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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
inherited collection before, with the proceeds largely redirected to her many philanthropic efforts. What she has not done before, and said she plans to do soon, is sell a large portion of the remaining works (many of them lesser-known or... View Details
- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
workout. Would Euro zone agencies and lawmakers, acting on behalf of lending banks, have to take drastic action to force Greece's government to impose new laws and collect the taxes? This would be a blow to democracy, but would it be a... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 22 Feb 2010
- Research & Ideas
Manager Visibility No Guarantee of Fixing Problems
Tucker notes that these systems have their place, as they provide the opportunity for workers to anonymously report safety violations being made by physicians and other health-care workers. But her research shows that they can also be counterproductive on many levels... View Details
- 20 Sep 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Ordinary Practices
directly on the project with the team. We collected daily diaries in order to understand everyone's day-by-day subjective experiences. We analyzed the connection between the daily events that people reported, their reactions to those... View Details
Keywords: Re: Teresa M. Amabile
- 26 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding
fared financially as a result of the event, stats from the year 2000 are encouraging. Forty percent of the women entrepreneurs in last year's New England forum collectively raised $100 million in equity capital. According to Andrea... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 25 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 25
and persuasive. However, little is known about the downsides of using too much entertainment. This research focuses on why, when, and how much to entertain consumers in TV advertisements. We collected data in a large-scale field study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 26, 2006
business executive had a responsibility to effect positive change in their particular company, and that through their collective efforts they could have a powerful collective impact on the country. By the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
hiatus under the East German regime, again at the end of the 20th century. In 2016 its current CEO Wilhelm Schmid and the heads of product development and production have to decide how to price its innovative watch collection and how to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
activities that served to develop a shared vision, nurture psychological safety, leverage collective capabilities, and promote execution-as-learning. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/616034-PDF-ENG Harvard... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
their work," says Amabile, a professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. (Kramer, a developmental psychologist, is her husband.) To prepare for the book, Amabile and Kramer collected confidential,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
four billion potential customers was short-sighted, because even if their individual incomes are tiny, collectively they represent a massive business opportunity. But the myopia of the past toward this market is starting to correct... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation By: Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Abstract—Why can some organizations innovate time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
she befriended the descendants of coffee entrepreneurs, interviewed local historians, and pored over old documents in the backrooms of rural municipal buildings. Click on image to view slideshowProduction Zones and Collection Points for... View Details
- 24 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Want People to Save More? Send a Text
members could publicly announce their weekly savings goal. At subsequent meetings, members showed deposit slips to verify how much they had saved. Those who showed proof of savings received a sticker in a booklet. Those who collected... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
system. Business leaders know that what is measured will improve. A critical step is to expect outcome measurement by providers for each medical condition, adjusted for patient population. Over time, outcome measures should be defined and View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
engage in collective behaviors that diminish their ability to do so. Sarah Jane Gilbert:What led you to study the effects of performance pressure on work teams? Heidi Gardner: I experienced similar team dynamics when I worked in a... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55749 forthcoming Review of Economics and Statistics Healthy Business? Managerial Education and Management in Healthcare By: Bloom, Nicholas, Raffaella Sadun, Renata Lemos, and John Van Reenen Abstract— We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018
Armarium would need to charge for its one-of-a-kind pieces with retail values that could reach as high as $15,000. The two founders faced significant scaling challenges, from how to establish guardrails around curation of the collection... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Aug 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night
Bill, thank you very much for joining me today. Bill: Brian, it's pleasure. Thank you. Brian: You can find this case along with thousands of other in the HBS case collection at hbr.org. I'm Brian Kenny you host and you've been listening... View Details
- 26 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 26
have been impossible to create only a few years before. However, in 2014, both Apple and Google announced features in their new mobile operating systems that collected and displayed output from various health-wearables (like heart-rate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne