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- 31 May 2011
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mathematical models has turned the negotiated order of organizational activities, which necessarily include particularistic elements, into abstract generalizations that favor quantifiable variables. This paper offers another logic, a social or institutional logic, to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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IDEAS GIVE TO HBS INVEST IN LEADERS & IDEAS Give to HBS Learn about Planned Giving Recognition for Your HBS Giving According to our records, you have not made a new gift or pledge in recent years (pledge payments not reflected here).... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
Intrapersonal Conflict Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman Abstract We report on a field study demonstrating systematic differences between how people anticipate preferences and their subsequent preferences. We examine the film rental and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
(avocado) to zanahoria (carrot); find over 3,300 food, street vendor, market, and restaurant entries in Mexican Spanish with detailed English descriptions; understand the impact of the “Columbian Exchange” of foods, technology, and culture between the Old and View Details
- 05 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers
websites of hundreds of online retailers to track how they change over time. “What is distinguishing about our paper is that we observe prices not only at the border, but we can also see the impact in retail prices,” Cavallo says.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 14 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
Pay Attention To Your ‘Extreme Consumers’
course for first year MBA students , which immerses them in global research projects to produce a new product or experience, often in an emerging market country. To prepare students for their global immersion and help them practice market... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
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on technology-related reports covering the following subject areas: apps and platforms, online marketing, digital media, Internet of Things (IoT), payments, fintech. Frost & Sullivan Reports covering technology and... View Details
- 17 May 2016
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May 17, 2016
2016 New York: Oxford University Press Consumers, Corporations, and Public Health: A Case-Based Approach to Sustainable Business By: John A. Quelch. Abstract—The public health footprint associated with corporate behavior has come under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
The Vinyl Renaissance: Take Those Old Records Off the Shelf
happens in Europe. There are probably six or seven huge plants in Europe. Gazette: The unexpected surge in demand during COVID has led to huge manufacturing delays, forcing even stars like Taylor Swift or Adele to wait months for vinyl copies of a View Details
- 07 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
The One Good Thing Caused by COVID-19: Innovation
distancing. New patterns of consumer and worker behavior and expectations have emerged during the first weeks of the crisis. COVID-19 represents a tremendous economic shock and burden. In recent weeks, the focus has begun to shift towards... View Details
Keywords: by Hong Luo and Alberto Galasso
- 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009
TripIt: The Traveler's Agent Harvard Business School Case 809-059 In July 2008, the co-founders of TripIt, a free online travel organizer that aggregated travelers' bookings from many top travel websites, had recently secured $5.1 million... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Feb 2024
- News
Startup Shepherds
tapped to launch Martha Stewart Living’s first online business; in the process, he discovered the need for an internet strategy firm focused on media and publishing. Sherman set off on his own as founder and CEO of WestEnd View Details
Keywords: April White
- 17 Dec 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price
Think of the last time you went shopping. By the time you decided to buy a product, you knew both what you were buying and how much it cost. But was your decision affected by whether you saw the price or the product first? That's the question at the heart of View Details
- 23 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 23
games on a new challenge, he founded an online gaming venture, which later became known as 38 Studios. During the venture's first two years, he built a team of 70 people, including an executive team of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 27, 2007
Japanese competition. In the second research stream, conducted with Wheelwright, Bruce Chew, Takahiro Fujimoto, Kent Bowen and Marco Iansiti, Clark made the case that product development could be managed in new ways that would lead to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Does Competition Make Us More Creative?
2016.) “We tend to study innovation in terms of inputs like R&D spending or outcomes like patents,” says Gross, “but creativity is really about what happens in between. It’s really about this process of exploring new and untested... View Details
- 01 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Investing in Career Switchers - Cyril Straughn-Turner & Invesco US
communities without perpetuating gentrification?” With this in mind, Straughn-Turner set about exploring his interest in real estate alongside a dedicated cohort of classmates with similar goals. He joined the Real Estate Club and took an View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 1
recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public bonds) using firm-level data. Any firm that raises new debt must have a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2021
- Research & Ideas
Managers, Your Employees Don’t Want to Be Facebook ‘Friends’
blurring is a “thorny issue” for employees, forcing people to master an important new “digital social skill”: carefully choosing to share online space with some colleagues and not others, and considering... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be... View Details