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  • 20 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Predicting Other People's Preferences, You're Probably Wrong

implications for anyone looking to impress others, for those who are tasked with forecasting consumer behavior, or for salespeople who consult with customers on prospective purchases. In short, it’s dangerous to predict what others will... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail
  • 31 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 31, 2007

world's greatest economist, lover, and horseman—and admitted to failure only with the horses. Collaborative R&D in Management: The Practical Experience of Fenix and TruePoint in Bridging the Divide Between Scientific and Managerial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

experiment evoking a realistic context, that privacy concerns are indeed sensitive to the indirect consequences of information transmission. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-075.pdf How Is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, August 28, 2018

focus. The theory includes many realistic elements such as salespeople’s multi-dimensional effort, heterogeneity in ability, product focus, and forward-looking behavior. We test our theory through a field experiment in which we vary the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 07 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 7

pattern common to important narratives around the world. A supporting website facilitates sharing of teaching materials and experiences by faculty using the case series. We report results from using this curriculum with undergraduate and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Afghanistan’s Hope and Light

employer (1,100 workers) and biggest taxpayer ($500 million and counting). “If we treated the Afghans with respect, it would create a brand loyalty and empathy they’d never had a chance to experience before,” Khoja says of the company’s... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

retail investors much more as being like customers or employees of the company—even using a computer system to track preferences. They have both received awards by IR magazine for good investor relations. So in some ways these cases show... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

work is informed by and then, in turn, stimulates our empirical research in the case of each of these three components," he notes. "Ultimately, we want to influence management practice," Stevenson concludes. "We'll do so first by giving our students insight into and... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons
  • 13 Sep 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Cash and the Woman-Owned Business

entrepreneurs experience in understanding and meeting loan requirements, negotiating terms, and operating under covenants. In 1998, women who achieved high growth in their businesses had an average of 4.2 different sources of capital,... View Details
Keywords: by Candida Brush, Nancy M. Carter, Elizabeth Gatewood, Patricia G. Greene & Myra M. Hart
  • 20 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 20, 2016

firms’ information environment by exploiting a quasi-natural experiment in the form of a reduction in litigation risk resulting from the 2010 Supreme Court ruling in Morrison v. National Australia Bank. I first show that the ruling... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Faculty & Advisors | MBA

enhancing customer experience through AI ) and President of Nanoheal (AI automation software company), where he has led the acquisition of several Fortune 1000 companies as customers. In the past, he has... View Details
  • 05 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

of investors subject to attention constraints, stock prices do not promptly incorporate news about economically related firms, generating this return predictability across assets. We use a dataset of firms' principal customers to identify... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

conceptualization of products in this context, as reflected by product feature choices, is influenced by prior industry affiliation. We study digital cameras introduced from 1991 to 2006 by firms from three prior industries. We hypothesize and find first, that prior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Curing Health Care

fundraising, IP, patent law, and the ins and outs of FDA and HIPAA regulations. Tecco and Gross refined their vision for Rock Health in a field study with HBS senior lecturer Bob Higgins. But first, Tecco had the experience of founding... View Details
Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 24 Mar 2021
  • News

Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education

groundbreaking accelerator promoting financial inclusion and access to capital for early-stage, technology-enabled companies led by women and multicultural entrepreneurs. Young companies accepted to the program receive mentorship, access to networks, and View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

  PublicationsUncommon Service: How to Win by Putting Customers at the Core of Your Business Authors:Frances Frei and Anne Morriss Publication:Harvard Business Review Press, forthcoming An abstract is not available at this time.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Good about Quiet Rule-Breaking

and the paramedic. In a way, top management loses power over its employees. In gray zones involving material pursuits—such as when a clothing item that could have been sold at a higher price to a customer is kept hidden until it becomes... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Screen Grab

Union address in January. YouTube is the biggest, most visible platform for this shorter-form, nontraditional content, but other multichannel networks are springing up to offer a differentiated experience to win viewers. Jason Kilar (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; HBO; Netflix; Hulu; Vimeo; YouTube; Telecommunications; Information; Arts, Entertainment
  • 30 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 30

for the introduction of health products in developing countries where consumers may be uncertain about product quality, and price subsidies are common policy instruments. Through a field experiment selling an unfamiliar health product in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Feb 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 1

Bonding Stick? A Natural Experiment Involving the Supreme Court and Cross-Listed Firms Authors:Amir N. Licht, Xi Li, and Jordan I. Siegel Abstract Using a natural experiment to overcome the empirical... View Details