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- 19 Jun 2018
- Research Event
Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?
continue to deteriorate sharply despite decades of talk about business and sustainability. Participants eschewed focusing on the handful of win/win cases to explore why attention to environmental sustainability is just plain hard. Some of... View Details
- 17 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 17
Publication:Quantitative Marketing and Economics 7, no. 3 (September 2009): 237-266 Abstract This study presents a signaling model of advertising for horizontally differentiated products. The central ingredients of the model are two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
seeking to shave 10 to 20 percent off of research budgets. In flush times, a rising tide of consumption can compensate for less than optimal branding, positioning, pricing, or segmentation. That is certainly not the case now. At the same... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
management? While looking over responses to this month's column, I noticed a newspaper article describing a growing number of young managers who are making so much money managing, in many cases other people's money, that they have decided... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
and structure—choices that seem to reflect the organizations in which these individuals spent considerable time. These two in-depth case studies suggest that strong exposure to organizational career imprints... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
The most captivating item in Michael Norton's office is a Star Wars The Force Trainer, a toy that allows would-be Jedi warriors to levitate a Ping-Pong ball within a tube using only the power of focused thinking. Norton, a marketing professor at Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 17 Feb 2016
- Research & Ideas
Man vs. Machine: Which Makes Better Hires?
who has studied how companies make organizational decisions in industries such as health care and education. “They are figuring out how to use the information of managers and combine it with this new technology.” Testing the testers To... View Details
- 01 Aug 2012
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs Worry About ‘Too Big to Succeed?’
with the largest market caps in their industries, underperform in a majority of cases the average stock in their respective sectors over the next one-, three-, five-, and 10-year periods. In fact, "top dogs" enjoy that status,... View Details
- 19 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
LEED-ing by Example
spillover effect to the private sector. The authors studied what happened after municipal governments in California adopted policies that required public (but not private) building renovations and new construction to build "green," which... View Details
- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
front lines treating patients. But at least I could try to help with some of the market design challenges,” Kominers explains. But the team found that government officials didn’t invest nearly enough. Their study estimates the world is on... View Details
- 03 Oct 2018
- What Do You Think?
How Should Managers Deal with the Challenges of Building an Inclusive Workplace?
column about how best to foster a climate of inclusion in an organization. Dianne Jacobs made the case for inclusion succinctly when she said: “Those that manage diversity and inclusion well tend to manage change well.” MarufSalmon added,... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
make it move the way you want," says Malloy. Team members Nami Singhal, Trish Higgins, and Yura Mikhalev (all MBA 2013) used a case that Singhal had studied about Argentina's volatile political system... View Details
- 03 Sep 2014
- What Do You Think?
Who Should Choose Your Boss?
the world choosing a leader for an organization is a primary responsibility of a board of directors. But others tempered that judgment with a variety of cautions. Richard Belloff made the base case by saying "The Board should choose... View Details
- 10 Mar 2011
- What Do You Think?
To What Degree Does the Job Make the Person?
new job. In other words, is there a self-selection bias in studies of the effects of job on a person's chemical makeup? As Stephanie Smith put it, "Perhaps it's a case of either the hormones and natural... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 11 Aug 2014
- HBS Case
The Business of Behavioral Economics
effort into a commercial website and app. "They realized that some of the interventions they identified were useful to people, but there was no real mechanism to have them be utilized," says Norton, who along with John wrote a recent HBS View Details
- 04 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Most Leaders (Even Thomas Jefferson) Are Replaceable
to be high-impact and make their mark on history "for better or worse." The book studies both kinds of leadership through historical cases that Mukunda teaches in his courses. In the book, Mukunda classifies... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
- 10 Apr 2019
- HBS Case
How Entrepreneurs Can Turn Lead Into Gold
through narratives and storytelling, or by seeking out members of a common group. One company that has succeeded in this regard, says Wu, is Cotopaxi, a Salt Lake City–based creator of outdoor apparel that Wu explored in a case View Details
- 10 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Learning Curve: Making the Most of Outsourcing
paper. The Research The researchers studied data from OutsourceCo (a pseudonym), a major provider of outsourced teleradiology services in the United States, with more than 1,400 client sites, mainly hospitals and radiology group... View Details
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
case study "When Stars Migrate, Do They Still Perform Like Stars?" looks at the "portability" of performance and the likelihood that some positions may improve or diminish one's prospects for career... View Details
- 06 Jan 2010
- What Do You Think?
Is a Stringent Climate Change Agreement a Pot of Gold?
to lead the way, forcing other countries to act with or without an agreement? And should countries that will benefit most from the entrepreneurial opportunity, as Bharath Krishnan and Ajay Kumar Gupta implied, help finance others? What do you think? Original Article... View Details