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  • 02 Jun 2017
  • News

Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance

    Should Your Company Sell on Amazon? Reach Comes at a Price—Harvard Business Review

    Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers.

    In this article, the authors present a... View Details
    • 16 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 16, 2015

    particularly in the vaccine space, had begun to attract the attention of much larger pharmaceutical companies. While there was much appeal to working with these companies, these relationships could also challenge Crucell's independence. This issue is highlighted by the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • September–October 2022
    • Article

    Should Your Company Sell on Amazon?: Reach Comes at a Price

    By: Ayelet Israeli, Leonard A. Schlesinger, Matt Higgins and Sabir Semerkant
    Selling on Amazon allows brands to reach millions of consumers—but that exposure comes with costs. They include smaller margins, more competition, the risk of commoditization, and less knowledge about customers. In this article, the authors present a scorecard to... View Details
    Keywords: Retail; Retailing; Online Business; Ecommerce; E-commerce; E-Commerce Strategy; Omnichannel Retail; Omnichannel Retailing; Amazon; Amazon.com; Sales; Digital Marketing; Internet and the Web; Business Model; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Fashion Industry; Advertising Industry; Battery Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Distribution Industry; Electronics Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • 01 Jun 2017
    • News

    Why Finance Needs More Humanity, and Why Humanity Needs Finance

    • 2011
    • Case

    The Secrets to Managing Business Analytics Projects

    By: Thomas H. Davenport, Stijn Viaene and Annabel Van den Bunder
    Managers have used business analytics to inform their decision making for years. And while few companies would qualify as being what management innovation and strategy expert Thomas H. Davenport has dubbed "analytic competitors," more and more businesses are moving in... View Details
    Keywords: Analytics; Business or Company Management; Information Management
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      Eugene F. Soltes

      Eugene Soltes is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School where his work focuses on corporate integrity and risk management. His research utilizes data analytics to identify organizational cultures and compliance systems that can effectively... View Details

      • 19 Jun 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: June 19

      making complex decisions. Under some circumstances, unconscious thought improves decisions even more than conscious thought. Executive functioning depends on energy provided by glucose, and we know from previous research that the... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 05 Jul 2006
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Do Managers’ Heuristics Affect R&D Performance Volatility? A Simulation Informed by the Pharmaceutical Industry

      Keywords: by Francesca Gino & Gary P. Pisano; Pharmaceutical
      • Research Summary

      Managing in an Information Age

      By: Lynda M. Applegate
      Lynda M. Applegate's research focuses on the influence of information technology on markets and organizations. Her findings on the evolution of electronic commerce and on the role of information technology as an enabler of flexible and adaptive ... View Details
      • 18 Feb 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: February 18

      Performance enables future managers and business owners to attain the core skills they need to become integral members of their company's decision-making teams. This new program from established authors Srikant M. Datar and Madhav Rajan... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 13 Oct 2015
      • First Look

      October 13, 2015

      conclusions about the universality of gender stereotype content. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49830 in press Journal of Behavioral Decision Making Should You Sleep on It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep... View Details
      • 17 Jan 2011
      • Research & Ideas

      Being the Boss

      that wrong," says Lineback, himself a former executive. "They think authority defines them. I've had bosses who had to resort to saying, 'I'm the boss!' And when you get to that point, you've lost it." In the following... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 02 Apr 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition: The Effect of Trade Liberalization

      Keywords: by Maria Guadalupe & Julie M. Wulf
      • 2009
      • Working Paper

      Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

      By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
      In a sample of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more powerful countries being... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption
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      • 25 Aug 2015
      • First Look

      First Look Tuesday

      decades about how and why people make the moral decisions they do. In this review, we explain how intuition, affect, physiology, and identity support and inform more deliberative reasoning process in the construction and enactment of... View Details
      • 2012
      • Book

      Uncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business

      By: Frances Frei and Anne Morriss
      Most companies treat service as a low-priority business operation, keeping it out of the spotlight until a customer complains. Then service gets to make a brief appearance—for as long as it takes to calm the customer down and fix whatever foul-up jeopardized the... View Details
      Keywords: Customers; Business Ventures
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      • 01 Feb 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      The ‘Luxury Prime’: How Luxury Changes People

      "The Devil Wears Prada? Effects of Exposure to Luxury Goods on Cognition and Decision Making" [PDF]. "Will the same business meeting reach different decisions when it is held at a luxury... View Details
      Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
      • 06 Jun 2005
      • Research & Ideas

      Don’t Listen to “Yes”

      outlines concrete steps that managers at all levels can take to spark positive conflict and make sure that all views get a fair hearing, and he outlines as well a fair and open process for making more effective decisions. "Keeping conflict constructive helps to... View Details
      Keywords: by Martha Lagace

        The Art of Giving and Receiving Advice

        Seeking and giving advice are central to effective leadership and decision making, and they require emotional intelligence, self-awareness, restraint, diplomacy, and patience on both sides. But managers tend to view these competencies as “gifts” that one either has... View Details