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- 20 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 20
an appeal to continue bidding for secular charitable causes. The results reveal that religious individuals are more likely than non-religious individuals to respond to an appeal for charity only on days that they visit their place of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 May 2001
- Research & Ideas
Race Does Matter in Mentoring
executives made early career choices that placed them at the leading edge of the work they liked. They were more enthusiastic about the work itself and less concerned with how quickly—or slowly—they were climbing the corporate ladder. In... View Details
Keywords: by David A. Thomas
- 26 Jun 2000
- Research & Ideas
Three Countries, Three Choices in Post-Soviet Eurasia
political, economic and cultural purposes," Abdelal writes. "It is the nation connected to a project." Nationalism can propel economic policy in four ways. It sets a direction for policy, partly in response to a perceived "Other." It View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 05 Nov 2021
- Op-Ed
How to Tap the Talent Automated HR Platforms Miss
As the global staffing shortage grinds on, corporate recruiters everywhere are relying on their online hiring platforms and automated systems to deliver the candidates they need. Too often, these tools will fail them, sidelining many qualified workers in the process.... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph B. Fuller
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
take their place and the need for stocking or tidying up merchandise at store level doesn't exist. Without a store network, real estate costs are confined to a handful of distribution centers. Inventory aggregation at a few key points of... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
consumers with Bling Nation "tags"-microchip stickers that could be placed on any mobile phone device. The tags allowed users to make payments directly from their checking accounts and functioned similarly to a debit card. While... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
decide whether the units should allocate their open beds to these two patients. The admitting physician (Martin Zollo) for the Emergency Department (ED) patient closely adhered to the hospital's protocol for requesting an ICU bed, and his patient was View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Marketing Resources Allocation Puzzle
goods firm, used this study to change the way it marketed this product. Q: I found one of the most powerful take-aways from your work was just seeing in one place how many exciting approaches have been developed over the years, how the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
An Organization Your Customers Understand
consumer products. Finally, a series of cubes represents major customers. The shapes lie scattered on your desk. Your job is to fit the pieces together. Do you place the spheres on top of the blocks so that functions report to the... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
- 02 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Health Care Research and Prospects
hospitals and didn't in others. And it actually had a lot to do with the kind of power their cardiac surgery departments had. It didn't take off in places with politically strong and well respected cardiac surgery departments, which is... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
economies where this shift has taken place before — such as the Asian Tigers — it was generally associated with lower growth since relying on endogenous progression of domestic demand is not as powerful as relying on an exogenous inflow... View Details
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
it a wise idea to model the revamped club after its namesake in Las Vegas that had become North America's highest-grossing club by focusing on electronic dance music and featuring a high-profile DJ every night? Could Strauss and Tepperberg make the seemingly risky... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
Where Did My Shopping Mall Go?
other place where you are seeing malls thrive is at the high end. The luxury malls, what the industry calls A-class malls, are doing very, very well. It's the B- and C-class malls that are in trouble. These malls are targeting the... View Details
- 17 Apr 2013
- Research Event
Conference Challenges Gender Conventions
clear," she continued, "that HBS is a place where gender is taken seriously and where we have an opportunity—through our convening power and the investments we are willing to make as an institution—to move the needle on this... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
markets must also overcome the fact that some transactions are considered repugnant, especially in the infancy of an industry. (For instance, life insurance—in which companies essentially place bets on when a customer will die—used to be... View Details
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Confronting the Challenges that Face Bricks-and-Mortar Stores
tried installing video terminals in one of its restaurants to allow patrons to place their own orders. Younger customers loved them, but older people preferred to talk with human attendants. I recently tested an on-line banking system and... View Details
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
including prescribing other drugs, making lifestyle recommendations, and undertaking entirely new treatments. While such results are intriguing, future research should determine to what extent the visits and/or ensuing actions we found might have taken View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Mar 2002
- Research & Ideas
Breakthrough Negotiation: Don’t Leave It On the Table
takes place before the parties sit down across the table from each other. Even after negotiations begin, they continue to shape the structure by molding the agenda, introducing action-forcing events, and linking or delinking negotiations.... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Watkins
- 07 Jun 2017
- Research & Ideas
How an African History Scholar Became a Modern Righter of Wrongs
military conflict known as the Mau Mau Rebellion, which took place in Kenya throughout the 1950s, at the end of British colonial rule. The study revealed how the British government had secretly detained and tortured hundreds of thousands... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
explores the changes that have taken place in the consumer television receiver market and the challenges faced by leaders of the analog market, like Sony. It is intended for use with the technical note, "Competency-destroying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne