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- 25 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
How Gender Stereotypes Kill a Woman’s Self-Confidence
some puzzling questions, like why men and women alike believe that men will perform better than women in some domains and what interventions can be considered to close this gender gap in self-confidence. “Stereotypes are pervasive,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Aug 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Insider Trading Preceding Goodwill Impairments
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Strategic Marketing for Driving Growth
more business growth. This program is eligible for the Digital Transformation Certificate. Learn More Key Benefits Effective marketing strategy development and implementation is a crucial piece of the puzzle for business leaders who need... View Details
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Yanhua Bird's research encompasses two streams: (1) entrepreneurship and social innovation — how the design and structure of alternative forms of enterprises influence their activities and success, with a focus on peer-to-peer markets and social enterprises, and (2)... View Details
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Turbulent Stability of Emergent Roles: The Dualistic Nature of Self-Organizing Knowledge Co-Production
By: Ofer Arazy, Johaness Daxenberg, Hila Lifshitz - Assaf, Oded Nov and Irene Gurevych
Increasingly, new forms of organizing for knowledge production are built around self-organizing co-production community models with ambiguous role definitions. Current theories struggle to explain how high-quality knowledge is developed in these settings and how... View Details
- 05 May 2014
- Research & Ideas
Reflecting on Work Improves Job Performance
and participants earned a dollar for each puzzle they solved in 20 seconds or less. After recording the results of the first problem-solving round, the researchers divided participants randomly into one of three conditions: control,... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
The $15 Billion Question: Have Loot Boxes Turned Video Gaming into Gambling?
the number of players globally tops 3 billion, the paper says. “People don’t realize how pervasive games are,” Amano says. “They are larger than music and movies combined.” Amano and Simonov analyzed the decisions made by 2.5 million players of a free-to-play Japanese... View Details
- 09 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Unilever—A Case Study
investors in the United States. In 1981, a ranking by sales revenues in Forbes put it in twelfth place. 5 Unilever's longevity as an inward investor provides an opportunity to explore in depth a puzzle about inward FDI in the United... View Details
- 14 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Facts and Figuring: An Experimental Investigation of Network Structure and Performance in Information and Solution Spaces
- 18 Jul 2023
- News
The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)
strikes that have affected the industry and effectively frozen most of its activity. Larger companies can’t ride out the storm without cuts to budget and staff. How do you use what you learned at HBS in this work? Each film and television project is a View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
When Should a Social Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?
Existing economic wisdom offers unequivocal advice to managers seeking to establish new platform businesses: Invest to acquire users as quickly as possible and make sure that they have ... View Details
- 21 May 2024
- Research & Ideas
What the Rise of Far-Right Politics Says About the Economy in an Election Year
sometimes leads to a shift to the left and other times to a shift to the right is a puzzle that we are still trying to understand. Context and the role of political entrepreneurs are important pieces in this puzzle. “I found that the... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 11 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide
are looking at the retail sector, you are puzzled why Amazon is doing well the way it is, and why Walmart is doing poorly the way it is. Well, Amazon is going through the roof because it’s a technology company in many respects—and it’s... View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 18 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works
information daily, the repeated communications seemed puzzling to Neeley, at least at first. The researchers moved forward to investigate what sort of events triggered managers to deploy multiple messages. They studied the communication... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 28 Nov 2023
- Book
Economic Growth Draws Companies to Asia. Can They Handle Its Authoritarian Regimes?
economic stagnation? Silverthorne: What most surprised you about your research results? Rithmire: The biggest puzzle was the one that yielded the biggest insight: Why did firms in Indonesia and China seem to purposefully expand and invest... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 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 doing... View Details
- 23 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Strategy-Focused Organization
bureaucratic, and ineffecient into the leader in its industry." Perhaps the most puzzling and problematic aspect of creating Strategy-Focused Organizations is how to sustain the effort. Many companies have managers who have read... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
appetite for tackling the hardest problems she could find. In a recent New York Times profile, Damian Williams, a friend from Harvard who now serves as the United States attorney for the Southern District of New York, described watching Tisch work on “the most insane... View Details
- 11 Apr 2022
- Research & Ideas
A World of Difference: What Keeps Companies from Becoming More Inclusive
difference? Gino: As Frances and I were thinking about this, I came back to an experience of being in an escape room, which is something that I’ll never convince Frances to do with me. We created a similar experience with an expert puzzle... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint