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- 26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26
call in sick to retain eligibility. Second, employees with perfect pre-program attendance or high productivity suffered a 6% to 8% productivity decrease after program introduction, suggesting they were demotivated by awards for good... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2010
- Research & Ideas
Earth Day Reflections
work they are already doing. For, example I am helping a major U.S. utility look at the implications of possible carbon regulation and the way they structure their business. I'm working with a large consumer View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 13 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 13
such as Photoshop and Acrobat to a digital marketing and digital media company. In May 2013, the company decided to stop selling its software as a package in favor of Creative Cloud where consumers paid a monthly subscription fee. Within... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Yoga Inc.
was more physical. A former triathlete, he was invited by his investment firm’s partners to a hot yoga class. “I could not believe how I felt afterward,” he recalls. “That halo effect after a good sweat—it opened up my chest, and I got... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Halber
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road
this volume of essays come about? What surprised you most in the array of research and insights you were able to assemble from your colleagues? Jones: The origins of the project lay with my current research on the worldwide evolution of the Anglo-Dutch View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Green Day
good ROI.” Diniz began to brainstorm with Paulo Puterman, a friend studying to get his PhD in biotechnology at the University of São Paulo who also happened to be focused on the highly efficient elephant grass/electricity equation. “After... View Details
- 02 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 2
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/download.aspx?name=14-062.pdf September 2014 Managing Consumer Services: Factory or Theater Customer Experience and Service Design By: Karmarkar, Uday, and Uma R. Karmarkar Abstract—While services already... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
short-term debt financing, an attractive source of funding in good times but an accelerant of financial crises when things go bad. And we're getting closer to adopting a "resolution regime" that could enable regulators to wind... View Details
- 26 Aug 2020
- News
What the Climate Change Movement Can Learn from the Pandemic
April this year for the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. And that was very much overshadowed by the new global crisis of the pandemic. It affected us in that we did a much smaller launch of our new version of the app. We still put our product out there and still have had... View Details
- 06 Aug 2015
- Blog Post
What I Was Not Expecting: Rerouting Towards My Passion at HBS
my promise to myself was to actively maintain music as a core part of my life, as I was afraid the “MBA life” would be too time consuming to be able to do any music. Although I did continue to sing, I am a little embarrassed to admit that... View Details
Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
packs expire have largely failed. Kadakia must decide, preserve the product or pivot to a new business model? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/817002-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 817-065 Delivering the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Barbara Hackman Franklin, MBA 1964
positions. In 1973, Franklin left the White House to become one of the first commissioners of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission. She focused on society's most vulnerable consumers—children—introducing the first child-resistant... View Details
- 15 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 15
trades involving similar goods. It draws on archival, interview, and observational data mainly from New York state to analyze market participants' efforts to legitimize commerce and resolve a jurisdictional dispute. Building on literature on professions, the study... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
the changing social and economic environments in which consumers live, and that their offerings enhanced people's lives in meaningful ways. A third important factor in understanding how these entrepreneurs created such successful... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
brand: What are people thinking? And you’d expect a much lower sensitivity to administration, to structure, to organizational dynamics, to long-term view, and to capital spending. The incoming president has a really good sense for what... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 29 Oct 2007
- HBS Case
Marketing Maria: Managing the Athlete Endorsement
increasingly turn to athletes to promote their products. The marketing executives I spoke with told me they value these endorsements especially because it is getting more and more difficult to reach a wide group of consumers using... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
2015 The Social Psychology of Good and Evil Dishonesty Explained: What Leads Moral People To Act Immorally By: Gino, F., and D. Ariely Abstract—The last two decades have witnessed what seems to be an increasing number of cases of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jul 2019
- News
The Birth of a Silicon Valley Blockbuster
get things done. For quite some time I tried to convince Michelle that we should start something together, and she was not particularly enthusiastic about the ideas that I had. Michelle Zatlyn: And Matthew, if you spend more than five minutes with him, he will just... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Blissful Thinking
good news: They got everything they wanted,” Brooks said. “Here’s the bad news: They wanted the wrong thing. The result is that they’re not as happy as they could be. We need to teach a class on happiness,” Brooks concluded. A social... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Dan Winters
- 13 Nov 2007
- Research & Ideas
Six Steps for Reinvigorating America
be sensible. But we're not doing it. There are many other things. We're not using enough of the technology we have to improve healthcare. We have a national service program in the United States that does so much good, but it's tiny. Imagine how much more View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne