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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
HBSAAA Conference Addresses Pathways to Power
conferences, held in a different U.S. city each year, have provided access to an impressive roster of corporate executives and public-sector officials, often drawn from the host city's leading industries and institutions. Observed HBSAAA... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
several key features of intermediated supply chains. We complement the model's insights with observations from a numerical study. Results: In the absence of an e-intermediary, auctions cause farmers to either overproduce or underproduce... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
for the company contacts outsourcing the work, as the workers in India are paid about the market wage for their work. These results and other observations lead to the conclusion that diaspora connections continue to be important even as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 15, 2017
company, such as a requirement that the company shutter its office on Jewish holidays and every week for observance of Shabbat. By 2016, the company was thriving both financially and operationally. Considering the opportunity to acquire... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation
Nonconsumption can also be unearthed by finding out what important jobs customers are seeking to get done that they can't adequately address with current solutions. Closely observing customers and conducting interviews and focus groups... View Details
- 25 Feb 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #1: Kameale C. Terry
full-time. For all the money and interest in building EV charging stations, Terry built her business around her observation that repairing or cleaning EV charging stations had been ignored. 80% of the problems, she notes, are... View Details
- 06 Dec 2016
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December 6, 2016
uncertainty into the consumer's relative product valuations since she is unable to observe the entire catalog of products that the retailer will sell that season. Rationally acting consumers may respond to this additional uncertainty by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 15
tax rates at high incomes are lower than in standard analysis and closer to those observed in policy. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-064.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsHome Depot and Interconnected Retail José... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009
This observation raises interesting questions for psychologists regarding the effects of luxury. What psychological consequences do luxury goods have on people? In this paper, the authors argue that luxury goods can activate the concept... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 19 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 19, 2006
Working PapersSuperstars and Underdogs: An Examination of the Long Tail Phenomenon in Video Authors:Anita Elberse and Felix Oberholzer-Gee Abstract The rise of online channels facilitates the distribution of a wide range of products and services. Academics and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
variety, process flexibility and even the path of industry evolution. We explore this relationship in the software industry. Our research takes advantage of a natural experiment, in that we observe products that fulfill the same function... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
It’s All in a Name: Reputable Investors Help Startups Shine
decisions of whether to submit a job application, comparing the actions of those observing the badges with those who didn’t. The researchers found that exposure to information that a startup is backed by top VC investors increased job... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 07 Jan 2008
- Research & Ideas
Pursuing a Deadly Opportunity
predatory behavior to obtain donations, it did not attract less educated or less affluent donors, the researchers observe in the paper. There was a higher instance of donors who died from cancer, however, which raises the question of... View Details
- 01 May 2000
- What Do You Think?
Can You Hard-Wire Performance?
viable alternative. Original Article Several months ago, the General Electric Company announced that it had closed a deal with Boeing that specified that only GE aircraft engines would be installed on the newest version of 777 aircraft built and sold by Boeing. This... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 23 Feb 2023
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Hometown Reboot
board service about a decade ago, he observed that there was a severe lack of representation in boardrooms in Pittsburgh. “So, what are you going to do about it?” he remembers someone asking him. With that catalyst and funding from... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 08 Apr 2021
- News
Real Talk
approach, and asks participants, especially executives, to get vulnerable in order to dig into the complexities that can’t be conveyed by a PowerPoint slide. “People tend not to share stories of a personal nature for fear of being attacked in an emotionally destructive... View Details
- 01 Jun 2001
- News
"Unheard Voices" Brings to Light Three Centuries of American Women at Work
States,” she observed in a recent Business History Review article. An 1890 photograph of women workers in the looping room at Ipswich Mills in Ipswich, Massachusetts. Now up and running, the “Unheard Voices” Web site offers access to a... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Alumnae Chart Career Choices and Transitions
School's commitment to provide lifelong learning opportunities that address the needs of all HBS graduates. In recent years, both Hart and Dean Kim B. Clark have said that they often meet HBS alumnae who have left the workforce to focus on caring for their families and... View Details
- 21 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 21
observed variation in payout patterns over time than the traditional motives. The most recent evidence suggests that further insights can be gained from viewing payout decisions as an integral part of a firm's larger financial ecosystem,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
The Golden Thread
YouTube) Order the book TEDx Atlanta talk on The Progress Principle Amabile also spent hours talking with two of her younger sisters about behavior they observed in other family members or in classmates at school: “Why did they act that... View Details