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- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Lessons from the Browser Wars
at a competitive disadvantage? A: Game over. Firefox and the others have to get the installed base of IE users to switch to their browser, a much harder proposition than IE faced in the '90s when all it had to do was get new users to pick... View Details
- 20 May 2008
- First Look
First Look: May 20, 2008
Working PapersGender in Job Negotiations: A Two-Level Game Authors:Hannah Riley Bowles and Kathleen L. McGinn Abstract We propose a two-level-game (Putnam, 1988) perspective on gender in job negotiations. At Level 1, candidates... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
the city of Boston, Massachusetts, show that revealing the “submerged state”—ensuring that citizens can see the often-hidden work that government performs—enhances both perceptions of and engagement with government. In Study 1, viewing a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
culture, leadership, and strategy of Uber in Super Pumped: The Battle for Uber. Blake J. Harris covers a classic business battle in Console Wars: Sega, Nintendo, and the Battle that Defined a Generation; besides being a video View Details
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General Management: Processes and Action
General Management: Processes and Action (GMPA) focuses on implementation and the way that general managers get things done. Typically, they work through processes—sequences of tasks and activities that unfold over time, like strategic planning,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Communication Strategy; Decision Making; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Technological Innovation; Knowledge Management; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Leading Change; Growth and Development Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Management Skills; Management Style; Management Teams; Managerial Roles; Resource Allocation; Business Processes; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Strategic Planning; Conflict and Resolution; Power and Influence; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; Auto Industry; China; India; United States
- 28 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Harness Auction Fever
(e.g., those who might take a competitor's bid to be a personal attack), and those who are highly sensitive to what others think of them, might fall prey to the effects of competitive arousal. Finally, those who are well-prepared and have a View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
loyal. So it's no surprise that the emissions testing industry is fraught with fraud all over the country. "California, New York, Georgia, Nevada, and many other states have had scandals involving lenient vehicles emissions testing... View Details
- 12 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers
View Video Video by Amelia Kundhardt They keep on coming—corporate scandals involving revelations of deplorable working conditions at overseas factories. If it’s not the Foxconn factories that Apple employs... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
School Note 812-016 Technology transfer from U.S. universities to industry has increased dramatically in the last 25 years. The case reviews the history of technology transfer with particular emphasis on the Bayh-Dole Act of 1980. It then... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
makes sense to many people because they are so influenced by the most spectacular fragments of men's consumption that appear on the popular culture radar: Harley rallies in Sturgis, the Million Man March, men howling in the woods à la Iron John, men tracking big View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 16 Aug 2024
- In Practice
Election 2024: What's at Stake for Business and the Workplace?
political speech in the workplace—now. Discussion is both widespread and inevitable as the election process heats up. To prepare, game out scenarios and determine how you would manage them. The reality, of course, will be different. But... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
invention and innovation. We then describe how these factors are frequently measured in the data and some resulting empirical regularities. Innovative activity tends to be more concentrated than industrial activity, and we discuss... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
Most books about the nation's financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A financial industry veteran and chairman of MFS Investment Management, a Boston firm... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
possibility that the effects of FDI differ by sector. Second, we differentiate FDI based on objective qualitative industry characteristics including the average skill intensity and reliance on external capital. Third, we use a new dataset... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 17
http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/aknin%20dunn%20norton.pdf Correlation in the Multiplayer Electronic Mail Game Authors:Peter A. Coles and Ran Shorrer Publication:B.E. Journal of Theoretical Economics (forthcoming) Abstract In variants of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
workplace negotiation and the way academics study negotiation are overwhelmingly masculine. But despite evidence that the game is rigged against them, women still believe they'd be better negotiators if they only tried harder. Scholars... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
Science When Novel Rituals Impact Intergroup Bias: Evidence from Economic Games and Neurophysiology By: Hobson, N., F. Gino, M.I. Norton, and M. Inzlicht Abstract—Long-established rituals in pre-existing cultural groups have been linked... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Entrepreneurial Venture: A Conversation
encouraged them to take risks. Bill Sahlman: Also, when we graduated from HBS, the economy was in recession, inflation and interest rates were high, productivity growth was low, and the stock market was in the tank. It is not at all surprising that the venture capital... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
- 26 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 26, 2008
pioneered shipbuilding techniques that not only allowed him to build ships at unprecedented rates, but he also spurred the whole shipbuilding industry to do the same. His fame made him the object of envy and scorn for shipbuilders all... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
or partners whose nonverbal behavior was unknown; these expectations of cooperative intent increased negotiators’ own cooperation. Study 4 uses an economic game to demonstrate that handshaking increased cooperation even when handshakes... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne