitalism. One debate concerned the primacy of profit as a goal. Deaver Brown led this argument by saying, "Profit is the only legitimate goal of a corporation ," pointing out that it serves many... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 06 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 6

makers with asymmetric preferences face multiple issues and have limited resources for influencing outcomes. A delayed decision becomes part of the subsequent agenda, thereby altering the allocation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

option. The "unsorted" group had population-average preferences for working in the regime or the outside option. We find this sorting on this basis of institutional View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

of glamour in the 1950s and 1960s. I, too, liked the thought of developing ideas that would motivate consumers. As an undergrad at the University of Texas, I was a strong writer and was always looking for opportunities to be creative. I... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 10 Sep 2024
  • Blog Post

Leading with Creative Problem Solving: Ron Kurtz (MBA 1967)

looking for opportunities to be creative. I thought my future career would be in advertising, likely as a copywriter. Two undergraduate internships at large retail advertisers gave me enough exposure and experience to discover that, in... View Details
  • 09 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 9

  Working PapersSocial Influence Given (Partially) Deliberate Matching: Career Imprints in the Creation of Academic Entrepreneurs Authors:Pierre Azoulay, Christopher C. Liu, and Toby E. Stuart Abstract Actors often match with associates on a small set of dimensions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 24, 2006

managing the political conflict and the informational and procedural shortcomings that accrue to organizational differentiation. Finally, we show that the creation of an independent group responsible for managing not forecasts directly,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Promise of Channel Stewardship

personal relationships and the preferences of a few key decision makers. Informal rules get made on how the system operates. Then one day when a firm has grown enough, it discovers that it has a channel footprint. Whether this organically... View Details
Keywords: by V. Kasturi Rangan & Marie Bell; Consumer Products
  • 15 Dec 2009
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First Look: Dec. 15, 2009

become the hubs of the network. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-043.pdf Policy Bundling to Overcome Loss Aversion: A Method for Improving Legislative Outcomes (revised) Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Mary Carol... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 18

is constrained. We assess these predictions by examining how the 1996 repeal of certificate-of-need (CON) legislation in Pennsylvania affected the market for cardiac surgery in the state. We show that entry led to a View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2019
  • Blog Post

Forget Cash. Here Are Better Ways to Motivate Employees

“IN A LOT OF ORGANIZATIONS, THERE ARE NO RECOGNITION PROGRAMS FOR EMPLOYEES WHATSOEVER, SO EMPLOYERS NEED TO CATCH UP.” People may prefer non-cash gifts because they often spend cash bonuses on basic... View Details
Keywords: All Industries