by Laura Nash - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Jan 2011
News

Dancing elephants

18 Jun 2018
Research & Ideas

Warning: Scary Warning Labels Work!

beg off sugary drinks. John co-wrote the article with 2018 HBS doctoral degree recipient Grant E. Donnelly, Harvard School of Public Health doctoral candidate Laura Y. Zatz, and HBS doctoral candidate Dan Svirsky. How much does fountain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Advertising; Public Relations

19 Mar 2020
News

"Surfing Vietnam & Finding Your EDGE"

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

average driver out of their preferred shift is as bad as cutting their weekly earnings by more than 5 percent. For the California drivers that we study, the ability to start or stop working at any moment and the flexibility to change... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

17 May 2021
News

How do you persuade someone to get vaccinated? Tips for a productive conversation

08 Jan 2007
Research & Ideas

Who Rises to Power in American Business?

generations. What doors are opening? Which remain closed? The book, written by Harvard Business School's Anthony J. Mayo and Nitin Nohria, and Boston College's Laura G. Singleton, is the second in a trilogy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2019
Video

Health Minute: The Impact of Gender on Clinical Outcomes

16 Mar 2018
Working Paper Summaries

Amount and Diversity of Digital Emotional Expression Predicts Happiness

Keywords: by Laura Vuillier, Alison Wood Brooks, June Gruber, Rui Sun, Michael I. Norton, Matthew James Samson, Emiliana Simon-Thomas, Paul Piff, Sarah Fan, Jordi Quoidbach, Charles Gorintin, Pete Fleming, Arturo Bejar, and Dacher Keltner

05 Dec 2018
Research & Ideas

Why Managers Should Reveal Their Failures

If you’re a business leader who oozes achievement, sprints up the corporate ladder, and earns big bucks, your co-workers probably resent you to some extent. New research says high-achievers can win over their colleagues with a simple approach: View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 May 2018
Blog Post

Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago

Before and after attending HBS, I helped grow Working Assets (now Credo, founded by Laura Scher, MBA 1985) into a successful social enterprise that has generated more than $80 million for nonprofits. Whereas... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

Most Popular Articles 2013 How to Spot a Liar Key linguistic cues can help reveal dishonesty during business negotiations, whether it's a flat-out lie or a deliberate omission of key information, according to research by Lyn M. Van Swol,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Summer 2025
Article

Dynamic Competition for Customer Memberships

By: Cristian Chica, Julian Jimenez-Cardenas and Jorge Tamayo

A competitive two-period membership (subscription) market is analyzed. Two symmetric firms charge a “membership” fee that allows consumers to buy products or services at a given unit price for both periods. Firms can choose between long- or short-term memberships. When... View Details

Keywords: Competitive Price Discrimination; Membership; Dynamic Competition; Competition; Price; Consumer Behavior; Business Model

Citation

Purchase

09 May 2018
News

Investors Don't Ask Women Founders the Same Questions as Men. Here's Why That's a Problem

17 Dec 2020
Video

Top 5 Cold Call Podcast Episodes for 2020

27 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Manly Men, Oil Platforms, and Breaking Stereotypes

interactions do not occur ex nihilo, but are shaped by culturally available ideologies about what it means to be a man. Hence, men's masculine identity (like women's feminine identity) is a profoundly social and cultural phenomenon. As... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Energy; Utilities

21 Aug 2000
Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

With its abundance of complex management issues in a rapidly changing environment, Latin America offers a rich landscape for in-depth academic investigation. Some of the research work currently underway by HBS faculty is already earmarked... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2018
What Do You Think?

How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?

included in what is going on. There is a lot of advice for managers about how to promote inclusion in an organization. Laura Sherbin and Ripa Rashid remind us as leaders to practice inclusion on an everyday basis View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

22 May 2020
In Practice

Post-COVID Health Care: More Screens, Less Red Tape?

techniques, the changes in reimbursement for free-standing ambulatory surgery centers, the rise of telemedicine, and consumers’ preferences for surgery outside of the hospitals, will be accelerated by the closing of hospitals for... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

01 Feb 2008
What Do You Think?

How Sustainable Is Sustainability in a For-Profit Organization?

history of these entities.... When it is monetized" (whether by competition or government) "the for-profit enterprise will select the lowest price alternative." But Allen Howlett expressed reservations about this approach,... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

06 Nov 2013
What Do You Think?

Is Top-Down Resource Allocation on the Rise?

organization is still important for the best results. A number of factors were cited in determining the mix of inputs, responsibilities, and decisions associated with an RAP designed to maintain organizational agility over its life cycle. As View Details