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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Organizational Responses to Product Cycles

By: Achyuta Adhvaryu, Vittorio Bassi, Anant Nyshadham, Jorge Tamayo and Nicolas Torres
Product cycles entail the mass production of new—and often increasingly complex—products on a regular basis. How do firms manage these changes? We use granular daily data from a leading automobile manufacturer to study the organizational impacts of introducing new... View Details
Keywords: Training; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Knowledge Management; Production; Product; Organizational Structure; Auto Industry; Argentina
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  • September 2016
  • Article

Do Display Ads Influence Search?: Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

By: Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels and Sunil Gupta
As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as click-through rate (CTR) and cost per acquisition (CPA). However, these standard... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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  • July 2014
  • Article

Second-Opinion Pathologic Review is a Patient Safety Mechanism That Helps Reduce Error and Decrease Waste

By: Lavinia Middleton, Thomas W. Feeley, Heidi W. Albright, Ronald Walters and Stanley Hamilton
We have a crisis in health care delivery, originating from increasing health care costs and inconsistent quality-of-care measures. During the past several years, value-based health care delivery has gained increasing attention as an approach to control costs and... View Details
Keywords: Pathology; Diagnostic Errors; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry; North and Central America
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  • 06 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 6

http://hbr.org/product/flying-without-a-net-turn-fear-of-change-into-fuel/an/10297-HBK-ENG The Real Consequences of Market Segmentation Authors:Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We study the real effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Nov 2019
  • Research & Ideas

When Your Passion Works Against You

University of Toronto. Sometimes passion isn’t appropriate At the same time, the team found that passion doesn’t always work. In a second study, participants watched videos of Dragons’ Den and rated how passionate entrepreneurs sounded.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 22 Apr 2019
  • Research & Ideas

Why Salespeople Struggle at Leading

Managers are often stretched in various directions, including hiring and reviewing staff members, developing spending forecasts, and reporting to the C-suite. These responsibilities entail a lot of administrative tasks, like filling out employee View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Innovation & Innovative Capacity - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

with outside organizations should not be driven by input costs, taxes, subsidies or even the wage rates for scientists and engineers, as they often are. Instead, R&D investments should flow preferentially to the locations with the... View Details
  • 11 Jan 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK

depicting workplace interactions. In both situations, emotions were either ignored or acknowledged. Participants consistently rated people who commented about negative emotions as more trustworthy, giving them View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • 09 Mar 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Six Keys to Building New Markets by Unleashing Disruptive Innovation

and disruptive opportunities; the "schools of experience" theory informs hiring decisions. 4. Don't try to change your customers—help them. Faulty market segmentation schemes help to explain the stunningly high rate of failure... View Details
Keywords: by Clayton M. Christensen, Michael E. Raynor & Scott D. Anthony
  • 25 Apr 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research, April 25

changes in the minimum wage at the city level. The evidence suggests that higher minimum wages increase overall exit rates for restaurants. However, lower quality restaurants, which are already closer to the margin of exit, are... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Dec 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Panama Canal: Troubled History, Astounding Turnaround

cost. By 1940, America's national income was around 4 percent higher than it would have been without the canal—a very large gain from a single infrastructure project. Moreover, by keeping the Panama Canal in American hands, the United States ensured that transit View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Transportation
  • 01 Oct 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Dying to Lead: How Reaching the Top Can Kill You Sooner

demands. "What we’re beginning to understand is that life at the top isn’t that easy." The historical study by Harvard Business School Professor Tom Nicholas, who tracked the status and mortality rates of more than 1,000 managers and... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Vital Signs

rates of burnout among this population to triple. That kind of churn has had far-ranging, systemic effects and has been linked to everything from reduced quality of care to substantial costs for the system. Underlying that problem is the... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information

percent to nearly 41,000, a compound annual growth rate of more than 67 percent since the group launched in fiscal 2014. Women comprised 42 percent of the total enrollment in fiscal 2022, while international students made up 67 percent.... View Details
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital markets, reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but leaves the overall weighted average... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Apr 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

received in international deals than in domestic ones. At first, the author is annoyed. The higher international rate sounds arbitrary, just a sneaky way to squeeze more money out of him. But the agent goes on to explain that she charges... View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 06 Sep 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

FIN Around the World: The Contribution of Financing Activity to Profitability

Keywords: by Russell Lundholm, George Serafeim & Gwen Yu
  • 15 May 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

Barriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert Townsend & James Vickery
  • 1982
  • Article

When Self-Descriptions Contradict Behavior: Actions do Speak Louder than Words

By: T. M. Amabile and L. Kabat
Subjects viewed two videotapes, one depicting a stimulus person's self-description and the other depicting that person's behavior in a conversation, according to a four-way factorial design personality descriptor used in the self-description ("introvert" or... View Details
Keywords: Behavior; Perception; Cognition and Thinking; Judgments
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  • September 2023
  • Teaching Note

Roche: ESG and Access to Healthcare

By: George Serafeim
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 123-075. In May 2022, Roche Group, one of the largest healthcare companies in the world, hosted its first ESG investor event focused exclusively on its efforts to impact access to healthcare. While Roche had recently set an ambitious goal... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Access To Care; Healthcare; Healthcare Access; Innovation; Social Impact; Affordable; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation and Invention; Product Development; Resource Allocation; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Industry
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