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- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
Later: Decreasing Impatience over Time in Online Grocery Orders" by Todd Rogers, Katherine L. Milkman, and Max H. Bazerman. TIP #2 - Put your money where your mouth is. Leslie John, now an assistant professor at HBS, led an experiment at... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 23 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
Researchers Prove C-Suite Gender Gap—but Can’t Explain It
they are—unless they can figure out a way to thwart discrimination. That’s the frustrating takeaway of the new research paper “Equal Opportunity? Gender Gaps in CEO Appointments and Executive Pay,” written by Matti Keloharju, a visiting... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 07 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Quest for Better Layoffs
A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) and David Rosales (both HBS MBA 2010) had been troubled... View Details
- 07 Aug 2015
- Research & Ideas
Obama’s Clean Power Plan: Can Nuclear Power Beat the Global Threat of Coal?
This week, President Obama and the Environmental Protection Agency released the final version of the Clean Power Plan, a major set of rules and incentives aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions from America's power plants. The plan requires each state to meet a... View Details
- 02 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
Secrets to a Successful Social Media Strategy
according to Alexa Internet. The business-oriented social network has more than 300 million members, all of whom list their educational and professional achievements on the site in the name of professional networking. Of course, these virtual CVs are also mined View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 13 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis
behavior whose work includes corporate consulting. "And I thought, did I ask an awkward question? So I asked again, 'How do you add value to your organization?' I got more nervous laughter." “If you're tied down by your job... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 03 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Ominous Background Music Is Bad for Sharks
the music that originally accompanied the shark footage in the documentary, a track called “Sharks,” which was deemed ominous by an independent music expert, who described it as “modal with only fragments of melody,” and who noted “a... View Details
- 06 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
How Small Wins Unleash Creativity
of creative productivity. "We found that of all the events that characterized the best inner work life days, by far the most prominent was making progress," Amabile says. "And of all the events that characterized the worst... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 25 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups
less and less innovative." “Success is a powerful thing It tends to make companies stupid" Scott Cook, Intuit Avoiding innovation stagnation is the reason that Cook believes established companies need a lean start-up model—maybe even more than start-ups do.... View Details
- 18 Aug 2014
- Research & Ideas
Have a Better Idea To Improve Health Care?
all aspects of health care delivery, there are places that are doing it very well. If we were all doing all these things, we could reduce the cost of health care by 30 percent." “Health care does not lack for new ideas, it lacks for... View Details
- 21 Aug 2013
- Research & Ideas
To Buy Happiness, Spend Money on Other People
Video directed and produced by Joanie Tobin In their book Happy Money: The Science of Smarter Spending, authors Elizabeth Dunn and Michael Norton draw on years of quantitative and qualitative research to explain how money can buy... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Searching for Better Practices in Social Investing
Investing: Emerging Trends in a Changing Landscape," a recent panel discussion hosted by Harvard Business School's Social Enterprise Initiative. They also touched on growing trends including venture philanthropy and social impact... View Details
- 27 Sep 2017
- Research & Ideas
What Happens When Ordinary People Get Creative?
over the next decade or so, where more and more things that are considered creative breakthroughs will be made by people whose names are never going to be known as famous individuals,” says Amabile, a Baker Foundation Professor and the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
still be stymied if they try to consider every single laptop on the market. (In the article, Norton and Ariely cite a study by social psychologists Sheena Iyengar and Mark Lepper, who showed that grocery store shoppers who were offered... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular Stories of 2016
offer “precise” bids for company shares yield better outcomes than those who offer round-number bids, according to research by Petri Hukkanen and Matti Keloharju. Bernie Madoff Explains Himself Eugene Soltes phoned convicted felon Bernie... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 14 Mar 2016
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Connection between 1930s Weather and Today's Labor Unions
to make sure these farmers don’t take our jobs.’” Oklahoma dust bowl refugees, San Fernando, California, 1935. (The Farm Security Administration Photograph Collection, Baker Library, Harvard Business School. Photo by Dorothea Lange). The... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How IT Shapes Top-Down and Bottom-Up Decision Making
What determines whether decisions happen on the bottom, middle, or top rung of the corporate ladder? New research offers a surprising conclusion: The answer often lies in the technology that a company uses. Information-based systems, such as Enterprise Resource... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Empathy: The Brand Equity of Retail
Clinic had been consistently ranked No. 1 by US News & World Report for heart surgery survival rates, her father opted to go to the No. 2 ranked Mayo Clinic. The reason for his choice: doctors at the Cleveland Clinic had a reputation... View Details
- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
not central to the big problem we're facing now," he said. Instead, he placed much of the blame on global investment cycles created by the Federal Reserve Board's stimulus policies in the wake of the global financial crisis.... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 10 Feb 2014
- HBS Case
Stressing Safety in South Africa’s Platinum Mines
American," a case study authored by Mukunda with Lisa Mazzanti and Aldo Sesia (both case researchers at HBS). The case follows several key events in the career of Cynthia Carroll (HBS MBA 1989), who from 2007 to 2013 served as chief... View Details