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- 27 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Reputation is Vital to Survival in Turbulent Markets
lies in asking bigger questions about contexts other than the developed world. This will require the embrace of new sources of data, perhaps especially including digital data, including oral history. This paper is making a statement about the potential of embracing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2019
- Research & Ideas
It's No Joke: AI Beats Humans at Making You Laugh
recommendations that the company offered a $1 million prize in 2009 to anyone who could build a system that improved prediction accuracy by just 10 percent. [div class=infogram-embed data-id=_/o3PhIjbcup30mxRiWNTV][/div] “Companies now... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2021
- What Do You Think?
Has the New Economy Finally Arrived?
contributed to what came to be regarded as a target unemployment rate, with anything less causing excessive inflation. At one time, many economists thought this to be as high as 6 percent. The Phillips curve has taken its lumps over the years. No fewer than seven... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 19 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution
Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
- 07 May 2007
- Research & Ideas
Rediscovering Schumpeter: The Power of Capitalism
most penetrating analyst of capitalism who ever lived. He saw things other people didn't see.” McCraw, a past winner of the Pulitzer Prize for History, has written a new biography, Prophet of Innovation: Joseph Schumpeter and Creative... View Details
- 24 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Get People Addicted to a Good Habit
soap even after the incentives stopped. In one incentive group, people learned that they would receive one ticket for each day they washed their hands; the tickets could be accumulated and cashed in for various goods and gifts in a prize... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2021
- In Practice
The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021
portal into the invention of CRISPR and some of the big personalities and battles that led to the Nobel Prize in Chemistry last year." The Code Breaker: I am a software/tech guy and have scant knowledge of the world of biology. Yet living... View Details
Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland
- 29 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
For Entrepreneurs, Blown Deadlines Can Crush Big Ideas
gain experience, they get worse at predicting timelines." Record venture capital investment and a surge of new businesses launched during the COVID-19 pandemic are raising the stakes for entrepreneurs. In a domain that prizes speed,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
award prizes as part of the savings product's return. Rotating Savings and Credit Associations, known as ROSCAs, draw impetus from the spirit of communities and social networks. The varied solutions that Tufano and colleagues have set out... View Details
- 13 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why Your Company Wants to be a 'Cognitive Referent' (Hint: SpaceX)
mature industries, nascent markets offer little certainty and plenty of ambiguity—undefined customers, unclear products or features, uncertain customer demand, and even an ill defined set of competitors. Yet, for these startups to have the most success, they need to... View Details
- 19 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
Rethinking Company Loyalty
the organization and took on new challenges. She also increased her earning potential because the new position rated several grades higher than her former position in CHELCO's job-factoring system. It's difficult for some managers to see the value in supporting a View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
- Fall 2020
- Article
Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa
Over the past two decades the Program on Negotiation at Harvard Law School (PON) has named thirteen people as Great Negotiators. The project, directed by my colleague Jim Sebenius, has given us the opportunity to commend our honorees’ outstanding work and to learn from... View Details
Wheeler, Michael A. "Christo and Jeanne‐Claude: The Negotiation of Art and Vice Versa." Negotiation Journal 36, no. 4 (Fall 2020): 471–487.
- 22 Jun 2011
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Motivation
Does Money Lead To Creativity? Inducement Prizes and Innovation Throughout recent history, many foundations have tried to induce innovation through competition, offering massive cash prizes to inventors who... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
stereotype-incongruent information. Implications for impression formation are discussed. Inducement Prizes and Innovation Authors:Liam Brunt, Josh Lerner, and Tom Nicholas Publication:Journal of Industrial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
faces the world's fastest-growing economy. Purchase this case: https://hbr.org/product/china-s-environmental-challenge/315026-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 615-015 Netflix: Designing the Netflix Prize (A) In 2006, Reed Hastings,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
Abstract—Purpose-Understanding the Nobel Prize as a "true" heritage brand in a networked situation and its management challenges, especially regarding identity and reputation. Methodology-The Nobel View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
Oftentimes, somebody else can make sense of both what the problem has been and what people are proposing as solutions, and can come up with a better answer. I also read a book by Dava Sobel about the longitude prize [Longitude: The True... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Why These Business School Professors Oppose Trump's Executive Order on Immigration
2014 became the first woman to win the Fields Medal, which is equivalent to the Nobel Prize in mathematics. These superstar worries are real, and there are many more one-in-a-thousand talents that could be missed too. But the real... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 29 May 2013
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research
way to garner solutions to major problems. It's also relatively inexpensive, he said, citing cases in which a $30,000 prize garnered better solutions in a matter of weeks than major contractors (with multimillion-dollar contracts)... View Details
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
prizes that are awarded to high-quality innovations may encourage future innovation. U.S. patent data indicate a 40% increase after 1851 in patenting for prizewinners compared with other exhibits. Results are robust to controlling for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne