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- 23 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Are Great Teams Less Productive?
learned to ride a bike, he was not the first person to ever ride a bike. His learning got him from being a non-bike rider into the population of bike riders. In this case, performance is improved View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 28 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Racial Bias Taints Customer Service: Evidence from 6,000 Hotels
experience. Among the questions to ask: How have customers perceived their treatment? Have they received above-and-beyond service and how do they think their experiences compare to those of other customers? Evaluate existing data. View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 24 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why It's Best to Take Tests Early in the Day
conditions possible for students to learn and perform well in their school activities and tests,” Gino says. “Often these debates do not carefully consider the influence of external factors that teachers or... View Details
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
worries do not apply for the vast majority of the players, they add. The results suggest that companies generate revenue by exploiting behavioral biases of whales, leading them to overspend on loot boxes.... View Details
- 08 Jun 2012
- Working Paper Summaries
Location Choices Under Strategic Interactions
Keywords: by Juan Alcacer
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
“threat-based, intelligence-led national security” that encompassed both missions. The FBI still has work to do in its quest to become a full-fledged national security organization. A March 2015 report by... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Land Institutions and Chinese Political Economy: Institutional Complementarities and Macroeconomic Management
- 02 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Good Deeds Invite Bad Publicity
Do companies with reputations for acting in socially responsible ways receive public goodwill when unpleasant news hits? The question of how much (or even if) corporate social responsibility (CSR) policies benefit companies beyond the... View Details
- 15 Aug 2023
- HBS Case
(Virtual) Reality Check: How Long Before We Live in the 'Metaverse'?
The recent rollout of ChatGPT by OpenAI has set the world abuzz about the potential of artificial intelligence. But whatever happened to the last tech phenomenon, the “metaverse”? The once-heavily hyped future of immersive 3D technology... View Details
- 30 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Should Retailers Match Their Own Prices Online and in Stores?
results will help retailers work through the complicated pricing puzzle and pinpoint the best fit for their businesses. In deciding whether to self-match, companies should start by determining whether their competitors are already View Details
- 23 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sponsorship Programs Could Actually Widen the Gender Gap
sponsor and protégé look good. “Sponsorship builds on traditional mentorship by adding a more transactional nature to the relationship,” explains Coffman, who works in the Negotiations, Organizations, and Markets Unit at HBS. “It’s not... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2022
- HBS Case
The War in Ukraine and Nestlé’s Moral Dilemma: Stay or Leave Russia?
join the growing group of international corporations, including Renault, Volvo, Boeing, ExxonMobil, and Microsoft, that were pulling out of Russia to punish the country and pressure its leaders. Schneider weighed the good Nestlé could do... View Details
- 30 Sep 2019
- Book
6 Steps to Building a Better Workplace for Black Employees
Black Experience, co-edited by Mayo, University of Virginia Professor Laura Morgan Roberts, who is a visiting scholar at HBS, and David A. Thomas, president of Morehouse College and a former professor at HBS. “These African American... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
Managing to Learn: How Companies Can Turn Knowledge into Action
alone do not a learning organization make. The necessary complement is a mind-set of inquiry and experimentation, plus a knowledge-sharing process that enables everyone in a company to act in an informed way... View Details
Keywords: by Laurie Joan Aron
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
reported infections. By mid-March, Carnival, the largest cruise line in the world, suspended operations across the globe. Yet it took weeks to get its 260,000 guests and 80,000 employees who were floating at sea back to their homes in... View Details
- 05 Nov 2014
- What Do You Think?
Are We Entering an Era of Neuromanagement?
Summing Up: Where Do We Draw the Line on the Use of Technology in Hiring Practices? The idea of using brain scans in hiring, while it generated limited enthusiasm among respondents to this month's column, nevertheless was rejected View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 15 May 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Women Find New Path to Work
primarily looking for their entrepreneurial tendencies and collecting a lot of demographic data as well. When I began to sort by gender, I found that the career paths taken by women from HBS were very, very... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 15 Oct 2020
- Research & Ideas
IT Job Wages Are No Longer 'Exceptional'
Over the past few decades, information technology jobs worked their way into the popular imagination as among the most stable, fast-rising, and lucrative ways to make a living, bolstered in the 1990s by the dot-com boom. What astronauts... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
these findings with managers she says there's a relief among many to learn that all that communicating does work—that they aren't spinning their wheels during the workday. "People are like, 'Oh, my gosh, there is a name to what I do.... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 22 Apr 2024
- Research & Ideas
When Does Impact Investing Make the Biggest Impact?
that, then that company has more capital and can do things that it couldn't otherwise do.” Doing well by doing good is an important trend in... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne