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- 04 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 4, 2008
investment in producing video content for the web. The case concludes by presenting various options under consideration by Abrahams-options that dealt both with external challenges (How should he define his brand? Which markets should he target?) and with internal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
prosthetic implant purchase prices for primary total knee and hip arthroplasties across providers. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52299 2016 Envy at Work and in Organizations Envy and Interpersonal Corruption: Social Comparison... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
behavior that have not been considered in previous research. First, customers who monitor product prices after purchase may initiate opportunistic returns because of price drops. Second, customers who anticipate a future return may... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
federal government program that encourages companies to voluntarily self-police and self-disclose regulatory violations, we examine how participation affects the behaviors of regulators and regulated facilities. We find that on average,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Business Answers the Call
preference to neighborhood schools. For Nielsen, the key to meaningful ed-ucation reform is getting topflight candidates to run for school boards. “There is no more important position from which to transform a school system than the... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
A More Perfect Union
is creating a path for the next generation of business leaders to engage in nonpartisan political reform (photo by Stephen Voss) In 2017 Ballou-Aares cofounded the Leadership Now Project and left her position as a partner at Dalberg... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
Publications January 2014 Harvard Business Review IDEO's Culture of Helping By: Amabile, Teresa, Colin M. Fisher, and Julianna Pillemer Abstract—Leaders can do few things more important than encouraging helping behavior within their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
Gino, F., and C. Mogilner Abstract—Money, a resource that absorbs much daily attention, seems to be present in much unethical behavior thereby suggesting that money itself may corrupt. This research examines a way to offset such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Ten Deadly Mistakes of Wanna-Dots
extremely hard to do. Worse yet, it doesn't work. The bulldog doesn't suddenly become beautiful because it was forced to wear lipstick. Nothing else about the bulldog or its behavior has changed. It makes the bulldog angry. And the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
conference, The Global Financial Crisis: What We Learned, Where We’re Headed, we offer a look at the research-driven insights that could help better position us when the next downturn hits—and the questions we still need to be asking.... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
forthcoming Research in Organizational Behavior The Dynamic Componential Model of Creativity and Innovation in Organizations: Making Progress, Making Meaning By: Amabile, Teresa M., and Michael G. Pratt Abstract—Leveraging insights gained... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51552 forthcoming Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization Competition and Social Identity in the Workplace: Evidence from a Chinese Textile Firm By: Kato, Takao, and Pian Shu... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Oct 2005
- Research & Ideas
Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company
Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured its entire organization to deliver low prices. Wal-Mart's... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
returns are more positive for acquisitions in which both the target and the acquirer are financed by the same venture capital firm. Similarly, we find that having a common investor increases both the likelihood that a transaction will be... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
with local politicians [who] had an interest in getting reelected," Vallée says. "However, this happened at a large cost to the taxpayer, as the positive effects of the loans were short-lived, and interest on toxic loans ballooned when... View Details
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
company, the less likely it is that the company will succeed. "Much of the homophily literature in business research talks about the positive benefits of working with people who are similar to you—ease of communication, comfort level, and... View Details
- 02 Sep 2018
- News
Havana Rising
them. In other words, Cuba was open for business. Cuba Educational Travel (CET) was perfectly positioned to take advantage of the opening. Founder Collin Laverty had first visited Cuba on a family trip as a teenager, later completing an... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Eve North
- 08 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Cost of Cutting in Line
show that you are more likely to be able to jump the queue if you offer more money. So first I thought that this was not an example of a missing-markets problem at all. But I was wrong. You can "purchase" a position in the line,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
what shoppers do. This observational work is the bread and butter of Paco Underhill, a consultant whose market research firm, Envirosell (New York City), has been studying retail shopper behavior for 20 years. Teach a kid to hammer, and... View Details
- 21 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: December 21
with age. Temptation and Productivity: A Field Experiment with Children Authors:Alessandro Bucciol, Daniel Houser, and Marco Piovesan Publication:Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (forthcoming) Abstract Substantial evidence... View Details