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  • 04 Jun 2001
  • Research & Ideas

RealNetworks, CNET, and Judo Strategy

active medium. Larger ads become part of the user's experience, because they allow for much richer information delivery." Glaser: Surfers Will Pay RealNetworks, which achieved ubiquity on personal computers around the world by giving... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Aisner
  • 24 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Stimulus Surprise: Companies Retrench When Government Spends

was that this would provide a lower bound on the benefits from being politically connected. It was an enormous surprise, at least to us, to learn that the average firm in the chairman's state did not benefit at all from the increase in spending. Indeed, the firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Mar 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, March 21

activity the CEOs undertake during one workweek and (ii) a machine learning algorithm that projects these data onto scalar CEO behavior indices. Low values of the index are associated with plant visits and one-on-one meetings with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

participants either before or after the product itself was presented. Early exposure to price, or price primacy, altered the process of valuation, as seen via altered patterns of activity in medial prefrontal cortex immediately prior to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

relevant, one should identify it, try to activate it, and then leverage it," says Greyser, Richard P. Chapman Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. "All brands have a history, many brands have a... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

  Publications October 2014 Journal of International Economics The Global Agglomeration of Multinational Firms By: Alfaro, Laura, and Maggie Xiaoyang Chen Abstract—The explosion of multinational activities in recent decades is rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

  Working PapersDo Corporate Social Responsibility Ratings Predict Corporate Social Performance? Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji, David I. Levine, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Ratings of corporations' environmental activities and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Apr 2010
  • What Do You Think?

Why Are Fewer and Fewer U.S. Employees Satisfied With Their Jobs?

for low job satisfaction among those surveyed in The Conference Board survey. More than half, Nanninga reports, said "there were no career advancement opportunities in their current roles," but "81 percent of respondents said they are not View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 05 Dec 2005
  • What Do You Think?

Is Growth Good?

of enablers, such as education, has the potential for leading directly to the development of ideas that actually expand the limits of even those kinds of growth that rely on physical resources with supposedly finite properties. If all... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

Strategies of Multichannel Retailers Authors:Elie Ofek, Zsolt Katona, and Miklos Sarvary Publication:Marketing Science 30, no. 1 (January-February 2011) Abstract The Internet has increased the flexibility of retailers, allowing them to operate an online arm in addition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 May 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

globalized and became more competitive in the '90s, as the world became more difficult, CEOs got busier and joined fewer boards," Kaufman says. "That was one of the things that led boards to look further afield for directors. They ran out of View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Feb 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems

the negatively performing hospitals engaged in low levels of activity, but one poorly performing hospital in particular caught Tucker's eye. This institution had high levels of activity when it came to gathering information and acting on... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Many U.S. Jobs Are ‘Offshorable’?

complete ease and success from offshore. A rating of 0, meanwhile, might be assigned to an occupation such as child-care worker or short-order cook, where the laws of physics simply prevent a task from taking place at a distance. As in... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 17 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 17

Abstract—Although documenting everyday activities may seem trivial, four studies reveal that creating records of the present generates unexpected benefits by allowing future rediscoveries. In Study 1, we use a "time capsule"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Apr 2020
  • Book

Why COVID-19 Raises the Stakes for Healthy Buildings

things like “strategy,” “focused activity level,” and “crisis response,” performance was dramatically improved when study subjects worked in the optimal conditions (with high rates of ventilation and low concentrations of carbon dioxide... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Real Estate; Health
  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

physical experience of weight is associated with the emotional experience of guilt and thus that weight intensifies the experience of guilt. Across four studies, we found that participants who wore a heavy backpack experienced higher... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 17

how, all the way through the 1970s, the U.S. not only failed to resist pressure to defend American investments, but also remained unsuccessful at altering internal institutions of other countries in order to make property rights secure in the absence of View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 10 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Disruption: The Art of Framing

stated that their ventures were separate from their parent company, but their daily work processes indicated otherwise. Online sales reps still reported to and had offices near their print managers, for example. This direct reporting and View Details
Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower
  • 19 Jan 2022
  • In Practice

7 Trends to Watch in 2022

As 2022 gets underway we asked our faculty to highlight some trends worth watching in the coming year. Ariel Stern: A new future for digital health care While 2020 and 2021 were years of rapid innovation and deployment of new health care technologies and delivery... View Details
Keywords: by HBS News
  • 10 Jun 2008
  • First Look

First Look: June 10, 2008

Formula’ Harvard Business School Case 808-127 Robert Wessman took over Actavis in 1999 when it was a failing 90-person domestic generic pharmaceutical maker in Iceland. Within 7 years he had brought Actavis to number 5 worldwide, with 11,000 people, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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