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- 09 Nov 2022
- In Practice
COP27: What Can Business Leaders Do to Fight Climate Change Now?
The US government’s newly passed Inflation Reduction Act will direct $370 billion toward advancing renewal energy and reducing greenhouse gas emissions—the country's largest investment in fighting climate change so far. As business and government leaders around the... View Details
Keywords: by Lynn Schenk and Danielle Kost
- 10 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 10, 2017
and provide the impetus for evaluating research on disruptive innovation in management and strategy. We trace disruptive innovation theory’s intellectual history, noting both how core principles have crystallized through a process of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
prices associated (or contemporaneous) with JGTRRA. Consistent Constructs in Individuals' Risk Taking in Decisions from Experience Authors:Eyal Ert and Eldad Yechiam Publication:Acta Psychologica (forthcoming) Abstract The current research View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation
punch messages into their BlackBerries. Their fingers are too big to enable accurate typing—they'd be more than happy with a voice-recognition algorithm that's only 80% accurate. Not surprisingly, disruptive ideas stand a small chance of ever seeing the light of day... View Details
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
desired outcome.” Deep dive into YouTube The influencer marketing machine is huge and growing. The industry was reportedly valued at $6 billion in 2020 and is projected to climb to $85 billion by 2028, the paper says, citing Globe... View Details
- 08 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 8
clinical psychologists and journal editors, divide a continuous flow of judgments into subsets. College admissions interviewers, for instance, evaluate but a handful of applicants a day. We conjectured that in such situations, individuals... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 24 Sep 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Cost Accounting is Improving Healthcare in Rural Haiti
was co-authored by Dr. Mahek A. Shah, a senior researcher and senior project leader at Harvard Business School, and Robert S. Kaplan, the Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus, at HBS. Kaplan helped create the cost... View Details
- 05 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 5, 2016
conservation problem as a behavior change problem, understand behavioral mechanisms and identify appropriate approaches for behavior change (awareness, incentives, nudges), and evaluate and adapt approaches based on new behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed
Impact-Weighted Accounts Projects at HBS; Fanele Mashwama, a research associate at HBS and Harvard University; and Heather McPherson, MBA candidate at The Fuqua School of Business at Duke University. Sean Silverthorne: What is an anchor... View Details
- August 2002
- Article
Creativity Under the Gun
By: Teresa Amabile, Constance N. Hadley and Steven J. Kramer
If you're like most managers, you've worked with people who swear they do their most creative work under tight deadlines. You may use pressure as a management technique, believing it will spur people on to great leaps of insight. You may even manage yourself this way.... View Details
Keywords: Creativity; Innovation and Invention; Time Management; Working Conditions; Performance Evaluation
Amabile, Teresa, Constance N. Hadley, and Steven J. Kramer. "Creativity Under the Gun." Special Issue on The Innovative Enterprise: Turning Ideas into Profits. Harvard Business Review 80, no. 8 (August 2002): 52–61.
- 07 May 2014
- What Do You Think?
How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?
self-evident: campaign donation limitations The 'playing field' would still be unequal but less severely so." Albert Stepanchic had a suggestion that hit close to home: "If I were evaluating the redistribution of wealth, I'd... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
We conclude by showing that spinoffs may be a particularly complex setting for analysts to evaluate relative to other forms of corporate restructuring, such as IPOs, mergers, or bankruptcies, providing one potential explanation for our... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
up a task force to determine the extent of the problem and evaluate proposed fixes, some of which Luca had recommended and described in a Harvard Business Review article coauthored with Ray Fisman. The company has since made a series of... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
Weitz No abstract is available at this time. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-125.pdf PublicationsMulti-Rater Assessment of Individual Creative Contributions to Team Projects in Organizations Author:Teresa M.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Secret of How Microsoft Stays on Top
attractive alternatives to Microsoft technologies as they did when the Internet first emerged—it's not long before the tools division starts to hear about it.—Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack We also evaluated Microsoft's response to a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
measure of national competitiveness. Download the paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/w18249 Clusters, Convergence, and Economic Performance Authors:Mercedes Delgado, Michael E. Porter, and Scott Stern Abstract This paper evaluates the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Mar 2022
- Research & Ideas
Representation Matters: Building Case Studies That Empower Women Leaders
to a case are about more than the text itself. Lower student evaluations of a case may not neatly correlate with its quality or effectiveness. Cases whose protagonists join the classroom clearly resonate and may even help students to see... View Details
Keywords: by Colleen Ammerman and Boris Groysberg
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
the distortion, misrepresentation, and gaming that can happen in even the most ethical companies," Hope continues. "If you're a manager trying to increase spending or get a capital project approved, you put in for 50 percent... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help leaders facilitate effective teaming. Leaders can also foster... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 18 Apr 2000
- Research & Ideas
Learning in Action
months. During the test period, Bean encourages extensive feedback at all times, and formally solicits feedback at three points: when the product is first received, at the midpoint, and at the end of the test. The midpoint evaluations are... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Garvin