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- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
that our experimental design minimizes informational social influence, homophily, and group-identity signaling to the general public. We find that there exists significant social influence within a user’s friend circles. While learning... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice
experiment in which they showed a group of graduate students four laptop bags and had them choose which one they liked the best. All four bags were similar—same price, same color, generally the same quality—but each had different... View Details
- 19 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Analyzing Institutions to Solve Big Problems
Weeding Out the Competition: How Alternatives Are Eliminated during Institutionalization looks at factors that make us take information for granted, even when the information isn't accurate. For example, the common perception is that the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Anna Secino
- 25 Apr 2012
- What Do You Think?
How Will the “Age of Big Data” Affect Management?
it confined to a special set of conditions? Will access to Big Data further enable fact-based decision making or analysis paralysis? What do you think? Original Article Ideas and trends converge from time to time in a way that suggests... View Details
Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett
- 02 Sep 2002
- What Do You Think?
What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?
sorting process in industry were generally more sympathetic to business school admissions offices and the Herculean task they face in taking values into consideration in admissions. As Linda Abraham said, "Considering that ... time... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Q & A: Bain & Company's Thomas J. Tierney
objectives, and the idea that the organization has an important, higher purpose. Taken together, these allegiances generate a kind of strategic gravity that keeps top-quality executives engaged. The opposing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Professor, Historian, and Storyteller
idea for this book rose to the fore. The Times was eager to have a prominent individual as the editor, so when Nancy Koehn agreed to do it, that was a big selling point for everyone.” As the September Bulletin was going to press with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Li & Fung's Global Footprint
entire supply chain, from purchasing thread to delivering finished goods complete with price tags to individual stores. William Fung (MBA 1972) and his older brother, Victor (PhD 1971), who taught at HBS for four years, are the third View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
PE-backed firms generally have higher earnings quality than those that do not have PE sponsorship, engage less in earnings management, and report more conservatively both before and after the IPO. Further, PE-backed firms that are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance
in the liberalization of capital flows? A: Many of us, and I include myself as I was beginning this project, have tended to understand the process of financial globalization as a straightforward trend toward liberalization and a general... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
From Where We Stand
titled "Groupthink," "Debate and criticism do not inhibit ideas but, rather, stimulate them." These ladies will help you generate ideas to navigate both the best and the worst... View Details
- 10 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: First Look: October 10
array of the impacts that they generate (or can influence), from environmental conditions to employee health and safety to social conditions like the quality of public education. How can boards best organize themselves and act so as to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
forthcoming Management Science Frenemies in Platform Markets: Heterogeneous Profit Foci as Drivers of Compatibility Decisions By: Adner, Ron, Jianqing Chen, and Feng Zhu Abstract— We study compatibility decisions of two competing platform owners that View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
Milan in the late 1700s to recover the Academy’s ideas and the policies they informed. At the core of their preoccupations lay the often lethal tension among states, markets, and human welfare in an era when the three were becoming... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54087 February 2018 Management Science Patent Publication and the Market for Ideas By: Hegde, Deepak, and Hong Luo Abstract—In this paper, we study the effect of invention disclosure through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
unreliable, and crushingly expensive. There is no shortage of proposed solutions, but central to the best of them is the idea that health care needs more competition. In other sectors, competition improves quality and efficiency, spurs... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Jun 2015
- First Look
First Look: June 30, 2015
"owners"; and (8) knowing that their current beliefs about the future of services are wrong, great service leaders build agile service organizations that learn, innovate, and adapt. The book explores the ideas and leadership... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: ‘Talk, Inc.’
mix. Organizational conversation, by the same token, calls upon employees to participate eagerly in the work of generating the content through which a company tells its story, both internally and externally. People in frontline and... View Details
Keywords: Re: Boris Groysberg
- 29 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 29
defines an explicitly formulated "strategy" as the smallest set of choices and decisions sufficient to guide all other choices and decisions, which formally captures the idea of strategy as a plan boiled down to its most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Oct 2024
- In Practice
Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged
how to change it? Designate distraction-free time for ‘deep work’ The first rule is to assign generous periods of time to important tasks exclusively, isolated from distraction (welcome or not). Workers capable of performing what... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne