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- 25 Aug 2020
- Blog Post
Hikma Health + HBS MBAs Crowdsource Largest County-Level COVID-19 Dataset
given their immense differences; an economics group at Amherst College is using our dataset to find links between COVID responses and rugged individualism; and Emory University epidemiologists are using the dataset to perform natural experiments quantifying View Details
- 01 Apr 1997
- News
Manager's Notebook
the same experience and credentials?" Analyzing the content and efficacy of roughly three hundred one-minute pitches, the researchers found that certain words and phrases could be used as signaling devices to create an impression of... View Details
Keywords: Judith Ross
- 01 Mar 2004
- What Do You Think?
Are Customer Loyalty Initiatives Worth the Investment?
what should we believe? Have we, as managers, been led down the garden path of the efficacy of customer loyalty management efforts? Would we, in fact, be better off concentrating our efforts on other initiatives? Is Treacy exaggerating... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 12 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Buy-In from Black Patients Suffers When Drug Trials Don’t Include Them
each patient panel as well as the efficacy of the treatment. “Our results suggest that the lack of representation in clinical trials leads Black patients to miss out on the latest drugs and medical treatments.” For the drugs that were... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
taught by Professor Ross Graham Walker and others, a company’s numbers had value far beyond mere record-keeping. Statistical data could instead be used proactively as a general management tool for analyzing an organization’s production and operations and measuring the... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 13 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens
location. Buell and Norton found that when shown the second version of the website, users were much more impressed with the work that government was doing—and much more favorable about the efficacy of government overall. "There's a... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
We Have Better Ways to Break Habits Than Willpower. Why Don't We Use Them?
get their work done, Zlatev says. As an alternative, a boss might consider providing a menu of options of different commitment strategies while presenting information on their efficacy to lessen the stigma of using them. “If it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
continuous efficacy and efficiency improvements that poverty-reduction initiatives must have to succeed," says Antares cofounder and HBS senior lecturer Michael Chu. Chu speaks from personal experience. After leaving a lucrative Wall... View Details
- 11 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
When Business Competition Harms Society
competitive markets—and the importance of realizing when a policy is what creates intense market competition in the first place. "If regulators care about the efficacy of these policies, they should be oversampling their inspections... View Details
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
both worlds. Q: What are you working on currently? A: I am furthering my understanding of markets and communities for innovation by conducting field experiments in software development. My colleagues and I hope to provide experimental evidence behind the View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Marked Managers
and at creating relationships with customers. They developed expertise-based efficacy around the company’s product. How did those imprints influence the careers of these young managers? When people left those companies, they were likely... View Details
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
fund their ventures. Few academic papers have examined the efficacy of more proactive networking. In the 150 papers the researchers examined, only 30 looked at this strategy. Some behavior studies, however, have shown that entrepreneurs... View Details
- 03 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
5 New Year's Resolutions You Can Keep (With the Help of Behavioral Science Research)
scientists Michael Norton and Francesca Gino found that rituals alleviate and reduce grief after a devastating emotional loss—even among people who don’t inherently believe in the efficacy of rituals. In short, people who performed... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 04 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Don’t Lose Money With Customers
unveil several factors that lead sellers to remain in money-losing relationships with their customers, including, among others: the nature and level of investments made in the relationship (higher levels of relationship-specific investments and lower View Details
Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs
- 08 Jan 2007
- What Do You Think?
Neuro Economics: Science or Science Fiction?
made on the right side or the left side of the brain. But this will never lead to deciding by a mechanical means, nor in predicting a decision outcome." There was even concern expressed about the efficacy of MRI-based research on... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 13 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018
initiatives are fulfilling their desired objectives. By being able to more rigorously evaluate compliance programs with data and empirical analysis, prosecutors and courts will be able to more readily discern “window-dressing,” and firm managers will be able to better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
employees, arguing that while agency theory provides a useful framework for analyzing compensation, it fails to consider several psychological factors that increase costs from performance-based pay. We examine how psychological costs from social comparison and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Break the Expert’s Curse
proficiency. Later, when they become masters, they can look back and reflect on what they wrote as novices. Two, experts can actually re-experience how it feels to be a beginner. Through a series of experiments in 2014, Zhang investigated the View Details
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
Publication:Harvard Business Review 90, no. 6 (June 2012) Abstract Globalization and new technologies have sharply reduced the efficacy of command-and-control management and its accompanying forms of corporate communication. In the course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
policy tool that has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about the efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used are subject to frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne