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- 06 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 6
advertisers attain this. In our research, two colleagues and I use infrared eye-tracking scanners to determine exactly what people are looking at when they watch video ads. We also use a system that analyzes facial expressions to reveal...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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 and newspapers, and 10 percent listening to...
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by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
- 17 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
Resisting the Seductions of Success
health. On one visit, Tony gently encourages his father, who is getting depressed, to try watching some different TV shows, and Tony says he will come by more often and tell his father he loves him. A few minutes later, Tony's mother...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
watching me..."). Newspapers with built-in refreshable video. Menus (no more regrets from the waiter that the daily special is sold out). Maps. Camouflage clothing that changes in different lighting (Sahlman again: "So if you...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 26 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 26, 2008
rescued Apple from a poorly performing strategy and expanded the company into attractive new businesses. Watching over strategy day in and day out is the CEO's greatest opportunity to shape the firm as well as outwit the competition. The...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2016
- Research & Ideas
The 10 Most Popular 'Cold Call' Podcasts
voters cold despite his eminent qualifications. With the help of KNP Communications, Silver is forced to watch himself at the podium and makes some profound discoveries. Professor Amy Cuddy delves into this fascinating case and the...
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 04 Apr 2019
- Cold Call Podcast
Can Mark Zuckerberg Rebuild Trust in Facebook?
else is watching the store, as it were? George: Mark has absolute power. He has over 50 percent of the voting shares and you remember Lord Acton said, "Power corrupts. Absolute power corrupts absolutely." And I think he has...
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Re: Gerardine A. Doyle
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/118009-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 617-058 A. Lange & Söhne The case describes how A. Lange & Söhne became one of world’s leading watch companies. Its obsession with quality and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-143.pdf Watch What I Do, Not What I Say: The Unintended Consequences of the Homeland Investment Act Authors:Dhammika Dharmapala, C. Fritz Foley, and Kristin J. Forbes Abstract This paper analyzes the...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Oct 2017
- Op-Ed
Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers
power. Power brings the ability to trade favors. Watch likeability grow along with respect when enough women win top spots and can get people things they desire–budgets, promotions, tickets to sports matches, introductions to celebrities,...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
he said "our best policy is to promote economic liberty so that individuals and corporations can adjust to changes in society, technology, the economy, the environment and politics stop trying to make government the engine of growth, and View Details
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by James Heskett
- 06 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
Why Businesses Need a Language Strategy
Lost sales. Friction. Inefficiency. These are dirty words in the world of business, and they are inevitabilities for companies that don't watch their language, so to speak. Harvard Business School Associate Professor Tsedal Neeley...
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- 24 Apr 2013
- Research & Ideas
Who Sets Your Benchmarks?
watched a lot of television and read popular magazines. I was influenced by the media, which regularly celebrated "winners." Just as they are today, the winners were usually described as those who had made a lot of money and...
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- 21 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Are We Thinking Too Little, or Too Much?
describe a study in which several participants watched a movie while eating popcorn. Some received fresh popcorn, while others were given week-old, stale popcorn. The researchers found that those participants who always ate popcorn at the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 12 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Value of a ‘Portable’ Career
are not so different from organizational teams in other fields of life, including business. And watching the career moves of football stars may shed light on how you, too, can plan your next step. That's the message of new research by HBS...
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- 04 Apr 2008
- What Do You Think?
Who Owns Intellectual Property?
or amateurs is being copied, spliced, and represented essentially as something so new and unique that it is often downloaded by hundreds of thousands of viewers who might not have watched the original material. Who owns the result? Does...
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by Jim Heskett
- 22 Aug 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Hedge Fund as Activist
they keep a larger fraction of the gains that they produce by keeping watch over management. "Shareholder activism" refers to the practice of holding managers accountable for the performance of their firms. Shareholder activists...
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- 16 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Times Captures History of American Business
and events through the eyes of the men and women watching them in real time: to follow the arc of time, if you will. And this represented an exciting intellectual opportunity for me, as a historian and scholar of entrepreneurial...
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- 14 Sep 2016
- Research & Ideas
Web Surfers Have a Schedule and Stick to It
medium, a similar dynamic could apply, with an increase in the supply of television (and ways to view it) causing a shift to new content and perhaps a small drop in how it’s viewed, but no real change in the allocation of time or watching...
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- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
HBS Center Focuses on Europe
here. In 2004, we also expect mergers and acquisitions activity to heat up as many industries are consolidating on a European or global basis. Industries that we are watching include airlines, pharma, and financial services. Q: What roles...
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by Cynthia Churchwell