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  • 16 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Nitin Nohria: Why US Competitiveness Matters

economic inequality worrisome. They see that US corporations are skittish about making investments in a time of uncertainty about government policy, taxes, and regulations. They hear too many American CEOs... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria
  • 01 Oct 2020
  • News

What is stealing your time in 2020 - and how to get it back

  • Web

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do not register for, access or use any Services. We may make changes to the Agreements at any time. If you are a registered user at the time of such change, we will alert you of any changes to the Terms of... View Details
  • June 28, 2011
  • Article

Using Implementation Intentions Prompts to Enhance Influenza Vaccination Rates

By: Katherine L Milkman, John Beshears, James J. Choi, David Laibson and Brigitte C. Madrian
We evaluate the results of a field experiment designed to measure the effect of prompts to form implementation intentions on realized behavioral outcomes. The outcome of interest is influenza vaccination receipt at free on-site clinics offered by a large firm to its... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Economics; Nudge; Libertarian Paternalism; Public Health; Flu Shot; Behavior; Consumer Behavior; Health Care and Treatment; Cognition and Thinking
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  • 2012
  • Article

Mutual Fund Trading Pressure: Firm-Level Stock Price Impact and Timing of SEOs

By: Mozaffar N. Khan, Leonid Kogan and George Serafeim
In tests of the equity market timing theory of external finance, the prior literature has used overvaluation identifiers such as high market-to-book and high prior returns that are likely correlated with other determinants of SEOs. We use price pressure resulting from... View Details
Keywords: Equity; Market Transactions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Market Timing; Mathematical Methods; Acquisition
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  • 16 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Luxury Isn’t What It Used to Be

refreshing their product lines and extending their brand to more affordable items. Pressure to innovate is intense, says HBS professor Nancy F. Koehn, a business historian and author of Brand New: How Entrepreneurs Earned Consumers' Trust from Wedgwood to Dell.... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • Blog Post

Using an MBA for a Career Change

I applied to MBA programs because I wanted to change careers.  I went from spending six years at one company to trying out a number of industries and function areas in two years.  During that time I learned two important things: 1. Maybe... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change

to the case method of separating the wheat from the chaff.) Nixon led McGovern in our Presidential class poll, the reverse of '73's, probably because fully 38 percent of our class were veterans. Thanks to Professor John Kotter, there's no conjecture about what happened... View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • News

“Let Us Now Praise Famous Women”

at a time could use it), and one time it managed to spill all its cards on the floor. Val remembers that it took most of a week to put them back in order. How were changes in... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 05 Jul 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology
  • 19 Sep 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Global Talent, Local Obstacles: Why Time Zones Matter in Remote Work

using the onset of daylight savings in some countries to test how interactions changed before and after the one-hour time change. “Two individuals have the same job and are doing the exact same kind of work.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

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  • 15 Feb 2022
  • Book

When Working Harder Doesn’t Work, Time to Reinvent Your Career

engine, that outboard motor is going to start [to sputter]. If you don’t know [the second curve] is there, or you’re afraid to use it, then it’s just going to be clear decline.” The striver’s curse Professional athletes expect that their... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 12 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

What Great American Leaders Teach Us

Legacies. Professor Nitin Nohria and I began to create the database approximately three years ago as part of an effort to understand historical business leadership patterns. Our initial goal was to develop a small canon of business leadership, which could help View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What the Stockdale Paradox Tells Us About Crisis Leadership

[This is the fourth installment in a monthly series on management issues in the time of COVID-19.] “You must never confuse faith that you will prevail in the end—which you can never afford to lose—with the discipline to confront the most... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • 26 Nov 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Use Springboard for Funding

a small sampling of the twenty-three companies pitched: Michele Honomichl GPSLink. The average corporation uses up to ten systems to manage the human resources process in moving its executives and their families both abroad and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jan 2022
  • News

It’s Time to Admit That Hybrid Is Not Working

  • April 2021
  • Article

A Model of Multi-Pass Search: Price Search Across Stores and Time

By: Navid Mojir and K. Sudhir
In retail settings with price promotions, consumers often search across stores and time. However, the search literature typically only models one pass search across stores, ignoring revisits to stores; the choice literature using scanner data has modeled search across... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Search; Multi-pass Search; Price Search; Store Search; Spatial Search; Temporal Search; Spatiotemporal Search; Dynamic Structural Models; MPEC; Price Promotions; Store Loyalty; Consumer Behavior; Price; Spending; Marketing; Mathematical Methods
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  • 12 Aug 2002
  • Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

In recent months, world leaders—including President George W. Bush and UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan—have proclaimed their determination to reduce global poverty. Such promises, however, have been made before, and past efforts to follow through on them have been... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
  • 01 Dec 2016
  • News

Research Brief: So Many Sites, So Little Time

40,000 US households in 2008 and over 30,000 in 2013. The first surprise? Despite the expansion of online content between 2008 and 2013 (think Netflix, Hulu, and YouTube), the number of sites and amount of View Details