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  • 05 Jan 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

professor Michael I. Norton and colleagues Elizabeth W. Dunn and Lara B. Aknin, described in the journal Science, looks into how and why spending money on others promotes happiness. Norton explains more in... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 18 Feb 2020
  • News

Business leaders see U.S. unprepared for economic downturn

  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

through reduction of firm variability, we do not find this offsetting beneficial effect to be strong. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2252200 What Shapes the Gatekeepers? Evidence from Global Supply Chain Auditors By: Short, Jodi L., View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 19

the PC market was becoming less lucrative due to overseas competition, longer turnover rates on PCs, and the rise of tablets and smartphones. Michael Dell hoped to respond by shifting the company from its... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

worked are positively correlated with firm performance, and differences between family and non-family CEOs account for approximately 18% of the performance gap between family and non-family firms. We investigate the sources of the differences in CEO labor supply across... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2008
  • Book

On Competition

By: M. E. Porter
Competition is one of society's most powerful forces for making things better in many fields of human endeavor. The study of competition and the creation of value, in their full richness, have preoccupied me for several decades. Competition is pervasive, whether it... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Practice; Competitive Strategy; Theory; Value Creation
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  • 06 Oct 2011
  • What Do You Think?

How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?

profile for analytics in management ranks? How, if at all, will a Moneyball Generation influence management? What do you think? References: Michael Lewis, Moneyball: The Art of Winning an Unfair Game (New York: View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 20 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

implementing value-based reimbursement models. Infrastructure requirements, including information technology (indicated by 42% of respondents), and changing regulation/policy (34%) are the top two. There is strong consensus on the broad... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

Corporate Disclosure of Climate Change Strategies Authors:Erin M. Reid and Michael W. Toffel Publication:Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract The challenges... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Jul 2019
  • News

JUUL: Leading the Vaping Revolution

  • 05 Mar 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Yanhua, Jodi L. Short, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract— Exploitive working conditions have spurred companies to pressure their suppliers to adopt labor codes of conduct and to... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 19 Feb 2020
  • News

Capitol Ideas to Combat Climate Change

opportunity to drive innovative environmental policy, Professor Michael W. Toffel told an audience of HBS and Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) alumni at the University Club of... View Details
Keywords: April White; photos by Jack Conroy
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

Summing Up To remain sane and relevant, must we smell the flowers as well as the ozone? This month's question of how much obsolescence business and society (and by implication, we as managers) can absorb brought out both the poets and the... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • 06 Aug 2013
  • First Look

First Look: August 6

All Ranks Are Local: Why Humans Are Both (Painfully) Aware and (Surprisingly) Unaware of Their Lot in Life By: Norton, Michael I Abstract—No description available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 18 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 18

  Working PapersFeeling Good about Giving: The Benefits (and Costs) of Self-Interested Charitable Behavior Authors:Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, and Elizabeth W. Dunn Abstract While lay... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

Pierce, Jason A. Snyder, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Competition among firms can have many positive outcomes, including decreased prices and improved quality. Yet... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 2016
  • What Do You Think?

When Business Performance Falters, is Culture Change the Fix?

Yet a third view is that the odds of success in achieving important change are enhanced by coordinated efforts to alter, as Michael Beer puts it, “the organization model” (including culture) and the... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
  • 17 Apr 2012
  • First Look

First Look: April 17

  PublicationsHappiness Runs in a Circular Motion: Evidence for a Positive Feedback Loop between Prosocial Spending and Happiness Authors:Lara B. Aknin, Elizabeth W. Dunn, and Michael I. Norton... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

Authors:Auden Schendler and Michael Toffel Publication:MIT Sloan Management Review 53, no. 1 (fall 2011) Abstract There's a problem with most major environmental rankings of businesses: too often, the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

Despite recent advances in our understanding of how locations impact the creation and appropriation of value by firms, the speed of these changes has often surpassed the speed of research on the connections between geography and firms.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne