Observation - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

The Manager in Red Sneakers

clothes rather than an elegant outfit to a luxury boutique, or wearing sneakers to a professional event. In The Red Sneakers Effect: Inferring Status and Competence from Signals of Nonconformity—an article appearing in the June 2014 Journal of Consumer Research—the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

Rucker Abstract—Previous research suggests that people draw inferences about their attitudes and preferences based on their own thoughtfulness. The current research explores how observing other individuals make decisions more or less... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

inversely related to income earned. This result holds even when the conventional model accurately describes the average individual, and it suggests one potential resolution to the puzzle of why observed redistribution is in some cases... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

01 Apr 2001
News

New Ventures New Gains

observes Conforti, who is now Finale’s president. Their HBS credentials, recalls Conforti, were “also very helpful in convincing investors that we were going to manage the inherent risk of running a restaurant better than others might.”... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna and Susan Young; Martin Dubilier (MBA 1952); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

16 May 2016
Blog Post

Career Resources for International Students

H-1B visa sponsorship has very little to do with company size and is more closely tied to industry and/or a specific company’s policies. We have observed that smaller, earlier stage companies are increasingly willing to pursue visa... View Details

Student-Faculty-Profile

Grant Donnelly & Michael Norton

We are currently working on a number of projects investigating decision-making, from how much money millionaires think they need to be happy to whether the feeling of being observed might decrease people’s likelihood of cheating on their... View Details

01 Apr 2002
News

"Rising to the Challenge" Program Addresses Post-9/11 Issues

is dangerously complacent with its place in the world. Marc Lindenberg, dean and professor at the Daniel J. Evans School of Public Affairs at the University of Washington, observed that today's challenges are structural, ethical, and... View Details

Keywords: War on Terror; Ronald Levy; Health, Social Assistance

01 Dec 2002
News

Alumni Honorees Urge Students to Emphasize Ethics

have not made as much impact, so we have an opportunity,” she said. Egon Zehnder, founding chairman of a global executive search firm, observed that most boards of directors seeking new leadership now put the quality of personal integrity... View Details

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

The Knowledge Coach

helpful to the total novice. In our entrepreneurship study, we observed extensive chains of knowledge transfer in which a coach's protégé quickly became a coach to someone less knowledgeable than himself, who then coached a budding... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

Web

A Culture of Innovation | Baker Library

brown image. . . . Observing the result, Land transmitted such enthusiasm that it was contagious.” 13 When Meroë Morse started at Polaroid in the summer of 1945, she also worked on Vectographs. That fall she joined Muller and the SX-70... View Details

15 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 15, 2008

that, at the aggregate level, is similar to the one sector neoclassical growth model, while, at the disaggregate level, has implications for the path of observable measures of technology adoption. We estimate our model using data on the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2003
News

Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

HBS experience. As for the “barrel,” Clark observed that HBS and other business schools can also make important contributions by studying ways to design markets more effectively, reduce conflicts of interest, and build stronger governance... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

08 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Four Questions Fundraisers Must be Prepared to Answer

Stevenson has concluded that public recognition is not the major reason why people make significant gifts. Instead, they want to make a positive impact on the world, says Stevenson, Harvard Business School’s Sarofim-Rock Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

21 Aug 2000
Lessons from the Classroom

Under the Magnifying Glass: The Benefits of Being a Case Study

ensures that the information within it is correct. If the draft contains certain observations or data they prefer not to have mentioned, they let the researcher know. Then the company authorizes the case. A case is never published without... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

25 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

The Powerful Strategic Tool Companies Should Not Try to Control

World Nutella Day a cease-and-desist letter in 2013. The company backed down and eventually embraced this day of honor of its beloved product. Companies devote significant resources to holding focus groups and collecting customer feedback. But companies that cultivate,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

21 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

How to Sink a Startup

When Noam Wasserman (HBS MBA 1999) spent his MBA summer internship working for a VC firm, he observed important universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the "fundamental implications of those decisions were... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

collaborative practices constituted an anticompetitive conspiracy. The judge observed that activities the government depicted as nefarious were "nothing more nor less than a gradual, natural, and normal growth or evolution by which... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

16 Feb 2004
Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

jockeying for position, observed Hugh Langmuir, a Paris-based director of Cinven. Hampered by high labor costs, Western Europe is also feeling the pinch of competition from the Far East, especially China, Langmuir said. It is hard to... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures

neck," observed Kuemmerle. For him, Jinwoong also exemplifies what an entrepreneur can do to rescue a company by restructuring when such an exogenous shock occurs. Unlike many around the world, Jinwoong managed to successfully... View Details