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  • 19 Jan 2021
  • In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

dramatic change, or for the introduction of policies that are very controversial. Passing programs like that requires some degree of consensus. One of the great challenges the president-elect will have is how to pursue his agenda while not View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Dec 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

remedies, and between discrete campaigns and continuous processes for managing retention. We identify several areas of research where further investigation will significantly enhance retention management. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

sensitive to the solicited person’s gender, with women responding more than men. These results shed light on the factors that drive employees’ engagement in organizational tasks, beyond regular duties, and provide insights on how to design incentives to foster View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 25 Jan 2012
  • Research & Ideas

A Few Firms Have Outsized Influence in D.C.

to be effective. "Lobbying appears to be something you need to be serious about," says Kerr. "It's not something companies can engage in halfheartedly and expect returns." Kerr takes for granted that spending money through both View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 25 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 25

The imperial encounter with political economy was neither uniform across political, economic, cultural, and religious constellations nor static across time. The contributions collected in this volume address, with undeniable pertinence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 30, 2019

engagement? To answer these questions, we utilized self-determination theory to examine whether reward satisfaction predicted employee well-being, job satisfaction, intrinsic motivation, and affective commitment, as well as valuable organizational outcomes, such as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

difficult tasks. Second, overestimation of ability by both men and women varies across categories. To understand these patterns, we develop a model that separates gender stereotypes from misestimation of ability related to the difficulty of the task. We find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable interest rates in the period... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 14 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 14, 2007

sectors beyond the original bath soap category. The development causes the brand team to take a fresh look at the clichés of the beauty industry. The result is the controversial Real Beauty campaign. As the campaign unfolds, Unilever... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 6, 2016

Honda from 1959 to 1965, made important decisions according to precedent set by his boss and mentor, Honda’s chief strategist, Takeo Fujisawa. It presents further evidence that these decisions may have contributed to the recovery of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

services for free, but engages in disclosure by profiling consumers and charging advertisers to target them. In contrast, Microsoft charges a subscription price for Office 365 but does not disclose consumer information for advertising purposes. Microsoft's recent... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 05 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

engineers is undergoing a significant transformation. This study applies an ethnic-name database to individual patent records granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office to document these trends with greater detail than previously available. Most notably,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

insights on the resolution of disputes in global trade while contributing to our understanding of the evolving role of modeling at international organizations. Nations' Income Inequality Predicts Ambivalence in Stereotype Content: How... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

Five-Minute Discussion Change Your Mind? A Countrywide Experiment on Voter Choice in France By: Pons, Vincent Abstract—This paper provides the first estimate of the effect of door-to-door canvassing on actual electoral outcomes, via a countrywide experiment embedded in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jun 2020
  • Book

Beginning America Over Again with a New Electoral System

spread the ideas of Final-Five Voting, scaling a few early innovators into a coast-to-coast campaign of universal adoption and action. Thanks to the upstart laboratories of democracy that have shown us the way (in victory and defeat), we... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

National Campaign to Prevent Teen Pregnancy, and the September 11th Fund. We asked Wei-Skillern to discuss the book and its practical applications for business leaders. Sean Silverthorne: Why did you and your coauthors write this book?... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

solve, the contributing factors that have caused this problem to remain unsolved until now, Madhav's theory of change, questions about whether these activities (inputs) will affect the outputs and have an impact, what will it take and how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708034 The Campaign for Bank Insurance in Antebellum New York Harvard Business School Case 708-037 The New York State Legislature had come to a standstill in 1829 as lawmakers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Mar 2018
  • First Look

March 13, 2018

specifically, the volume focuses on the economic institution of the business group and aims at understanding the factors behind its rise, growth, resilience, and/or fall; its behavioral and organizational characteristics; and its View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

money spent on outreach and education campaigns leads to fewer workplace violations. Berkowitz says she experienced firsthand the power that an academic study can have with a 2012 influential research paper co-written by Toffel, UC... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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