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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

What Makes a Critic Tick? Connected Authors and the Determinants of Book Reviews

By: Loretti I. Dobrescu, Michael Luca and Alberto Motta
This paper investigates the determinants of expert reviews in the book industry. Reviews are determined not only by the quality of the product, but also by the incentives of the media outlet providing the review. For example, a media outlet may have the incentive to... View Details
Keywords: Books; Quality; Experience and Expertise; Relationships; Publishing Industry
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  • 18 Aug 2008
  • News

What the Olympics tell us about China and India

  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Teens and Magazines: Where There's Smoke, There's Advertising

authors noted, among other things, that last year, magazine advertising for the three cigarette brands most popular with young people on average reached more than 80 percent of American youth seventeen times per brand. King View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools
  • 14 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

What Leaders Can Do to Fight the COVID Fog

deftly: “How to most effectively communicate with all employees remotely and show empathy, while running around with [my] hair on fire trying to save the current business while at the same time trying to... View Details
Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
  • January–February 2024
  • Article

The Challenge of Maintaining Passion for Work over Time: A Daily Perspective on Passion and Emotional Exhaustion

By: Joy Bredehorst, Kai Krautter, Jirs Meuris and Jon M. Jachimowicz
Passion for work is highly coveted, but many employees report struggling to maintain their passion over time. In the current research, we explain the challenge of pursuing passion by conceptualizing passion as an attribute with temporal variation. Viewed through a... View Details
Keywords: Passion; Work-Life Balance; Employees; Emotions
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  • 18 Dec 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

Concentration Levels in the U.S. Advertising and Marketing Services Industry: Myth vs. Reality

Keywords: by Alvin J. Silk & Charles King III; Advertising
  • January 2022
  • Article

The Private Impact of Public Data: Landsat Satellite Maps Increased Gold Discoveries and Encouraged Entry

By: Abhishek Nagaraj
How does public data shape the relative performance of incumbents and entrants in the private sector? Using a simple theoretical framework, I argue that public data reduces investment uncertainty, facilitates the discovery of new market opportunities and increases the... View Details
Keywords: Public Data; Maps; Gold; Microeconomic Behavior; Economics; Data and Data Sets; Private Sector; Market Entry and Exit; Mining
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  • 02 Sep 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

don't know what Twitter is. In 2015, the average American spent more than one-third of her media interaction time online and around one-third watching television, 10 percent reading magazines View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
  • September 2016
  • Article

Value Based Care and Bundled Payments: Anesthesia Care Costs for Outpatient Oncology Surgery Using Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Katy E. French, Alexis B. Guzman, Augustin C. Rubio, John C. Frenzel and Thomas Feeley
Background: With the movement towards bundled payments, stakeholders should know the true cost of the care they deliver. Time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) can be used to estimate costs for each episode of care. In this analysis, TDABC is used to both... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Insurance; Health Care and Treatment; Insurance Industry; Health Industry
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  • 19 Aug 2021
  • News

A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

home, and they would sell it to Blacks for up to 30 times what they had paid for the home. And the interest rate that they were charging would be usury, but Blacks they had no... View Details
  • January 2021
  • Article

How Personality and Policy Predict Pandemic Behavior: Understanding Sheltering-in-Place in 55 Countries at the Onset of COVID-19

By: Friedrich M. Götz, Andrés Gvirtz, Adam D. Galinsky and Jon M. Jachimowicz
The spread of COVID-19 within any given country or community at the onset of the pandemic depended in part on the sheltering-in-place rate of its citizens. The pandemic led us to revisit one of psychology’s most fundamental and most basic questions in a high-stakes... View Details
Keywords: COVID; COVID-19; Pandemic; Shelter-in-place; Personality; Government; Interactionism; Health Pandemics; Behavior; Personal Characteristics; Policy; Governance Compliance
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  • 15 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Four Questions for David Garvin and Michael Roberto

alliance, a restructuring, or entry into a new market or product category) arise relatively infrequently. Q: Is there a place for the advocacy (or "contest") approach in real time and in some... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

members had not remained true to themselves and this larger purpose. For example, at various moments, Bono's commitment to the band was questioned by his colleagues because of all of the time he devoted to... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 08 Feb 2016
  • Research & Ideas

The Civic Benefits of Google Street View and Yelp

people were searching for, using that information over time to forecast unemployment and what kind of training programs should be developed. And in the same way that the New... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products
  • 30 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

I’m From the South and Going Back: Why HBS Was the Best School for Me

House (with hashbrowns covered and capped obviously), and the merits of the word "y'all" as the most efficient method of addressing a group of people. I've said "this case reminds me of my View Details
  • 28 Sep 2023
  • News

Meet the New HBS Team Helping Alumni Clubs and Associations to Thrive

these Network efforts have indeed made a difference. “Last year, alumni participated in 1,400 club events worldwide, donated $14 million worth of time through pro bono initiatives, invested $11 million across more than 450 companies,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; community service
  • 14 Jun 2022
  • News

Gen Z Revived Life Is Good and the $150 Million Clothing Brand Makes a Case Study for Riding Out a Down Cycle

  • 01 Dec 2001
  • News

Reaching Out

Suchismita had resolved that she was going to open a bank account. "That morning," Nundy recalls, "Suchismita spent hours in preparation, bathing and dressing up as if for a wedding. As we drove to the bank, she told me it was the first... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Health, Social Assistance
  • 23 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

A Summer of Peaks and Swells: Interning at Patagonia

point in my career where it was time to pivot. With the encouragement of dear friends and mentors, I stepped away from Silicon Valley and enrolled at HBS to refine my technical... View Details
Keywords: Technology; Consumer Products / Retail
  • 14 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom

helped plan the oft-praised public transportation system in Singapore. The city encourages use of its system by keeping rider fees low, discourages individual automobile purchases by charging high ownership taxes, and keeps the trains... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel