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- 23 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO
and jeopardizing the next quarter's sales. Meanwhile, because the executives in different product groups and locations rarely sat in the same meetings, initiatives in their various areas were not coordinated. SKUs (stockkeeping units, or... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
double-or-nothing on a diet bet. A group of obese hospital patients agreed to a "deposit contract," banking a small amount of their own money into a pot each day during a 32-week weight-loss trial. The research team agreed to match the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 02 May 2000
- Research & Ideas
Leading Professional Service Firms
people have very different backgrounds and skills—clearly lawyers are not like software developers—but they have a lot in common too. Fundamentally, professional service firm leaders grapple with the same kinds of management issues. It's reassuring for managers to know... View Details
- 07 Jan 2015
- What Do You Think?
SUMMING UP: What Are the Limits On Workplace Transparency?
problems in today's workplace. She commented that, "Salary transparency within peer groups is the most expeditious way to bring an end to the gender wage gap that exists in every country in the world... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
Publications February 2015 Journal of Finance The Effect of Providing Peer Information on Retirement Savings Decisions By: Beshears, John, James J. Choi, David Laibson, Brigitte C. Madrian, and Katherine L. Milkman Abstract—Using a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Feb 2018
- Research & Ideas
The Airbnb Effect: Cheaper Rooms for Travelers, Less Revenue for Hotels
research shows that in the 10 cities with the largest Airbnb market share in the US, the entry of Airbnb resulted in 1.3 percent fewer hotel nights booked and a 1.5 percent loss in hotel revenue. The paper, The Welfare Effects of Peer... View Details
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
organizations to leverage peer effects to improve the performance of their members. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55775 Pre-published online, October 2018 The Oxford Handbook of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 16 Aug 2006
- Research & Ideas
Is MySpace.com Your Space?
members who are young, plugged in, and likely influencers in their peer groups. But do advertisers buying space on these sites face danger from the backlash of negative publicity? A: It poses dangers to youth, but paradoxically, less than... View Details
- 10 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why We Blab Our Intimate Secrets on Facebook
with the control group answers generally falling in the middle. From a logical Internet privacy viewpoint, the results don't make sense. After all, an amateur website of unknown origins is likely far less concerned with data protection... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Ulrike Malmendier Abstract To what extent do peers affect our occupational choices? This question has been of particular interest in the context of entrepreneurship and policies to create a favorable environment for entry. Such... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Nov 2006
- First Look
First Look: November 7, 2006
most managers feel that they face two undesirable options: Express their true thoughts and alienate their peers or suppress them, avoiding genuine discussion. Most choose the latter. Yet, when interpersonal attributions are suppressed,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow
that's been going for a while and a new business trying to shake that up?" asked Winsor, who is Chief Innovation Officer at Havas. He said striking the right balance between established practices and new ideas remains an ongoing challenge. In creating HBX, Anand said... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
series of 20-minute presentations followed by discussion groups took an unconventional look at topics such as stereotypes, difference, and organizational change. (Presenters were also asked to write short research-based papers to... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 15 Sep 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Cases: Developing the Courage to Act
Bureau of Business Research, a dedicated group of scholars under Copeland's direction that, from 1920 to 1925, developed and wrote cases for multiple courses. (Once a critical mass of materials was developed, Donham disbanded the bureau... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin
- 04 Dec 2012
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: Harder Than I Thought
an aerospace company? I've got just one thing to say to the members of the board: "Come on, guys and gals! What were you thinking?" Barton removed the glasses and polished them with his napkin. He rubbed his eyes and shook his head, as if to clear it. But when he once... View Details
- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
100% subsidy produced the highest enrollment (7.7%), significantly higher than each of the lower subsidies (vs. 80% subsidy: 6.2%, p=.002; vs. 50% subsidy: 3.9%, p<.0001; vs. hybrid: 3.7%, p<.0001). Enrollment in the 80% subsidy View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 21 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
What Health Care Managers Need to Know--and How to Teach Them
smart about competitive analysis and forging a strategy that considers realities and which way public policy is moving," Herzlinger says. "She must also understand capital markets, group dynamics, and different kinds of leadership." But... View Details
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a country's capital markets, labor markets, and product markets affect the excess value of diversified firms. We find that the value of diversified firms relative to their single-segment View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial crisis at a recent "Turmoil on the Street" panel. 9.... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Jan 2011
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 18
otherwise fail emissions tests. We find that for a significant number of inspectors, leniency is much higher for those customers with standard vehicles than for those with luxury cars, although a smaller group appears to favor wealthy... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne