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- 12 Oct 2021
- Research & Ideas
What Actually Draws Sports Fans to Games? It's Not Star Athletes.
Ferguson and Lakhani decided to test this theory using data from the Australian Football League (AFL), the wildly popular sport also known as “footy.” They detailed their findings in the recent working paper Consuming Contests: Outcome Uncertainty and Spectator View Details
- September 2018
- Article
Religious Shoppers Spend Less Money
By: Didem Kurt, J. Jeffrey Inman and Francesca Gino
Although religion is a central aspect of life for many people across the globe, there is scant research on how religion affects people’s non-religious routines. In the present research, we identify a frequent consumption activity that is influenced by religiosity:... View Details
Kurt, Didem, J. Jeffrey Inman, and Francesca Gino. "Religious Shoppers Spend Less Money." Journal of Experimental Social Psychology 78 (September 2018): 116–124.
- 01 May 2013
- What Do You Think?
Why Isn’t ‘Servant Leadership’ More Prevalent?
Servant leadership is experienced so rarely because of trends in the leadership environment, the scarcity of human qualities required, demands that the practice places on the practitioner, and the very nature of the practice itself. As... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
responsibilities as Weber Shandwick employees. Unlike office managers, who are measured based on the bottom line, CRLs are measured on top-line growth. Another objective of the CRL program is to enable Weber... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
FAQs - Alumni
materials & lighting; increased healthier, lower emissions plant-based food offerings; and improved landscaping practices. *Note: SRECs, which represent the environmental benefit, are sold to the Harvard Utility to meet State Renewable Energy Requirements. What View Details
- November 2024
- Article
Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge
By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
We study how within-store price variation changes with inflation, and whether households exploit it to attenuate the inflation burden. We use micro price data for food products sold by 91 large multi-channel retailers in ten countries between 2018 and 2024. Measuring... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Price; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Product Positioning
Cavallo, Alberto, and Oleksiy Kryvtsov. "Price Discounts and Cheapflation During the Post-Pandemic Inflation Surge." Journal of Monetary Economics 148 (November 2024).
- February 2005 (Revised May 2005)
- Case
Intelliseek
Intelliseek harvests, filters, and mines the content of messages posted by consumers online and on discussion boards and blogs. For any specified consumer product brand, Intelliseek measures the volume of work-of-mouth and its valence (proportion of positive and... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Information Technology; Consumer Behavior; Knowledge Management; Marketing Reference Programs; Web Services Industry
Wathieu, Luc R., and Allan Friedman. "Intelliseek." Harvard Business School Case 505-061, February 2005. (Revised May 2005.)
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
the role of observable (to us) boundaries between individuals in structuring communications inside the firm? We measure three general types of boundaries: organizational boundaries (strategic business unit and function memberships),... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Finance - Faculty & Research
Finance Finance May 2014 Article Dynamics of Demand for Index Insurance: Evidence from a Long-Run Field Experiment By: Shawn A. Cole , Daniel Stein and Jeremy Tobacman This paper estimates how experimentally-manipulated experiences with a... View Details
- December 2010
- Case
Oral Rehydration Therapy
By: Nava Ashraf and Claire Qureshi
This case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy (ORT). ORT treated extreme dehydration caused by diarrhea, which was a leading... View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Developing Countries and Economies; Technological Innovation; Distribution Channels; Emerging Markets; Consumer Behavior; Performance Consistency; Performance Evaluation; Health Industry; Africa; Asia
Ashraf, Nava, and Claire Qureshi. "Oral Rehydration Therapy." Harvard Business School Case 911-035, December 2010. (Request a courtesy copy.)
- Web
Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
sustainability disclosure, and alternative ways of measuring IR. Moreover, I show that investor activism on environmental or social issues or a large number of concerns about a firm's environmental or social impact leads a firm to... View Details
- 14 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
Amazon vs. Whole Foods: When Cultures Collide
Walmart, which had entered the organic space. By 2017, Whole Foods had started closing stores. Turning data into customer value Amazon, by contrast, had always been about low costs and efficiency, pursuing a frugal focus and rigorous performance View Details
- 16 Feb 2023
- HBS Case
ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?
The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
- 07 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back
there was not enough customer demand for its grocery delivery service. Next, there's the matter of timing, a huge issue that can determine whether a company gets funding and whether it achieves the start-up's elusive View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 9, 2016
proportion of cross-institutional publications between funded and unfunded firms. Specifically, we measure the impact on each of these variables based on three dimensions—small- and medium-sized enterprises (SME), younger firms, and size... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Passion at Work Is a Good Thing—But Only If Bosses Know How to Manage It
longer and harder to show they are committed. On the other hand, what they are asked to do may not always align with their own passions, or may make it more challenging for them to focus on what they care about. This uncertainty, the authors write, "places added View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 15, 2015
Operations Management Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization By: Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi Abstract—We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
What Makes a Good Leader
latest developments in leadership to HBS alumni and other executives all over the world. What Change Demands of Us, a new Executive Education course developed by the initiative, will be offered later this year. The initiative draws on the... View Details
Keywords: Management
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Oral Rehydration Therapy
By: Nava Ashraf and Natalie Kindred
This Teaching Note accompanies the case "Oral Rehydration Therapy" (911-035). The case highlights the puzzlingly high rate of diarrhea-related child mortality in developing countries despite the existence of a simple, effective treatment: oral rehydration therapy... View Details
- 22 Mar 2024
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted
gives open source advocates—some of them are embedded deep in IT departments trying to convince their superiors—ammunition that this stuff is valuable, and leaders should be supporting it in whatever way that means,” explains Nagle. View Details