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  • 25 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

10 Reasons Customers Might Resist Windows 8

completely different operating system thrust upon them from on high. "People don't like it when they're forced to change their plans, rather than determine the changes they want to make," Kanter says. 2. Excess Uncertainty—"People will often View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Computer; Consumer Products
  • 04 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: Indispensable: When Leaders Really Matter

describing how individual Athenian leaders, particularly Pericles, played a crucial factor in the course of the Peloponnesian War, as their varying skills and preferences led directly to Athenian victories and defeats. Many, many have... View Details
  • 28 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Importance of ‘Don’t’ in Inducing Ethical Employee Behavior

the issue in a new research paper, "Bringing Ethics into Focus: How Regulatory Focus and Risk Preferences Influence (Un)ethical Behavior," in which they distinguish between two ways a company can encourage ethical conduct among... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Feb 2005
  • Research & Ideas

How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders

time to run young biotech firms; and so preferred people coming out of Baxter to those who had worked at Abbott or other firms, such as J&J and Merck. This preference is reflected in the archival data I... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’

average in order to compete successfully. "Airbnb's pricing suggestions implicitly acknowledge that price is a market-driven outcome," Luca says. "In a market, prices move until supply meets demand. And the data indicate that discriminatory View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Advertising
  • 16 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 16, 2008

consumption, reviewing research in which people forgo positive physical consumption—and even choose negative physical consumption—in order to engage in conceptual consumption. Finally, we outline how conceptual consumption informs research examining both View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jun 2021
  • News

The Path out of Polarization

good to have the voices on the left or on the right to make it clear why one direction would be preferable to another. But now, when the extremes are disagreeing over facts and they’re shouting, they don’t give me time to understand... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Telecommunications; Information
  • 01 Oct 2013
  • First Look

First Look: October 1

mutually exclusive beliefs or preferences with respect to the design form and 2) low "excludability" in the sense that the designed artifact must be shared. Our paper is based on an empirical study of a commons organization... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Sep 2012
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First Look: September 5

candidates are ready to provide information about their preferences for particular employers, and employers value and are prepared to act on this information. In this paper we study how a signaling mechanism, where each worker can send a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 13

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-114.pdf Platforms and Limits to Network Effects (revised) Authors:Hanna Halaburda and Mikołaj Jan Piskorski Abstract We model conditions under which agents in two-sided matching markets would rationally View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

reward is a quiet life. But most companies must work at pricing. The confluence of particular customer preferences and producer economics establishes the "happy zone" POB by POB. But notice that the same forces causing... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Money Matters

funds, and insurance companies — in two key ways. Rather than open a high-cost retail branch network and wait for customers to walk in, iTrust has forged partnerships with 130 large and midsized companies across India to become a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 26 Jan 2016
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January 26, 2016

rather than gender-specific preferences and constraints. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=45849 Do Interactions with Candidates Increase Voter Support and Participation? Experimental Evidence from... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2014
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First Look: October 7

Reserve's Tenth Annual Report of 1923. The three principles I focus on are 1) the discouraging of speculative lending by commercial banks, 2) the desire to meet the credit needs of business, and 3) the preference of a focus on credit over... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part One

to plumb the demand side of business rather than just the supply side. All six were able to understand how rapid, widespread socioeconomic change affected consumers' preferences and then not only satisfy, but also anticipate buyers'... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2008
  • News

One-on-One with Jim Breyer

pattern recognition. Our partners combine tenacity and confidence with a large dose of humility. Accel prefers early-stage companies. Isn’t that the riskiest strategy? It is certainly the riskiest part of the business. At the same time,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 06 Jul 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Conducting Layoffs: ’Necessary Evils’ at Work

prepare? A: We do not believe there are better or worse people to perform these tasks. And much like the debate about which is harder, a layoff or a firing, we found that some people preferred to have a personal relationship with the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 15 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

(For instance, a recent paper demonstrated that smaller menus are generally preferable to big ones. But like museums, these businesses must go beyond simply limiting choices, Weaver says. They must present their wares in such a way that... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 22 Aug 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Getting to Eureka!: How Companies Can Promote Creativity

participants would win from a high of $1,000 to a low of $0. The extra money did have an effect—but not nearly as much as the preference sorting. Among higher-skilled workers, the number of engineers who worked a minimum number of hours... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to assign new players to teams. This allows for a discussion of whether a similar system may be preferable to lottery-based or bidding-based procedures to assign students to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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