Country Of Origin Effects - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Mar 2011
What Do You Think?

To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?

convey perceptions of competence. This work can provide the basis for coaching people in how to behave. Meanwhile Joshua Ackerman and his coresearchers are concentrating on the effects View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Feb 2009
First Look

First Look: February 18, 2009

who need them most, but unrestricted transfers might threaten the Internet's routing system. I suggest policies to create an IP address "market" while avoiding major negative externalities—mitigating the worst effects View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Mar 2016
First Look

March 8, 2016

motivating people to change their behavior, from working harder on tasks to engaging in healthier habits. Recent research has examined the residual effects of incentives: by altering behavior, incentives can... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Mar 2001
Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

designed to focus on those challenges "horizontally"—across all the functions managers need to address from the original business plan through the first eighteen months of an organization's life.... View Details

Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg

14 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

The Big Money for Big Projects

alone needs $2 trillion of infrastructure investment over the next ten years to maintain its current standard of living. Yet most developing countries lack the necessary... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

09 Apr 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

effects of their submissions on the other individuals in the workplace. We also find that offering employees project funding to implement their own proposals potentially backfires, undermining participation.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

07 Feb 2005
Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

inflammatory diseases. As these examples suggest, early career imprints can affect the kinds of design choices that leaders make long after they leave their original employers. One informant summarized this... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

stick described above--could shake managers out of their indecision and provide a privately-directed, revenue-neutral stimulus that could eclipse the effects of any potential... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

14 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 14, 2006

faced the challenge of convincing buyers to pay a premium price. Their products originated from a wild resource under government regulations which limited the size of the catch... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia

treaties, tariff policies, and regional trade agreements that can be put in place to enhance the effectiveness of CSR and a country's long-term competitiveness. When international quotas on textiles and... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

Washington State) and by participants with responsibility to enforce rules in an experimental lab setting. We also show that this effect is driven by psychological reactance. We discuss both the theoretical and practical implications... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

capabilities set a favorable foundation for the economic growth miracle the country experienced after World War II. If history is any guide, Japan should make a full recovery from the devastating effects... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

allows many people to search for and retrieve codified knowledge without having to contact the person who originally developed it. That opens up the possibility of achieving scale in knowledge reuse and thus... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

24 Jul 2007
First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost of the primary product, but... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

30 May 2000
Research & Ideas

Market Makers Bid for Success

executing that strategy for the last two years. We focused initially on the B-to-C market. But we see the dynamic pricing mechanism as having applicability in all markets, including person-to-person, and B-to-B. Sahlman: Both of you had... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Web Services; Technology

05 May 2003
What Do You Think?

Is This a Golden Era for Marketing Productivity?

groups are important to a marketing organization, which group is addressed most effectively by emerging techniques relying on neuroscience, particularly the exploration of the subconscious feelings that may... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

20 Mar 2019
Research & Ideas

Gender-Diverse Companies Thrive Only Where Diversity is Embraced

context. Q2: In brief, what did you learn? How much of diversity and performance is consistent across study areas, and how much is driven by context? Zhang: We learned that the social context matters, a lot! The View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

contact us.” The organization also sent the original letter without the additional line to a different set of delinquent taxpayers, allowing the government to measure the change. The intervention proved to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

14 May 2012
Research & Ideas

Breaking the Smartphone Addiction

but for the team's work process and ultimately the client—that the experiment was expanded to more and more of BCG's teams. Four years later, over nine hundred BCG teams from thirty countries on five... View Details

Keywords: by Leslie A. Perlow

06 Feb 2006
Research & Ideas

Sorting Out the Patent Craze

One of the biggest challenges has been the unwillingness of the courts to sanction firms that manipulate the standard setting process for their own ends, thereby degrading the View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology

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