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- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
Do lower-income families need and deserve access to fewer things than everyone else? As a society, we seem to think so, revealing a "grim double standard," finds a study published this month, Inequality in Socially Permissible... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 27 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
How the FBI Reinvented Itself After 9/11
Investigation," co-written by HBS colleagues Ranjay Gulati, the Jaime and Josefina Chua Tiampo Professor of Business Administration and head of the Organizational Behavior unit; Ryan L. Raffaelli, an assistant professor in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 18 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers
Maggio examines the practice, known as “high-to-low ordering,” with HBS Assistant Professor Emily Williams and doctoral student Angela Ma in a working paper entitled In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending, and the Underbanked. “Overdraft... View Details
- 29 Nov 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Bonuses Get Employees to Choose Work Over Family
pay—and that has the potential to lay the groundwork for an overworked, unhappy existence, according to research by Ashley Whillans, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s Negotiation, Organizations, and Markets Unit. The... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Kim Raczka
- 04 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
Need to Solve a Problem? Take a Break From Collaborating
Chatter, Microsoft's Yammer, and Jive Software's suite of namesake products. The global enterprise social software market is forecast to grow to $8.14 billion in 2019, according to MarketWatch, from $4.77 billion in 2014. “When it comes... View Details
- 13 Jun 2022
- Research & Ideas
Extroverts, Your Colleagues Wish You Would Just Shut Up and Listen
research coauthored by Julian Zlatev, assistant professor at Harvard Business School. In addition, people perceive extroverts as inauthentic, adopting personas that suit their situation, according to the findings. "They may be gregarious,... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 16 Feb 2024
- Research & Ideas
As AI Upends Recruiting, Job Seekers Need a Waze App for Careers
Fuller partnered on the work with scholars at the Project on Workforce including Kerry McKittrick, co-director; Ali Epstein, research project coordinator; and research assistants Sherry Seibel, Cole Wilson, and Vasundhara Dash. The team... View Details
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
of the domestic economy. Moreover, we illustrate that gray markets may cause unintended social welfare consequences when domestic governments mandate the use of arm's length transfer prices between international subsidiaries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
Cut Salaries or Cut People? The Best Way to Survive a Downturn
literature in economics on why firms tend not to cut people’s pay,” says Stanton, an applied economist who is an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at HBS. “We can actually measure the consequences.” A ‘natural... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Oct 2007
- Research & Ideas
Encouraging Dissent in Decision-Making
Behavior unit insisted on when he took over as CEO of Medtronic, the medical-devices company, in 1991. That's in part because George had experienced firsthand what Robert McNamara warned of—George worked under McNamara for several years while an View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 09 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
How Tennis, Golf, and White Anxiety Block Racial Integration
minorities, according to research that involved surveying hundreds of people and studying thousands of datasets at government and social organizations. This pattern can “fuel a self-perpetuating cycle of segregation,” which may not only... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 16 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
The Most Successful Startups Have Hands-On Founders
getting the feedback they need, and they’re happy in the firm so they’re less likely to quit,” says Rembrand Koning, an assistant professor in Harvard Business School’s Strategy Unit who was a coauthor of the study. "Our findings... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Nov 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Much More Would Holiday Shoppers Pay to Wear Something Rare?
obscure—they may sell hard-to-get products at higher prices. “Too much of a thing and it becomes a commodity, too little of a thing and it becomes something that’s not even recognized when you walk down the street.” “There’s a balance between View Details
- 13 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?
the sector’s success, but to what extent have the loans meaningfully improved livelihoods? That question has been more difficult to track, say Natalia Rigol and Ben Roth. Both development economists and assistant professors at Harvard... View Details
- 25 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Collaborating Across Cultures
today's business environment, says Roy Y.J. Chua, an assistant professor in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School who has focused his research on exploring how such collaboration can effectively take place. A... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 06 Dec 2022
- Research & Ideas
Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers
necessarily better,” says Ximena Garcia-Rada, a former Harvard Business School doctoral student who is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. “We see a significant proportion of participants shift to the objectively... View Details
- 16 May 2023
- In Practice
After Silicon Valley Bank's Flameout, What's Next for Entrepreneurs?
minority founders might be affected disproportionately It’s been roughly two months since a social media-enabled bank run took down Silicon Valley Bank. In the days after the failure, many worried about the “ripple effects” of SVB’s... View Details
- 31 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
It’s Not All About Pay: College Grads Want Jobs That ‘Change the World’
jobs that require a college degree pay roughly two-thirds more than jobs that don’t, a number that has doubled over the past 40 years, according to recent research coauthored by Letian (LT) Zhang, an assistant professor at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 26 Oct 2022
- Research & Ideas
How Paid Promos Take the Shine Off YouTube Stars (and Tips for Better Influencer Marketing)
research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Shunyuan Zhang has discovered. Airing a sponsored video—versus original, unaffiliated content—costs an influencer 0.2 percent of their subscribers on average within three days... View Details
- 09 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 9, 2008
independent social rating agency and avoids selection issues by taking advantage of a natural experiment that arose when the agency expanded the scope of its ratings. We find empirical support for our hypotheses and present implications... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne