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- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Power of Conversational Leadership
technology." The book provides a quick overview of the social technology that helps global corporate communication mimic personal conversation: internal blogs (in which leaders share their thoughts and employees have a chance to comment), wikis (which enable... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Right Way to Manage Customer Churn for Maximum Profit
offering them incentives or deals to stay before they leave. “Focusing on retaining higher-spending customers, even if they aren’t as likely to leave, can increase the total profit a company can reap.” As Gupta describes in Managing Churn to Maximize Profits—a new... View Details
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
subsumes as special cases many-to-many matching markets and buyer/seller markets with heterogeneous and indivisible goods. In our setting, substitutable preferences are sufficient to guarantee the existence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017
can swipe right or left on a profile to indicate her interest in a potential match. The case is designed to explore issues related to pricing, market design, and launch strategies in the context of online... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
How to Thrive as a Remote Manager and Employee
structure for this process. Virtual Onboarding Best Practices 1:1 video meetings with direct manager and key collaborators Onboarding buddies Virtual office tours – Send pictures or videos from the office, or give a live video tour if the office is open for in-person... View Details
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Strategy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Finalist for the 2020 INFORMS Best Dissertation Proposal Competition for “From Conceptual to Commercial: How Novel Innovations Gain Market Traction.” Rebecca A. Karp : Won the 2020 William H. Newman Award from the Academy of Management... View Details
- 01 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Benefits of Oversharing
Organizations & Markets (NOM) unit, found that keeping unsavory information to ourselves may not always be in our best interest. In fact, sometimes people think better of others who reveal ugly truths over those who keep mum. To come... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
The Exchange: Where Ethics Meet Economics
Max Bazerman and Mike Luca (Image by John Ritter) What makes people behave the way they do—and to what degree are design choices influencing that? Associate Professor Mike Luca studies the design of online platforms, while Professor Max... View Details
- 30 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
The Upside of Highlighting a Product's Downsides
Australia’s fourth-largest company, agreed to let Buell and Choi test the benefits of trade-off transparency among its prospective credit card customers. Commonwealth Bank is the country’s biggest issuer of credit card loans, with almost 27 percent of View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 10 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 10
Amazon.com, a $19 billion multinational online retailer, had won its board of directors' approval to offer to merge the two companies. Amazon had been courting Zappos since 2005, hoping a merger would enable Amazon to expand and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financial Highlights Operating revenues decreased 7 percent to $805 million, while operating expenses declined 6 percent to $779 million. Harvard Business School View Details
- 08 Dec 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Hunt for Talent on Digital Platforms, Not in Resume Piles
field studies, researchers tend to think that workers submit resumes to open positions. In fact, scholars have learned a lot about discrimination in labor markets by sending resumes to job postings to see who gets called back and who... View Details
- 06 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
To Go-Go: A Foodtech Startup Serves Up Scale in Latin America
operations, analyzing what is already available for delivery in target markets and mining its own data to see what works and what doesn’t. “We run A/B testing around price, around pictures, around menu descriptions,” says Izquierdo. “We... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- What Do You Think?
Can Amazon Do What Walmart Couldn’t, Stop the 'Wheel of Retailing'?
the company’s growth and profit was the size of the global retail market itself. No competitors could successfully undercut such a retail phenomenon. The wheel of retailing had been stopped! Until, of course, the internet came along.... View Details
- 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018
systematically examined. This contempt for business groups in mature market settings stands in sharp contrast to the intensive research that has been conducted on other major models of large modern enterprises in those economies, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
organs faces widespread disapproval. We survey a representative sample of Americans to assess disapproval for several forms of kidney markets and to understand why individuals disapprove by identifying factors that predict disapproval,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2
establish the institute. His first approach did not work; what should he do now? Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/306072-PDF-ENG Communispace Anat KeinanHarvard Business School Case 510-018 Communispace is the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 11, 2009
profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
The Exchange: Same Great Price, Now with Fewer Chips
while, everyone else in the ground-coffee market had done something similar, and it’s been going on ever since. You tend to see this happen at times of increasing costs of raw materials, wages, and energy prices—anything that puts... View Details
- 15 Jul 2019
- Book
Many Executives Are Afraid of Finance. Here's How They Can Gain Confidence
researches tax policy, international finance, and corporate finance. The book grew out of his efforts to make finance more accessible through executive education teaching and his online course Leading with Finance. His previous book, The... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman