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- 02 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
purchase interest. Specifically, building on the psychology of disclosure and trust, we posit that cost transparency, insofar as it represents an act of sensitive disclosure, fosters trust. In turn, this heightened trust enhances consumers’ willingness to purchase from... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
orientation around learning—instead of mere task completion—can create a space for debate, dissent, and deliberation. Such team processes are only achievable when there is a collective agreement on their value, coupled with support in... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 12 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019
that listed scripts are twice as likely to be released as unlisted scripts and, conditional on release, generate a higher return on investment. Further evidence supports a causal interpretation of these differences in outcomes and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20
FASB, particularly on the use of fair values in accounting. We find evidence that auditor lobbying is driven by prevailing standards of litigation and regulatory scrutiny and by support for fair-value accounting. But we find no evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508114 Sirtris Pharmaceuticals: Living Healthier, Longer Harvard Business School Case 808-112 Describes a set of key strategic decisions facing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Best Practices of Global Innovators
equivalents of lower cost. But they fail to consider how collaboration can be used to support their broader business goals. Collaboration can lower costs; but it can also be used to increase the distinctiveness of a firm's products—for... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7
Advancement and Human-Capital Development By: Chattopadhyay, Shinjinee, and Prithwiraj Choudhury Abstract—We develop and test predictions on how early-career challenges arising from the workplace context affect short- and long-term career advancement of individuals.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
elements that executives need to align and strengthen. This article describes how companies have used the matrix to clarify their relationships with daughter brands, retool their identities to support new businesses, revamp their overall... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5
performance. Importantly, because these dynamics rely on the acquiescence of other team members to the leader's dominant behavior, the effects only emerge when the leader holds a formal leadership position. Three studies find consistent View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
customers willingly pay higher prices. The relevant readers are general managers responsible for a P&L, marketing and sales managers responsible for making product and selling decisions (including pricing), and people in operations... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010
suggest that helping others leads to higher levels of happiness, the existing evidence only weakly supports this causal claim: research in psychology, economics, and neuroscience exploring the benefits of charitable giving has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 15, 2008
company is now in a state of crisis. Dr. Wheelis is trying to decide whether and how to keep it going. The key decision is whether to shift to a "staffing model" based on a larger number of full-time clinicians. This will... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
shared #MeToo stories of abuse after Hollywood producer Harvey Weinstein was accused of sexual assault in October 2017. “With the Weinstein story, a dam broke,” says Colleen Ammerman, director of Harvard Business School’s Gender Initiative, which View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010
pricing theories. First, in an era when efficient portfolio diversification was not possible, the intrinsic risk of an equity security was an important input into investor decision making. Second, our evidence suggests that businesspeople... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819051-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 119-084 Designing Management Systems to Support Multiunit Growth This teaching module provides a theoretical perspective and selection of cases exploring... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman