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- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
Is Your Workplace Biased Against Introverts?
employees in a changed workplace. “The problem we found is that we have stereotypical expectations of what it means to be passionate,” says Jachimowicz, who conducted the study with doctoral students Kai Krautter of HBS and Anabel Büchner... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand
- 10 Dec 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Information and Incentives in Online Affiliate Marketing
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Immigrant Entrepreneurship By: Kerr, William R., and Sari Pekkala Kerr Abstract—We examine immigrant entrepreneurship and the survival and growth of immigrant-founded... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 9, 2010
restructuring in pillar industries and its effect on industry structures. In the petrochemical industry, the shift toward greater horizontal consolidation and vertical integration reduces the collective action problems associated with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
What was the genesis of the research that ended up as "Allocating Marketing Resources"? What was the problem that you were trying to answer? Sunil Gupta and Thomas Steenburgh: Our goal in writing this chapter was to ask how the academic... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
expected the accounting effect on election outcomes to be minor. When we ran the tests, we found that even a one standard-deviation change in our measure of earnings management could affect election outcomes in some cases. Q: Were you... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- April 2010 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Malaysia: People First?
By: Diego A. Comin and John Abraham
On March 30, 2010, Prime Minister Najib Razak presented his new economic model (NEM) for Malaysia. With the goal of raising per capita income to over $15,000 by 2020 from the current level of $6,634, the plan included measures to improve human capital, reduce migration... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Problems and Challenges; Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; Emerging Markets; Transformation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Wealth and Poverty; Equality and Inequality; Malaysia
Comin, Diego A., and John Abraham. "Malaysia: People First?" Harvard Business School Case 710-033, April 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
- 30 Apr 2024
- Book
When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners
codes of ethics that addressed the unique problems of defence procurement. In my work for the initiative, I learned about the origins of these problems and saw that, contrary to public belief, they could not... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Feb 2011
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 1
Approach to Partner Choice in Mutualisms Authors:Marco Archetti, Francisco Ubeda, Drew Fudenberg, Jerry R. Green, Naomi E. Pierce, and Douglas W. Yu Publication:The American Naturalist 177, no. 1 (January 2011) Abstract One of the main View Details
- 20 Jun 2023
- Research & Ideas
Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories
and Florian Zimmermann, a professor at the University of Bonn. Measuring memory Using a series of controlled experiments, the researchers looked at how quickly the effect of different types of information on beliefs fades over time. While... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/bgjs13_84709dcc-425f-4fe2-8600-0f8cbb50be16.pdf August 2013 The Palgrave Encyclopedia of Strategic Management The Case Method By: Bower, Joseph L. Abstract—The case method was developed concurrently with the emergence of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online advertising metrics are plagued with attribution problems and do not account for dynamics. These issues can easily lead firms to overspend on some actions and thus waste money, and/or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Nov 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
CEO Bonus Plans: And How to Fix Them
Keywords: by Kevin J. Murphy & Michael C. Jensen
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
we've been coming at the same problem from different angles using the same mission, the same philosophy, the same moral understanding of what we're trying to do, which is to, look, you don't get very much time in the world.” Brooks:... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
2018 Individual Creativity in the Workplace An Integrated Model of Dynamic Problem Solving within Organizational Constraints By: Cromwell, Johnathan R., Teresa M. Amabile, and Jean-François Harvey Abstract—Rapid technological change,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Research Summary
The Value of Family Ownership, Control, and Management
In collaboration with Professor Raphael Amit of Wharton, Belén Villalonga is investigating how family ownership, control, and management affect firm value. Their forthcoming Journal of Financial... View Details
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
increases that would solve these problems are not expected in the near- or medium-term. The paper outlines first a number of directions for effecting improvement through marginal capacity increases and better management of demand and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
government as their partner because government has the potential to provide scale and permanence. But the problem is that you also need efficacy and efficiency, and the constancy of both. And for many reasons the public sector is not very... View Details
- 13 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Subconscious Mind of the Consumer (And How To Reach It)
reveal that they don't even look at alternatives to the chosen brand. Another option uses physiological or response latency measures. These often reveal that what consumers actually believe or think, as measured by unconscious physical... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Mahoney
- 2008
- Working Paper
Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis
By: Alan D. MacCormack, John Rusnak and Carliss Y. Baldwin
A variety of academic studies argue that a relationship exists between the structure of an organization and the design of the products that this organization produces. Specifically, products tend to "mirror" the architectures of the organizations in which they are... View Details
Keywords: Open Source Distribution; Product Design; Organizational Design; Organizational Structure; Performance Effectiveness; Information Technology Industry
MacCormack, Alan D., John Rusnak, and Carliss Y. Baldwin. "Exploring the Duality between Product and Organizational Architectures: A Test of the Mirroring Hypothesis." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-039, March 2008. (Revised October 2008, January 2011.)