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- 17 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 17, 2017
is associated with higher employee departure rates in stores where the manager is likely to be more informed than headquarters (stores that serve repeat customers or customers with atypical demographic characteristics relative to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
Cohen, Alma, and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—In a paper published in the Journal of Financial Economics (JFE) in 2013, we provided evidence that market participants perceive staggered boards to be on average value reducing. In a recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Excerpt: Manufacturing Morals
plants provides "a measure of informality and diversity " Reprinted with permission from Manufacturing Morals: The Values of Silence in Business School Education, by Michel Anteby, published by the... View Details
Keywords: Education
- 26 Sep 2005
- Research & Ideas
What Perceived Power Brings to Negotiations
organizational rank would indicate—recognized experience in a particular style of negotiation, for example. Can such "perceived relative power" make a difference at the table? The short answer is yes. In "Perceived Relative Power and its Influence on... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 13 Feb 2017
- Research & Ideas
Paid Search Ads Pay Off for Lesser-Known Restaurants
accessing Yelp data and running experiments, with the goal of producing managerially relevant academic research with the freedom to publish it. Example of a Yelp ad for a restaurant Restaurants were given free advertising space on Yelp... View Details
- 21 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Shabana Azmi: Leveraging Bollywood Fame into Social Good
completion of a brief form. We asked Deshpandé, the Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing at Harvard Business School, a few questions about his recently published interview with Azmi, which was conducted in 2015. Sean Silverthorne:... View Details
- 23 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Emerging Art of Negotiation
psychological research points toward new directions in the understanding of what makes a negotiation work or not work. In an article recently published in the Annual Review of Psychology, HBS Professor Kathleen L. Valley, HBS Senior... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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'Boomerasking': The Annoying Habit Ruining Your Office Conversations | Working Knowledge
conversational quirk that’s almost universally disliked by those on the receiving end, according to Brooks’ research, " Boomerasking: Answering Your Own Questions ," recently published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology . Brooks,... View Details
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
Business School, have studied the risks and rewards of organizational values in depth using a young, ambitious advertising agency for a field study. What they learned about positive values surprised them, and their findings were published... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 23 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018
management, and higher ROA. These effects are concentrated at innovating firms—those firms that are early-life-cycle or engage in R&D spending—and especially at those facing Wall Street scrutiny. Collectively, the evidence suggests that early-life-cycle firms... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
speculation—and then, hopefully, sell it? “One of the top questions screenwriters talk about in their online communities is whether to pitch or to spec,” says Luo. In her paper published by Management Science, When to Sell Your Idea:... View Details
- 12 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Creating Online Ads We Want to Watch
series of experiments in the HBS Computer Lab for Experimental Research. The results showed that the key to success in grabbing and holding the attention of viewers lies in evoking a carefully timed mixture of surprise and joy. (The findings will be View Details
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Innovation & the War Effort - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
was thoroughly engaging intellectually,” says Reade of her years in the investment business. “We were detectives, piecing together the information to figure out the value of basic businesses.” Ultimately, however, she felt dissatisfied,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 19, 2007
company and a publicly-traded company. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=507001 Arizona Department of Public Health: The Challenges of Preparing for a Public Health Emergency Harvard Business School Case 807-016 In the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015
Publications Forthcoming Berrett-Koehler Publishers What Great Service Leaders Know and Do: Creating Breakthroughs in Service Firms By: Heskett, James L., W. Earl Sasser, and Leonard A. Schlesinger Abstract—Based on decades of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade
Readers also benefitted when, in 2008, we began to publish HBS faculty working papers—often the first expressions of emerging ideas on the cutting edge of management research. The most popular paper looks at the dark side of goal-setting,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
puzzled. If they represent the crème-de-la-crème of long-term management performance, why is it that only a handful of graduates from Harvard Business School—or for that matter Stanford, Wharton, Chicago, INSEAD, or other well-known business schools—have ever been... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
Home Site map Map / Directions Search: General Information HBS Home About Annual Report Campus Commencement Dean Nohria Employment Fifty Years of Women Give News New Construction Academic Programs Doctoral Programs Executive Education MBA... View Details