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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
Working PapersMental Accounting and Small Windfalls: Evidence from an Online Grocer Authors:Katherine L. Milkman, John Beshears, Todd Rogers, and Max H. Bazerman (revised March 2008) Abstract We study the effect of small windfalls on... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 31 Jul 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Faculty Reader: Who is Reading What This Summer?
work on money as an important part of my Leadership and Happiness course and look forward to catching up with his newest efforts. My extended family has agreed to share The World: A Brief Introduction, by... View Details
- 20 Feb 2006
- HBS Case
Oprah: A Case Study Comes Alive
focused on IT businesses and involved male protagonists. Mends thought it would be exciting to explore a wider range of model companies and leaders, and Koehn, whose work has often focused on entrepreneurs in unconventional settings,... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation
For high-powered executive women, the HBS program Women Leading Business: An Executive Forum offers a unique opportunity to discuss strategy, examine problems, and explore solutions. Below Professor Myra Hart shares her vision of the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
extraordinary 1613 Short Treatise on the Causes That Make Kingdoms Abound in Gold and Silver even in the Absence of Mines in a Neapolitan jail and that he died there soon afterwards. However, the influence of this work represents a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2002
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Industrial Giant
However, this project was a failure. As one former securities analyst noted, "None of this stuff worked the way it was supposed to." 76 This history seems especially relevant given GM's current attempts to create yet another... View Details
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
expert witness, dealing with governmental organizations, working with schools and students, and influencing public policy, this volume helps social scientists forge the vital link between scholarship and social engagement. Contributors... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
Smartphone: How to Break the 24-7 Habit and Change the Way You Work Author:Leslie A. Perlow Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2012 Abstract Does it have to be this way? Can't resist checking your smartphone or mobile device?... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What Your Competition is Telling You
employees is "a competitive world, in which you come to work every day just a little bit scared." Making The Pie Bigger If you're an independent operator and an industry giant like Wal-Mart or Barnes & Noble enters your... View Details
Keywords: by David Stauffer
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
John Irving’s Lessons for Business
imagination, and plain old hard work). The third component, and the one with the greatest implications for business environments, is what Amabile terms "intrinsic motivation." Below are some of her thoughts on the topic, which she View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 24 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Reducing Risk with Online Advertising
tells HBS Working Knowledge. "Indeed, if you paid your suppliers more slowly they'd almost certainly pay their suppliers more slowly, which would have the desired effect. "You have no control, and yet you have full control... View Details
- 24 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
We Need a Miracle. New Nuclear Might Provide it.
On September 4, the US Energy Information Agency (EIA) published its 2014 International Energy Outlook. Earlier this year, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released its latest World Energy Investment Outlook. Both watchdogs tell us the same story. Energy... View Details
- 12 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Private Sector, Public Good
feasible or desirable to think about changing firms themselves. Can firms create shared value? Can industries regulate themselves? What are the responsibilities of managers? Does "purpose" matter? If academics chose to focus on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 05 Nov 2007
- What Do You Think?
Why Is Succession So Badly Managed?
share of the criticism. Patrick Duffy summed up the gist of many other comments by pointing out that "few CEOs want to accept their mortality." Suggestions for improving the process were varied and quite creative. Michelle Malay... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
a field largely based to that point on practice and shared (often untested) wisdom handed down from one generation to the next. This was followed by, among other things, the growing acceptance of a 1970 declaration by Milton Friedman that... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
on practical measures that businesses can implement to create shared value. Originally published in an online forum hosted by Harvard Business Review, it offers valuable advice about how CEOs, other senior executives, and boards of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
country's lead in innovation. “R&D is a critical part of the innovation process, but it is not the whole thing” In this excerpt, Pisano and Shih discuss the concept of the "industrial commons." In the past a commons—a shared farming... View Details
- 14 Jan 2002
- Research & Ideas
Countries on the Cusp: The Power of Nationalism
nations must choose their own paths, for better or worse. He later expanded on his ideas in the following interview with HBS Working Knowledge senior editor Martha Lagace. As a student at Cornell, Abdelal said, he became fascinated by the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 07 Jun 2019
- Book
Are You a Digital Manager?
benefits of digital transformation and platform plays, or deliver a differentiated end-to-end customer experience. Another challenge we’ve seen for managers is that if they want to attract and retain top talent, they need to make sure the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne