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30 Aug 2010
Research & Ideas

Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers

safety, the researchers note that our understanding of how managers can increase the value of reporting systems remains incomplete. To shed light on how to encourage staff to share constructive feedback when using reporting systems,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Health

09 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection

Underhill has found that retail environments that foster communication between couples or groups who shop together do more business. A pleasing environment with attractive lighting and décor not only makes an individual shopper linger,... View Details

Keywords: by Richard Bierck; Retail

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

David, Goliath, and Disruption

Schreck. "There are only so many major innovations that change our lives radically: the light bulb, the television, the automobile, the telephone. "That's not where I'd be looking for disruptive technology. I'd look for... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 May 2018
Blog Post

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

situation came to light when the negotiation leaked. (The dispute was apparently resolved when Wahlberg agreed to donate his $1.5 million to Time’s Up Legal Defense Fund.) This Hollywood soap opera raises an interesting question. If the... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Jan 2006
News

Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969

focus from advising to investing in start-ups just as the UK and Europe embarked on major economic reforms. In addition, the U.S. venture capital industry got a huge boost when a 1978 clarification in the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) gave the green... View Details

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

to influence prices set by downstream retailers. Although manufacturers expect retail partners to comply with MAP policies, violations of MAP are common in practice. In this research, we document and explain both the extent and the depth of MAP policy violations. We... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2009
News

Your Taxi Is Waiting

term familiar to every good HBS student. With its relatively low price tag (about $2.8 million) and low operating costs (40 percent less than existing small jets), the twin-engine Mustang and other “very light jets” (VLJs) represent a... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Air Transportation; Transportation

20 Mar 2017
Book

Why Companies Are Placing Users at the Core of Their Innovation Strategies

number of companies are placing users at the core of their business strategies. Take MUJI, a leading Japanese design retailer, which has created a range of products designed by customers including a car, light fixtures, and sofas. The... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

22 Jul 2014
First Look

First Look: July 22

Working Papers Debt Redemption, Reserve Accumulation, and Exchange-Rate Regimes By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—Foreign participation in local-currency-bond markets in emerging countries has increased dramatically over the past decade. In View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook

Loewenstein shed some light on the discrepancy. In each experiment, the researchers asked participants to answer a list of questions to indicate whether they had engaged in various sensitive activities—looking at pornographic material,... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

10 Nov 2011
HBS Case

HBS Cases: Making Lincoln Center Cool Again

discounts, and an Internet café. Live performance innovations. Performance collaboration among the organizations has also increased. In 2006, Bartlett Sher, who directed Light in the Piazza for Lincoln Center Theater, was tapped to direct... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation

29 May 2001
Research & Ideas

Race Does Matter in Mentoring

In a three-year research project, I studied the career trajectories of minority and white professionals at three major U.S. corporations. The story of one of the participants—Stephen Williams—sheds light on many of the differences in... View Details

Keywords: by David A. Thomas

09 Feb 2017
News

Turning Disorder into Opportunity

the challenges they face. Because people on the autism spectrum often suffer from sensory issues, workplace assessments were conducted to determine the needs of each Dandelion participant. “Distraction can come from lighting, noise, and even their chairs. View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

18 Sep 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

data, is computationally light and allows for flexible substitution patterns. We apply the model to a data set containing browsing and purchase information from a retailer stocking over 500 products, recover the elasticity matrix, and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

mechanisms that allow reputation to facilitate survival in ways that persist over time. Building on research in strategy and business history, we thus shed light on an underappreciated strategic construct (reputation) in an... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 May 2022
News

Leading to Salvation

Bob Ryan first got involved, the business had been neglected. Estes Funeral Chapel, located at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in North Minneapolis, is easily accessible by light rail. "Rather than looking at this building as... View Details

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

everywhere, and distributed computing. Think how these are starting to apply, for instance, in mass transit. The old model is a centralized bus and light rail system, serving fixed routes at high cost, with little adaptation to schedule... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

19 May 2016
Research Event

Crowdsourcing, Patent Trolls, and Other Research Insights Highlighted at Harvard Business School Symposium

but we do need one big win to come out of this collaboration. We need some kind of signal that makes the world notice that there’s something important going on between SEAS and Harvard Business School.” Related Reading Digital Initiative Summit: The Business of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman & Carmen Nobel

20 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 20

empirically the method proposed by Arcidiacono and Miller (2011) to accommodate unobserved latent class heterogeneity using a computationally light two-step estimator. Second, we illustrate how discount factors can be estimated in a... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

Web

A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

the making of goods, the function of industry is the development of people.” 1 Edwin Land with employees, 1935. Polaroid Corporation Records, Photograph & Visual Materials Collection, b. X.616, f. 8. Land’s research efforts in light... View Details

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