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- 02 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Have Marketers Ignored America’s Man-of-Action Hero?
want to be rebels, to be totally autonomous, free from institutional constraints to find their own adventures. Yet they don't want to be castigated as immature, lacking the willpower and social-mindedness to take on important... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 15 Sep 2016
- News
The Burning Man Project
harsh desert conditions for a week, including all their food and water. There's no money. There's no electricity. But there are 70,000 people willing to share and have an amazing experience with you. Hanna: And can you tell me, what is it... View Details
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
very interesting laboratory. Free market principles were introduced initially under the authoritarian regime. Compared with other emerging markets anyway, Chile has since become a paragon of reasonably good governance. Its process of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
that have ownership and control rights in the SOE. Building on Vernon, we argue that the SOE can break free from this power imbalance and establish resource independence from other state actors by becoming a multinational firm and/or by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
this wealth-based discriminatory behavior using a laboratory study. Our experiment shows that individuals are more willing to illegally help peers when those peers drive standard rather than luxury cars and that envy and empathy mediate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 24
preferences, which otherwise would have been difficult to elicit. Although governance was a struggle, none of the cases in our sample suffered a "tragedy of the commons" in terms of budget overruns, bogged-down processes, or View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
rediscovering experiences from the past will be curiosity provoking and interesting in the future. In Studies 2 and 3, we find that people are particularly likely to underestimate the pleasure of rediscovering ordinary, mundane... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
exposure to curators and how they work and how exhibitions come together. All of these things just kind of fed into a growing curiosity, spending more and more of my free time participating in these activities on a very limited basis,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
they will not match prices across channels. Using a game-theoretic model, we investigate the strategic forces behind the adoption (or non-adoption) of self-matching across a range of competitive scenarios, including a monopolist, a mixed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- News
Living the Quantitative Life
tracking a handful of things, I enjoyed it. And it was entirely a singular thing, I didn't really even share it with friends, I wasn't making public statements of, I promise my Facebook friends I will hit X metric by Y date. But then I... View Details
- 04 Aug 2020
- News
How Business Can Advance Racial Equity
alumni, the pledge asks business leaders to promise that they will pursue anti-racist initiatives in the areas of policing reform; safe ballot access and civic participation; and economic inclusion. Among the alumni authors of the pledge... View Details
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times. The company must consider what the change will mean for operations, risk, and measuring profitability. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Mar 2010
- Research & Ideas
Ruthlessly Realistic: How CEOs Must Overcome Denial
trouble. Not only will that news go unheard but potential truth-tellers will quickly learn to keep quiet. Or get out. Q: What is it about IBM and Intel that saved them from the fate of other companies that... View Details
- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Historically Speaking: A Roundtable at HBS
Pharmaceutical Industries, to be published by The Free Press in 2004]. It includes a chapter on biotechnology, the next industry that will create a sea change in our lives. Spar: And biotechnology View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
- 01 Sep 2007
- News
Riding It Out
order, and promised a free replacement shipment of a similar product. Gisholt and Minard stayed in Florida to enjoy the rest of their family vacation, although Gisholt admits he probably spent more time on the phone that day than he did... View Details
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
behavior and cognition miss. The chapter seeks to establish a theoretical foundation for a turn towards historicism in entrepreneurial studies, which is already partly underway. The authors stress that the path will not be easy, but that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Spirit at Work
going to have to inspire a strong sense of mission and purpose that goes beyond salary and profits." Vaill agrees, adding, "Where is that inspiration going to come from? I contend that executives themselves will need a spiritual program... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
free entry of rating agencies, the provision of quality ratings is at least partially sustained by the reputational concerns of the rating agencies. The economically significant entry of a third agency into a market that was previously... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
have often proved highly productive in policy terms, delivering the best ideas from both sides. In the 1840s, for instance, state politicians who were deeply skeptical of government pushed hard for balanced budget amendments while politicians at the other end of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2015
will drive organizational success and provide innovative growth opportunities for both the business and the individual. Based on her more than thirty years at Chick-fil-A, most of which have been spent as vice president of corporate... View Details