Filter Results
:
(212)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (212)
- Faculty Publications (18)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (212)
- Faculty Publications (18)
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
choices. Evaluating a natural experiment in which different results were shown to users who performed similar searches, they find that Google's prominent placement of its Flight Search service increased the clicks on paid advertising...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
I'm Nice, Don't Assume I'm Dumb Author:Amy Cuddy Publication:Breakthrough Ideas of 2009. Harvard Business Review 87, no. 2 (February 2009) Abstract We often judge colleagues on the basis of their perceived warmth and competence, finding...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 23 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
It’s Called ‘Price Coherence,’ and It’s Surprisingly Bad for Consumers
customers, not to mention the convenience of keeping customer information on file. While the intermediary charges a fee for its service, buyers widely perceive that the costs are borne by others, namely sellers. Sellers in turn pay the...
View Details
- 12 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 12, 2006
important factor in a lift out's success. Operational integration is the focus of the third stage. Ideally, teams will start out working with the same or similar clients, vendors, and industry standards. The fourth stage entails full...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 24 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Uncovering Racial Discrimination in the ‘Sharing Economy’
Tower). Even controlling for factors including perceived quality and location, the researchers found that listings with nonblack hosts earned roughly 12 percent more than those with black hosts for apartments with View Details
- 05 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?
nations, says Greyser. In 1964, Japan made a similar overture with the Tokyo Games to point to its recovery from defeat in World War II. China used the Beijing Games in 2008 to showcase itself as an economic and political superpower. "The...
View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
differences in ownership structure across countries, measured by the difference in sectoral vertical integration indexes, are smaller in sectors with similar levels of protection. Finally, ownership structures are more alike among members...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 14
cohorts who first attended them. Rather than partner with a university to develop an accredited program, the firm decided it would be better off developing the program itself, with the help of an outside consultant who had done something View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2020
- Blog Post
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
with the adequate reactions of Tsai Ing-Wen (president of Taiwan) and Jacinda Ardern (the prime minister of New Zealand), who took timely government actions to prevent the spread of the virus in their countries. The lesson from these examples are that not all crises...
View Details
Keywords:
All Industries
- 14 May 2012
- Research & Ideas
Breaking the Smartphone Addiction
here, it could be made to happen most anywhere. Imagine my delight then, when four years after we conducted our first experiment at BCG's Boston office, 86 percent of the consulting staff in the firm's Northeast offices—including Boston, New York, and Washington,...
View Details
Keywords:
by Leslie A. Perlow
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
and when buyers and sellers do manage to find each other, they usually negotiate under enormous uncertainty: prices of similar patents vary widely from transaction to transaction, and the terms of the transactions (including prices) are...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
prior work in fairness, the studies show that this effect is driven by violations of norms and the perceived similarity between the inferior, degraded version of a product and the full-featured model offered...
View Details
Keywords:
Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
and the development of incremental tradeoffs towards radical moves to create new business models, new forms of satisfying needs that drastically reduce costs and/or raise value perceived by customers. One important enabler of new business...
View Details
- 13 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
6 Ways to Support COVID-Weary Employees
(president of Taiwan) and Jacinda Ardern (the prime minister of New Zealand), who took timely government actions to prevent the spread of the virus in their countries. The lesson from these examples are that not all crises are perceived...
View Details
Keywords:
by Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
as in two-sided assignment problems, the payoffs of a matching can be divided between the agents. We take a similar approach to one-sided assignment problems as Sasaki (1995) for two-sided assignment problems, and we analyze various...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 27 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 27, 2007
Midway" within Microsoft, the console project was intended to counter the perceived threat to the Windows franchise posed by Sony expanding the original PlayStation into a broad entertainment platform with the PlayStation 2. Seamus...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace
- 03 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Business History around the World
myself, perceive of business history as playing a central role in enhancing our understanding of key issues in contemporary management and business administration. The book provides a position statement of where we are now, which we hope...
View Details
Keywords:
by Cynthia Churchwell
- 05 Dec 2017
- Research & Ideas
What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets
Another similarity between all of them was their focus and passion for their careers, devoting in some cases more than four decades to develop the same company in the same industry. This focus allowed these pioneers to develop unique and...
View Details
Keywords:
by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Values and Employee Cynicism
positive values, do you see foresee an increasing risk for similar problems at other organizations? A: Many studies have shown the power of meaningful values to energize employees, providing them with a sense of purpose and identity in a...
View Details
Keywords:
by Martha Lagace
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
the board of directors to help improve the management of the business. When these negotiations failed, Biglari launched a proxy fight against Friendly in 2007. While these two activist investors shared similar objectives, they worked...
View Details
Keywords:
Martha Lagace