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  • 03 Jan 2022
  • News

Making Healthy Practices Habitual

  • 25 Oct 2010
  • HBS Case

Tesco’s Stumble into the US Market

Tesco PLC is the third-largest retailer in the world, just behind Wal-Mart and Carrefour. But that didn't make the UK-based chain immune from many costly mistakes as it entered the US market in 2006. For example, it opened some of its Fresh & Easy stores on the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

May 11, 2017 New England Journal of Medicine Good Riddance to Big Insurance Mergers By: Dafny, Leemore S. Abstract—Federal judges issued preliminary injunctions halting mergers of four of the five largest U.S. health insurers. These decisions provide more precedent to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    The Poor Payoff of Pleasure Postponed

    A need to feel efficient, and a tendency to feel guilty when we do something “just for fun,” may be universally human. But the Israeli-born Keinan says productivity-obsessed Americans take this to an extreme, viewing pleasurable pastimes as wasteful, irresponsible,... View Details

    • 20 Feb 2018
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

    2018 New York: Cambridge University Press American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the 'New Competition', 1890–1940 By: Phillips Sawyer, Laura Abstract—American Fair Trade explores the contested political and legal meanings of the term fair trade... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    When Hiring CEOs, Focus on Character

    By: Aiyesha Dey
    The author, an associate professor at Harvard Business School, has studied the ways in which the lifestyle behaviors of CEOs—in particular, materialism and a propensity for rule breaking—may spell trouble for a company. Her research, which includes looking at... View Details
    Keywords: CEOs; Lifestyle; Risk Management; Recruitment; Ethics
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    • 08 Mar 2016
    • First Look

    March 8, 2016

    results and conclusions of our JFE paper. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50714 The Role of Incentive Salience in Habit Formation By: John, Leslie, Katherine L. Milkman, Francesca Gino, Bradford... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 03 Jun 2012
    • News

    Harvard B-School Prof: Stop Sleeping With Your Smartphone!

    • 21 Jul 2021
    • News

    The Case for Scheduling Everything

    • 14 Jul 2015
    • News

    Shoppers Buy More Junk Food When They Bring Their Own Bags

    • March–April 2023
    • Article

    You Need Two Leadership Gears: Know When to Take Charge and When to Get Out of the Way

    By: Lindy Greer, Francesca Gino and Robert Sutton
    The debate about the best way to lead has been raging for years: Should you empower your people and get out of their way, or take charge and push them to do great work? The answer, say the authors, is to do both. Their research shows that effective leaders routinely... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership Style; Groups and Teams; Organizational Structure
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    • 22 Jul 2022
    • News

    Harvard study: Knowledge workers can’t stop reading and replying to emails while they drive

    • 16 Nov 2020
    • News

    Tech jobs spring up as companies adapt to new world of work

    • 19 Feb 2019
    • News

    Do voter ID laws reduce turnout among black Americans?

    • November 2023
    • Case

    Nourishing Communities: Brighter Bites Approach to Childhood Nutrition

    By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Ai-Ling Jamila Malone
    In September 2023, Brighter Bites, a Houston-based non-profit that distributed fresh produce and nutrition education in underserved communities across 11 cities and 5 states, grappled with identifying the best path forward for continued growth. Brighter Bites proved... View Details
    Keywords: Nutrition; Growth and Development Strategy; Logistics; Nonprofit Organizations; Human Needs; Poverty; Houston
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    • May 2021
    • Case

    Roku 2021

    By: David B. Yoffie and Daniel Fisher
    This case is used to explore the strategic concept of "look forward, reason back." Roku in 2021 is trying to figure out the future of television and streaming media. Students are asked to provide a vision for television and streaming media (that is, Look Forward) by... View Details
    Keywords: Television Entertainment; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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    • November 2000 (Revised October 2005)
    • Case

    TiVo

    TiVo is a digital video recorder that allows viewers to watch what they want, when they want to watch it. Fourteen months into the launch, sales are very disappointing. Brodie Keast, VP of marketing and sales, wants to combine a catchy communications campaign, product... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing Communications; Product Launch; Television Entertainment; Innovation and Invention; Electronics Industry
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    • 2023
    • Book

    How the Harvard Business School Changed the Way We View Organizations

    By: Jay W. Lorsch
    The story of the field of organizational behavior (which overlaps considerably with the origin story of Harvard Business School) and how it created the “medical model” of systems thinking—anchored in the practices of listening, observing, testing, and only then... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Behavior; Systems Thinking; Medical Model; Organizations; Behavior; System; History
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    • 2019
    • Book

    Love Your Enemies: How Decent People Can Save America from the Culture of Contempt

    By: Arthur C. Brooks
    To get ahead today, you have to be a jerk, right?

    Divisive politicians. Screaming heads on television. Angry campus activists. Twitter trolls. Today in America, there is an “outrage industrial complex” that prospers by setting American against... View Details
    Keywords: Political Participation; Political Culture; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Society; United States
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    • June 2024
    • Teaching Note

    Roku 2021

    By: David B. Yoffie
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-480. This case is used to explore the strategic concept of "look forward, reason back." Roku in 2021 is trying to figure out the future of television and streaming media. Students are asked to provide a vision for television and... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Television Entertainment; Forecasting and Prediction; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Strategic Planning; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Media and Broadcasting Industry
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