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  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

diverse hospitals across the United States. A trained interviewer scored the managers' interview responses based on management practices that ranged from most reactive (lowest scores) to most proactive (highest scores). We established... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

insights; describes how the technique should be adapted for use in an entrepreneurial context; and offers tips and cautions about applying the technique. The techniques include customer surveys, usability tests, market trials, split tests, and View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Sep 2021
  • Blog Post

Socioeconomic Inclusion at HBS: Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)

not just maximize shareholder value but doing good by doing well—how to pursue business that has a social mission at its heart while also generating returns for its investors,” said Mbanusi. Casting a wide net in his applications, Mbanusi... View Details
  • 16 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research, May 16

governance (ESG) information in China, Denmark, Malaysia, and South Africa using differences-in-differences estimation with propensity score matched samples. We find that relative to propensity score matched... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 24 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Why the Internet Doesn’t Change Everything

in advertising. If we look at cyberspace from the viewpoint of Partenia, then, it looks very much like a frontier town—like California of the 1890s, or the Indies to which Europe scrambled in the seventeenth century. There are the usual hordes of rebels and rogues,... View Details
Keywords: by Debora L. Spar
  • 29 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Creating the Perfect Super Bowl Ad

Tracking Study, Teixeira and colleagues question whether advertisers are striking the right balance between entertaining and promoting their brands. Could companies entertain less and get consumers to buy more? Teixeira's research offers... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Advertising; Media & Broadcasting
  • 12 Jan 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 12

approximately 7.5% of quarterly net income. Finally, a unique aspect of the research setting allows tests of who is responsible for the earnings management. While firms appear unable to increase the frequency of aisle display View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

company. Digitizing Disclosure: The Case of Restaurant Hygiene Scores By: Dai, Weijia (Daisy), and Michael Luca Abstract— Collaborating with Yelp and the city of San Francisco, we revisit a canonical example of quality disclosure by... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for June 2014

experience. He shows how this is already happening. Eleven Days by Lea Carpenter (MBA 2003) (Knopf) Klout Matters: How to Engage Customers, Boost Your Digital Influence—and Raise Your Klout Score for Success by Gina Carr (MBA 1990) and... View Details
  • 26 Jan 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

Approximately 40 percent of the company's revenues are derived from products introduced within the last two years. Natura achieved this result with an R&D staff of about 150 and a budget totaling only 3 percent of net income. Compare... View Details
Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

A Boomtown's Echo

George is the finance director for the Post Carbon Institute, a California think tank dedicated to promoting sustainable energy that recently examined the Bakken in its report Drilling Deeper: A Reality Check on U.S. Government Forecasts... View Details
Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

narrower span. She must focus on compliance with standard operating procedures, and she is monitored through detailed input and process measures. The span of influence. The third span corresponds to the width of the net that an individual... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 12 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 12

and coordination in determining delegation within firms. Empirical evidence, however, is limited. Using establishment-level data on decision rights over information technology investments, I find that a high net value of adaptation is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 May 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

of sustainability efforts, decarbonization, and net zero in the context of a broader development agenda. The class culminated in a series of site visits in January 2024 in Mumbai and Bangalore and this is one of 14 student essays that... View Details
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Busting Six Myths About Customer Loyalty Programs

an unconvincing 1 percent loyalty reward to customers already represents a reduction of 30 percent to 50 percent of the retailer's net profits. When margins are low, the sustainability of loyalty rewards often depends on two possible... View Details
Keywords: by Marcel Corstjens & Rajiv Lal; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 24 Mar 2021
  • News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

practices that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in our work and in our communications; it is also reviewing the current practices of projects, board composition, volunteer profile, and awards and making recommendations to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Oct 2000
  • News

Laura Scher of Working Assets

become effective activists and philanthropists through their everyday activities, at little or no cost to them," explains the friendly and low-key Scher, seated in an office whose walls are lined with posters and photos from scores of... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso
  • Profile

Brian T. Bedol

While there, among many assignments, he took over the marketing and promotion of the Six Flags Theme parks and drove revenues and attendance to an all-time high. But Bedol had long harbored an urge to start his own business and create a... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 16, 2008

pronounced in banks, and with higher pre-adoption information asymmetry, consistent with investors expecting net information quality benefits from IFRS adoption. We also find that the reaction is less positive for firms domiciled in code... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2017
  • News

Case Study: Moment in the Sun

Above: The Ario Lamp parallels the sun’s schedule. (Courtesy Ario) Ario is a smart lighting company in the Bay Area whose lamp changes light direction and color dynamically throughout the day, promoting better health. The shifts in... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
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