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November 2012
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Empirical Observations on Longer-term Use of Incentives for Weight Loss

By: Leslie K. John, George Loewenstein and Kevin Volpp

Behavioral economic-based interventions are emerging as powerful tools to help individuals accomplish their own goals, including weight loss. Deposit contract incentive systems give participants the opportunity to put their money down toward losing weight, which they... View Details

Keywords: Weight Loss; Obesity; Behavioral Economics; Intervention; Behavior; Motivation and Incentives

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2012
Working Paper

When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship

A rich and distinguished body of research has documented the importance of user innovations. For the most part, this literature has found that users innovate but do not commercialize their innovations. Instead, users benefit from using their innovations and allow... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Commercialization; Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention

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January 2020
Teaching Plan

Zhejiang Geely Holding Group: Acquisition of Volvo Cars and Volvo Cars: Acquisition by Geely

By: Willy Shih

This teachning plan is for the two cases 619-041 which describes Geely's acquisition of Volvo Cars, and 619-042 which describes Volvo Cars' acqusition by Geely. The case is designed to illustrate the different sides of an M&A transaction and the organizational culture... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Mergers and Acquisitions; Auto Industry; China; Sweden

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Naturals and Strivers: Preferences and Beliefs about Sources of Achievement

By: Chia-Jung Tsay and Mahzarin R. Banaji

To understand how talent and achievement are perceived, three experiments compared the assessments of "naturals" and "strivers." Professional musicians learned about two pianists, equal in achievement but who varied in the source of achievement: the "natural" with... View Details

Keywords: Prejudice and Bias; Perception; Judgments; Success; Competency and Skills

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27 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

When Rights of First Refusal Are a Bad Deal

position of the owner with the third party, but it also allows the initial offer to the tenant to be set high. To explore the question of who actually benefits from this particular right View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate; Entertainment & Recreation

25 Sep 2019
News

Leading the Evolution of E-Commerce

Photo via the New York Observer Photo via the New York Observer When Jennifer Fleiss (MBA 2009) started Rent the Runway with HBS classmate Jenn Hyman, the pair were in their 20s—two scrappy entrepreneurs who built the concept of renting... View Details

Keywords: ecommerce; work-life balance; entrepreneurship; Retail Trade

2020
Working Paper

The Effects of Hierarchy on Learning and Performance in Business Experimentation

By: Sourobh Ghosh, Stefan Thomke and Hazjier Pourkhalkhali

Do senior managers help or hurt business experiments? Despite the widespread adoption of business experiments to guide strategic decision-making, we lack a scholarly understanding of what role senior managers play in firm experimentation. Using proprietary data of live... View Details

Keywords: Experimentation; Innovation; Search; New Product Development; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Design; Learning; Performance

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06 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

architectural specifications. Letting go of the design work is dangerous, Shih says, because it could block American companies' chances of View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing

03 Feb 2017
Blog Post

The Making of an Internship

Ahmed and Lily highlight the onboarding experiences at CVS Digital Innovation, Cimpress and The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City, which led to positive summer experiences. Internships by View Details

Keywords: All Industries

02 Nov 2015
HBS Seminar

Kevin Boudreau, Assistant Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, London Business School

05 Feb 2016
News

The Wheel of the World

earth was the center of the universe,” says Mueller-Maerki. “The level of mechanical complexity and design needed for the apparent geocentric motion is amazing to see.” On a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Research Summary

The Unexpected Effects of Workplace Transparency

By: Ethan S. Bernstein

Workplace transparency provides a foundation for learning and control, and therefore for satisfaction and productivity. Yet my research shows that an obsession with transparency-enhancing tools and structures can backfire, producing the unintended consequences of... View Details

Keywords: Transparency; Privacy; Productivity; Field Experiments; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Behavior; Social and Collaborative Networks; Human Resources; Leadership; United States; Europe; China; Japan

July 2008 (Revised April 2009)
Case

Advanced Micro Devices: Competing in the Shadow of a Giant (A)

By: Willy C. Shih and Andrew A. King

As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only did it have to fund microprocessor design teams, it also had to fund silicon process R&D, and it faced huge capital... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Operations; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Strategy; Technology Industry

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2014
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The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game

By: Karen G. Mills and Brayden McCarthy

Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Financing and Loans; United States

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01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

Bergen titled “YouTube Executives Ignored Warnings, Letting Toxic Videos Run Rampant.” The article noted recommendations from current and former employees about ways to alter policies designed to increase “user engagement, ” or the amount... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

2015
Working Paper

A Normative Theory of Dynamic Capabilities: Connecting Strategy, Know-How, and Competition

By: Gary P. Pisano

The field of strategy has mounted an enormous effort to understand, define, predict, and measure how organizational capabilities shape competitive advantage. While the notion that capabilities influence strategy dates back to the work of Andrews (1971), attempts to... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Organizations

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2021
Chapter

Dis-Atlanticism: The West in an Era of Global Fragmentation

By: Rawi Abdelal and Ulrich Krotz

BOOK ABSTRACT: Is the EU a Success or a Failure? Should It Stay or Should It Go? Britain and the EU. The Big Waste or Essential to Feed Europe? The Common Agricultural Policy. Observers of the European Union could be forgiven in thinking that since its inception the EU... View Details

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15 Sep 2003
Research & Ideas

The Lessons of New-Market Disruption

Teradyne and HP forced their organizations to focus on these new technologies. The CEOs of both companies got involved, creating separate, financially autonomous divisions for the projects to ensure that the technological breakthroughs... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert; Technology

01 Apr 1996
News

Stewards of the Seventh Generation

life through a massive corporate effort designed to weave environmental thinking into every aspect of the business. "We believe that being environmentally conscious makes good competitive sense," he... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso, Garry Emmons, Linda Goodspeed, and Elaine Gottlieb