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- 27 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2015
Francisco (39,514) In San Francisco, tech companies are hoping to make the world a better place—but the fabric of the city is changing in the process. A case study by Clayton Rose explores this clash of... View Details
- 24 Sep 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Be an Angel Investor
Evaluation success will come in doing deals, emulating winners, and not making the same mistakes more than two, three, or four times. Case Study AOL: The One That Got Away Frans Kok shares with us the story... View Details
Keywords: by David Amis & Howard Stevenson
- 23 Jun 2014
- Research & Ideas
In Venture Capital, Birds of a Feather Lose Money Together
To illustrate the old adage that birds of a feather flock together, there may be no better example than the venture capital industry. A recent study finds that venture capitalists have a strong tendency to team up with other VCs whose... View Details
- 27 Sep 2010
- Research & Ideas
Customer Experts Lose Influence When Teams are Pressured
observing teams for the case studies I used a fly-on-the-wall method: I tried to blend into the background so the teams would behave as naturally as possible. Based on their discussions and actions, they... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 08 Jun 2021
- Research & Ideas
Tell Me What to Do: When Bad News Is a Big Relief
across a variety of contexts. People face difficult, potentially life-changing decisions all the time—whether to move to a new city or change careers, for instance—and the study findings show just how paralyzed people can feel when they... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Ground Game, Air Wars, and Other Marketing Lessons From Presidential Elections
presidential races. They studied the number of votes cast in each county for the candidates and used registered party affiliation at the county level to look at how campaign effects differed depending on the level of voter partisanship.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 12 Jun 2012
- First Look
First Look: June 12
investor relations. A study is conducted of the language used by executives in conference calls discussing earnings with investors and financial analysts. A correlation was found between the use of language indicating a short-term focus... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Do Mergers Hurt Product Quality?
according to a recent study by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Albert W. Sheen. In The Real Product Impact of Mergers, Sheen finds that mergers generally have little effect on product quality over time, even while product... View Details
- 05 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 5
of naïve idealism, one of naïve cynicism, and an emerging era of rugged idealism. We explain how the role of the corporate leader and society's perceptions of this role have changed and how leaders may now be able to create shared value for all stakeholders. View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 08 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 8
2009 Abstract This chapter explores issues of how Chinese railroads improved social mobility and standards of living along major trunk lines, and how foreign investment shaped the integration of the Chinese railroad network from the early 1900s to 1949. As this View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2011
- Research & Ideas
Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard
The News Corporation/News of the World scandal has been described as a case study in bad management. What was there about the company's organizational culture that led to "Murdoch's Mess"?... View Details
- 30 Jan 2019
- What Do You Think?
Who Will Measure up to These Two Remarkable Leaders?
Benioff completed a BS in Business Administration from the University of Southern California, paying his way through college with royalties he earned as a teen-age game developer. Nadella studied engineering in India and was awarded an... View Details
- 17 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often
CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the most common culprits: Major leadership transitions, according... View Details
Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
low, but it is also unequal,” says Pons. “Many citizens are disengaging in participation in society. That may decrease the legitimacy of elected governments overall.” In four recent studies conducted in Italy and France, Pons and... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
cannot get out of health care, no matter what kind of health insurance system is put in place. They bear the cost of poor health in the form of sick days, absenteeism, reduced productivity at work, and early retirements of skilled contributors. Recent internal company... View Details
- 16 Dec 2013
- HBS Case
D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable
cost/quality tradeoff for a Michelin-starred restaurant," said Gary P. Pisano, the Harry E. Figgie, Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School and the lead author of the HBS case View Details
- 28 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Helping Yelp Create More Accurate Reviews
Yelp.com, with Weijia Dai, of the University of Maryland; Jungmin Lee, of Sogang University and the Institute for the Study of Labor; and Ginger Jin, of the University of Maryland and the National Bureau of Economic Research. (The... View Details
- 03 Nov 2011
- What Do You Think?
The Ultimate Question in Management
thing:" trust. (There's precious little trust in government, Wall Street, and business in general these days.) I found a strong correlation between trust, loyalty, engagement, and "ownership" among employees in a sample of organizations I examined.... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
determine which action or actions maximize a specific objective. In the chapter, we discuss the strengths and limitations of each of these methods and illustrate their use with case studies and applications.... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Jun 2012
- Research & Ideas
Better by the Bunch: Evaluating Job Candidates in Groups
importantly, their gender. The nature of the tasks were deliberate: "Most studies that measure explicit gender attitudes find that females are believed to be worse at math tasks and better at verbal tasks than males," the paper... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish