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  • 21 May 2018
  • HBS Case

How Would You Price One of the World's Great Watches?

need to go into this," Thomke says. He prefers not to reveal the final price settled on by the company, in order to promote a more lively discussion during class. Let’s just say it’s expensive. While Thomke’s case study is ostensibly... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Fashion
  • 14 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Difficulties for Women Bridging Racial, Generational, and Global Divides

Urbana-Champaign. The team's research suggested the contrary: that the higher a woman rose to power, the less likely she might be to help other women do the same. According to their studies, female tokens in "high-prestige workgroups" showed less of a View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 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
  • 08 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 8

complex. Publisher's link: http://sloanreview.mit.edu/x/55314 August 2013 Journal of Monetary Economics Income Inequality and Social Preferences for Redistribution and Compensation Differentials By: Kerr, William R. Abstract—In... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 15, 2008

neo-classical economics view that behavior is driven by—and reflective of—hedonic utility is challenged by psychologists' demonstrations of cases in which actions do not merely reveal preferences but rather create them. In this view,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

convertible preferred stock? Why do they stage the commitment of capital? Why do they intervene and try to be helpful—or in some cases, screw things up? “So our thinking got sharper. Yes, from whom you raise money can be as important as... View Details
Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

current research, Ashraf wants to broaden her view of health delivery from individuals to their families. In Zambia, husbands tend to prefer larger families than their wives. But when the women alone could make the choice of whether to... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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
  • 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
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

recommendations for stocks with larger market capitalizations and lower return volatility than their sell-side peers, consistent with their facing fewer conflicts of interest and having a preference for liquid stocks. Tests with no... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Is There a Distinctive West Coast Style of Management?

organizations in which he and his firm invested. The objectives to which he referred were Collins’s and Porras’s BHAGs, preferably a ten times improvement in some performance metric. In his book Exponential Organizations, Salim Ismail... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Education
  • 19 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Regional Slice of Your Global Strategy

structures (in which some regions seem to be much larger than others) are often preferable to an aesthetically pleasing (and in some respects simpler) symmetry of the sort implicitly evoked by much of the discussion up to this point. Even... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
  • 27 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 27

are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to provide favorable coverage to certain authors or to slant reviews toward the horizontal... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

heterogeneous preferences for work versus leisure. Evidence from six other countries reveals similar findings in economies at different stages of development. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2363528 Economic Transition... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Jun 2009
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First Look: June 16

maximizing, yet asymmetric payoffs. Studies 1 and 2 showed that people prefer to maximize profits when interacting within their social category, but chose suboptimal individual and joint profits when interacting across social categories.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Dec 2007
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First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the unemployment rate and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

Drive-In Nation

pressured to move quickly to improve its products and attract more buyers. Snow adds that in their factories, the Japanese often prefer to customize existing systems and equipment rather than installing the latest fancy technology. “Their... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Motor Vehicle and Parts Dealers; Retail Trade
  • 25 Sep 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To Help

continues to serve the needs of its preferred customers: the small number of hardcore primary voters, big-pocketed donors, and special-interest groups, the study says. That closed loop is no accident, the authors believe. Democrats and... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
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