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  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

week for it to clear will be equally unfathomable. Technology is transforming the banking industry so rapidly that anything less than around-the-clock electronic access to bank accounts seems unthinkable.... View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

First Look: September 25, 2007

and over 20 million individual transactions, I examine consumption patterns for obscure and hit products. Specifically, I study whether the interest in popular "hit" and unpopular "niche" titles is equally distributed... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 3

Most executives put a huge amount of time into their jobs, assuming that more hours equal more value added. That's too simplistic. Think first, read or write second. Figure out your argument in advance; then jot down your four or five key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 2

decades ago—hinge on a specific and therefore partial interpretation of competition. The result is an equally partial picture of the strategist's job. The problem lies not in what strategists are trained to do: Porter's perspective is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

have the chance to be cruel or kind to someone entirely different-to pay it forward? In five experiments, participants received greedy, equal, or generous divisions of money or labor from an anonymous person, and then divided additional resources with a new anonymous... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Leadership Program for Women Targets Subtle Promotion Biases

require raising awareness of and pushing back on gendered structures and work practices. Another way women can gain access to leadership opportunities is through more effective networking. And since there are myriad differences between... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
  • 17 Sep 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Is There Help for the Big Ticket Buyer?

important buying episodes. JCR has had a significant effect on the teaching and research directions of marketing departments and on the marketing strategies of major consumer product firms. My vision of consumer research is that it should be View Details
Keywords: by Max H. Bazerman
  • 18 Mar 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]

booming business. Their credibility translated into tangible benefits for the new entity: the ability to recruit personnel and to entice suppliers (vital for companies like Handspring, which outsources its manufacturing); favorable relationships with retailers; and... View Details
Keywords: by John S. Rosenberg
  • 21 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: December 21

When producing a unit of output, the content of the knowledge gained can vary dramatically from one unit to the next. This suggests that while aggregate experience in learning-by-doing is generally valuable, not all prior experience has an View Details
  • 20 Aug 2007
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Using Investor Relations Proactively

itself had access to the full internal information. Q: What does the BP case show managers elsewhere about evaluating different types of external information and possibly having that information influence the firm's operational and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

hand, if there is only mild competition, then competing platforms induce more search diversion relative to a platform monopolist. When platforms charge consumers fixed access fees, all equilibrium levels of search diversion under platform... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

reinvestment after the Olympic Games; access to mass transit; the existence of no nearby competing venues with a large capacity; no financial burden of past debt or its accompanying psychological burden; the positive legacy from a venue's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jul 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

distinct from the CEO. Raymond Gilmartin, Merck's former chairman, president, and CEO, makes the case for a lead director who acts as a liaison to the CEO but is the equal of other board members. (Gilmartin is also a Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
  • 17 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 17

more likely to forget the moral rules after behaving dishonestly, even though they were equally likely to remember morally irrelevant information (Experiment 1). Furthermore, people showed moral forgetting only after cheating could be... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 13 Jan 2009
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First Look: January 13, 2009

article to the whole of his thinking about competition and value creation and traces how that thinking has deepened over time. This collection is organized by topic, allowing the reader easy access to the wide range of Porter's work.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jun 2007
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First Look: June 29, 2007

prominent South African leaders, like Nelson Mandela, and to the national soccer team. But by the mid-1990s, Surve, like many of his comrades, grew frustrated by the huge economic disparities that existed in South Africa, even though its progressive constitution... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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