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- 23 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Know If Your Neighborhood Is Being Gentrified
Professor of Business Administration, who coauthored the study. “Our results also suggest that a range of local businesses actually expand during periods of gentrification.” The findings are included in the new paper Nowcasting Gentrification: Using Yelp View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2015
- First Look
December 1, 2015
an additional tax rate of around 11% on the longest lived capital. To pin down credit constraints as the underlying cause, we apply triple differences strategies using foreign ownership or pre-crisis debt maturity. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions
can amplify bias. Some companies try to address the issue by making sure that their algorithms don’t use data on protected characteristics such as race or gender. Yet, eliminating factors like race from an algorithm doesn’t address the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 09 Aug 2011
- First Look
First Look: August 9
States, and one deceased donor can save numerous lives by providing multiple organs. Nevertheless, most Americans are not registered organ donors despite the relative ease of becoming one. We study in the laboratory an experimental game... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018
"millions of people living and working in space." Elon Musk, founder of SpaceX, has laid out plans to build a city of a million people on Mars within the next century. Both Neil deGrasse Tyson and Peter Diamandis have been given... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Careers: Cloud Kitchens Are Now Serving
has raised both excitement and significant funding, building a successful cloud kitchen has proved easier said than done. In dozens of interviews, we learned that even the most sophisticated data users like Uber Eats have struggled to... View Details
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Overview
By: Roberto Verganti
Roberto’s research focuses on how to create innovations that are meaningful for people, for society, and for their creators. He explores how leaders and organizations generate radically new visions, and make those visions come real. His studies lie at the intersection... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
“The findings of our study suggest that regulatory innovation can support more efficient drug development—in particular, in settings where we have unmet medical needs. This, in turn, could save and extend lives and motivate drug... View Details
- 20 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Language Wars Divide Global Companies
researcher observed in India during the same week. "We lived and experienced these teams," Neeley says. And they asked questions. Can you tell us about your project? How do you interact with your colleagues at other sites?... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 23 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
As Climate Fears Mount, More Investors Turn to 'ESG' Funds Despite Few Rules
Investor interest in social responsibility has skyrocketed in the past three years, even as US regulations to hold companies accountable remain in flux and the environmental, social, and governance (ESG) label itself draws backlash. Investors are willing to pay a... View Details
- 09 Jan 2020
- Book
Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI
algorithms make decisions, even for a few seconds, you open yourself up to all kinds of challenges. Consumer privacy and cybersecurity are huge ones. Companies are vulnerable to people coming in and stealing data and getting user... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization
[Editor’s note: This is the third installment of a continuing series on issues that 600 CEOs told us keeps them awake at night. Today's topic: The challenges of making organizational decisions in this uncertain environment.] While we may be View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott
- 16 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
Why Business Travel Still Matters in a Zoom World
with them. But, if you’re working with a colleague who lives in a faraway time zone or is culturally different from you, you have to get on a flight and meet that person in person. That’s a big takeaway,” Choudhury says. In a business... View Details
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
work over their personal lives are less happy." The findings have professional and personal implications for workers at a time when many business leaders are embracing performance-based pay. About 75 percent of organizations in the United... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 17 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
Welcome to Retirement. Who Am I Now?
preliminary results of the Retirement Transitions Study in August at the Academy of Management Conference in Chicago. She is still analyzing the data for a working paper with co-authors Lotte Bailyn of the Sloan School at the... View Details
- 15 Nov 2022
- Op-Ed
Why TikTok Is Beating YouTube for Eyeball Time (It’s Not Just the Dance Videos)
At the end of June 2022, a video was posted on TikTok with the theme, “I know Victoria’s secret.” The secret was that Victoria was “an old man who lives in Ohio making money off of girls like me cashing in on body issues.” The song was... View Details
Keywords: by John Deighton and Leora Kornfeld
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
"The data show that students’ responses to a case are about more than the text itself." Exploring gender in case production offered one set of insights, but we also wanted to understand how it figured in the HBS classroom during the same... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
peterhowell Summing Up: Can Single Nations Counter the Threat of Surveillance Capitalism? We’re on our own, with the possible support of government, in any efforts to counter the effects of surveillance capitalism. It’s only natural that businesses today use big View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Why and How Investors Use ESG Information: Evidence from a Global Survey By: Amel-Zadeh, Amir, and George Serafeim Abstract—Using survey data from a sample of senior investment professionals from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
each startup, that success wouldn’t become a self-fulfilling prophecy. Uncanny ability to pick winners Analyzing the data along with MIT VMS’s Roman Lubynsky, the researchers found that overall, in fact, the mentors had an uncanny ability... View Details