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  • Research Summary

Consumer's Relationships with Technologies

 

Susan M. Fournier is involved with two lines of research investigating consumers' relationships with technological products. The first project (with Professor David Mick of the University of Wisconsin) concerns 'everyday technologies' such as... View Details

  • 2018
  • Book

The Academy of Fisticuffs: Political Economy and Commercial Society in Enlightenment Italy

By: Sophus A. Reinert
The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the 18th century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the 19th, they paradoxically sought to make the... View Details
Keywords: Enlightenment; Political Economy; Italy; Commercial Society; Economic Systems; Trade; History; Markets; Society; Italy
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Gross National Happiness As an Answer to the Easterlin Paradox?

By: Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch
The Easterlin Paradox refers to the fact that happiness data are typically stationary in spite of considerable increases in income. This amounts to a rejection of the hypothesis that current income is the only argument in the utility function. We find that the... View Details
Keywords: Wealth and Poverty; Happiness; Employment; Income; Mathematical Methods; Welfare
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  • 10 Dec 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Julianna Pillemer, Wharton, University of Pennsylvania

    The Academy of Fisticuffs

    The terms “capitalism” and “socialism” continue to haunt our political and economic imaginations, but we rarely consider their interconnected early history. Even the eighteenth century had its “socialists,” but unlike those of the nineteenth, they paradoxically... View Details

    • 22 Jan 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Competing Ad Auctions

    Keywords: by Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin G. Edelman & Hoan Soo Lee; Advertising
    • 2020
    • Working Paper

    Iterative Coordination and Innovation

    By: Sourobh Ghosh and Andy Wu
    Agile management practices from the software industry continue to transform the way organizations innovate across industries, yet they remain understudied in the organizations literature. We investigate the widespread Agile practice of iterative coordination: frequent... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Goals; Specialization; Coordination; Field Experiment; Software Development; Organizations; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Goals and Objectives; Integration; Software
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    • 2003
    • Book

    The Slow Pace of Fast Change: Bringing Innovations to Market in a Connected World

    By: Bhaskar Chakravorti

    Innovation's encounter with the market results in a game of both high risk and high stakes. Often its outcome defies common sense: Superior new products flop, unlikely ideas become runaway hits, and—despite rapid technological advances and intense... View Details

    Keywords: Game Theory; Network Effects; Innovation and Invention; Product Marketing; Economics
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    • January 23, 2020
    • Article

    Sanctions and the End of Trans-Atlanticism: Iran, Russia, and the Unintended Division of the West

    By: Rawi Abdelal and Aurélie Bros
    Sanctions have become the dominant tool of statecraft in the United States and other Western states, especially the European Union, since the end of the Cold War. But the systematic use of this instrument may produce unintended and somewhat paradoxical geopolitical... View Details
    Keywords: Geopolitics; Economic Sanctions; International Relations; United States; Russia; Iran; Europe
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    • 09 May 2012
    • Research & Ideas

    Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

    You End Up Paying The Full Price Anyway Case studies such as this one helped me resolve a paradox that has appeared repeatedly in my attempts to help established companies that are confronted by disruptive entrants—as was the case with... View Details
    • 21 May 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Robert Kraut, Carnegie Mellon

    • 26 Mar 2014
    • HBS Seminar

    Brian Kahin, MIT

    • 06 Jul 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    The Truth About Authentic Leaders

    become authentic, as they navigate the practical dilemmas and paradoxes they face. For example, Karissa Thacker’s recent book The Art of Authenticity takes authenticity to a deeper level by exploring topics like relational transparency... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 06 Oct 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Edward Fertik, Yale University

    • 18 Jul 2023
    • News

    The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

    which I have a grabbing logline. I’m constantly writing down little pieces of ideas and great dialogue, things inspired by what I overhear on the street an amusing phrase, a twist on a play on words. I’ll jot down interesting paradoxes or... View Details
    Keywords: Robert Bochnak
    • 18 Mar 2013
    • HBS Case

    HBS Cases: LEGO

    so new product design began to be informed by market research, user feedback, and how well the toys matched the vision of quality creative play laid out by its founding fathers. Putting parameters on how people innovate had the View Details
    Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Entertainment & Recreation
    • 01 Nov 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness

    Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for Leaders: Protect and Pivot Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated According to a recent Gallup survey, less... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Susan Seligson
    • 08 Oct 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Keep Your Weary Workers Engaged and Motivated

    How Remote Work Changes What We Think About Onboarding What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership The COVID Two-Step for... View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
    • 01 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making

    of the Organizational Behavior unit also sees an aware, open, and inquiring senior team as critical to sound decision-making. "The key is for senior teams to be able to hold paradoxical ideas, or to think in the future and the past,... View Details
    Keywords: by Garry Emmons
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    Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

    overcome. They can help explain an apparent paradox of globalization: Ideas and technologies that can be accessed at a distance cannot serve as a foundation for competitive advantage. Effective management of locational advantages may... View Details