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- 08 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Writing the Case for Public School Reform
The state of public education in the United States is a perennial hot-button topic, with rhetoric often outpacing any real sense of progress. The Public Education Leadership Project (PELP), a 2003 joint initiative of HBS and Harvard's Graduate School of Education,... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
strategy is to achieve specialization by taking explicit advantage of the opportunities provided by the ecosystem while avoiding the kinds of traps that challenge firms in such environments. Our observation of a variety of niche... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
Barasz’s new paper, “Hoping for the Worst? A Paradoxical Preference for Bad News,” which recently appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, documents this peculiar preference for worse-case scenarios in a variety of medical... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
many advertisers that currently buy ads from Yahoo. The proposed deal would substantially reduce Yahoo's ability to offer competitive payments to Web site publishers seeking to show pay-per-click ads. Without Yahoo bidding against Google... View Details
- 15 Dec 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Surprisingly Successful Marriages of Multinationals and Social Brands
entrepreneurs developing new for-profit organizations with a social component is growing and is likely to continue to grow. Once their concept is worked out and proven, these organizations will naturally want to seek scale, both to... View Details
- 04 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 4
practitioners. My belief is that the most fruitful work thus far has recognized that corporate boards are dynamic social systems, has identified all the forces that shape those systems, and has acknowledged that boards should seek to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Mar 2017
- Book
Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies
Harhoff, director of the Max Planck Institute for Innovation and Competition in Munich. The book includes 25 original contributions providing an extensive view of user and open innovation by scholars from all over the world in a variety... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Nov 2018
- Research & Ideas
'Always On' Isn't Always Best for Team Decision-Making
solutions after every third round. THE GOLDILOCKS POINT Past research led them to expect the group with constant interaction to have the highest average quality in their solutions, but less variety and less success finding the optimal... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 31 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Niche Content in an Ad-Driven World
variety and quality, not a lot of duplicate mainstream content” The good news: Advertising encourages bloggers to produce more and longer content, leavened with more photos and video, which prompts more bookmarking among readers. This... View Details
- 18 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
New at the Helm: A Talk with HBS Dean Light
development interests on asset management, risk management for global investment, and negotiation and deal structuring. He also served in a variety of leadership roles: as chair of the Finance Unit (1986-88); as senior associate dean,... View Details
- 19 May 2016
- Research Event
Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium
No matter how many brilliant thinkers a company may employ in-house, sometimes the most innovative solution to a problem can be found from seeking answers outside–from the crowd. “Crowds appear to reliably produce cheaper, faster, and... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel
- 27 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
Report From Egypt: Studying Global Influences
and how they influence the standards of the countries in which they operate as they seek global consistency. We are following a small number of companies with excellent reputations to locations both similar and different from their home... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
drugs? How frequently do physicians prescribe advertised drugs when other drugs or treatments may be equally effective? We surveyed a national probability sample of 643 physicians practicing in a wide variety of specialties. Data were... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 19 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 19
micro-interactions, the broad improvisations, and the resulting substantive and relational outcomes. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-107.pdf Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
variety of interesting issues, the limited circulation of the periodicals in which the works appeared and the necessarily technical nature of the articles meant their impact was limited. Meanwhile, in many settings—from panel discussions... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 25 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 25
themselves on the continuum between MSPs and resellers, or MSPs and input suppliers. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-024.pdf Intermediaries for the IP Market Authors:Andrei Hagiu and David Yoffie Abstract During the past decade, a View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 6, 2007
designed to enhance safety and effectiveness had the unintended effect of changing how men enacted their masculine identities at work. Interview and participant observation data show that the major reorientation was away from seeking to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
Retailers can significantly improve forecast accuracy simply by updating their predictions based on early sales data, tracking the accuracy of their forecasts, getting product testing right, and using a variety of forecasting approaches.... View Details
- 19 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 19, 2010
causes greater happiness. In this chapter, we have two primary aims. First, we review the evidence linking charitable behavior and happiness. We present research from a variety of samples (adults, children, and primates) and methods... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the... View Details