Filter Results:
(1,258)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,643)
- People (3)
- News (829)
- Research (1,258)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (40)
- Faculty Publications (579)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web
(2,643)
- People (3)
- News (829)
- Research (1,258)
- Events (7)
- Multimedia (40)
- Faculty Publications (579)
Sort by
- 04 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 4
consists of (1) two firms competing in a vertically differentiated market in which product quality is a mix of public and private components and (2) a market for developers that firms hire after observing signals of their contributions to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
influence from those valued for non-social reasons. The Effects of a Central Clearinghouse on Job Placement, Wages, and Hiring Practices Authors:Muriel Niederle and Alvin E. Roth Publication:In Studies of Labor Market Intermediation,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017
after misconduct. The labor market partially undoes firm-level discipline by rehiring such advisers. Firms that hire these advisers also have higher rates of prior misconduct themselves, suggesting "matching on misconduct." These firms... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
The Drive to Acquire’s Impact on Globalization
and switching to Chinese firms. Wal-Mart has even hired the owners or managers of its abandoned U.S. suppliers to teach their efficient methods to the Chinese. As a result, many Americans have lost their manufacturing jobs and often have... View Details
Keywords: by Paul R. Lawrence
- 21 Feb 2012
- Research & Ideas
Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases
biases, such as policies or actions that deliberately discriminate against women in hiring and promotion, have been largely wiped off the books. Second-generation biases, while unintentional, can have the same effect, blocking women from... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
system. We show how the principal can influence the value of these options by modularizing the technical system and by hiring clans of agents, thus exploiting relationships among them. Extensions of the model can be used to incorporate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
to maintain just one product. Hospitals want to control the health care delivery system, and they've become oligopolists or monopolists in many markets, thus obviating price and quality competition, and they've become vertically integrated by View Details
- 31 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
When Not to Trust Your Gut
at your most important negotiations? First, during preparation for a key negotiation, consider hiring a true outsider, whether an expert within your firm, a consultant with unique expertise, or a trusted friend. When your deal is complex... View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman & Deepak Malhotra
- 15 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 15
hiring and socialization policies. Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract Between 2001 and 2007, annual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
place, of course, and that legacy term remains in common usage. No company (to our knowledge) has yet created an "organizational conversation department" or hired a "chief conversation officer." Nonetheless, those phrases hint at the new... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 26 Mar 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Neuroscience Tells Us About Consumer Desire
2008 hired a neuromarketing firm to look into how consumers respond to Cheetos, the top-selling brand of cheese puffs in the United States. Using EEG technology on a group of willing subjects, the firm determined that consumers respond... View Details
- 05 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Alive! Business Scholars Turn to Experimental Research
was a hunger to find people who were doing that kind of research. And business schools started hiring more and more social psychologists—including me." Indeed, behavioral experiments are often especially colorful, even fun, piquing the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
discriminate in hiring on the basis of sexual orientation. The veiled methodology also produces larger estimates of the fraction of the population that identifies as LGBT or has had a sexual experience with a member of the same sex.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 31, 2017
also explore the correlation between diversity and state-level variations. Finally, we discuss how these patterns are consistent with homophily based hiring and homophily induced information flows about career choices. We end the paper by... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 13 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 13
principal and investment earnings are taxed upon withdrawal. Using administrative data from 11 companies that added a Roth contribution option to their existing 401(k) plan between 2006 and 2010, we find no evidence that total 401(k) contribution rates differ between... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
thinking of ourselves this way. Therefore, when people behave in ways that might appear selfish, prejudiced, or perverted, they tend to engage a host of strategies designed to justify questionable behavior with rational excuses: "I View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 Oct 2003
- Research & Ideas
How to Pick Managers for Disruptive Growth
hiring executives classify candidates by right-stuff attributes. They assume that successful managers can be identified using phrases such as "good communicator," "results oriented," "decisive," and... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Raynor
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
leading design firms, and its human-centered innovation culture and processes. It is an example of what managers can do to make their own organizations more innovative. In reaction to a rapidly changing competitive landscape, a team of IDEO designers has been View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
analyzing the relevant processes. Part 2 discusses strategic choices, what research tells us about selling effectiveness, and how to translate a strategy into customer-selection and sales-call criteria. Part 3 focuses on core sales management issues: account management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
nourishers. "You don't need a lot of resources to do any of those things," she says. "We're not talking about hiring fancy comics to perform at lunchtime. You just need to make people feel supported as people. And it's... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel